0026 I test the most beautiful CPU I've ever seen, I laugh at some bad caps and eat some sweets

On today's SMMC video, I testan absolutely stunning 8088 CPU from the USSR, laugh at some funny T-Shirts and a zany tie. Plus, some yummy local sweets!
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[@GeekmanCA]

Well, I guess we're each our own biggest critic! I had worried that the sitting-down leads and the colour of the electrolyte *cough* would not convey the gag well - but I'm happy to admit I was wrong. If you all prefer the original design, you can now get that too. Just follow the link Adrian provided above and follow it back to my storefront. Thanks for the plug Adrian - I'm really happy you like the shirt. :)

[@knghtbrd]

I just love how the ceramic's just got himself a cigarette because he wants to look bad but he's actually pretty reliable…

[@eekee6034]

I love those shirts so much! XD

[@jwhite5008]

Oh I love the puns! Jokes explained for those unfamiliar with capacitor failure modes: The tantalum smokes because that's what they do when they go bad - produce smoke, the aluminum-water on the right has high ESR (equivalent series resistance), it also resists to do its work, the center one is leaking - the most common telltale sign of cap failure, especially for electrolytic caps with no vents. For a sequel I'd suggest a few "brutes" with torn "shirts", bulged/ruptured top vents as "gangsta" haircuts, and possibly crooked-sitting ones...

[@maxtornogood]

The 1st revision of the shirt is rather amusing, doesn't seem to be available anymore though...

[@GeekmanCA]

@@jwhite5008 Yeah, I think everyone is assuming that the tantalum is a ceramic because I made it too round - My bad really. I might stretch him up a bit in the future...

[@Stormbolter]

So this iomega accessory... it could be called a "zip tie"?

[@TWmOrfar]

I think a "good cap, bad cap" design would be great 😃

[@GeekmanCA]

🤔

[@techhermit1343]

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[@greendryerlint]

You could show the bad cap smoking, which also wouldn't be inaccurate..

[@dr.rotwang]

Man, am I the only one who likes the 1.0 bad cap shirt more? I wish we could get one of those or better both of them.

[@GeekmanCA]

Welp - Ask and you shall receive...

[@BrainSlugs83]

I like the first one better too. Smoking just squicks me out.

[@dandoyle]

@@GeekmanCA Did you find the 1.0 shirt?

[@jupiterbelic5826]

Yeah I prefer v1 also

[@Colin_Ames]

I love the ties. My wife used to work at Walmart, and she got me a tie covered in Walmart delivery trucks. Two or three times a year, at the place where I worked, we got visits from the top brass and were forced to wear ties. No prizes for guessing which one I wore!

[@jensschroder8214]

The early USSR ICs had a pin spacing of 2.50 mm, not like the American ICs with 2.54 mm spacing. The longer the ICs became, the more difficult it became to put them in the western socket. 2.5 - 5 - 7.5 - 10 --- 25.0 2.54 - 5.08 - 7.62 - 10.16 --- 25.4

[@martianhighminder4539]

I wonder if that was due just to a Soviet preference for metric, or if it was a workaround due to not having access to IC fabrication equipment that used Imperial units? 2.54mm converts to one-tenth of an inch, which would be fine in an Imperial environment like a US fab of the era but trickier to work with in tbe Soviet Union. Especially if their chip industry at the time was a mishmash of whatever equipment they could buy from outside, reverse and domestic engineering, and clandestine tech transfers to bypass export bans.

[@enginerd80]

@@martianhighminder4539 Soviets did do conversions for reasons that seem just ideological. An example of that was modifying their railroad gauge from the original that was designed using imperial units in the times of the Russian Empire (apparently the czar had hired an American / Americans to design their railroad system). The original was 1524 mm (five feet), but was converted to 1520 mm at some point in the Soviet era. Finland used to be a more-or-less autonomous grand duchy within the Russian Empire, and so the railway gauge in Finland was built to be 1524 mm. In Finland -- which thankfully managed to bail out into becoming an independent country right before the Soviet sh*t really started -- the gauge was never changed, and everything is still 1524 mm (🦶🦶🦶🦶🦶), but that doesn't prevent trains regularly crossing between Finland and Russia without anything being done about the gauges. (The only issue is the pantomime... pantograph of which two sets are needed on the electric locomotives that cross the border; I think the powers in the overhead lines are 10 kV AC in Finland and 2 (or was it 5) kV DC in Russia.) So clearly that change was done for no practical reasons, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were other changes.

