Unboxing a Donation Box!

[@BenHeckHacks]

Oh! I forgot the lyrics from the bridge of "They Mostly Come at Night" It's hard to be a little girl, Growing up in space, When everything around you Only wants to hug your faaaaaceeee... (chorus)

[@wyldelf2685]

To a top great portable maker ,,, but enough about Bacman ,,hee hee ,,, no no you are an amazing console-modder , a legend in your own right ,,, oh yes wanted to say Happy New Year 🎶🎉💥🎊🎸✨👍😸 ,and many more BEN HECK ,,

[@bartz0rt928]

Aliens: The Musical starring Ben as Newt. Several years on Broadway, all the awards, Nobody will make another musical for 20 years because you can't compete with perfection.

[@drPeidos]

:D I do remember seeing another of Ben's video were he sang something from the Aliens musical, can't remember what was the video.

[@OfficialSDFG]

One of these days The 8-Bit Guy is going to show us his Ben Heck impression.

[@MrJ0mmy]

🤣

[@mikebell2112]

Current Ben Heck or documentary voice from 2 years ago Ben?

[@J4c03]

Damn it Ben! when you said last Christmas, I also started singing last Christmas.😆

[@alexthemorgan]

The brilliance of the ZX is that it was designed from the ground up to be cheap. They didnt take an existing design and try to make it cheaper.

[@joneilkimball]

About a decade ago I worked in an engineering test lab and was tasked with cleaning out the junk room/womens restroom. I found 5 old calculators. My boss wanted first pick and I could have the rest. I forget which model HP he took. I got a TI-30, two HP-25's, and a HP-33c. One of the 25's is in like new condition with the leather case. There was also user/programmer manuals for the HP's.

[@zenithparsec]

23:38 Ben drinking Miller High Life. 24:24 "I'm having a hard time focusing, and also the screen looks blurry." This is the first time ever these two sentences have been unrelated.

[@BenHeckHacks]

Ah you got my joke. Nice.

[@TheTerminalRaptor]

I swear there's a solid market for someone who can find a solution for repairing those ribbon cables. It makes me feel better that Ben struggles with them as well as I've multiple devices to them going bad and failing to fix.

[@absalomdraconis]

I hope that someone's at least tried that 3M "z tape" stuff.

[@suicidalbanananana]

Love me some nice TI calculators, fond memories of playing doom during math class hehe. (and something similar to angry birds, but like 15 years prior? dont remember the name of it sadly) Props to the guy for the donation-o-stuff and the packaging, but a bit disturbing how there's something like 6+ fragile stickers on the box and then it still looks like somebody sat on it.... Oh also, if you do let Bud onto the workbench occasionally, you should at least make a habit out of storing the scalpels/'x-acto' knifes!!! Thanks for the vid!

[@doc_sav]

Ugh. Glad you mentioned the preposterous pre-packaged meal claim that they are somehow "greener" than store bought food. I looked at the study that claim is based on, and it assumes that you make a full round trip to the grocery store per meal, that you waste a ridiculous amount of what you buy, and adds a generous percentage of average grocery store wastage to the totals. Somehow they also deduced that fewer large, hub to hub truckloads generates more pollution than splitting the same amount of freight into thousands more last-mile delivery trips. Oh, and all of the data for prepackaged carbon emissions just comes from a prepackaged vendor, who obviously wants a very specific outcome for the study.

[@BenHeckHacks]

Those companies know full damn well how wasteful all that packaging is so they have to do a bunch of mental gymnastics with data to achieve "green penance"

[@ericwilson9457]

I'm really hooked on your cheap projector videos. Would love to see you do that two in one portable NES projector idea you talked about in the other video.

[@Foxtrot200]

So, I love these videos because I have ADHD and it's easy to follow with a short attention span. No joke, I find it easy to watch these videos in full because as soon as I get bored, something gets interesting. Keep it up, please! A lot of videos have me switching windows while I wait for the narrator to say something interesting. Nope, I have to watch the whole Ben Heck video. Thanks for the entertainment! It's even entertaining when I'm inebriated!

