This Retro Computer Collection Was SAVED from LANDFILL!!!

[@Daz5Daz]

Mark clearly not quite old enough to know how those suitcase latches work! That bit was hilarious.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

I’m fifty this year. Maybe I’m just thick.

[@Daz5Daz]

@@MarkFixesStuff ha ha.

[@kevincozens6837]

I have a suitcase or two around the house with those types of locks. It was rather painful to watch the case be opened with a hammer whan a simple push of towards the edge of the case should have released the latches.

[@colinr0380]

@@MarkFixesStuff Can't it be both? 😉👍

[@strangulator42]

I have several hammers that are now in their late 60s, and when they need the rust removed I use white vinegar and steel wool!

[@MarkFixesStuff]

I used an ultrasonic cleaner and citric acid!

[@frankowalker4662]

Watching you fight with those locks was a truly painful experience. What a haul. (and rescue)

[@waynenewark5363]

In TV shows they usually only use a screwdriver.

[@commodoreisnottheonlyfruit]

Fireman fred. first game I ever wrote. utter dross, but got me started.never thought i'd see it in a video!

[@MarkFixesStuff]

What else did you write? Ten points for the Charlotte Coleman drama reference in your username btw.

[@RobA500]

Those case catches twist as you did then push lock away from catch to release it providing they are unlocked. They were quite clever cases as the catches and hinges expand to allow greater filling. The contents was rather extraordinary, great stuff.

[@spankysmp]

I love 'youngsters' fighting with old school suitcase locks. I was nearly screaming at the screen. 'I've been at this with a hammer and a blow torch for two hours now and nothing' Over 50 year old - 'Watch and learn' ...twist..push, click.

[@philipstephens5960]

Yeah, I was also pointlessly yelling at the screen about how you just had to push the knobs away from the catches to make them spring open. Hasn’t Mark seen people open briefcases the same way? 😂

[@chrisrobson8540]

Mark fixes stuff......apart from old cases those get knackered to buggery🤣🤣🤣

[@ChrisShadowens]

Thumbnail aside, anyone else hoping it was filled with old jazz mags? At least one old copy of Swedish Erotica should've been wedged in there somewhere, just like you'd find it in the woods!

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Ah... woods grot. A lost tradition.

[@kerrisrees2867]

So jealous of the Dixons cassette player I had exactly the same one in the 80's as a kid and been trying to find the same one lol

[@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533]

A suitcase full of awesomeness , very generous gift mate.

[@Jimbaloidatron]

Somehow I can smell the old case and books. :-)

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Yep. It smells like what you’re imagining

[@goosenman2]

Oh wow, I had that 60 programs book. What a haul!

[@franciscomeza8905]

Always awesome to see this saved from the bin and being put to use once more. Cheers MFS.

[@TimmyJoe633]

Booty was the first game I ever played on my first specky, it's a great 'collect keys whilst avoiding enemy' sort of game.

[@johnwells558]

It’s bin bags matey, please don’t American on us or I’ll send my Mum around to sort you out.

[@summersbco]

It's 'trash bag'. Speaking of your mum and the sack, I hear she's pretty good in it.

[@domramsey]

Wow, so lucky. Those vintage suitcases are worth thousands! Just make sure you don't damage the...... oh. Oh.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Oh... At least I still have the gaffer tape left

[@TimGilberts]

Ha ha that double play adventure is hiding an arcade game - hidden city was one by me BITD - I still have the contract

[@BrianLamtman]

That hammer looks as old as that suitcase.

[@Colin_Ames]

Some decent stuff there.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Really bloody lucky here!

[@jkmac625]

I remember those style of suitcases, you just slide the catches to open, can't remember if spinning them does anything.

[@fattomandeibu]

All those C15s remind me of when, as primary schoolers, me and my friends'd get together on a Saturday and pool our pocket money together, with one of us given the critical mission of going into Dixons(maybe Woolies, depended the person) for blank tapes, then the rest of us would gang into Boots to get as many games from the £1.99 section as the money we had would allow. Then it was off to my dad's house to use his high speed dubber for a bit. Weird part is, the internet seems to think that high speed dubbing didn't work for copying computer games when it did, or at least on my dad's fancy Sony hi-fi. Scallyways, the lot of us. This was C64, of course, I never owned a Spectrum so it'd be weird if I were buying and copying Spectrum games.