[@alexbold4611]

Pain in the... then I switch USSR 8088 to NEC V20, so I put socket and in socket V20.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Fascinating -- I've noticed this. Incidentally, the US made CPU inside the TI99 also uses different spacing compared to the usual 2.54mm. It was similarly hard to get it into a modern socket -- it was a Texas Instruments part. Perhaps they were trying to standardize on 2.5mm too? LOL

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@enginerd80 yeah there was a lot of pressure to not “be counterrevolutionary” even long after the revolution had occurred, so lots of things became signals/shibboleths for patriotism/loyalty. And metrication, not just in converting units but making them round numbers, was a minor case of that. (Lysenkoism was a much more major case of that, which held back agricultural development until after Stalin died and his successor allowed them to actually follow the Darwinian science.)

[@PavelUrusov]

This CPU was almost certainly made at the Quasar (Kvazar) factory in Kyiv, Ukraine.

[@chrisyboy219]

Yeah, I was going to say this also. I have a Nixie Clock and the Soviet era Nixies in it were made in Ukraine!

[@st.alexiev625]

you mean "Kiev" and "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"

[@chrisyboy219]

@@st.alexiev625 well to be fair even the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic referred to itself as 'Ukraine'.

[@PavelUrusov]

@@st.alexiev625 No, I mean "Kyiv, Ukraine". The CPU has a 1993 date code. And Kvazar is still producing and selling these CPUs for military needs.

[@alexbold4611]

Or Crystal, also Kiev.

[@jaycee1980]

7:10 I often describe those leaked ones as "caps that have s*** themselves" and i guess thats what he was thinking too :) The second version is a little more work-safe i guess :)

[@Nerd3927]

Thanks Alexandr ! That is a really cool processor!

[@webfreezy]

Some explanation on HARIBO food coloring: many years ago a new EU regulation has been passed requiring companies using certain artificial colors in food to add a warning like "may affect children's attention" to the package. As they obviously feared this would damage sales most companies switched to plant-based colors. That's the reason why the colors are not that intensive in the EU. And probably a bit more "healthy" also.

[@EdWensell]

The red dye is/was based on an extract from a beetle which caused an odd allergic reaction in children which effects cognitive ability.

[@squirlmy]

@@EdWensell Cochineal (red dye) may be made from bugs, but other synthetic red dyes such as Red No. 2 and Red No. 40, which carry far greater health risks, are derived from either coal or petroleum byproducts. I think EU's response was to the latter. Cochineal is widely used in makeup and lipstick, as well as foods. Technically, it is not really a beetle, it is from the sub-order Sternorrhyncha.

[@melanierhianna]

And the orange food colouring causes hyperactivity in children.

[@williamsquires3070]

Sadly, the “Iomega” tie would be appropriate where I work, as we still have quite a few Zip drives (parallel port) floating around. I’ve got two in my office.

[@BrainSlugs83]

I see you also work at a computer museum...

[@williamsquires3070]

@@BrainSlugs83 - nope; home office for a series of small loan stores. I’m their one - and only - programmer.

[@fonkbadonk5370]

@@williamsquires3070 I would almost have assumed you're working at some world leading bank. My aunt was an IT contractor for the Frankfurt stock exchange, and I know that at least there, they had core systems based on 80's DB2 versions (on main frames outputting on ancient line printers) for at least as long as around 2005. Which was when she moved on to other endeavours, so it might have been even longer. I myself am in the industrial automation field, and have seen a 468 running DOS 6.22 doing (allegedly) crucial tasks at a production plant of a major paints manfacturor, where none of the staff knew what the original software author (who was long retired in the opposite part of the country) did as late as 2014 - and haven't been back at that site since, so no idea how long that survived. If people in general knew what utterly ancient computers still basically run this world, there would be a lot more unease around!

[@Ale.K7]

That 8088 clone looks awesome! There are lots of Soviet chips that look really cool, from what I see on the Internet.

