Melted Haribo, edible channel logos, some QC stickers, and a mystery Tektronix device made it home

[@LGR]

Heh, I dunno why I was imagining edible logos in the form of perforated blotter paper... I mean, watching these videos is often a trip but that'd be on another level I guess.

[@ms-dosman7722]

Hah, I had the same expectation!

[@TotoGuy-Original]

ME TOO!!

[@EgoChip]

I was thinking of something more psychedelic also!

[@matchboxcustomsandrestos]

I dont know if a visit Timothy Leary would be a good thing.....But, might be hilarious.

[@organiccold]

Hi Clint :). Me too because says in the title :p

[@matthewellisor5835]

:Sent from random person: "I'm not sure what it is." :Puts in mouth: That's a bold move.

[@nickwallette6201]

😮😬

[@Okurka.]

He also plugs in random USB flash drives he receives in his main PC.

[@TelamCanidae]

Sure was!

[@NuGanjaTron]

That's an understatement! I admire Adrian's faith in humanity. I'd be more careful tho. :^\

[@theViomax]

Love that you still sprinkle in the candy, keeps proceedings light and cheery. Can't be all business all the time.

[@JVHShack]

Fun fact for those that didn't know: AMD produced the Slot A "K7 Athlon" for a short time before going with the Socket A/462 architecture.

[@Nukle0n]

I had one of those. 700mhz! 3DNow! Instructions!

[@joe--cool]

@@Nukle0n I still have a working build with the 800MHz version and 768MB of RAM. It was a really great CPU. Ran it for like 8 years in DOS, Win98 and WinXP.

[@quad64bit]

I died when you took that big old chomp on the logo pencil erasers!!

[@blockbertus]

is that true? but honestly, i would have assumed some kind of candy, too. just because of the packaging of it. also, might not be a good idea to use a dye that colors your fingers when using?!

[@phantom2012]

Use a scope on the generator. I'm fairly certain it just makes a blank, but exact NTSC frame. And I already am in love with it. It does work with other devices in a mainframe to drive other devices, i.e. there are matching pattern generators, etc.

[@moonrock41]

If you're unsure if something is edible putting it into your mouth is a quick, but potentially dangerous way of finding out. Also, if something tastes good that's usually not sufficient proof of its safety, in the unlikely event of someone using the sweetness of candy to prevent one's tongue from detecting a poison.

[@alphaLONE]

the little logos and the adribo are so cute! Really fun stuff!

[@bradford2177]

I used to love those Harpoon games way back in the day. It was a lot of attacking circles and lines though with a Quick time video every once and a while. You had to have a good imagination but it was fun.

[@Pau_Pau9]

"Haribo has turned into solid mass!" Still delicious!

[@mal2ksc]

When I saw "melted Haribo" I was thinking of the ballistic gelatin bears used for target practice, maybe 20 cm x 10 cm x 6 cm. I knew it was unlikely to happen, that's a lot of gelatin, but still GIANT MULTICOLOR GUMMI BEAR!

[@minty_Joe]

It turned into Chernobyl's "Elephant Foot"! Run! Run for your lives!! "Beware of the Blob, it..."

[@Pau_Pau9]

@@minty_Joe Still delicious!

[@Vermilicious]

Oh, yeah.. someone actually made stickers for him. Super.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

Harpoon was a pretty descent naval surface warfare simulator. It was predicated on simulating naval engagements between NATO vs the Warsaw Pact, and US vs USSR. It was a software version of a cardboard table top strategy version. It's a Cold War geek game back from the day.

[@MrWaalkman]

One of my favorites. Pity that it was so poorly written, most games would end up crashing.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

@@MrWaalkman I ran it on a 286 with two megs of ram, and it worked fine for me.

