Revolting 1970s Computer Deep Cleaning

[@jaceb_sqr]

*Found something about the company:* "Michael Roberts had founded Sydney- based Time Office Computers, originally called *Electronic Control Systems* , in the 1970s, intending to develop and market small computer terminals."

[@jaceb_sqr]

Sauce: "A Vision Splendid: The History of Australian Computing - ACS", pg. 226

[@HughJeffreys]

Thanks, have updated the title to reflect the proper decade.

[@jaceb_sqr]

Great video Hugh. I'm a computer scientist myself. This terminal really fascinated me because it tells something about the history of computing there in Australia. I love watching your vids. Keep it up

[@pouliniere7595]

Hugh Jeffreys Now I understand why the title has changed

[@libertyordeaf]

Yes, that's right. Michael Roberts came out of the computer faculty at UNSW and made quite a bit of money selling these data-entry terminals. He then went on to take over Dulmont, which made the Magnum / Kookaburra, the first Australian-made laptop and probably the world's first battery powered one. Pretty important figure in the history of Australian computing.

[@enzoperruccio]

This is a so called "dumb terminal", meaning it absolutely needs to be hooked up to a mainframe in order to do anything at all. The high voltage sound means the CRT is probably working fine, there's just nothing to display 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@alerey4363]

but at a bare minimum most terminals of this kind showed some manufacturer's logo or basic prompt or some video lines of some sort (either amber or green phosphor)

[@enzoperruccio]

@@alerey4363 Maybe this one's so old it doesn't display anything? I dont really know, I'm just guessing by the simplicity of the circuitry inside.

[@SeaDooEric]

It is actually a DUMP Terminal,…get it? Because of the animal poop.

[@benjaminbadrakh1644]

The highvoltage sound is likely the sweep generator though.

[@flymax7377]

@@SeaDooEric 😂😂😂

[@dantexavier7842]

looks like a computer you would find in a fallout game

[@smraddebeli]

🤝 Agreed

[@CodeDisease]

Yes 🤣

[@matthewgarmendia7803]

OMG IT ACTUALLY DOES HAAHAHHA

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Lool

[@PAVLL0-v4i]

"Change my mind"

[@UK_Cobra]

That poor computer, looked so much happier after the clean :) Always love watching rare vintage electronics be cleaned up and/or restored to working order.

[@allmousekillnew583]

Sh up

[@vamori6494]

@@allmousekillnew583 ?

[@zorvlatch]

Like my dog who rolled in the mud, after a bath.

[@limesandlemons1367]

@@allmousekillnew583 ?.

[@Cat_loaf20]

@@allmousekillnew583tf did he do

[@omegasiarnaq]

I love the look of this technological artifact. I also am still bewildered at the fact that this was a late 70s/early 80s computer, fast forward 30 to 40 years and we now have super computers in the palms of our hands that most of us probably used to watch this video. I always get excited about technological advancements.

[@babylfsh]

It's not even a computer, it's just a terminal. It's meant to be the human interface to a much larger computer, in this era likely a fridge-sized "minicomputer."

[@omegasiarnaq]

@@babylfsh this was used to access a much larger computer? This is so cool because of how refined computers are now and how small computers can get compared to the computers of the time which took up an entire room. I'm sorry I just love this sort of stuff

[@babylfsh]

@@omegasiarnaq By the late 70s, it's more likely that this would be connected to a fridge-sized computer, although it could also have been connected to an ancient room-sized mainframe. The room-size computers of the 50s and 60s usually used teletype machines (telephone connected automatic typewriters) as terminals, which are clunky mechanical beasts. Video terminals like this one started becoming available in the 70s as a paperless alternative to a teletype.

[@lorencelaflair4306]

@@babylfsh nah too smol... bring it up to a small room sized.

[@ema72676]

I love how it looks too ❤️

[@jessica23claire]

this isn't relevant to this video in any way, but I just wanted you to know i rescued a working 2011 iMac from the side of the road last week, bought her a keyboard roughly of the same age on eBay, cleaned her up, learned how to system restore, and brought her back to life. She's now running the newest software I could get her (High Sierra) and doing well. I've named her Gertrude, the very angry computer. Point is, I probably wouldn't have gone to the effort if it wasn't for you, so thank you for your work!