[@sampoturunen9337]

I'm guessing that those clone chips are coming back

[@iscander_s]

As Russian retro-computer enthusiast, I can say for sure that we don't know either, why some chips were produced in such packages. There's only a theories like "exposed traces was used for testing purposes" and "attempts to reduce plastic usage per chip" etc. As for Aleksandr's letter - he is not entirely correct, you could buy (or DIY) a hobbyist computer, like "Radio-86RK" or "BK0010-01" (AFAIK you have one, sadly you only unboxed it). But IBM PC-compatible machines, such as "ES-1840" or "Iskra-1030" were considered as "professional" computers and wasn't sold to the general public, but they were commonly used for engineering, planning and accounting. In the 89-90 there started to appear quite affordable IBM PC compatible consumer grade machines, like "Elektronika MK-88", "Assistent-128" or most popular of them "Poisk", but the collapse of the USSR didn't give them much chances to survive and later the market was dominated by various dirt cheap "ZX Spectrum" clones.

[@jwhite5008]

Yes! There were quite a number or RK clones: Mikrosha, Partner, Apogei, and more. Some of those were sold as kits that you need to solder, or partially pre-assembled. Some were hand-assembled by local enthusiasts in their apartments and basements, with their own little quirks.

[@Video_Crow]

I've picked up a fair number of old Soviet CPUs over the years - I don't have a single solitary use for them, but they usually look so cool.

[@l337pwnage]

@@nneeerrrd lol, the best part of all this is the two sides constantly calling each other nazi's. Never get's old, it could be a Mel Brooks film in the future. (well, I actually don't know if Mel Brooks is still alive tho)

[@rastislavzima]

@@l337pwnage you know how they say that attack is the best defence, thats why these days nazis are using so much to call everybody else nazis, I like the most when they call somebody "libberal nazi" which is quite an oxymoron. We use to say "a thief shouts, catch the thief", I suppose its in english "pot calling the kettle black". But I think that in this case its quite clear who is using this title correctly.

[@l337pwnage]

@@rastislavzima the only "nazi" slur I found kinda funny was Rush Limbaugh's "feminazi" cuz I just think it sounds funny. Anyi other "nazi" slurs just seem cringe and forced to me. The only group in this current conflict to use "nazi" symbology was Azov, but they were funded by the group we can't talk about and even the ADL defended them. Kinda lets you know the score.

[@rastislavzima]

@@l337pwnage and what about Putins private army Wagner group, those tatooed nazzi symbols they wear just because they find them aesthetical? There is also a new nazzi symbol "Z" which is widely used. Anyway symbols are not most important, thinking, behaviour and acting is important. You do not have to have tatooed swastika to act like nazzi.

[@l337pwnage]

@@rastislavzima That would make sense since Putin's mother belongs to the group no one is allow to talk about, and they are the only ones allowed to use those symbols.

[@moconnell663]

It almost looks like that Soviet cpu is a BGA mounted on a converter board to make it DIP compatible.

[@moconnell663]

Now we need a shirt with a vented electrolytic and an exploded Rifa.

[@jwhite5008]

It would fit well as a "bad guy" haircut and/or "need to vent!" sign

[@rommix0]

Loved that "Bad caps were born bad" joke.

[@artursmihelsons415]

Nice! 👍 Now I want new T-shirt.. 😎 Thanks to Alexander for chip! Hope, he's not watching TV and get information from independent sources.. Back in days these chips were a rare.. And not only these chips.. There was a struggling even with 8-Bit chips, after Radio-86 computer schematic publication in Radio magazine.. I had to build that PC but it needs some rework because I used some parts from board for my. project in later days and cut the few traces.. 🙄 Next publication on magazine was Oreon PC with color output.. Will be cool to rebuild it, just for fun.. But I'm still proud, that I have ADC chip that was Made in Latvia at Alfa factory in my home made stereo.. 😂

[@eekee6034]

Tangfastics are all over the place in Britain, but I've never seen Goldbears before. Then again, I don't usually look. I'm a chocolate nut. Oh and, thanks for all the videos, Adrian! I expect they'll be helping to keep me sane for a long time to come. :)

[@code123ns]

Imagine wearing that tie... and hearing the click of death.

[@domramsey]

v1 of the shirt is so much better!

[@ChristinaGXL]

Tangfastics are my absolute favourite Haribo

[@AlanCanon2222]

The thing that impresses me is that DOS 6.22 runs on an 8088.

[@alexbold4611]

Care to explain why?