[@MrWaalkman]

@@AndrewTubbiolo Hmm, the oldest machine I can recall using it on was a 486. The earlier versions of Harpoon weren't horrible, but the later versions were nearly unplayable. So I took a look around an it's still for sale at Matrix for $60. $60 is a bit stiff, but I understand that Matrix has some killer Christmas sales and it went for $10 last year. It's a bundle for all of the versions from pre-release to 2003.16b. So that means plenty of opportunities to re-live old bugs. :)

[@gmirwin]

Well, I'm still watching your videos. A couple may slip through the cracks, but I do try to watch them all. They're both informative and entertaining.

[@stephendouglas684]

Maybe melt haribos on the stove and make some C64 haribos. Maybe use a C64 mini to create a mold?

[@djdublo]

Adribo or Rammy-bo? Glad you're still mixing the candy reviews in with the techy stuff.

[@suvetar]

Adrian, I am so glad that you used the term Plethora to describe all those e-proms ... It really means a lot to me ❤️😂😁

[@douro20]

I have an NTSC test generator even older than that. It's a Heathkit CD-2. It is tube based and uses multiple multivibrators to generate the test video signals. It can also be used as a visual exciter with an external video input.

[@locnar1701]

I have a feeling that the signal generator is just a front end, or half the picture/device. I have a theory that the ports in the back are the input for the picture, and the thing you have there is the filter control to adjust things manually.

[@NuGanjaTron]

The engineering on 70s Tektronix gear is incredible. Have a 5000 and 7000 mainframe scope from them. Rock solid (once calibrated) and well documented. The downside is that they used some custom parts which are hard/expensive to replace now. Also have a Tek vector-based graphics system from about the same era; mindblowing stuff.

[@rivards1]

It seems like Charlie has let the candy factory go to hell since he took over from old man Wonka...

[@truezulu]

Why didn't you try changing the card in the old signal generator? There was an extra in the box...

[@peterlinddk]

I don't think that the lack of click-baity thumbnails is the reason for KZbin-problems. I no longer get recommendations for new videos on this channel, or indeed a lot of the other channels that I follow and subscribe to. KZbin constantly recommends me older videos that I have already seen, for the past month it has only suggested the old "Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade", but none of the new videos from this channel. No idea what's going on, but a lot of "old" youtubers are having similar problems, and it seems that the recommended-algorithm no longer really works :(

[@jk743]

The "bell" icon has three settings. Perhaps you have set it to "personalized" instead of "all"?

I hade two K6-2 450 and one K6-2 500Mhz. The interesting thing with the K6-2 400Mhz and up at least officially is that they support multiplier 6x and the way its implemented is the same way as Multiplier 2x on intel socket 7 processors. So it was very common that your could get a voltage adapter, Powerleap for example and often with a K6-2 400Mhz included. This would socket in to a Socket 7 board and you would sett the board to run as 2x66 but because the K6-2 400Mhz or faster would interpret that as its internal multiplier of 6x you got 6x66 so 400Mhz can be run on Socket 7 boards that dont officially support higher then say 3x multiplier. In fact I still have my K6-2 450 that I delided and ran in a Digital branded Pentium 200Mhz MMX system. The board supported K6 processors to and allowed for 2.8V so I put a delided K6-400 in it with a bigger cooler and sure enough it posted as a K6 @ 300Mhz. I booted up slackware Linux 8.1 and cat /proc/cpuinfo showed a K6-2 with 3Dnow! @ 400Mhz! And it was about 2x faster at compiling code then my Pentium 200Mhz MMX. It ran like that for 2+ years and I still have the CPU. This trick dident work for my other Pentium 200Mhz MMX system but that did not have an official K6 bios support, so it seems that if the board supports K6 it has a good chance of working with a K6-2 upgrade, like a power leap adapter. I also seen people modify the VRM on Socket 7 boards to allow for say 2.2-2.5V on one of its jumper settings to more safely run K6-2 processors. K6-2 processors had different Vcores depending on model and stepping, 2.4V was common, I think they went as high as 2.5V stock so 2.8V was on the high side but not uncommon to run them at when overclocked even for years.