[@araigumakiruno]

Nice! One more computer saved from eWaste

[@mmbeno]

I wonder how fast it is

[@jessica23claire]

@@mmbeno it’s actually not too bad! I’m not a computer expert by any means but I can tell it’s a little sluggish sometimes, but it still runs my NBN normally, KZbin videos run smoothly and so far so good!

[@jessica23claire]

@@araigumakiruno hell yeah! She wasn’t even visibly damaged either, just had a bit of oxidisation on her from being outside for a day but that cleaned up just fine.

[@araigumakiruno]

@@jessica23claire atleast she have a new,nice and caring owner!

[@syndicate8190]

the "useless foam" is a sound dampener still used in custom keyboards to this day. also the grim on the inside of the keyboard indicates the ppl using it where smokers as that is what happens to electronics. when u smoke around them

[@giofurla]

But the foam was only on one of the two keyboards

[@syndicate8190]

@@giofurla the key board may have been damaged by the smoke residue and the foam was never replaced when fixing it

[@shaquilleoneal45]

How nice are those key caps boys

[@itbetea]

@@shaquilleoneal45i was thinking the same thing. they look so nice

[@MondkeksLP]

Seems logical, I guess smoking in the office was the norm back then.

[@dontmatter4423]

Those pieces of foam are not useless actually. They dampen the sound from key presses. It actually makes a difference from a completely hollow case

[@MrWolfSnack]

I can't stand it when people ""repair"" something and just throw random parts away and say "this is useless" when they think they know more than the engineers that built the thing at why something was put there. If you are too ignorant at how electronics function and what each part is for, you shouldn't be repairing them. Imagine repairing a car with that logic. It would never even start.

[@Felipe77646]

@@MrWolfSnack yeah as a keyboard nerd i’m literally fuming

[@yahillo]

They’re useless! Didn’t u see the shape they were in? Sure it makes a change but that old foam is no good for the keyboard.

[@MrWolfSnack]

@@yahillo That's not what I'm saying and you know it.

[@ellenmatzke8509]

@@MrWolfSnack I’m pretty sure he meant they’re useless because of the gross condition they were in not because he’s uneducated however you could be right too who knows 🤷‍♂️

[@HudsonGTV]

Would recommend not gutting it. Restore it to a working state, and since it just uses RS-232 for communication, you could hook up an external modern computer to it. This will preserve the units original state, while allowing you to use it with a modern system. EDIT: Ican almost guarentee thst the CRT itself is perfectly fine. You are almost certainly experiencing one of 2 problems: 1) Brightness knob is either turned down, or is bad (try spraying Deoxit into it and turning it repeatedly until it feels smooth). 2) The electronics on the terminal side are bad. This should not be too difficult to diagnose if you get help from the vintage computer community, as these terminals were usually quite simple.

[@Thecrypttidgamer]

or maybe the hard drive is bad and it literally doesn't have anything to display at all

[@Gizepi]

I was a drilling rig radio operator in the 80's and 90's and this system is extremely similar to what I knew as a Laine Data System. Effectively a terminal that ran a very basic system and connected to peripherals (in our case an early modem) via RS232 which, if memory serves worked at 300bps. Our modem was connected to a modified car phone that connected to the land based cell system.

[@mrtesticlease4638]

thats honestly pretty awful but also awesome at the same time lol

[@ChengTeoh]

There should be a warning on this video - "Don't watch this video if you are eating or about to eat ... or are a germophobe ... or an arachnophobe."

[@aflmaster5431]

I was eating an apple and I almost died

[@superNova5837]

I was eating a dinner while watch this

[@aflmaster5431]

@Sagnik Chatterjee lol I just woke up and ate a apple lol

[@Kassadin.]

Agreed

[@KeaganMaher]

I was eating the whole time

[@SayMcGillicuddy]

This would have gone quicker if you'd had a Ducktor on hand. He's always very helpful

[@frstwhsprs]

Was that... a TysyTube reference?!

[@SayMcGillicuddy]

@@frstwhsprs Odd Tinkering, but honestly I just spent 10 mins trying to see if they are the same person. Identical aesthetic

[@justapurerandom5374]

@Allan Dods Odd Thinkering is Finish and Tysy is French (my nation)

[@cosmingfx]

@@justapurerandom5374 not really. He is romanian born and just moved to France afaik

[@Zirah58]

@@cosmingfx how do you know that?!

[@theodark]

The question is "Should you repurpose it?" ... To which my answer would be "It belongs to a museum" :) If you can't find any info on the internet, it looks like its rare, and part of the Australian computer history.

