HUGE Warehouse Tour, RI Computer Museum | 'Puter Smith

We are taken on a huge tour of the warehouse and storage for the Rhode Island Computer Museum in Warwick, RI. We encounter IBM mainframes, CRT televisions, the Apple Lisa, and even a harrier jet.
The RI Computer Museum has lent antique technology to productions such as Severance, Halt and Catch Fire, Joy, Kong: Skull Island, Hidden Figures, The Good Nurse, and more.
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[@RIComputerMuseum]

This was such a fun time! Thanks for visiting the warehouse!

[@OSW]

this was such a lovely watch. really relaxed and reverential look at some old computers by people who remember them. SO cool! Loved Jon dropping all the knowledge

[@interactii]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@Paahtis]

Finally the video of all RCE videos is here, been waiting for this! That lovely old gentleman has an amazing collection and I'm sure he was happy to be able to show it to someone who appreciates it. Now all he needs to do is to sell all of it during Grandma's Attic, then we can truly see how far Junt is willing to go when it comes to flea market purchases.

[@ebbamb]

I love this. I live in Rhode Island and I'm kinda obsessed with older computers so this is amazing. I found out about the RICM just a few months ago and now its sign grabs my eye every time I drive by. I knew they had some really nice stuff but I hadn't know the scale of it, a whole warehouse of computer history is incredible. My high school has partnered with them before, offering the electric car PLT they mentioned every year (though I'm not a part of it, I'm in the Offshore Wind Engineering one instead).

[@MrBlaarghh]

So cool! Those guys are living the dream in retirement. I hope the RICM sticks around for a while, I’d like to visit it!

[@ibihc1]

Puter smith continues to be some of the best content you guys put out, great work

[@my72dart]

I used to work at EDF and heard the stories about trying to buy obsolete computer equipment, new old stock floppy discs and control system cards. They would hire companies to manufacture new control cards but even the subcomponents on the board were becoming impossible to source.

[@angiead]

It's like 'puter smith on the road! Thank you so much! All those clips you sourced just added so much to the video. Great job on the video! It's like a summer special 😊

[@HatHole]

I have no idea what 90% of this stuff is, but I'm drooling over it!

[@WOOKMEISTA]

Same!

[@Paahtis]

They're called comeputars, they're like calculators, except you play Doom on them.

[@rty1955]

​@@Paahtisif interested, you should come for a visit!

[@bradfromtn9929]

❤❤❤ MORE OF THESE PLEASE!!! Just the RedCow crew on an outing somewhere that tickles the crew’s fancy.

[@SHITSWEEEK]

check out whats in junt's cart if you havent yet. its everything you want!

[@jokerman8619]

My step grandpa was really into early computers. This reminded me of him.

[@ABitMoreJordan]

Finally got around to watching it and it was great. It was especially good to have Jon with you adding his expertise and asking relevant questions.

[@HPRshredder]

This is so sick 😮‍💨

[@MegaMoto85]

That was delightful.

[@melancholoid]

Awesome Vid! Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany

[@frankf684]

Finally Frankie finished following frighteningly faulty(tried to keep the alliteration going)Star Wars shows and posted this lol great video

[@ABitMoreJordan]

Wow nice to see this drop. It feels like you mentioned it on the Pod ages ago. Been looking forward to it.

[@RedCowEntertainment]

It was a big edit and it came after some unboxings and the wrestling BoxMac and of course non stop podcast clips (which about 75% are done by our editors but I still do about a quarter of them).

[@thefatskater9025]

I've been waiting for this

[@BillxSand]

the editing on this video is really good!

[@bzert281]

26:18 Oh Man, that RJE Terminal was my first computer job in 1980! no monitor, just had to send mainframe spool commands blind, and you could drop in jobs via punched cards, good times. Our company didn't own a mainframe at the time, we timeshared at a service bureau (today, a Cloud provider) in Charlotte. Think it usually came out to about $25K a month. like 16 dumb terminals and that RJE chain printer and card reader, all of it over a single 9600 baud modem.