[@redace001]

Fruitcake that sig generator to CuriousMarc! He collects all things Tektronix. I bet he'd love it! :D

[@Arti9m]

Regarding views on YT: you are the 3rd person I hear from about the views going down, and people in the comments suggested that YT might have changed how the views are counted/processed lately. Others suggest it's due to lifted restrictions in various parts of the world and people just go outside more. Me personally, I'm mostly interested in thorough PC repair videos, so I watch repair parts and tend to skip over other stuff.

[@minty_Joe]

Me luvz the shirt, Adrian! Although, not to partial with compact cassettes. If I had to go back to tape, it'll be reel to reel for me.

[@JARVIS1187]

We had an AMD K6-2 500 MHz earlier. It was such a speedy processor. My brother updated from a K6-2 333 MHz and it wassuch a difference.

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I have a k6-2/500 in my DOS machine, it is a little overkill for that though…

[@williamsquires3070]

Adrian, send the sig gen to Mr Carlson’s Lab! Although, it looks to be part of a larger unit (maybe a - back then - high-end oscilloscope?)

[@thomashowe855]

Agreed he would love that

[@SidneyCritic]

Doh, I just made the same comment - lol -.

[@twobob]

Dear Lord you're game, man. I have absolute respect for you now. Thanks for your videos.

[@colinstu]

28:00 that whole top card looks like it's not fully engaged into the slot below. See how it's kind of crooked? Maybe reseat everything? could be why there's no patterns?

[@_f355]

there's a manual for the Tektronix thingy out there on the internets. as far as I can tell, it is indeed supposed to output the gray screen.

[@_f355]

here's the link (I hope youtube doesn't hate me): w140.com/tekwiki/images/3/3b/062-1126-00.pdf

[@tombarber8929]

I personally enjoy the candy stuff sprinkled into the main video mail call videos, if it's something interesting.(like the melted Haribo, and the logo candy(?)). , and idk why people complain about it so much, it's not exactly difficult to skip ahead in a youtube video if you don't want to watch it.

[@PJBonoVox]

Because the top 20 comments end up just being about this stupid candy, and you have to scroll down way too far to actually see people talking about what this channel was once supposed to be about.

[@mikeuk666]

@@PJBonoVox only an attention seeking kid would be bothered by.... wow 20 comments

[@P5ychoFox]

You could do with some smaller rectangular QC logo stickers for chips.

[@6581punk]

2:32 That sort of illustrates how little is in the bag. The shapes are designed to space the sweets out as much as possible :)

[@graealex]

There is a weight measurement on all packages, and at least in Europe (where you'd find the most Haribo products), the vendors need to also print the price per 100g/1kg on the shelves to make it transparent.

[@psorbh1]

Been watching your videos for a while, and thank you for the learning experiences. I missed so much of this when i was kid. I didn't have the funds to afford. Awesome work. Thank you!

[@stevesether]

I remember the ads for Harpoon in magazines. It was ported to the Amiga as well, and originally released on 1989. I'd expect somewhat low system requirements for the original game, given the vintage and the fact that it was ported to the Amiga. Don't focus too much on views count. It's a trap. There's still 30-40 thousand people that view your videos every week, and you get to influence a whole community. That's basically crazy. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. No, wait! sorry..... that's Hunter S. Thompson. Honestly, just serve the retro-gaming community by creating good and interesting content. I've learned a lot about hardware just through watching your troubleshooting. I'm _mostly_ a software person, and know the hardware through the software. But the actual low-level signal stuff was always like wizardry before I saw you troubleshooting this stuff. Honesty, those are BY FAR the most interesting videos.

[@InfiniteBrain]

Played the paper version of Harpoon when I was stationed on CVN-71 1987-1991; also played the video game.

[@billfruge25]

Haribo candy melted onto a popsickle stick..."think about it, won't you?" (Joel from MST3k

[@senilyDeluxe]

These big EEPROMs/Flash ROMs make great multi game carts for old computers / video game systems. I use them in Atari 2600, Interton VC4000, Emerson Arcadia, Odyssey², Colecovision, Vectrex and with one chonking adapter in the Channel F.