[@thespacenerd669]

I think that they didn’t make very many copies

[@BarrySmoother]

"it belongs in a museum" Mostly everything that gets donated to a museum gets thrown into storage where it won't be documented and won't be seen by anyone. . At least this might be thrown into someones man cave. It'll have purpose instead of being chucked behind a sheet of glass where maybe one or two people a month might acknowledge it's existence.

[@theodark]

@@BarrySmoother "privatize everything" right?

[@mr2000jp]

i agree , and i think it have a hight historical value , its too valuable to just change it to any thing else ,

[@darkracer1252]

@@BarrySmoother guess where it collected all this crud. guess who auctioned it. this thing probbably has been on some collectors display before he died and it ended up in a garage. or it has already been in deep storage of some museum that didn't know what to do with it

[@jahmurlopez379]

Your videos inspired me to open my own business repairing computers

[@camera1946]

This is a terminal. No computer bits inside. It is purely for displaying and entering data from another machine. Still is really cool. Nice video!

[@thekristianfamilycircus]

I'd just like to add, I currently own some of the last surviving ECS stage lighting equipment, this appears to be an old ECS lighting computer console, as I have the serial system this plugs into. The CRT get input from a lighting desk, which this acts as monitor/keyboard for. These were developed in the late 1970s/early 80s. I'd be interested in buying this, as they are well obsolete but a part of theatrical history.

[@nahmastay3300]

Did you get to purchase this?

[@amirrayyan5151]

@@nahmastay3300 yeah dude @JK Forde

[@SgtKOnyx]

@@amirrayyan5151 doubtful, Hugh said he was keeping it, at least at that time.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@SgtKOnyx He gave Hugh an offer he couldn't refuse.

[@thomass.6328]

An Ebay Auction for this would be like:Almost New Condition, rarely used

[@headbumb9022]

true

[@junaidsiddiquemusic]

Right lol two years ago I bought an iMac from ebay, it’s listing was same like u said until I found using drivedx the hdd is failing with over 23,000 hours runtime 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@h20k98]

@Quantum wtf , gamming?

[@animeloveer97]

the terminal in reality:15 years abuse in some manufacturing plant with 600 smokers in a 9x12 room with 1200 rats using it as a toilet XD

[@benjaminbadrakh1644]

That high pitched noise might acctually be the horizontal sweep generator making that noise as its sweep rate is in the audible range for most computers. The sweep generator is meant to make the CRT beam sweep across CRT display so the entire screen is covered. The Sweep generator should be making a saw-tooth wave form at its output and feeding it into the horizontal deflection coil. Another problem maybe that the flyback transformer may be out. The epoxy may have degraded over time this letting in moisture or air allowing the HV to arc inside the transformer thus not letting the HV get to the CRT anode. Or possibly that is only a display for a external computer. With those dumb terminals it may be a data monitor. The CRT socket connector to the CRT pins at the back of the CRT may also be corroded and not making a good connection to either the heater element pin, cathode pin, focusing electrode pin, beam amplitude pin. Or its just that the main processor is dead or other critical components. One good idea though before checking anyone of these is to check all power supply voltage rails. There maybe a short on one of the supply rails and the current limiting protection kicking in. If you think that current limiting didnt exist back then you are wrong because I have experience working with 22** 4** series Tektronix oscilloscopes. The 22** series are from the 1980s and the 4** are from the 1970s. Check the fuses (if there are any). Well thats all I can think off the top of my head. Good luck.

[@Random3DAnimations]

Too long : didn't read

[@sparklingwater399]

That's a very neat answer! Hope Hugh sees it

[@resneptacle]

@@Random3DAnimations Good for you? But genuinely, who asked

[@Random3DAnimations]

You

[@GameN3rdz]

@@Random3DAnimations no

[@davidfrank2824]

I remember back in the 1970s when I was in junior high. Back then radio shack had groups of people who went into school to demonstrate electronics. That was where I had my first experience touching a computer. They would put the game pong up on the screen and talk about how that computer was programmed to play a game. They told us about the gaming and then explain how if you were to become a computer programmer perhaps you would invent a new game. I'm really enjoyed this video and thank you for bringing back some very fond memories. I most definitely hit the like and subscribe button. Look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@GREGSanderson-l4z]

I worked for ECS back in the days we built these. It's interesting to read all the comments. A couple of things. It was an 😊 intelligence based terminal that emulated HP, Honeywell, and many other terminals of the day. Customers were Telecom, ATO, Fairfax, and many others. It was a computer, so much as we had a set of EEPROMs with LLL basic. Nothing serious, but it was my first stab at programming. The biggest problems you have here are the HT for the tube. If not the tube itself, next is the keyboard cable. It is parallel not serial. Good luck working that one out. I am happy to answer any questions you have about this box.