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@alexbold4611 I didn't realize (or had forgotten) that the 8088 and 8086 were binary compatible.

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@alexbold4611 I'm too embarassed at mis-remembering this key element of x86 development that I'm letting my stupid comment stand as a testimony to my own ignorance (I'm on a 6502 kick right now). Anyway, yes. Dad and I soldered together two XT clones, the Heathkit/Zenith Z-100, around 1985 or so, so it's also a matter of revulsion at getting old that I no longer remember the details. On the plus side, in my Gen-X twilight years, I am trying to build a 6502/65816 dual processor system, and then a node bus architecture that would enable a "Connection Machine" cluster of them to be built... my battle cry is "When its done, it could render Avatar in less than three years!" and I'm envisioning whole racks of power strips with 5V cell phone chargers plugged in and snaking under the raised flooring.... :)

[@eDoc2020]

@@AlanCanon2222 I think you mean it could render _a frame of_ Avatar in less than three years.

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@eDoc2020 320x240 pixels at a time, baby! I'm on FIRE. Oh, wait, that's my solder station. Forgot to turn it off. :)

[@frankowalker4662]

Cool T-shirt. :) I love the CPU. It reminds me of a VHS tape with it's cut-outs. Ha ha.

[@michaelcarey]

Back in a previous era (when I was involved with the marine electronics industry) a local fishing company bought some Soviet era fishing trawlers. It was like being instantly transported from Australia to the USSR. From the calendars still on the walls to the electronics on board I could imagine myself being onboard in the Bering Sea.

[@dragonheatgaming5005]

I love that acorn tie

[@BilisNegra]

7:08 I like the zeroes on the dark strip where the specs would go. Even if not the precise actual readings on the multimeter, they might as well be 0 once it's not any good any longer.

[@mesterak]

I bought some coffee crisp bars on Amazon here in the US. I hope they’re good!

[@TheThomasites]

You won't be disappointed.

[@mikehensley78]

the soviet IC @ 11:30 has got to be the most beautiful IC i've ever seen! awesome!

[@jwhite5008]

There were quite a number of those produced like that, it seems, and no-one really knows why. I think I may have one of those somewhere collecting dust, although I can't remember where. Though I believe the "spiders" in calculators like К145ВХ1 were more interesting-looking.

[@gordonmacqueen8694]

I freaking LOVE coffee crisps. I had them in a bag of Halloween candy years ago and it was amazing!

[@tommyvanpelt2408]

Coffee crisps are sold at Publix in the international food isle here in Florida.

[@radon1917]

Not all soviet chips was clones of western ones. You have BK-0010, in this computer all chipset is soviet development. KR1801VM1 (CPU), KR1801VP1-037 (image controller) and VP1-014 (keyboard controller). Also in the USSR was an intresting computer ES1842 - it's based on KR1810VM86M (letter M very important). This CPU have some instructions from i286 and ES1842 may semi-programmable emulate 286 pc!

[@pb_magnet]

TIL there's another Jesse on BC's West Coast who watches this channel :D

[@berndeckenfels]

Beautiful Bios

[@tristanbuckner]

Oh man. My local market in Oakland used to have coffee crisps pre-pandemic. So good!

[@WolfKenneth]

Remember that Soviet chips have different feet spacing than western chips!

[@8BitNaptime]

Yes, you can see it when lining up the pins next to a DIP40, but it's too small to make a difference when inserting into a socket. .04mmx19=0.76 mm difference overall.

[@BertoldVdb]

In early 1990's BGA technology started to become very common. Is it possible this is a BGA chip mounted on an adapter to make a legacy DIP package version?

[@JasonHalversonjaydog]

i've had coffee crisp here in the US a few years ago. but i got them not in the store but in an import box i subscribed to that sent me foreign candies. so many good ones in there, the foreign chocolate is so much better than the US chocolate like hersheys

[@thomasallen531]

High fructose corn syrup ruins a lot of American sweets. Everything tastes so much better with actual cane sugar. Which they say it isn't but I'm convinced that a lot of our diabetes and obesity issues in America are related to high fructose corn syrup. We are the only country that uses it in practically everything.

[@diwest1737]

T-shirts no longer available. Damn that was fast. Would love to buy some shirts.

[@marcinEcXY]

Smoked. Leaked. Resisted. 🤣

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

Placed my T shirt order.