[@Gunbudder]

28:12 the screen was a big selling point for the 92. It supported full dual screen mode that worked surprisingly well. you effectively had two 89's side by side. not to mention the 92 has shockingly good 3d rendering for UV graphing. i used it quite a bit to help with triple integrals by visualizing a surface. it was just faster with the 92 because you didn't have to draw it out to see what the shape is and what order to do the integration in

[@RazzRG]

I love watching you take apart randomly assorted things. I to love taking apart randomly assorted things. Lol Anyway I'm a new watcher actually. I never knew you had a channel until now. I use to follow your blogs from way back. Cheers .

[@PrismaxMan]

"Perfect for DVD's, Pictures, and More!" - we'll test that

[@partytempo]

Ben you can poke fun at the 8bit guy all you want. KZbin channels need some fun rivalry :)

[@Gunbudder]

When i was in high school, a student stole my old TI-83 right int front of the teacher. because of school policy, they couldn't demand that the student empty out his bag until they talked to his parents, and by then he already got rid of it. my math teacher felt terrible about it, and so he let me borrow the entire school kit that TI sent to the school for demonstrating all the various googas and widgets that TI sells. This means i got to use a TI-92 in the year they were released, along with all of the different sensor probes they had. They also had a bunch of software for doing various science experiments. i remember i got a bunch of extra credit for graphing things like heat change over time, the position of a bouncing ball, etc. In an ultimate irony, someone actually stole the TI-92 i was borrowing as well! They broke into a bunch of cars on my street. the criminals were pretty stupid though because literally everyone on my street is military or law enforcement. a few different retired police dogs chased the theif through the woods and they tossed all of the stuff they stole, including my TI-92. After a few days in a sealed box of rice, it worked perfectly. I used that thing until i graduated high school and then i returned it. i ended up getting a TI-89 titanium engineering calculator, which i still have today. wolfram alpha is faster than the 89 though, so i rarely use it. i keep it around for when i have to be offline though

[@agenericaccount3935]

Regarding the 92, I suppose no surprise Academia would stand firmly in the way of the best experience for their students. “Horizontal calculator bad”

[@10p6]

Nice video. The bottom of the OPC case is where I was going to connect the keyboard.

[@jonmayer]

Cool box of stuff.

[@10p6]

@@jonmayer Thanks. Hopefully I will post the STL of it this weekend.

[@charlesjmouse]

"The Indiana Jones disc set includes a coaster." Entirely deserved.

[@knghtbrd]

Ben, thanks for trying to get those extra calculators into the right hands! That's all, happy new year!

[@fnj001]

My greatest goodwill find has to be a working Virtual boy complete with 4 games for $20. This was around 5 years ago.

[@doc_sav]

That is a good one, even 5 years ago.

[@EvileDik]

Your'e really spoiling us with the frequent uploads Ben!

[@olik136]

In my school in Germany we had exactly 2 calculators we where allowed to use- one from Casio, the other one from TI... nobody actually bought the TI one, they where like double the price and the input scheme was different.. both models where very basic since they couldn't have any means to store text and cheat with them... so we just put our analog cheats behind the manual sheet in the case.....

[@goeland4585]

Yeah, where I went to school it was suspicious to have the cover on your calculator :p

[@SophieW-z9r]

What a beautiful cat 🐱 I adore ginger mogs..remind me of that lovely original illustration of the Cheshire Cat in Alice In Wonderland 😄

[@aussieausbourne1]

I bet Hollywood didn't have thrifting nerds in mind when they wrote that screen play!!!

[@josephfanning1241]

Hell yes, Sunset Riders! I have an arcade machine of it, though it's not a konami cab, it's a gauntlet cab someone converted decades ago.

[@joesmoe71]

I wonder if Bill Paxton ever saw that pinball someone made about him? I would have loved to have seen his reaction, especially to all the sound clips it used. RIP

[@soverysleepy]

@9:22 in America the British don't get much credit, but in Europe and Asia they do, as British computers were very popular all over Europe and Russia.

[@mb987987]

Lol opening those like it wasn't packed up like bricks of drugs 😂😂😂😂

[@absalomdraconis]

"Infix notation" is the stuff we're used to, stuff like "1 + 1".