[@MrMattlock]

Great video Hugh. When I started my IT career in the 90's there were still a few terminals like these around the office, hooked up to either Honeywell Bull mainframes, or later DEC Alpha mini computers. In those days I worked with programmers who started programming with punch cards! This terminal would have been cutting edge stuff to them in the 80s :-)

[@swapnilsonawane9874]

It's always good to have insights from those who actually used these things. Thank you.

[@isaacashirvad]

Nice

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[@gregorymtucker]

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[@MicrobyteAlan]

It’s a computer data monitor. (Dumb terminals) probably from the ‘70s.

[@williamharris8367]

A quick check of the production dates on the chips would give a reasonable estimate of when it was manufactured. I glimpsed a white, ceramic EPROM -- I think those are late-1970s vintage.

[@N3KO_79]

But the keyboards reminds me the actual mechanical keyboards 😂

[@80.niranjannv97]

@@N3KO_79 old keyboards were actually better since they weren’t meant to be affordable

[@AustinMichael]

@@N3KO_79 That is because it was one. Any type of computer back then was not for consumers and they money these things cost was immense. Rubber membrane and other cheap keyboard designs were obviously to get the prices down for consumers in the 1990's.

[@resneptacle]

@@AustinMichael Even in the late 70's and 80's membrane keyboards were around and only got more popular with the rise of home and small business computers

[@coleeau]

From one of the date codes on a transistor this looks like it is made in 1977. It's a terminal. Please keep it stock since it is so old

[@williamharris8367]

Good catch!

[@mitsostechtips9047]

I'm saying the same but I really don't think Hugh will read this, if you read this bro, please keep it stock and don't ruin such a classic machine

[@darkracer1252]

i doubt he'll keep it stock. it's sad. the computer thinks it's getting restored but in the end it's just ending up in the trash and it's skin it used for some raspberry pi crap.

[@thatgaming1940]

It's hard to make me gag just by sight, but you cleaning the base was able to do it. You gained a subscriber just by having the stomach to clean this.

[@Standofffish]

How I see my computer: a little dirty but pretty clean *How my mom sees my computer:*

[@GaijinSlave]

lol same. Except Its my brother as you and your mom as me. Its so relatable though.

[@timcollins3484]

I am 75 have been in IT since I was 19 and the name rings a bell with me. I'll watch your video all the way to see if it gives me a clue. Worst case I can ask a few of my contemporaries if they can recall ECS. May take a while they're in almost every time zone! (or no longer on the planet!)

[@libertyordeaf]

ECS was started by Michael Roberts from UNSW in the 70s and they did quite well selling terminals to banks and government departments. Roberts then bought out Dulmison/Dulmont and the company became Time Office Computers. They threw a lot of cash into laptop development and sales but couldn't compete with the overseas big boys and went under in the late 80s.

[@timcollins3484]

@@libertyordeaf Thanks for the update, I also remember TIme Computers

[@Mister_kipling]

I've seen cleaner men's toilets after a football final.....

[@circuitsandcigars1278]

I’ve seen dirtier toilets in a woman’s dorm.

[@esh9x153]

I’ve seen cleaner boys’ middle school bathrooms

[@teriyakipuppy]

The keyboard is beautiful. The blue too. You'd be hard pressed to find the replacement CRT

[@davidsalmons80]

Agreed

[@gameyord7182]

External (adapted) monitor?

[@giofurla]

@fallen aspie but shouldnt it display something? Like a flashing underscore

[@nysaea]

The CRT is probably fine. Most likely dim and a bit burned in but the electronics are the likely culprit.

[@NuGanjaTron]

@@nysaea Agree. And the CRT is a Hitachi job, so probably more or less generic and replaceable. Would be interesting to see how it reads on a CRT tester.

[@nobody-fe4gn]

I don't know why, but i found that these kind of videos are satisfying

[@germanmemerboi3157]

Why do I love how it is designed? Boxy Terminal that looks like a PC.

[@cadenyang3058]

Hugh: *Random and useless pieces of foam* Custom Keyboard enthusiasts: *shaking their heads*

[@korbyndejong6490]

What is that foam for?