[@newtekie1]

The rule in my house was if the gummi bears stick together, that's one gummi bear.

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Those strange memory modules are RAMBUS RAM modules.

[@stevesstuff1450]

That AMD K62 was a hell of a CPU..... it was the first CPU for my first real PC, and then backed up with a Voodoo 3DFX card... I originally had a 233MHz, then upgraded to 333MHz, and added more RAM, and went to a Voodoo 2 card, and could play anything at that time; Unreal, Unreal Tournament 99, Quake 2, Quake 3.... Great times!! :-D

[@brycelynch2138]

10:00 - "NO! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT THOSE!" --Half the Internet

[@NuGanjaTron]

**Place bets** --The other half

[@Renville80]

Maybe two different labels… ‘Restored’ for those that are 100% correct and functional (pure), and ‘Repaired’ for those that are functional but either have known common issues or have received upgrades.

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

And inspected for ones that worked out off the box.

[@lordmmx1303]

K6-2 is an awesome cpu. if you set multiplier to 2x on motherboard, cpu runs at 6x internally.

[@ToTheGAMES]

Maybe LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER can use that signal generator :)

[@BertGrink]

Good call; I´m pretty sure Sam could make some weird stuff with a thing like that.

[@Stefan_Payne]

RAMBUS Memory was used not just in the Nintendo N64 but also the SONY Playstation 2 and 3. Other than that, only here and there (Cirrus Logic Laguna, an early 3d Graphics card) and the Intel i820 for Slot 1- sometimes 370 (but very rare), 840 (Dual Channel RDRAM) for Slot 2 (rarely 1) and the "legendary" Netburst Chipsets i850 and i860... I had up to 1,5GB in my DF400 Board (SIemens Celsius 670). Your RDRAM Modules seem to be a whopping 512MB each, so 1GB total...

[@timmooney7528]

Nice to know you could make Bear by the Foot with a heat gun and gummi bears

[@oldguy9051]

22:50 There is in fact only one transistor in a metal package on that "mainboard" and it's marked with "Q420". The other transistors on that board use the more common black ceramic package. All other metal cans are actually ICs, marked with a "U". If you search for the model number you can easily find a manual, which includes schematics and a circuit description. The ICs on the mainboard are only three different types: flip-flops, dual 2-input gates and buffer-inverters - all from Fairchild. Finally, if I interpret the manual correctly, the thing that looks like a regulator on the backside is actually a power transistor.

[@bitoxic]

6:39 Charlie Bucket is the boy character from Willy Wonker and the Chocolate Factory! Wheres the candy?!?! 😁👍

[@questionablecommands9423]

4:46 "Q.C. Pass" sticker passes Q.C.

[@robgeib1723]

I just got that shirt for my birthday!

[@corvus00]

I played the PC version of Harpoon a lot in the early 90s. An old USAF buddy of mine stayed up way too late many work nights playing it on an underpowered Packard Bell 286 that I paid way too much for at Best Buy. May have been a GI, but I was not a sophisticated computer consumer back then!

[@UpLateGeek]

Yep, definitely Rambus RIMMs. Those ones are rated at PC800, but like you said the latency largely negated the increased bus speed. It did have an advantage compared to regular old SDRAM, but that didn't last long when DDR came out. The PC1066 modules did edge out the competition a little in some cases, but it was really too little too late once DDR started becoming popular. They also had an expensive licensing scheme, so any chipset makers that wanted to use it had to pay extra compared to DDR. Even with the weight of Intel behind them, they just couldn't compete with the cost advantage of DDR, and faded into obscurity pretty quickly.

[@joe--cool]

They are still around living off royalties, patent trolling and suing other companies. They are truly a vile, despicable company.

[@mattelder1971]

For those of us who live in the Southern US, where those kinds of temperatures aren't entirely uncommon, seeing melted candy, even occasionally on store shelves, is pretty normal. When working at some stores, I've actually seen them come off the delivery truck like that.

