Too limp, too thick, a pair of balls, we've all been there...

@matthew65536

4 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly suprised he didn't make a dad joke at that part.

@scythal

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthew65536 Hello Honestly Surprised, I'm Dad!

@ThomCote88

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthew65536 Just an LGR joke waiting to happen

@NaoPb

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@nux3960

4 жыл бұрын

sweet

OK I have to admit the VLC joke made me laugh out loud

@visagemsc

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@DecayingReverie

4 жыл бұрын

Something about the nonchalantness of it made me crack up.

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

@@DecayingReverie Similar

@MisterHunterWolf

4 жыл бұрын

yee

@nathanrcoe1132

4 жыл бұрын

those would go great with some 3d printed save icons :)

"Look, they're selling 3D icons of VLC-player"

@flightlesschicken7769

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder what their use would be. Decoration perhaps

@ProGamer1515

4 жыл бұрын

@@flightlesschicken7769 Breaking Windows

@DS9TREK

4 жыл бұрын

@@flightlesschicken7769 you wear them as hats when you're on a pub crawl.

@JaredConnell

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously its for a halloween costume duh

@JOELwindows7

4 жыл бұрын

Just add Raspberry Pi done I dedd Xd lollllololol

When we were kids (circa 2002) my brother and I were playing the army tank game on Intellivision. We put it down switched off the tv and went to eat or something and forgot to turn the intellivision off. We had several game consoles and only 1 tv so some time later we decided to play n64 or playstation or whatever and swapped the video input to the other console. A year or 2 later we decided to play intellivision again, we reached under the cabinet to get it out and noticed it was warm... We plugged the video back in to the tv, and the 2 army tanks were still sitting right there where we left them!!! So we resumed our game! Haha!

@Windows98love

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh lol that reminds me of the time I left my got glue gun plugged in for 2 weeks by accident. The barrel is still golden to this day😁

@jcdowen

4 жыл бұрын

No powercuts/outages in 2 years? /R/quityourbullshit

@timothy2830

4 жыл бұрын

@@jcdowen must live under an unreliable power grid if you're resetting your microwave clock more than once a year... I can't remember the last time I had to set mine outside of daylight savings.

@jcdowen

4 жыл бұрын

@@timothy2830 while personally I do live on an island 30 miles off the coast of Scotland where we have powercuts 30+ times a year, but even in a major city the likely-hood of a completely stable electrical supply are quite slim, even if it isn't a wide outage, surely a trip-switch (circuit breaker) would be tripped once in that amount of time, especially in America with the awful plug/socket design there

@adammedbery4454

4 жыл бұрын

@@jcdowen "surely" -- why? Doesn't take much to not trip a breaker.

"The contact system here is probably the cheapest, most horrible design I've come across so far" - that's the Mattel® way!

@stevethepocket

4 жыл бұрын

This comment is especially funny to me as someone familiar with their first attempt at making an electronic keyboard, the 1970s Optigan. That too was a disaster due to awful engineering and build quality, despite having some pretty clever and original ideas behind it.

@jamesbennettmusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevethepocket look on my channel and you'll see I'm inclined to agree...I documented the repair of one a couple of years ago.

@stevethepocket

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbennettmusic Neat. And great to know there's at least one of them in the UK; crossing my fingers that Techmoan gets a chance to borrow it someday, because it seems right up his alley and would make for a fascinating video.

@d1oftwins

4 жыл бұрын

The funny part is that this statement is coming from someone who is dealing with crappy toy keyboard mechanisms on a regular basis. So that means that is the mechanical design of this device is up there with the worst keyboards, or down there, well how ever you want to put it. ;)

@SchmidleMcDingle

4 жыл бұрын

You can tell it’s Mattel, it’s swell!

"If you need a pair of Balls, they do keep those in Stock" - 8-bit guy 11:00

@koczkadavid2009

4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment as soon as he said the line :D

@Okurka.

4 жыл бұрын

It doesn't look like he bought them.

@discoRyne

4 жыл бұрын

@@Okurka. He's already got balls of steel.

Home Depot sells weather stripping that looks like it would have been a good match.

@MonoChorMe

4 жыл бұрын

Blimey... now that I think of it, yea, that really is a legit idea. +1

@rivards1

4 жыл бұрын

@@slightlyevolved Exactly what I came here to say!

@omegaflameZ

4 жыл бұрын

So much this, would have been the perfect size and only adhesive on one side too

@flounder31

4 жыл бұрын

First thought I had too.

@Francois_L_7933

4 жыл бұрын

David lives in Texas so they probably don't need it as much as we do in Canada. That's probably why it hasn't crossed his mind.