[@cadenyang3058]

@@korbyndejong6490 Dampening foam to reduce pinging inside the metal case, and to make the keyboard sound deeper

[@jolt-tech6361]

ikr

[@jolt-tech6361]

@@korbyndejong6490 to dampin the case sound

[@resneptacle]

@@cadenyang3058 I doubt back then they cared about making a keyboard sound deeper

[@jeeroylenkins6625]

The styrofoam on the key board is to act as a dampener, so when ur typing there is no hollow sound being created.

[@jeeroylenkins6625]

@@tuononh which other keyboard? There's only one in the vid no?

[@arsyadaiman8474]

@@jeeroylenkins6625 There's literally 2 keyboards

[@jeeroylenkins6625]

@@arsyadaiman8474 oh yea ahahaha. Well then idk y there isn’t one on the other keeb

[@ishaqislam1547]

@@tuononh it was probably put in on the blue keyboard bcuz the last person who used it did it

[@roadsport.]

@@jeeroylenkins6625 maybe in the first keyboard something was causing the keyboard to be loud and someone put foam in it

[@jackp4225]

You should give this to Dankpod's friend James, he could probably fix anything.

[@misterguyschannel260]

Yes

[@MaidaValeTom]

As long as its a Fiat

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

There's a KZbinr that's pretty good at tech repair as well, called Hugh Jeffreys

[@mdukasa]

The crossover we need

[@applefanboy1770]

Jerry fixes and a diy power checker with a broken fuse lookin light

[@Lexilove2016]

Finally a restoration video with audio commentary

[@NuGanjaTron]

Technically, he hasn't really restored it, at least in terms of function. Sadly, it looks like he's not planning on doing so, either. :^(

[@astedroid]

I don't know how, but these are so satisfying to watch.

[@mdukasa]

This has got to be the worst condition computer on youtube, even more than the 8-bit guy's VIC-20

[@Blackout_1692]

That's exactly what I was thinking

[@insert_username_here]

It’s not really a computer, more of a dumb terminal, but same thing I guess.

[@yucaluca8561]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@TheGlitchyMario]

Absolutely.

[@aptiveviennapro]

This would make The 8-bit Guy even more jealous.

[@markharrisllb]

The next time I see a video with the words '…Dirtiest Computer…' in the title I’m going to comment "You obviously haven’t seen Hugh Jeffreys's."

[@charliec193]

Most underrated comment ever

[@flaturiah]

I think the one of the only contenders would be that nasty VIC-20 the 8 Bit Guy washed off. Although, it was more oily than feces ridden lol

[@Cmdrbzrd]

This thing doesnt count because it's a bloody terminal and cant do anything by itself.

[@markharrisllb]

@@Cmdrbzrd Does that count as a technical knockout?

[@Cmdrbzrd]

@@markharrisllb no

[@VeioPescador]

"unindentified grime" sounds scary

[@nathanaelmalm5641]

Well it is scary

[@danbarnes4069]

If this was a eBay listing it would be "SUPER GAMING COMPUTER USED NO DIRT"

[@MrLurchsThings]

If you jump on the Australian Vintage Computer Collectors group on FB, I’m pretty confident someone would know it’s full history.

[@kushunadkat9087]

Please keep it retro and preserve the “living fossils” of the extinct computers so that inquisitive minds in the future won't only have to rely on the theoretical material but can look at well preserved fossils and learn “what it used to be” and “how far have we got” of the modern computers. Ik it has little to no functionality left or that it wasn’t a marvel of a computer in its own time either but it still looks good after cleaning. Can you please do that? : )

[@Cmdrbzrd]

Umm, it's a dumb terminal. Of course there was no functionality left, because there barely was any to begin with! A dumb terminal requires being hooked up to a mainframe computer to do anything.

[@kushunadkat9087]

@@Cmdrbzrd as I said "it wasn't a Marvel of a computer in it's own time either" but it looks good

[@oromis995]

@@kushunadkat9087 it's not a computer though. It's a keyboard and monitor with extra electronics to handle ports and stuff.

[@kushunadkat9087]

@@oromis995 😅😂

[@2jpu524]

Using a USB-FTDI serial port interface, you can easily and cheaply connect this to your PC/raspberry-PI/etc. A terminal emulator program will allow you to decode it without needing to write any of your own code.. This can be done on the cheap.