[@timprussell]

Gerr, due to COVID I haven't been to Canada since 2020 and I love Coffee Crisp!

[@fnjesusfreak]

Same here.

[@StevenIngram]

That chip makes me kind of revisualize the soviet hardware mentioned in William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff. LOL From big and clunky to circuitry trace art deco.

[@HomestarWPG]

Should call it the "Tie-Omega"

[@datafilehunter1682]

Coffee Crisp and Ice Cream is great combination.

[@tmsmottl]

I have one of my coworkers based in Toronto, and he smuggles me in Coffee Crisp every time he visits the office!

[@xnonsuchx]

Coffee Crisps have been available in the US for the past year or so. Maybe not everywhere, but I saw them in Atlanta last Thanksgiving and they’re in several stores here in Seattle. I think we only get the regular bars and not the bags of minis, though.

[@UpLateGeek]

Speaking of Soviet Union era clone chips, there was recently a meet-up at the vintage computer museum here in Sydney, and the founder of a local computer company that made the "MicroBee" computer in the early 80s was one of the guests. It was a very interesting Q&A. He talked about what it was like running a computer company in those early days of home computers, being invited to the Soviet Union to talk to the government about the prospect of exporting his computer to Russia. Because it worked on the Z80 it was considered a "toy computer", which meant the Australian government wasn't going to block the export, despite the cold war and their restrictions on exporting technology to the Soviet Union. He mentioned how he was approached by the Soviet government, and his "discussions" with the Australian intelligence agency prior to and following his trip to Russia. But the most interesting tid-bit to me was that he asked the Soviet government representative about the cost of manufacturing his computer locally rather than going to the expense of shipping it all the way from Australia, they already had the figures for it, and it turned out to be a lot more expensive. Which makes sense. They had the capability to manufacture the chips, but the technology was so cutting edge there at the time that it was hugely inefficient and expensive. And honestly that hasn't really changed. They've got the capability to manufacture chips, but it's many generations, at least a decade behind the west. Anyway, if you're interested to watch it, Mr Lurch's Things put up a video about it.

[@SergiuszRoszczyk]

Where is CPUGalaxy? I repeat, where is CPUGalaxy? 😀

[@greendryerlint]

Sometimes good caps go bad because they're so frustrated by one of their legs being shorter than the other..

[@eDoc2020]

That's why we amputate both legs to the same length once we solder them.

[@watchmakerful]

Actually this 8088 clone is Ukrainian (Quasar factory, Kiev, the arrow in a circle logo is theirs) and post-Soviet (April 1993!). Why did they need such old-fashioned chips in 1993???

[@IanSlothieRolfe]

To repair the government and school computers? :) The chips were made to supply jobs, not necessarily to supply demand.

[@SergiuszRoszczyk]

Because there were nothing cheap there. In Poland I was very happy to have 10 MHz Hyundai PC/XT with EGA and DD 5.25" floppy. Despite 386 (and 486 I think) already on the market it was impossible for individuals to pay such money for them. I suspect it was similar in Ukraine back then.

[@Renville80]

The only distinctly Canadian candy I’ve ever had was Mackintosh’s caramel, and it’s been a long time since I’ve had some.

[@TheErador]

Mackintosh's caramel is British, made in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Not Halifax, Nova Scotia

[@danielson9579]

We in the UK have something similar to coffee crisp but its called toffee crisp 🙂

[@thygate]

that cpu looks like modern silicon (BGA?) package on top of some sort of DIP adapter ..

[@rastislavzima]

Hmm, might be. I was wondering why it looks like that and this may be the answer.

[@knghtbrd]

Wow Aleksandr, that's a very cool find! Hope you are well. And Adrian, Haribo Gold Bears reminds me … I've got something for you. Not a 30 year old CPU or more candy, but I think you'll get a kick out of it. Gold Bears remind me of it because they're one of my preferred treatments for one end of the "Aw crap…" Oh and if you ever run out of donated candy (🤣), I believe Coffee Crisp, Smarties, and Violet Crumble can all be found at Rocket Fizz downtown.

[@thebitplanes8188]

In Soviet Russia the Commodore keeps up with you!

[@andykillsu]

Haribo is building a massive factory near my home. I’m excited to see if they offer some tours or a factory store as I love Haribo as much as you do!