Radio Shack used to have the exact foam you need. It was a 1/4"-thick closed-cell foam that was used to prevent air-leaks in speaker cabinets -- you'd put it on the edge of the cabinet, and then screw the back onto the cabinet, compressing the foam and sealing the cabinet to the back. It would've been perfect for this project -- if only Radio Shack was still in business. :-(

@ionstorm66

4 жыл бұрын

You can get it at almost any hardware store as weather striping

@Benrob0329

4 жыл бұрын

I mean a few stores are still around, at least they were last I checked...

@soniccookie655

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, I can confirm that there are at least two Radioshacks still around.

@videodistro

4 жыл бұрын

It's at all the home stores. It's called weather stripping. Simple.

@jbucata

4 жыл бұрын

The Color Computer community, where 8-Bit Guy actually did an interview recently, also did a remote at the first full-on Radio Shack store that's reopened, AIUI. It's in Keller, Texas, north of Forth Worth and hence in his neighborhood. (No promises that they have that particular foam in stock.)

An external nearly useless box attached to a far less popular games console from the middle of the video game crash. I can't imagine how it failed.

@HaakonAnderson

4 жыл бұрын

Its like fuck, I haven't been doing that good man, I wanna support the children and the channel it tough though

that "computer" addon along with the Aquarius seems to be why nobody's talking about Mattel computers today.

@oneofthenorth

4 жыл бұрын

you leave the aquarius alone! tron deadly disks was a great game :)

@AramComjean

4 жыл бұрын

I had one when I was a kid. It was awefull for programming. It had one really good game called "mind strike". The word was they made the computer add on because they were being fined for showing a keyboard adapter for years as "coming soon" in ads, and were starting to be fined for not actually having one.

@Zenas521

4 жыл бұрын

Mattel had computers? I knew about he Odyssey by Sears, but Mattel!? That's so weird.

@Nukle0n

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zenas521 RetroManCave did a video series on the Mattel Aquarius. Probably one of the most pathetic computers of the early 80's.

@thomassynths

4 жыл бұрын

Aquarius had Utopia, which was killer!

It's amazing to me how you're able to get these old mass-produced machines working again with clever usage of repair store parts. The face that you're memorializing these machines while essentially giving a repair tutorial for something that likely never had a service manual is awesome. Keep up the great work, your channel is a gem.

Next time before punching them out take marker pan and make lines on non conductive side to spare yourself extra work.

everyone: never have water near electronics this man: hold my casio

Syntax higlighting!

@bobblum5973

4 жыл бұрын

When I saw that I wondered if the color coding was because BASIC was storing the commands themselves as tokens and the rest as plain text. I seem to recall a number of different BASIC versions doing that, and you could save the program as "tokenized" or all text.

I love how all of these projects are like a labor of love for you. I never dreamed I would find all of this retro electronic stuff interesting.

Too bad you ran out of time on this one. I could have watched 30 minutes of this.

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

I think it was more of a case of getting frustrated with the project, and sometimes it's best to just walk away for a while, and come back when you are not, plus it could be eating into time needing to be spent on other videos.

@GoldenPickaxe

4 жыл бұрын

i do hope he comes back to it, i love this channel

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

@@CommodoreFan64 Same story if you get married.

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding Or you have a girlfriend who has moved in with ya LoL!

@HelloKittyFanMan.

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, he didn't "run out of time." He could have given you 10 hours if he had really wanted to.

I gotta admire this guy's patience and innovation! Many thanks for filming and posting.

This is where Apple got their new dongle-adapter hell scheme from! 😂🙈

@rimmersbryggeri

4 жыл бұрын

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@GeirEivindMork

4 жыл бұрын

Well... oldcomputers.net/pics/ti994-sidecars.jpg And Apple has only dongle hell because you aren't upgrading your stuff in tune with technology. You see everyone else comes after half a decade later.

@harrkev

4 жыл бұрын

@@GeirEivindMork : Yup. The great Apple gets to decide when people should throw out their older but perfectly usable technology. How dare people not throw out something that works for them!

@KabelkowyJoe

4 жыл бұрын

Not Apple - Tim Cook, bet his favorite toy was Barbie doll, as thin as possible to sell clothes (covers, adapters) once it's broken get another one.

@AnonymousGentooman

4 жыл бұрын

@@GeirEivindMork yes, a perfecly practical system were you have all ports you could need is inferior to a one port and a thousand adapterd

David keeps saying he runs out of time in order to make the videos he posts short, but I think a lot of us, including myself, would absolutely adore videos double the length. I love this content so much.

I was able to stop by and visit David while he was finishing this video up. Such a nice guy and great to his fans.