[@jonnycando]

Even in Virginia one has to be careful leaving things in the car…..I just retrieved an IPod from my Pickup glovebox…..the battery swelled so much it pushed the screen off…..I still works though…so I’ll be able to transfer it all to my phone perhaps.

[@sarreqteryx]

6:38 "It's Bouquet…"

[@AKATenn]

that K6/2 is nice, i wish i didn't get rid of mine.

[@caltonpizzaco]

Done. Chanel has gone to food reviews.

[@jondorthebrinkinator]

We had the Mac version of Harpoon back in the day. I played it a bit until one of the disks went missing during a move. It was a fairly complicated strategic sea battle game as I recall.

[@Stefan_Payne]

You can get the AMD K6-2 to run in later Intel Motherboards, for example ASUS P55T2P4 (Intel i430HX). You just have to measure the voltage with a dual voltage CPU and check the undocumented ones. In some cases you just add jumpers (or was it remove them?) to get down to 2,4 or 2,2V. Some can do 2V As for the Multiplicator: the CPU interprets 2 as 6. So 6x75MHz -> 450MHz is possible on those older Boards. Some even supported 83MHz but that was not recommended and rather unstable. That would mean that 500MHz are possible, if you want to risk it

[@Yordleton]

Another give-away that the n64 uses RDRAM is that without the RAM expansion pack installed, the "jumper pack" is REQUIRED since it terminates the bus.

[@nickwallette6201]

PS2 uses it as well, IIRC.

[@basvanharen2904]

Lol you realy tried to eat these erasers😂

[@ygstuff4898]

This video won me over at the peach block/blob -- haha!

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

IBM PS2 machines used RAMBUS.

[@cobrag0318]

"It doesn't have a current rating". "It says 1 AGC". That is the current rating. That's a 1 amp fuse.

[@megaglowz8540]

Hariblob Great video!!

[@macdonalds1972]

Everything is edible if you try hard enough.

[@suvetar]

Same thing applies to 'Adult' Toys ;-)

[@brendonelton]

I have a Dell Dimension 8250 Pentium 4 that uses RD Ram, If you can't fill all the banks with Ram, you need to use a Crimm memory blank spacer in parallel otherwise the system will not boot and give you a memory error.

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

Fun fact, the jumper pak for the n64 is exactly that.

[@rosemeyer1939]

K6-2 was a great CPU for the money. Really kicked!

[@SJBrianexe]

I have that same Never Forget shirt that I bought back in late May from Amazon. I just showed my daughter a quick segment of this video and she said "Hey that's your shirt!". I posted the Amazon link for it but my comment got removed for having the link.

[@martinenglish6641]

OH the MMX days. LOL.

[@twocvbloke]

Maybe the rubbery tasting things had a delicious juicy core? Only one way to find out... :P

[@asciilal]

Did you try flipping the voltage switch on that test equipment

[@stitchfinger7678]

The video board for the Tektronix project is like some parallel universe stuff... Im not used to seeing such early transistor technology, lil before my time

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

If the processors had been put in polystyrene before shipping might have survived.

[@williamsquires3070]

No, my understanding is that all XC68LC040’s lack the math (floating point) ALUs and registers. The XC68040 (without the “LC”) does have the floating point ALUs and registers. The “RC20” probably just indicates the speed grade.

[@TheSimTetuChannel]

The simplest solution would be to print the portion surrounding the logo in light gray.

[@infi84]

I guess the Q.C. pass sticker passed Q.C.

[@johnsouthern6089]

Waiting for someone from Colorado to send Adrian a 200mg edible.

[@rodhester2166]

lol.. that was great taste test

[@scottlarson1548]

More proof that we people in Portland have no idea how the sun works.

[@DavidWonn]

6:39 No chocolate from "Charlie Bucket"? ;-)

[@ultrametric9317]

Sometimes ya get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you :) I did a short read about Rambus but blah blah blah, I could not follow that. I never encountered a Rambus issue in real life. Apparently they are still alive and even kicking.