[@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger]

You probably won't eat Haribo again if you know it contains hooves and tendons.

[@nickwallette6201]

I love that Tie-omega! I guess it only comes in medium?

[@kaitlyn__L]

Soviet computer parts weren’t just built to higher reliability tolerances, they were also built to be more easily recyclable and often the exact weights of various metals were available on docs (or sometimes even printed on the case for larger items). Though unfortunately that did mean, post-USSR, a bunch of people made pittances on scrap metal sales rather than preserving the device’s functionality. I can understand why they did that, given job stability and stuff had just gone down, but it’s always a shame IMO unless the product was useless. It costs more energy and time to turn them back into a useful product, even just stuff like turning power cables into scrap copper, it’s so much more work to make them into cables again. However, due to Soviet preference for economies of scale and simply keeping a bunch of spares in a warehouse rather than maintaining smaller continuous manufacturing capabilities for small-run parts, there is at least still a lot of new-old-stock available despite the 90s scrappers.

[@rthefish]

The font on the "T" shirts is the old Apple font.

[@KrissBartlett]

they used to have the coffee crisps in Australia i loved them far to much ummmmm but in the last 30yrs i have not seen them

[@kathrynradonich3982]

Coffee crisps are the biggest reason I miss living in Canada

[@jeromethiel4323]

I have to explain this to customers all the time. Electrolytic capacitors stop being capacitors if left uncharged for extended periods. If you have something with electrolytics in it, you need to re-form the caps before you power it on. Granted the equipment i work on is 650Vdc and up, so a capacitor that has unformed itself tends to explode violently, and spray both conductive foil and conductive electrolyte all over equipment that is at a pretty high potential, and with a lot of current behind it. Electrolytic capacitors are awesome in that they give you a LOT of capacitance in a small space, with a pretty high dielectric strength. But they definitely have downsides as well.

[@Nightowl_IT]

If you can't eat them yourself give 'em away at halloween

[@AndrewFremantle]

I can officially bump you up to one person who had Coffee Crisps and didn't like them. But then, I hate coffee, so I guess that's to be expected.

[@fu1r4]

If they have coffee taste i will also hate them, but maybe they are called Coffee Crisp because you should eat them when you drink coffee? I don't know 😀

[@TheThomasites]

@@fu1r4 they do have a coffee like flavour, but you may like them.

[@MattKasdorf]

I'm not a big bean or leaf water drinker, and really dislike Coffee Crisps. I do like hot chocolate though.

[@rantsfromcanada1656]

@@TheThomasites Yup... I hate coffee, I love Coffee Crisp. It's a nice, light snack.

[@rednight2476]

Hershies owns the Nestle chocolate line distribution in the US, that's why American kitkats tastes terrible er different, and you can only get most of them as imports.

[@FullMetalFab]

Cool I live 25 min from Brighton Ontario.

[@jamesdye4603]

Where I live in NJ we get the Haribo Funtastic Mix, and it has that white coating on some of the pieces.

[@KrzysztofC-1]

CPU Galaxy been very quiet past few months...

[@chloedevereaux1801]

oh tangfastics... my fave haribo, i have at least 1 bag a day :P delish....

[@IgnusFast]

That's too bad - I would have ordered the first shirt. The second one is just too busy for me.

[@FlyingSurprise]

The Iomega tie would fit Clint perfectly. Send it to him!

[@squirlmy]

LGR. Some may not get the reference to Lazy Game Reviews.

[@BrainSlugs83]

I don't hate your candy reviews... but I do hate that I'm not the one eating the candy! 😉

[@radio-ged4626]

I've been to Canada and I didn't know about Coffee Crisp bars 😢

[@DavePoo2]

And sometimes, bad caps just work even after 35 years

[@KepperKleen]

Hi Adrian !!

[@LippoM]

I need more such great Videos, where is Adrians Digital Basement Channel III ?

[@Professorke]

I have found that those Russian chips draw more power than the Western versions. I found this out because I had made a breadboard project to test microprocessors. Some Russian chips draw significantly more current.

[@jwhite5008]

Yep. A number or those were made with less precise technological process.

[@Vermilicious]

That shirt sure was funny.

[@goodtimeswerehad]

Tangfastics are the best!