[@TanjoGalbi]

Hehe, I just watched Ghostbusters again today after many years and the "Don't look into the trap" line struck me when I heard it as I did not remember it from all those years ago. So imagine my shock when you quoted it in this video I watched just hours after watching the movie!!! 🤣🤣

[@krbruner]

The second gen TI-92 was the TI-92 Plus. At one time, you could get the Plus module which did install under that panel.

[@jstro-hobbytech]

I watch that channel. Great content. Especially for learning.

[@evensgrey]

The actor who played Short Round (and he was in Goonies as well) grew up to be a lawyer in Hollywood and he's quite happy not being in front of the camera as an adult.

[@evensgrey]

An Aliens musical is no sillier than a "The Last Starfighter" musical, and that happened.

[@jerryspann8713]

I wouldn't mind having that TI84.

[@GrandNebSmada]

I always enjoy your content Ben

[@RicoElectrico]

6:16 I never understood why such calculators are needed on tests in USA. For Matura (Polish national SAT) you just use a five function calculator. The questions are made so that no other functions are needed (and sin/cos/tan are tabulated in the "formula card" you also get along the test)

[@225Perfect]

Didn't Bob's Burgers do an Aliens musical?

[@ScottGrammer]

How to use an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator. 1. Remove batteries. 2. Throw calculator away. 3. Buy another calculator.

[@adamlumpkins2000]

Love the videos as always . I don't want to double post I tried to make a comment earlier that disappeared, I was wondering if you were ever going to get around to opening up that calculator I sent you last year? I do believe it was a TI-Nspire CX. Keep up the good work Buddy

[@BenHeckHacks]

Ah yes. I do have it. Perhaps in a future video? I wouldn't expect it to be that interesting inside. I am curious about the TI84 Python calcs, apparently they have a SUPER hacky way of doing Python

[@adamlumpkins2000]

@@BenHeckHacks I would definitely love to see the 84 python

[@allluckyseven]

36:03 - That totally looks like a corner in the 8-bit guy's studio. But seriously, Ben, you should try and upgrade one of those crappy projectors. Or not, but I think it would be cool. 33:15 - 33:24 - That sounded awfully close to Freeze Frame by The J. Geils Band! ONLY BETTER, OF COURSE.

[@tripplehelix]

Why are Ben's videos so addictive? Sure 8bitguy's videos may look and feel high quality but they have nothing on the randomness of Ben's.

[@franciscandie8570]

Can't forget Ben's singing!

[@brianm6337]

The secret is the cat

[@davidmcgill1000]

I'd like to see them collab on a project just to have them playing off each other in a video.

[@danmanx2]

Ben, you are the projector king!

[@Ajtech369]

Awesome packing for sure. At first when you showed the box after opening all the packages almost looked like you had just opened a box full of individually wrapped kilos of illicit substances....lol 😂😆

[@brownah]

I think we all know the next logical step Ben. Build your own projector from scratch

[@intoxicode]

Love the amount of bud in this video 😻😻😻 And no not the plant..

[@OnnieKoski]

Always thought about buying one of these cheap projectors for enlarging drawings since I don’t have a plotter or a large format printer, but I do have a sharpie

[@awo1fman]

Beans and some other veggies have protein too. Many meat substitutes are high in protein.

[@LOSTOKYO]

Uncle Ben goes to watch Spiderman.

[@ADBBuild]

You are the Wisconsin equivalent of AVE, and I say that in the most complimentary way possible.

[@BenHeckHacks]

Are Wisconsinites basically Canadians anyway? Minus the free Healthcare, plus all the pistols.

[@ADBBuild]

@@BenHeckHacks Exactly!

[@Lion_McLionhead]

The lion kingdom was always intrigued by the RPN calculators which didn't have a giant graphing display, since no-one ever used graphing but we still had to carry around a gigantic calculator to have the stack history.

[@AndrewTSq]

I remember using one projector back in the late 80ies / early 90ies, and would loveed to have this one instead. The old one had 3 seperate lenses (one for each r g b), and you needed to calibrate those and also the lamps did not last that long.. ah well :)

[@longdarkrideatnight]

Would be interesting to build a new case to try and get better performance. Like removing the mirrors.

[@MadCowMusic]

They also make a TI-83 Plus Silver Edition that runs faster than the TI-83 and features a Clear Plastic Case.