[@HappyCodingZX]

I do love the punk aesthetic of early Spectrum titles. Blaby released a whole series of rushed out conversions of arcade classics which usually had the trifecta - flickery, jerky, and buggy. The kind of stuff your nan would buy for you when you really wanted Jetpac.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

^^^ Exactly this x 1,000.

[@LifeSizeTeddyBear]

Looking at the edge connector on that joystick interface, I think it is actually for a ZX81 rather than a Speccy, based on the number of connections to the left of the key.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Oh nice spot! I didn’t think of that!

[@giulianomarco]

No copy of "The Key"? That enabled mass, um, borrowing of software. Beat mono tape-to-tape. Also, the only decent printer was the AlphaCom 32. My mate's ZX Printer died after printing out 15ft of the machine code disassembler I wrote.

[@chessoc7799]

The scrabble was good as I remember :)

[@pelculator]

Next video; Mark fixes the twist and slide locks

[@plan7a]

Following that: Mark Fixes A Table and Mark Fixes A Radiator (that previously had the unfixed table against it)? Perhaps?🔨

[@MarkFixesStuff]

The table is a bit crap. I’ll end up using it for the laser cutter I think

[@terriblegamer9267]

Great vid. Keep 'em coming

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Thanks, will do! More coming!

[@BenRattigan]

Giants Revenge the tape cover and artwork looks like Jack and the Beanstalk which was also by Thor and supported Currah Speech Unit.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Would you believe in never heard a Currah uSpeech in my life?

[@BenRattigan]

@@MarkFixesStuff they where terrible, but my dad liked to buy the latest thing and the company was based in Hartlepool so he got one and that was literally the only game we had that supported it.

[@ByteDelight]

TBH: give me such a suitcase, and a TV (and some power obviously), and put me on an island, and I probably will be having enough todo for months.

[@ByteDelight]

Probably a new membrane with that..

[@SiAnon]

PTO : Key under duct tape lol

[@mrt.7146]

I'm getting Michael Dailly "care"-pacakge vibes 🤣

[@thefamouseccles1827]

I have the Commodore64 version of the PCW software pack. Easiest type-ins ever.

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

The Machine Code programs will take forever to print in.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

What a mega score!

[@psyborb]

God, I remember Urban Upstart. I got bored of playing it fairly quickly, and turned to reverse engineering it instead. It's a hybrid mixed BASIC & machine code game. I recall the drawing routines were achingly slow, so were probably coded in BASIC. Though I might be wrong about that last part.

[@1981DMC]

Very cool. I remember having CHAMP. It's a machine code assembler.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

I had the C64 version of the “Sixty Programs” book. It was rubbish 😂

[@Graeme_Norgate]

I’m now going to try and find that D D D D Dixons ad

[@MarkFixesStuff]

I seem to remember it panning down a pile of car stereos

[@theforthdoctor7872]

You should put the hammer in the sonic cleaner. If fact you could put any tools in for a quick clean. I know you have a big chopper so why not pop that in as well. 😉

[@ukmk3supra]

C7 is the figure 8, C5 is the mickey mouse ears one.

[@nicholas4124]

that poor suitcase..

[@MarkFixesStuff]

My poor hammer!! Hey it was already spilt down one side!!! 😂

[@Lhawk2107]

this is my first time seing a real treasure chest ...

[@Daz5Daz]

I have that same model cassette deck. Also the Boots one from around the same time.

[@digitalarchaeologist5102]

I'm sure I had that exact dixons cassette recorder, and used it on my Acorn Electron, not only that. I had a case just like that for tapes and I forgot it was even a thing

[@shortymtb]

90seconds of pre roll adverts... way to go youtube...

[@MarkFixesStuff]

Sorry I can’t control them

[@RCSRetro]

Seriously!! You just turn the latches so the little knobs are at 12 and 6 o clock and then you just slide / push them towards the outer edges of the case! This is day 1, week 1 stuff!