[@stgenerations]

Loved this. Thank you.

[@tradeofalljacks4358]

Thank you Frankie Foster!

[@russell0holley]

Can’t wait for the canning video. Peaches please.

[@dosgos]

We had a Data General Dasher terminal and keyboard in our basement. Don't know what grandparents used it for. It had a beautiful screen and the iconic blue keyboard. I think both were made in Southboro. Industrial tank quality.

[@JanusCycle]

I would love to see the space where they have portable and even pocket retro computers.

[@samhex8415]

It’s finally here! Great job 😊

[@Ravenbiter005]

Great video guys!

[@pyzmark]

I loved this. Thank you!

[@Dariothehungry]

This was fantastic from start to finish!

[@KurtLeeKitchens]

Fantastic video hope for more uploads soon

[@loganlj4]

This is awesome!

[@joshtoten]

Another wonderful episode of 'Puter Smith! Even though I'm not really knowledgeable on the subject, I've always appreciated the aesthetic of old pre-90s computers.

[@SmoothCactus11]

Awesome video guys, keep it up👍

[@sanjuro0518]

Outstanding video, what a great place!

[@inhumanmusic1411]

I remember the Tube Testers in our local drug store. We had one particular tube on our TV that would constantly blow out.

[@johncrodian3899]

it rocks

[@WOOKMEISTA]

What a fantastic collaboration of passionate peeps sharing knowledge of all these wondrous computers and hardware from our past 👌😍

[@MikeSandersonVideos]

Great coverage and insights guys, more videos like this!

[@breezybakeoven9346]

That floppy disk, oh my gosh! 😆Hahaha What an incredible collection, so much history, and what cool stories. The Pixar computer, what a find!

[@Grow_Everything]

This was so fun to watch! Great video as usual guys 👍

[@juanzizumbo6051]

I always loved the Puter Smith videos! I was so sad there was so few but slowly I hope there will be more!

[@MustardTigerFan42]

Great video boys!!!!!

[@bruhbruhbruhbruhbruhbruh-jp3if]

Kathy Bates knows a lot about computers

[@uncletony55]

Really interesting video guys, thanks!

[@liamobrien6151]

Golly, for a second I thought all the "Puter Smith" references were to Putter Smith -(I know this is a touch obscure). Putter Smith Played "Mr. Kidd" on the Bond film "Diamonds are Forever" in 1971. He was one half of a villian couple - the other was Bruce Glover (Crispin's dad) as "Mr. Wint." Their performance was memorable and at times hilarious. Anyway, my brain's rando-gland gave me just for a second the possibility that Putter Smith had somehow ended up opening up a computer museum years later. I think what did it was the facial hair - though your tour guide is much younger and shorter. Ah well . . . still a fun 20 seconds of Charlie Murphyesque yarnboarding. LOL

[@Newmie13]

Love this, great document of older computer tech. Really interesting to learn how many film productions sourced from these guys for props.

[@chefdump]

finally, more gosh darn 'puter smith please!

[@MarkCodyDirtAndMingle]

That was beautiful :)

[@AoiShoudou]

Amazing episode! This is true nostalgia from computer curators

[@smashedbrothersgaming234]

This is really fascinating. So much history in one place

[@corbinq27]

yes!!!

[@dpresspro]

Loved this, and I know next to nothing about computers. The tech info was conveyed in a way I could understand, without seeming like it would alienate somebody who's really into PCs either.

[@dauntae24]

Great stuff.

[@RxYouth]

Yay, been waiting and excited for this since it was first mentioned as even being a possibility however long ago. Time to dig in! EDIT: It did not disappoint! So much amazing stuff and cool history to feast your eyes on. As a reseller who's sold some vintage computers and electronics I just kept seeing $ signs and thinking about how much that collection has gotta be worth, some of it seems so rare its basically priceless and impossible to even conceive a value for it. Cant wait for part 2!