[@riffraff60]

If they can make "Debbie does Dallas" into a musical, you can make anything into a musical.

[@theantithesis1]

Back in the 70's, my dad thought of making a musical out of Watergate. I guess you can think about making anything into a musical, have a laugh, and then sober up and move on with your life.

[@nikdog419]

"It's an HP" *excitement for the graphing calculator I had in highschool* 😮 *reveals scientific calculator* 😔 Gaffer's tape's adhesive is also safe for use on hot lights. Although in that application, it's original application, the adhesive bakes onto the lighting fixture or gel frame while still maintaining it's bond. Once peeled the residue is not sticky. I totally expected you to show Alfred Molina in the beginning of Raiders.

[@KG4JYS]

You should change the title. I totally expected to see a metal box that said "donations" inside that cardboard package! lol

[@RobWVideo]

I was initially confused by the NSW (actually an upside-down MSN) on the box. "Is it a delivery from Australia?"

[@LeesChannel]

No, it's a box of adult magazines

[@ddummer]

Well that is how you pay a proper respect to Bill Paxton. :)

[@WJCTechyman]

heh, power waste. That projector on the bottom looks like the little one I found at a local thrift store too. Strangely, mine has the same "power waste" of 24 W as yours, but with a higher resolution. It's admirable of you to get graphing calculators out to students. Back in 1999 our school had a case of TI-83+ calculators and one that utilized an overhead projector by way of an LCD. They were over CA$100 each at that time and are probably less expensive now even with inflation.

[@mandiduncan5437]

unfortunately not - they're still just as expensive and have high resale value. the last one i bought was used, on Amazon for $65. New was almost $200 USD.

[@JessHull]

thats a really great alien song!

[@majestyk3337]

Cat almost stepped on a knife.

[@itsmejak7888]

Omg bud has gotten so big Also i got a Ti-86 for 5 bucks at Goodwill

[@BenHeckHacks]

Nice deal on the Calc! Bud got TOO big, the vet wants him to lose 2 pounds.

[@_Piers_]

Even with all the free BBC advertising and ostensibly every school having some, sales of the BBC MICRO were poor when compared to the Spectrum. It was just too expensive at £300-£400, when you could pick up a Spectrum for £125. The only kids I ever met that had Micros at home were the children of teachers, their parent(s) having bought it so they would be more able to use it while teaching. The Spectrum really ruled supreme where I lived Two of my friends were bought the **wrong** computer. One had a C64 which we could all see was pretty good, the other had an Oric-1...oh dear.

[@10p6]

The 48K Spectrum was $175, but still massively less than the BBC and games were much better too. As or Oric, well the Atmos was interesting, just not if you wanted to play the good games.

[@BenHeckHacks]

Yeah. Kind of like how Apple gets so much credit for computers in America when it was really the C64 leading the way. Because, as usual, price.

[@awesomeferret]

I'm surprised that you were surprised at that TI 84 being at Goodwill. Sure, they now generally are sold online, but I regret passing up multiple sub-20 dollar TI 84s at various Goodwills.

[@zetacod3]

I need one for school Ben.

[@RodBeauvex]

TI and HPs at a thrift store. I'm happy if I find so much as a 4 banger at a thrift store. I literally cannot remember my last thrift store 'find'. It's been a decade at least.

[@heatedpoolandbar]

Aliens The Musical has to happen.

[@lelandclayton5462]

I got the same projector. Comes in handy for a few things.

[@LeesChannel]

Holding down paper? Doorstop? Hefty ninja star?

[@lelandclayton5462]

@@LeesChannel It was given to me and I use it for projecting a D&D map onto a table .Another one is with a Wiimote and a old laptop loaded with the old warcraft games, starcraft and command & conquer. Works like a huge touch screen.

[@scharkalvin]

Your calling the 8 bit guy Dorky, is the pot calling the kettle black.

[@Mrshoujo]

You need to run a properly warm soldering iron across that sticker connector. That's how people fix missing columns on Gameboy units.

[@deadhomer8468]

I could be mistaken but didn't Bob's Burger already do a Alien musical?

[@gbraadnl]

Hi Ben, in response to your question and offer: The Ti89 would be an ideal calculator for my son. I am not sure if it would be easy to ship it however ...