[@drummergirl4239]

Hugh: i dont have a scraper *uses scraper to take off the moldy serial # sticker

[@EternalAnglo]

I think he meant a washing scrubber

[@horusfalcon]

That was a guitar pick, man.

[@No-vg7lh]

Drummer girl its a pick

[@nathank7006]

@@horusfalcon it’s an Ifixit phone screen adhesive scraper, he uses them in most of his phone repairs

[@WolfyRed]

77 likes nice

[@Rybagz]

Being a terminal, powering on at most on a working model would likely give you nothing but a flashing cursor if not connected to a host. This looks nothing like an IBM compatible mainframe terminal or a VT52/100 etc. (the obvious clue is in the keyboard content/layout). My guess is either a terminal for a lesser known mainframe series or more likely some sort of proprietary minicomputer (and there were lots of them until the likes of Wang and Prime started dying off in the 1980s) - also the company that made these in all likelihood just produced peripherals and not the machines you connected them to. Before terminal emulation on PCs became the done thing there were lots of non-OEM terminals available for most popular systems.

[@beeskneeslol]

tbh, since how old it is and how it was found in condition, I agree with you even though he made it in a good condition. Just because it looks nice doesn't mean its good on the inside.

[@macieksoft]

Can be generic UART/RS232 terminal. Tons of different models of those character oriented terminals were made. 3270 series for mainframes were a different kind of dog, proprietary protocol, field oriented, designed for S370. IBM frames used proprietary tech quite often. Minicomputers often used more common/standard stuff.

[@scottlarson1548]

If it were an IBM mainframe terminal, wouldn't it have had a SEND key instead of a RETURN key? I remember those terminals operated in block mode instead bothering the mainframe with every keystroke.

[@legend-gamer5905]

LOL

[@wememelol]

Bro that thing bout to take off with that sound

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Thanks for showing us the feces! GG would be proud.

[@VeioPescador]

Be a parent and you will always find unindentified grime.

[@goosenman2]

This would likely make a neat 'hidden gaming PC' with enough work.

[@bluberrialpha]

@Good Old Gamer I think a pi would be too small for something this big, I mean there’s plenty of room, wouldn’t you rather fit a mini itx board in it instead?

[@growtopiajaw]

With a crt? Lol

[@resneptacle]

@@growtopiajaw If we ignore that this CRT is most likely not able to display high resolutions (or color graphics), CRTs are quite gorgeous and clean looking with good blacks and high refresh rates if you get a high quality one

[@dalesantospliego649]

You mean sleeper pc 👌

[@AviatingRandom]

what all parents think their kids treat their electronics like:

[@animeloveer97]

cause they do lol

[@InsanercYT]

You are so dedicated it’s unbelievable

[@TFreshour08]

Moment of silence for all of the paper towels lost in this video.

[@adews7204]

I think you should try to fix it and keep the original internals, this computer deserves to live

[@Anonymous-qr4ev]

This^ unless something is totally unfixable/Unreplaceable, then it deserves a chance. However, if this is a dummy terminal like the other comments mentioned then even if it’s fixed it’s going to be useless without a mainframe to plug into, especially considering the one com port isn’t even wired to the mobo anymore

[@jussapitka6041]

@@Anonymous-qr4ev No need for a mainframe, it could be used as a Linux terminal for example

[@Anonymous-qr4ev]

@@jussapitka6041 I mean, as long as he can connect up that serial port ur probably right, I just was going off what was said in the video lol

[@yet_another_communist]

@@jussapitka6041 yeah, and play command line games, with BBSes or something. It would be very interesting, or change the CRT and make a retro gaming machine, would be amazing.

[@MetalTrabant]

@@jussapitka6041 I highly doubt the Linux kernel supports hardware that was made more than a decade before the kernel even started to be developed...

[@elvispretzel9331]

Whatever you do with it, i think it would be great to see the keyboard working with the final product. Its the perfect example of vintage goodness. Keycaps that put tungsten to shame, contactless honeywell switches, a case that you could probably use in the zombie appocalypse, i would love to see the keyboard speaking with a modern computer or something

[@Velocitist]

I could imagine the smell just by looking at it, good work!

[@Z1_Gamer]

funny thing is you posted this video on my birthday July 24th !

[@shaquilleoneal45]

Those vintage SA profile key caps are so sweet!! I’d love to hear a sound test on the restored keyboard & switches.

[@cesariojpn]

Looks like we need a collab with LGR or Retro Man Cave.