[@MarkFixesStuff]

I’m was off sick that day. Luckily the case was ruined anyway or I’d feel really awful 😣

[@smaza2009]

Blaby computers were based in Leicester I believe, produced games for the spectrum and indeed one of the better dragon 32 games cosmic crusader spent many hours playing that and was one of the few games the strange dragon joystick worked well

[@christreen7193]

My plus, Interface 2, and two micro drives are still in their original boxes 😊

[@Brewskii2117]

That suitcase was in my family for years, me mum used it during the blitz...thought I might pass it on to you hoping you'd appreciate it... Jeezus Christ you Animal! (kidding)

[@Sozzled39]

Mark breaks into Stuff. Using the tool of an Orang-u-tan (or Jeremy Clarkson).

[@thefamouseccles1827]

lol I had a Gun Shot joystick too, albeit in black. Horrible metal leaf directionals - not proper switches. It broke in my childhood hands with very little prompting.

[@blackterminal]

Hi I had one. Loved it it was perfect for games on my Atari ST. Sadly it broke on the metal leaves as yours did.

[@BenRattigan]

You’ve never used a 48k ZX Spectrum unless you’ve nearly been electrocuted by its power supply.

[@Mrshoujo]

So you've never used paperclip wire to pick the locks on a suitcase? Are you going to transfer all that tape software to digital media?

[@plan7a]

Was that suitcase a Tardis in disguise; there was so much in it... Including some Pringles and a C5 it seems... (Oh wait, it did [possibly] belong to a Time Lord, so it could have been!). [Disclaimer: Attempts at humour might not be possibly understood by all].😵‍💫

[@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P]

13:11 that's what she said

[@microknigh7]

You'd do well in a job like, let's say, baggage handling...

[@BastetFurry]

I think the only games i would have been interested in would have been Hidden City and The Sealed City because for me (Text-/P&C-)Adventure, RPG and turn based Strategy it is. All genres the Speccy sadly is lacking off, mainly because loading in additional content is such a shore on it. -.-

[@TimGilberts]

See my comment elsewhere as hidden city was in fact an arcade game - not sure why they did that!

[@meetoo594]

Urban upstart, there's a game I haven't heard mentioned for many a year. Its not very good, which isn't surprising since richard joseph software were also responsible for the bloody awful transylvanian tower.

[@MrRawMonkey]

A bit disrespectful not opening a parcel in a timely manner when someone has made the effort to send it to you.

[@MarkFixesStuff]

We had two parents unfortunately pass away between this parcel arriving and me having the opportunity to record opening it. It wasn't a requirement to open it in a video, but I thought it would be nice for the sender to see it, so I held it back. Hence the delay.

[@cosam2]

And with the lining of that suitcase one could make a smashing blouse or at the very least a stylish set of underwear.

[@cnfuzz]

Retro computing is bad for muscles 😅

[@retrorobbins]

it a nice box lol

[@LanceHall]

So from the introduction cat turds ARE possible things to send?

[@summersbco]

Only if they're not declared

[@wimwiddershins]

But it's difficult to decide which ones from the collection to send...

[@kiasanth]

I can speak with dolphins. They just don't seem to know what I'm saying.

[@RonHelton]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@kgfgfg1]

He saves stuff from the landfill just to burn it down instead 😂 Yeah, not much of a saving for the retro community besides the Videos of it that are enjoyable to watch anytime

[@frankurmom8741]

#british bc of all the "bloody 'ell" and "Blimey" I assume?

[@retrorobbins]

WD40 not UB40 will help lol

[@BastetFurry]

Nothing a crowbar can't solve, didn't we learn that from Doctor Gordon Freeman? 😅

[@christianfairhurst3877]

I had that Sixty Programs book, it was crap. Lots of errors in the code. Giants Revenge was the follow up to Jack and the Beanstalk. They were both truly awful but looked good in screenshots. I'd give it to Octavius to do a video on.

[@FireballXL55]

You are too young, suitcases the button just slides away from the arm.

[@blackterminal]

Yes. Painful to watch the ignorance.

[@Banshun]

I sure there is a niche on KZbin for cat turd unboxings.