[@pinrod1]

yeah, amazon will ship a ti-89 to you, no problem, just have to buy it.

[@gbraadnl]

@@pinrod1 he asked, especially as eBay or even Amazon purchases and shipping to China is a bad idea. Calculators are 'banned' from use in schools, as they promote kids to mentally calculate. This however makes it super hard to obtain any TI, HP or even Casio that are made for graphing. You will only find financial or desk calculators. So yes, what were you suggesting? I am more than willing to purchase or otherwise pay for it. But I guess you had watched the video until the end.

[@Kardall]

I remember when the color Ti calculators were coming out, and people were loading Doom on it. Crazy times.

[@scottcol23]

You most definitely did the Aliens the Musical "They mostly come at night" song before. It is really interesting. I remember you ruining your voice trying to sing like Newt.

[@randynovick7972]

It's janky, but I have had occasional success at getting those adhesive connectors to re-seat by taking a putty knife, heating it up with a lighter (about so hot that you can tap it with a fingertip and not get burned - maybe 70-80C?) and pressing down on the row of contacts with the edge for about 5-10 seconds. I think the adhesive likes to spread out again with the heat. YMMV

[@ZENITH_System_3]

I actually had that projector and I got it at a yard sale for 5$

[@101fng]

I’d love the dupe 82 if you still have it

[@jerryspann8713]

Last year Dave got an icing, this year the weather tried to burn him out. Near 90 degrees on Christmas Eve just 40 miles west.

[@johankotze42]

I just had the crazy idea that one could use this projector as a simple PAPI light...

[@talideon]

ARM was a spin-off of Acorn. Acorn's shareholding in ARM is basically what kept it going when it was haemorrhaging money in the late '90s. When Acorn eventually folded, parts of it ended up in Apple (Xemplar, the education division), Pace Micro Technology (the set top box business, so there's a strong possibility that there's some Acorn tech under your TV). The rump was renamed Element 14 (different from the US one) and acquired by Broadcom, becoming their DSL division. Kind of ignominious end. But Acorn != ARM.

[@chartle1]

On the HP I think the RPN indicator on the display was a dead giveaway. 😉 But does that mean you can switch it in and out. 🤔

[@andresbravo2003]

How I should play with the TI Calculator...

[@Cosper79]

We use Blue Apron and have so for awhile. It's not bad.

[@ChakaHamilton]

That TI-92 would make a cool cyber deck mod.

[@adrenalinem4n]

What is the point of removing the numbers for shipoing but leaving the barcode, good video though, and amazing 3d print

[@jonelectronics510]

The price of calculators is surpsingly still very expensive. I remember having to buy a £60+ one for a college course years ago.

[@ottersdangerden]

Sunset riders... i play that every time I go to the Player 2 bar... havnt gone there in a bit

[@youtubeviewer7077]

How can you have a Bill Paxton game background at 20:30 and it doesn't say "game over!"?

[@mmmlinux]

If i remember correctly from high school a decade ago. the issue with which calculator model you could use depended on if it had a "computer algebra solving" CAS system or not. the 83/84 did not the 89/92 did.

[@pinrod1]

yes, but you could write programs to solve those with the 83/84

[@davidmcgill1000]

Got me through an entire semester writing programs to do the work for me and tell me what to write down.

[@DouglasFish]

I think the Ti89 is banned on everything still. The 83/84 is so comfortable that it feels weird to use the 89

[@jonmayer]

I loved my 89 when it was still a new thing. Less restrictions.

[@NiHaoMike64]

When I was in college, I can't remember any exam that would allow a TI83/84 but not a TI89. There was one math class that only allowed scientific calculators.

[@jacobdavidcunningham1440]

lol the fragile sign "what's that? throw it over a wall? sure"

[@MichaelJantzen42]

Don't ever stop singing I love it 💖.

[@radarmusen]

I got the HP35s, it's nice but it's a battery eater, even when its off.

[@ElysiumQC]

The aliens, they come at night and sometimes some afternoon delight.

[@cydragon2.099]

Imo other than a phone a projector is the best way to play a dvd

[@VAX1970]

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair

[@slegendary6003]

I lost it at 33:20 😂