[@questionablecommands9423]

My car has a internal temperature sensor and the more I think about it, the more I come to believe that the maximum value it can detect is 155 degrees, because that is the value it was constantly reporting during the heat wave. I'm pretty sure I could've put a rack of ribs in the car in the morning and had them fully cooked by dinner time.

[@wojiaobill]

It looks like those color logos are to "dye" for

[@guffaw1711]

Adrian, seeing that pile of ICs in the background, if you ever find a neat storage solution to that kind of problem, please make a video about it. I'm facing a similar problem! 😅

[@digitalsparky]

Haribo, more like Hariblob :P.

[@jensschroder8214]

You need "OK working" and "need fixing" stickers.

[@matthewellisor5835]

And let's not forget the "not sure?"

[@gato38]

I had a K6-2 350mhz I knew of 400 mhz chips I didnt know about 500 mhz!

[@ChristopherLionRoars]

I bet there's an Incon 1250 running that river.

[@Megatog615]

i think haribo should just make candy bars out of the stuff don't see too many non-chocolate candy bars besides things like laffy taffy

[@mikepersechino9873]

Hey Adrian! Your aside on those older cpus reminded me, has anyone done any content on socket 8? I know it was pretty limited...

[@HeyImGaminOverHere]

I like that your channel doesn't have those kind of thumbnails though, I am glad you keep it real as it were. I did however have to click the bell again since it wasn't clicked anymore so I urge people to check that stuff since for some reason it randomly turns off which I don't know if it is intentional or not.

[@karikungas9700]

looks like that signal generator board not sitting right--need push down more...

[@Haldrie]

You end the video with that Eyoyo monitor and I'm watching it on one as well. It's not the same as yours but it's 12" 16:9 1080p and the fact it does 1080p is what made me get it as a nice little monitor for testing stuff and I got a 12v battery pack to run it more portable. It also can handle the composite signal from retro consoles better then my old 24" Samsung TV though still not perfect. Sound is also iffy and way too loud so I might want to see if there is a way to dampen the volume to the built-in speakers but worst case with the headphone output and USB port I can use a set of USB powered speakers I have that also have a built in volume control for better sound and better volume control. For a while this thing has been relegated to being used as my 3rd monitor for my computer which is mostly just being used to watch videos while I use my other 2 monitors to do other work.

[@stevesether]

Adrian, haven't you seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? This was obviously experimental candy. Good thing you didn't swallow that candy and be turn into a giant circuit board or an human sized electron given what happened to to Violet Beauregarde , or Mike TeeVee!

[@everyonesloopy]

i do believe that the LC part of that 040 means it lacks an fpu, i could be wrong, and someone can correct me, but from what research i've done LC stood for "Low Cost" which lacked an FPU

[@BertGrink]

I have heard similar things about the LC and EC versions of the 68K processors.

[@everyonesloopy]

@@BertGrink just confirmed it 100% everymac says that the 68LC040 is a 68040 but lacks the FPU

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

I simulated the formation of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt by direct numerical integration on my K6-2 600 MHz I think. It was a 12 day computer run to evolve the orbits of the asteroids to the point where you could see the gaps open up in the asteroid belt. Jupiter sweeps out gaps in the asteroid belt and causes concentrations at other orbital radii around the Sun.

[@BertGrink]

It sounds almost as if Jupiter performs a role, vis a vis the asteroid belt, which is similar to the shepherd moons of Saturn (and other planets with ring systems).

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

@@BertGrink It's the exact same process.

[@suvetar]

That's pretty neat - how big were some of these numbers it was crunching?

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

@@suvetar They were only double precision floats. Standard data types, nothing non standard.

[@Hiraghm]

Actually, it would be NATO vs Warsaw Pact... or US vs USSR.

[@Neodestro]

15:58 also playstation 2 my first pentium 4 pc got rambus