Visiting the Home Computer Museum, Helmond

[@HomeComputerMuseum]

Thanks for this extensive video! It was great to have you over!

[@techdept]

The museum has very much become one of my ‘Happy places’. I’m already planning a trip for next summer. Plus Helmond is a nice place to relax.

[@delor3617]

What a great collection. One day I have to go to Helmond and visit this wonderful museum🥰

[@bassybossy]

My dad still has a Holborn terminal (with the light pen). I will take him here for a lovely day out. We donated the washing-machine-sized compute, data and terminal units back in the day to a museum (it went defunct). 2 units containing 4x 8inch floppy drives if I remember correctly, one bank as the working data store, the other as the backup. And a mainframe unit that Holborn would develop an upgrade path for (they went defunct before they could do so). At 1:06:25 your musical talents gave me an EVE Online (and/or Dune (2000)) flashback for a moment, haha

[@dchubad]

That museum probably has no idea of how much some of those computers are worth today. In the future, when everyone else has broken or thrown their out, the museum will be the only ones with them left in existence, which will make them worth a hell of a lot more. I'd love to visit that place, I'd be there all the time. We need something like that here in the UK

[@mikedefoy]

Thanks for sharing. Lots of memories there, like teaching myself how to program by keying pages upon pages of code from a book of games on the TRS-80, riding my bicycle 28 minutes each way, unbeknownst to my parents, to learn to program the color computer at Radio Shack, tons of time on the Atari 2600, buying my buddy's dad's old Apple IIe complete system with color monitor, 2 drives, parallel port, and serial port with modem for BBS downloading all night long when everyone was asleep, trying the black Osbourne my dad brought home from work, the original Mac at work, a friends C64, owning a Sinclair for 24 hours before returning it, my dad's TI99/4A, buying a Mac LC, a Performa 5200, using the Quadra 840AV at work & finally arriving at the Amiga 2000 (of which I bought 3) one with the Toaster/Flyer, one with a 486 bridgeboard and Mac Shapeshifter emulation, and the other with five sound cards for multitrack audio, all running an AV production studio in the Chicagoland area that appeared in a full page newspaper article. Some interesting times for sure. We've come a long way with multicore processor laptop workstations for Lightwave 3D and high-end video/ audio work.

[@techdept]

Yeah, I find the same thing when wandering around the museum. Remembering my dad bringing home a ZX Spectrum for ‘us kids’ to use. Enjoying seeing a working Amiga set up like I had back in the 90s, and way more besides. It really is a fantastic museum.

[@buriedbits6027]

For me the Amiga is the spiritual descendant of the Atari 400/800 8 bit. I owned a 1000. The Amiga (originally the Lorraine project) became a Commodore product instead of an Atari one due to financial struggles and a change in ownership at Atari. After Warner sold Atari’s consumer division to Jack Tramiel, who prioritized his own projects, Amiga Corporation sought new funding. Commodore stepped in, purchasing Amiga Corporation and securing the rights to the technology, leading to the Amiga becoming a Commodore product but Atari funded development throughout.

[@francoisrevol7926]

48:33 ORIC \o/

[@senilyDeluxe]

That Philips P2000's power switch doesn't latch on (typical Philips. You either can't turn them on or you can't turn them off because the switch is stuck). If you hold it for half a minute, you might get a picture. The screen has cataract, that's usually not fatal, it just ruins the looks and legibility (there's a plastic safety screen glued over the real screen and the glue hasn't aged particularly well. On the Holborn, it just started. You can get that plastic screen off, but I've never done it, I've seen it done and it's a PITA) Those VCRs chillin' next to the Amiga 2000... I bet nobody knows what they're worth, these are quite special machines! What's that blinkenlights box next to the Archimedes at 1:03:13? That PS/1 was my first computer or at least the first one I remembered using. Played a lot of Blockout, Grand Prix Circuit (the C64 version blew my mind 10 years later) and Crystal Caves (uses the same engine as Keen 1-3) Do you need someone helping you fix those old computers? I'm pretty good at it!

[@buriedbits6027]

Oh I think the Mac’s are cool of course NeXT is definitely cool, NeXT Step is a precursor to Mac OS X and everything Mac today including iOS.

[@Stjaernljus]

52:22 - L.M. Ericsson Diavox Telephone

[@InfiniteLoop]

Hmm, that little red Alice looks like it has a Sinclair keyboard on it, cool, and BTW, resubscribed, I guess YT decided to Unsubscribe me.

[@buriedbits6027]

I don’t agree. The 20th anniversary Mac was very revolutionary, not evolutionary. It’s definitely beautiful and very forward thinking in terms of design.