[@anotheruser9876]

Bon Cap, Bad Cap

[@rtechlab6254]

I do a bulk order of Coffe Crisps and Cheetoes about once every six months in the UK.

[@captainchaos3667]

Looks like Russia is going back to those USSR days.

[@kencreten7308]

Yay!

[@draggonhedd]

i like the candy reviews but when they're in other videos, not standalone.

[@squirlmy]

10:16 starts the letter about the 8088 clone chip.

[@draggonhedd]

@@squirlmy ?

[@greypatch8855]

The shirts are brilliant

[@slappymcphee]

We used to have coffee crisps in Northern Maine and as far as I know they still sell them there. I suppose that could make sense seeing this how it's right on the border to New Brunswick. However, who really knows.

[@squirlmy]

what?!?!? Maine borders Quebec province alone. It's really likely more stuff like that comes by sea from N. Brunswick and even PEI, because there's not a lot of travel overland through the isolated parts of Quebec to northern Maine. But as a New Englander, it sounds weird to talk of "borders" with the eastern island provinces. 😳😋

[@slappymcphee]

@@squirlmy what do you mean it borders Quebec only? I grew up in Northern Maine and crossed the border regularly in Fort Kent, Fort Fairfield, and Limestone which ALL border to NB. I have driven all over Canada as well throughout my close to 50 years. I spent too many weekends to count as well at clubs in Edmonston, Moncton, etc. Yes, I also frequented clubs in Quebec as well even in Rivière-du-Loup. So not sure where you have your information coming from. lol

[@Dukefazon]

8:55 - Good cap, bad cap

[@timmooney7528]

I read that the Soviets made a copy of the Apple computer, and did not mask their questionable reverse engineering. The ROMS still had Woz's name in them. It's name was Apple in Russian.

[@rastislavzima]

Whole east block was not quite bothering to hide copying the tech, therw were many 8bit clones of many models, in those days nobody worried about copyrights.

[@timmooney7528]

@@rastislavzima That is why I'm skeptical when people tell urban legend stories about 1965 Buicks that got 80mpg, free energy, or anything else buried under the rug by big corporations. if these technologies existed, the Soviets and Chinese wouldn't hesitate in using them to advance their country. If it existed, they would steal it.

[@rkurbatov]

It was named Агат (Agat) that means Agate in English. And used original 6502 btw.

[@SuperVstech]

Hey, I’ve got a ton of various Iomega drives. Several still unopened in the box. Do you need any Iomega jaz or various zip models?

[@ozmobozo]

I'm kind of sleepy and I read it Haribo Tang Fascist

[@solzarcat555]

that's a cool looking CPU Adrian nice. mesa likey.

[@Jasonsadventures]

I mean one day you should see an Alpha CPU, then you will know beauty

[@evensgrey]

12:00 It looks almost like the chip was put into something like a QFP and then that was installed into a DIP adapter. I can't really see what the point is for the cutouts in the package. It makes no sense as test points, since the lead frame elements visible have to just go to the pins anyway. It wouldn't have saved enough epoxy to really matter, and it would have made molding the package considerably more difficult. It also makes the entire package far more delicate.

[@GENERALCHAOS13]

i Want that Cap T Shirt

[@piratestation69]

Very cool. Had no idea there were Soviet cpus... A 8088 chip getting hot?? I'll take an Intel any day.

[@squirlmy]

@Brandon Taylor Intel did but AMD was very close behind. The Soviets also made clones of Zilog 80, some of which went into very many Eastern European Sinclair ZX81 clones. Afterwards Soviets cloned PDP-11 chips, and even made some desktop microcomputers with them.

[@DavisMakesGames]

Tie-omega?

[@fnjesusfreak]

I can sometimes get Coffee Crisp here just this side of the border but it costs an arm and a leg.

[@tommyvanpelt2408]

If you have a Publix near you, they sell them on the international isle.

[@fnjesusfreak]

@@tommyvanpelt2408 Publix doesn't go this far north, but that's where Wegmans has it.

[@jk180]

Love the shirt. I'd order one if I had a link.

[@blahza12345]

Hi, you might want to check the video description

[@twobob]

WAIT. Hold the phone. Not heard of TangFastics? This I have to see... EDIT: Yup. They look identical the local ones in the UK. FWIW There is a Huuuuuuuuuge Haribo factory not that far from here...