[@quinn_nz]

Or The8BitGuy

[@ryanlovesmicrowaves]

Someone that’ll actually fix it instead of putting something else inside

[@resneptacle]

Or Adrian's Digital Basement

[@si_cario7993]

"it's probably animal poop" Me: no i think its dirt "it has a foul smell" Note: don't let the cat sit on top of the computer

[@aleksandersats9577]

You should repair it rather than put a new pc inside. It's quite unique, even the fan is really unique as I have never seen a computer use an AC fan

[@MTBTYLERINITTT]

I very much agree!

[@eyemem5080]

Yes

[@itsmoses7973]

This isn’t a “computer”, this is a terminal. Which is just a display with keyboard attached. There is no brain inside. Even with this thing fixed up, it’s useless.

[@adaml6793]

And how are you able to find parts for such an old machine

[@itsmoses7973]

@@NHbinaaa111 Not even close. It’s like the equivalent of the NEX dock. You need to connect a real computer to it to use it.

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

Very brave of you!! That thing probably won many awards for Natiest Computer in the World!!

[@tafheemyeasir1606]

You should've gotten an hazmat suit.

[@dialupdude]

11:16 I recognise that speaker mounted in the keyboard assembly, it was used in many Telecom Australia rotary phones from that time.

[@murcamwin]

Yes, I saw that. I still have some that have never been used, they were used in the earpiece of the later 400 series phones and then in the mouthpiece and earpiece of the 800 series.

[@juddlewis9939]

The sticker he removed also said telecom on it so it was most likely owned by telecom

[@lemau8458]

Tar from smoker's lungs removed from their lungs and placed on a 1980s PC

[@resneptacle]

Doubt that's tar

[@ahsannaseem3822]

hugh: after correcting my mistake and trying again this happened ... me waiting for a blast xd

[@abdulmuizzabdulaziz824]

Trueeee🤣🤣🤣

[@paarthureddy2708]

Timestamp someone please

[@MetalTrabant]

I was just expecting a command prompt to appear...

[@utzufideli9769]

@@MetalTrabant i was expecting a blinking cursor bc thats typical for those terminals. they are literaly like cmd.exe or a linux tty shell but as a device that plugs into a headless pc.

[@pikuhana]

I expected the reaction I got, he probably shorted something

[@VRestoration]

It looks very good aesthetically speaking but I would have loved to see it working

[@JO3YSworld]

This is e sort of stuff I love being preserved and deserves to be preserved, so so interesting and important to see how things have developed over the years to teach the younger generations how advancements work.

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

The mold when it touches the mold killer: *_A-_* **dead**

[@mariosanchezolmedo6898]

Well, thats the idea

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

@@mariosanchezolmedo6898 Yup

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

@@mariosanchezolmedo6898 does the job

[@adibahsan71]

I would love to see it restored or preseved as it is kind of a piece of history I guess

[@Art_Murder]

I watch a lot of restoration videos and this is the first I've thought "I wouldn't touch that". Braver man than I.

[@stephenw2992]

Any Australian that saves things from sheds is used to cleaning possum urine off things

[@philip3963]

"useless foam" I can see every keyboard enthusiast crying right now

[@megaclodsire]

It's neat to see that the internal wires are actually braided. A very interesting detail

[@dappermanphoto]

This needs to be talked about with Techmoan or sent to him. He'll know exactly what this is.

[@WolfyRed]

32 likes nice

[@greenaum]

This isn't his thing at all, he does home entertainment stuff. This is commercial / industrial computing, not his field at all. There are experts in museums and online for this sort of thing. Many of whom used to work with it when it was new (and EXPENSIVE!). Sadly, every year, more of them grow old and die. But they're often extremely keen, they really loved this stuff, especially the programmers and system guys, so they've done what they can to get their information written down so it can survive them.

[@animeloveer97]

nah hes more audio equipment eevblog now he might know

[@syed1x]

we need more deep cleaning videos on youtube, theyre so satisfying.

[@tombickerstaff5019]

Next up: cleaning my filthy desk after the grotesque 1980’s computer.

[@charliec193]

-replying enabled-

[@stormerbuzz352]

It must have been amazingly satisfying to slowly see it becoming cleaner

[@MissInformer]

I'd be interested in seeing this old guy restored rather than gutted tbh, though im about a year late on commenting. That's an old school computer. More than likely it was from a period where individual computer set ups didn't have their own OS, and ran data fed into it from a cable connected to the main server. It used to be easier to do that since storage was incredibly massive and expensive back in the day. It made it possible to store the data in one space, and have a compact unit on your desk in your office.