[@psm6618]

Junt in his element! Love this video!

[@adamdravian]

Facinating video

[@Chris.Davies]

Got my first rig? An OSI Superboard II, with the 24KB expansion board, with 48x 2114 512byte memories chips. Or my old Fav? PDP-11/03 with a DecWriter, 8" floppies, and old skool VDUs - running RT-11 BASIC, Fortran, or Pascal!

[@rty1955]

We have the ONLY PDP-9 that is fully working too!

[@Jordan4Ibanez]

This place looks so awesome

[@rty1955]

You should come for a visit. Its all hands on (nothing behind glass) and its FREE

[@AJSmith67]

Great Content Fellas! Big fan since 2023. Retrogaming will never die! Thanks Frankie, Junt, others. Lol feels like a Christmas special with the jackets and light piano music tho lmao

[@wrnealis]

#jacketgate

[@masterhacker1989]

Cool place

[@tommyjones1357]

The first computer I ever used was an Apple IIe Platinum in the Chicago Public School system! We played games like Reader Rabbit and Number Muncher. I still would like to buy one to keep on display!

[@onkkell]

what this video doesn't have going for it is Big Ryan coming out of the bathroom looking exasperated in the background

[@kennymetz187]

Lmao😂

[@kennymetz187]

Was that from a real video ?

[@onkkell]

cinemassacre visits TNT amusements at around 3 min, look it up

[@ashtraydekay6624]

i've been waiting like a year for this!!!!!!

[@mcborge1]

I would be like Gollum in a jewellers store in that place. 🤗

[@KingKool2099]

Absolutely fascinating. I live in Rhode Island and had no idea there was a computer museum here. I need to check it out.

[@ohmyupoorchild]

This is so awesome

[@liamobrien6151]

Thanks for this one! A real treat! My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 MC-10. I didn't know a lot of BASIC but did managed with help to load in a game or two. I also used to sneaky-use it as a calculator to do a bit of my elementary school math homework - though by the time you punched in the code, you should have just done the problem and showed your workings. Would get it set up and then I just had to turn off the CRT TV I used for a monitor if my parents came back upstairs!

[@BlastMaster]

Wow, how have I never heard of this place? (I'm in Plymouth county). You guys should do a MA/RI travel guide video!

[@ashtraydekay6624]

i love seeing the " 'puter smith" logo again

[@ChrisLerouxDesign]

The moment I saw the porta potty in the background, I was hoping someone would make a joke. Thank you Frankie!

[@brettg1695]

Step aside Aragorn, this is the true return of the king!

[@borf42]

My gosh, that place looks like heaven to me!

[@rty1955]

You should come for a visit! Nothing behind glass, its all hands on, and its FREE

[@tundraportal]

Great video, I haven't been to the warehouse but I've been to the museum part of the Rhode Island computer museum. Great place and really nice people!

[@rty1955]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brandonupchurch7628]

I think another big reason you don't see so many of the old IBM machines is because a lot of businesses didn't buy them, they leased them and when they got old and the customer no longer wanted to lease them, I guess IBM just came in and took them away to be scrapped.

[@rty1955]

That is very true. IBM never sold thier mainframes

[@travtotheworld]

30:24 Nina just gets bulldozed.

[@CharlesGrosvenor]

ooh, I spy an Epson QX-10 (or maybe a QX-16) right above that PET. I used both of those in my younger days

[@NintenDub]

I love jon hunt

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

I hope they raided Weird Stuff Warehouse in San Jose before it closed.

[@DrPooks]

I enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire on AMC during its OG run. At least the first few seasons. It introduced me to Lee Pace.

[@nickwallette6201]

Oh, the Pie Maker!

[@inerlogic]

I need to visit that place, i won a Retro Recipes "RR" badge that gets me in to computer museums around the world... I had a great uncle who was the Zenith TV guy in Fall River, his shop was on Bedford st i believe.... my memere still had a b&w tv with vacuum tubes in it in the 80s.... and we used to listen to the red sox on a tube radio. I've restored a few tube radios and wish there was stuff worth listening to in AM these days...

