Aaron, your eyepatch keeps shifting from left to right and back again 😂

I like how the ChatGPT diagram used fans/windmills to represent light switches (it even misspelled one of them).

I realize this is not directly related to the tech side of your video, but my wife asked where you purchased the blue flannel shirt, that you're wearing in this video? I suspect she's Christmas/Birthday shopping for me. :p

I should build one to attach to my pants zipper

I didn't have that exact model but I had one very similar from that exact time period. It was a 75 MHz with a 1.2 GB hard drive. Everything else was exactly the same as this model. That thing was definitely not used all that much, given the fact it still boots to Navigator. I remember upgrading mine from the stack 8 to 32MB of RAM. The 1.2 GB hard drive by 1995 standards was enormous. Tech was changing so fast at that time. It was a lot more fun to be into computers.

Would you please let us know where you found the Windows software you are using? It doesn't seem to be available on the Extron website anymore.

My sister was manufactured in July, 1987.

That Apple monitor looks super familiar: I think it might be the one I used with my Performa 6320CD.

Now the VTG-200 will be $400 on eBay.

This is the TV my Grandparents had in their living room. Brings back some memories I remember it ended up having a green cast on the picture.

FLOSS Weekly sent me! ;)

"This product has been retired" Also looked at the subsequent VTG models in Extron's lineup and they are all retired.

I don't think a school was a good use case for that security monitor. A small business/shop, like a bodega/liquor store, dry cleaner. pawn shop, small office, etc.

A nice bit of kit! Buffed off the chips, eh? Sounds like a good use for the Retro Chip Tester Pro.

33:10 when it comes to electrolytic caps its alwas the smaller form factor ones that go bad...the large cans can last way longer than the small tiny ones. my theory is that since they contain more electrolyte they take more years and heat cycles to dry out completely.. other thing: maybe youre supposed to move that jumper around to center the vertical, maybe to compensate for component drift... and you should use a test pattern because maybe its not a centering issue but a linearity problem on the bottom...a circle pattern would help... just burn a test pattern dvd and play it if you have an rf modulator... hope i helped

23:23 every single time an electrolytic capacitor reads higher than spec on a capacitor meter of that style , it means its leaky...because the meter charges the cap and measures the time it takes and uses that value to calculate capacitance...if its leaky it will take more time to charge , creating a fake higher value....a brand new 10uf thats fresh and hasnt been in the shelf for years will read about 9uf... a 100uf will read around 90uf 47 will read 45.... the more leaky it is the higher it will read... if you dont have a proper high voltage old school leakage tester then there are chinese testers wich cost less than 20euros that test multiple components including caps , and they test very accurately for esr, leakage and capacitance.

I worked on a TV once and the circuit board was covered with white cat hair stuck down with cigarette glaze. That was my worst experience.

The Sony Trinitron & Toshiba Blackstripe Series of Televisions, were some of the best TV's, back in the late 1970's & early 1980's. They were quality products, & long lasting.

Nice work. I hope your eye heals without appreciable vision loss.

My 1983 Sony kv1331 recently died on me hopefully i will be able to get it working again as its very low hour set. Yea the CRT is very strong like new strong so even if I can't repair the set i will keep the tube.

I've had the exact set for 5 years, initially it kept breaking down and after fixings it few times and finding that the problem was always another capacitor I recapped the enter set (except one cap in one of the if cans) and it never had a problem since then.

I've got a CoCO 64k that I can't wait to fire up. But I don't know what to do with it!!! It literally has nothing with it, but it works. Any ideas?

That it was in the "free" bin was a clue. In the UK, even giving it away would have been illegal.

That .using wasn't from any of the James Bond movies. It was from Mission Impossible.

For that first try .... you really should use a "Dim Bulb" device. (do a search)

This computer (or very similar model) of Packard Bell was my first computer. Bought it for $80 from my co-worker. Don’t even remember what I did with it after I bought a Sony desktop to replace it.

I've learnt a thing or 2 while working on vintage machinery. If it's in unknown condition ALWAYS assume someone worked on it and quitted halfway so DON'T turn it on before carefully checking some things. Also assume every touchable metal part is live unless proven otherwise bij checking the resistance between the earth pin on the plug and those parts. More than often someone cuts the earth connection due to a tripping GFCI or pulls out a bunch of relays/ contactors. A bunch of times there's some cut/ loose wires somewhere in the machine. The kind of machinery I work on has some higher level of risk because most of them work on 400/440V up to 21kW (sometimes a lot more). Especially the risk of arc flash is dangerous. A 3 pole 440V 50A bakelite switch can make quite the fireball when it shorts out! That's a big reason to put the enclosure back together before testing.

Those AT power supplies used a single throw double pole (STDP) power switch thus the hot and neutral line were disconnect from the power supply primary input.

I wish I had one, these seem so cool

That was the first computer I ever owned!

My family had this machine going up, I took it with me to college. Ours was P75, 4MB edo ram, onboard video.

We had the 486dx2 66mhz w/ 4mb. We didn’t really knew how to use a pc other than for typing school reports or running some of the built in games like the 3d dinosaur or Mandy old dos games like trot. It was a big leap in learning how to operate such a machine.

One of my PCs has an inverted case, P2-era. There's modern cases I've seen reviewed on Gamers Nexus that are actually convertible between inverted or standard orientation. I was thinking for your Apple ][ sign that maybe you could have it in a different position on the garage door so that the light hitting it differently would make the logo more visible. Anyhow, happy to see another 486 getting some love. That era was the most nostalgic for me.

4:56 it's NOT BEIGE.

I have that same model. Answers the phone. Pages me.

I had one of these. I also upgraded it with an Overdrive, more Ram, and a multimedia kit from Creative and a sound card from Turtle Beach who i worked for in the early 90s

Red keys match the old logo just fine, almost perfectly.

Think the mother board was installed in that orientation to compress the chassis. But the motherboard they selected require the io card, so it kind of doesn't matter, but it would if the ide and floppy controller were on the motherboard. A dx 2/66 would be perfect in the expansion slot

in the late 80s early 90s there wasn't a right way to put the mobo its only in the late 90s they mainly did them one way so mainly the rigg on the right.

It has been my experience that Negative rails always read low with no load on them. I'm thinking if you loaded them it would read better.

All the electrons are going to fall out.

I need a old pc to run windows 95/dos

Honestly, we think the black looks better for the Apple II sign than it would look if it were brown.

Pentium without L2 cache on the motherboard. PB was really sneaky at cutting corners then.

I've seen a few different "upside down" cases like this, but have no idea why they made them that way. It wasn't exactly common back then, though.

I feel super glad to see it can live longer in the hand of the right man

Nice little machine, and the case is in good shape IMO. Not yellowed at all ! I have a similar case where everything is upside down, same time period (486). The only "problem" is that the chips on the extension cards can potentially run hotter (but at that time heat was not really a problem).

As a PC tech back then we used to call them Packaged Hell....a real piece of junk