[@riverandquiver909]

This is the greatest deep cleaning computer restoration of All Time

[@Alphari-w]

Ya

[@N3KO_79]

Hugh's mom: *Hugh, where are all my cleaning products?* Hugh: *Sorry mom, i used all for a video in youtube!* 😂

[@somewhatacat7526]

You have been a bad boy Hugh..you are grounded.....no smartphones or computers for a week

[@mariosanchezolmedo6898]

@@somewhatacat7526 Hugh:NOOOOOO-

[@GameN3rdz]

On

[@hyper-novaa]

Hugh: ma if you like what happened to your cleaning products hit that subscribe button.

[@MizushimaNaomiz]

the truth is that these videos are very satisfactory, I don't know if some of them like it

[@blorpburnday4249]

if you liked this then you can check out the worst vic-20 i have seen from 8 bit guy

[@usedmacbook]

Hugh Jeffreys is amazing at fixing computers of any age.

[@nysaea]

you mean cleaning?

[@usedmacbook]

@@nysaea nah mate he refurbishes computers as well

[@nysaea]

@@usedmacbook Okay refurbishes yeah. Your comment was a tad hyperbolic. Especially on that video.

[@MICROBYTESIO]

Does this guy ever make part 2s?

[@TriAngulumAudioStudios]

Hey, I just ran across your channel and I love it! :) Im a HUGE fan of repair and restoration videos, there's something so satisfying about them :)

[@i_had_3_pugs]

Bruh I wouldn’t just go with a spray bottle and paper towel, I’d use a pressure washer on that thing 😂

[@charliec193]

Same tbh

[@darijoe1]

Excuse me while I go to the shower after watching this. Well cleaned up, Hugh!

[@spankyharland9845]

looks like that computer went on a walkabout in the outback.....great job mate...

[@clydemarshall8095]

The historian in me is balking at the idea of gutting that to turn it into a completely new computer.

[@MikeStavola]

That's an absolutely beautiful terminal. I'd love to use it to control the server in my home.

[@1993MAZDAMIATA]

You can do that?

[@hectorvanderaa]

imagine if that keyboard had vintage cherry mx blacks in them

[@SuperToRee]

*softer clicks*

[@ace_horizon]

but micro switch hall effect is better though

[@nysaea]

yeah with that dunk in soapy water they're probably dead now.

[@henrymilne9461]

"removing the two random and useless pieces of foam" you have just declared war on r/mk

[@easyybreezeyy]

Loved this video, very satisfying!

[@mikemorrisonmusic]

I half expected the screen to explode after being turned on.

[@shubh1dillpickle]

the foam inside the keyboard is dampening foam to make it sound better when you type

[@dennyken25]

Damn this is the best comment I ever read. Thanks for making my morning better

[@mitsostechtips9047]

Leave it as is, it would be a shame to ''kill'' the patina on it or even change the classic hardware

[@MetalTrabant]

Yeah, there are probably not much left of these in original condition... if any. It's a piece of history, even if it can't do anything without a mainframe.

[@murcamwin]

@@MetalTrabant At the ACMS we have the mainframes, we just need some people to help get them working, I totally agree it would be a sad day if this terminal was gutted.

[@Lightning2011]

Seeing the thumbnail made me think it was a new Odd Tinkering video lol.

[@Granitechicken]

Mother: we have computer at home, the computer at home-

[@gteixeira]

If this computer was saved unrestored for another 20 years it would make it to the "Restore It" channel.

[@bumquack2461]

I love how those old chunky keyboards look. Would love one for my current setup but they cost an arm and a leg

[@animeloveer97]

they did back then too

[@the_good_lad]

Should've just pressure washed this with some strong disinfectant.

[@serraramayfield9230]

99% IPA, and electronics cleaner respectively heated to 150-180 degrees Fahrenheit. Cycle between them with 1 soap pressure wash, followed by a rinse.

[@officialdarkcompass]

Love to see this as a sleeper gaming machine. Finding a display panel to fit and replace the monochrome monitor will be your main thing issue though.

[@jarmingho]

Your video is so satisfying to watch!

[@Aurora-lu6bs]

me studying keyboards before watching this: hugh: useless pieces of foam me, horrified: u s e l e s s ????????????