[@rty1955]

Our hands on museum is FREE

[@inerlogic]

@rty1955 even better ;) My first computer was a TI99/4a back in 83, I was 7, i had no peripherals, no software, other than the manuals and magazines, i learned to type and learned basic quickly, lol.... i still have that machine and it still runs!

[@rty1955]

​@@inerlogicwe have a kot of stuff for that machine as well as lots of expansion bkxes

[@bigbilly7865]

WHAT'S IN JOHN'S CART? 🛒🛒🛒🛒🛒🛒

[@TheSuckoShow]

Funny to think how a screenwriter just has to type "old computer" into the script, and then it's up to various members of the production team to figure out what kind of computer would make sense for that setting, and see if they can source it. I remember the first computer I bought for myself was a Mac Mini in 2005, since it was a simple, all-in-one media-production station. It was good at what it did, but if I'd known it wasn't gonna play any games or run 99% of the software I wanted to run on it, I might have gone with a Windows-based computer instead.

[@DarthDoodie]

Awesome a new 'puter smith. Always enjoy seeing john and the whole red cow family. another great vid guys.( when was this filmed? you are all wearing jackets. its 110 degrees here. im sweating watching you guys lol.) have an awesome day. ps john looked like he had a blast. hope you all had fun.

[@rty1955]

End of Feb....

[@wrnealis]

#jacketgate - what are they hiding?

[@DarthDoodie]

@@wrnealis all the mac and ever drives lol

[@wrnealis]

30:42 OS/2 - you broke my heart

[@PirateJacques79]

This video could have been at least an hour longer and I'd still have been mesmerised. RELEASE THE DELETED SCENES! Also... Where'd they get that Harrier from? Is it a movie prop or something?

[@rty1955]

Its a real harrier. Come see & touch it

[@senilyDeluxe]

Run SEGA Space Harrier on that Harrier lol (the deluxe arcade version did lift you around, so that's not so far off)

[@jeffhaddox2239]

It’s an Indoor , Outhouse 😂

[@ErnestsTechAdventure]

Hey John! Need some help with an imagewriter one that I have. Trying to get it to work on a windows 11 computer. Any suggestions or ideas how I can do so? Guides ect?

[@tekvax01]

What is a vacuum tube? Okay, now I feel OLD...

[@b0tterman]

What about the Video Toaster? Early vfx desktop system that I used.

[@rty1955]

We have one in the lab

[@ProgSnob14]

Great episode

[@BeyondTigerMilk]

Congrats to anyone who made it through the entire "and this is the..." video

[@soupforare]

DEC Rainbow~! One of the bricks in the road that led to Digital's death. Even that extra option that let the thing operate as a VT was a debacle. Love the Tandy computer desk. For whatever reason a lot of companies decided to be furniture manufacturers too. Wang was very bad about it. I do miss a lot of the varied form factors, microcomputing today is just very boring.

[@cbbcbb6803]

Is there a reliable source of 5.25 diskette drives? Either to buy or rent?

[@danberman5429]

Sure! Just stop by.

[@aplmak]

I've loaned to Halt and Catch Fire.. my machine came back smashed by FedEx... :(

[@rty1955]

Anyone can come for a visit and its FREE

[@Mrajtheartist]

✨⭐✨💞💖💞💖💞💖💞💖💞💖💞✨⭐✨

[@rty1955]

Can anyone see my comments? They seem to disappear

[@RedCowEntertainment]

I see them!

[@rty1955]

@@RedCowEntertainment odd i placed some comments before and they were gone....it was great hosting you guys!

[@pikadroo]

Oh? Where is LGR? Isnt he supposed to come in and ask to buy stuff and create a lot of greed?

[@nickwallette6201]

.. TF?

[@RESTROOMREVIEWS]

watching now.........................................................................................................................................................................................................great job