@brandonb1681

4 жыл бұрын

My brother lives in Ft. Worth. I'll be visiting him in Feb 2020, would love to meet David as well.

12:57 you could have sprayed the non-conductive side of the whole sheet with some sparse pale paint before punching circles. This would saved you a lot of multimeter testing time

Damn, you put a lot of work into that foam thing

This video is not just an 8-Bit Keys, but also an 8-Bit Guy style video at the same time. Never before have I felt so intrigued to click faster on the replay.

Totally amazed and delighted that I came across this video tonight. I grew up with playing the Intellivision I & II with my siblings in the early 80's, and I still have both consoles along with the voice synthesizer and system changer and tons of games. Also, I'm a musician who plays 80's retrowave / electro pop on several analog and digital synths. so this video was a total gem for me. ~ Never knew Mattel had a keyboard and ECS unit for their system. I know it takes some time for me to upload videos when I'm managing two or three camera angles on a synth session, but dude... all this footage and clips of you breaking down the chassis and running around to hobby shops to find the right materials, and then putting it together... more patience than anyone I know. You really made such an informative and interesting video here and followed through on all of your hard work. Very impressive! Thanks so much for sharing.

You know, I was thinking about this. I could totally re-engineer this thing with a 3D printed mechanism and some bubble contacts or something. It would of course never be worth the trouble but it could be done! On the other hand, that exact foam is sold at Home Depot in the cabinet area for padding. I have some of it in my shop storage bin. You should have called me!

@8BitKeys

4 жыл бұрын

I had also thought about 3D printing something that could be epoxied into the back side of the keys, which would then have some sort of rubberized carbon contact or something on the bottom. This would eliminate the need for the foam completely. But, didn't have the desire to undertake that.

@johnfrancisdoe1563

4 жыл бұрын

8-Bit Keys Just big standard bubble contacts and some mechanical padding to hold up the board. Not as authentic as keeping the original plastic strip, but no custom manufacturing needed.

@Slash0mega

4 жыл бұрын

@@8BitKeys can you not buy standalone bubble domes?

I was kinda thinking you’d end up using weather stripping foam. Cause I think that’d be an appropriate alternate.

I just LOVE when the synth music kicks in, and the restoration begins!

I love how tenacious and thorough you are.

2:58 Wow, I’ve never expected syntax highlighting on machine that is over 30 years old. Syntax highlighting is very common these days, but I’m pretty sure it was very uncommon back then.

@redpheonix1000

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the ZX Spectrum does it too, sort of. It actually checks for code syntax in real time as you're typing!

@bobblum5973

4 жыл бұрын

@Lassi Kinnunen I replied to a different comment before seeing this one; I remember a number of BASICs doing that, storing commands as "tokens" of a byte or two. Since these were interpreted BASICs back then (not compiled into a pure executable binary) using tokens saved space like you said, and was faster, sort of like pre-interpreted a bit.

if you run into difficultly finding foam again, hit me up, we have place here in Australia called Clark Rubber, that has a large range of foam rubber and foams in multiple sizes, as they are a specialist in stocking foam rubbers

@michaelsoftbinbows

4 жыл бұрын

Those Clark rubber ads scared me when I was little Fun fact

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

Can they deliver in plain, brown paper, sealed packages without the firm's name on?

@michaelsoftbinbows

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding hold up

@jovetj

4 жыл бұрын

If you're getting two balls, you might as well get some foam rubbers while you're at it.

I binge watched every episode and you inspired me to pick up an old Casio on Ebay. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

You are awesome. I'd had given up after the finding of the painted foam strip. But not only did you come up with a solution how to restore this piece of ... electronic waste, in the end and many hours of nerve wracking one shots you brought it actually back to life. Chapeau!

My goodness, that was really a pain in the ass to repair this keyboard!

"So, I'm going to have to test eeeach individual one with a multimeter to figure out which side to put them on.." Why didn't you just blanket mark/color the non-coated side /before/ punching them out..? o_O

@enjibkk6850

4 жыл бұрын

I had a good laugh at the vlc joke, I laughed even more at that part of the video XD I bet just didnt think of it before... like when remembering heat shrink after wire is soldered :D

@Ryan1456100

4 жыл бұрын

@@enjibkk6850 can I have a timestamp for the vlc joke? I seemed to miss or it it went over my head 😕

@YyXblu

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan1456100 here you go: 11:17

@Ryan1456100

4 жыл бұрын

@@YyXblu thanks, I must've been reading the comments or something because if it were real it would've slapped me right in the face with how obvious it was 😂

@absalomdraconis

4 жыл бұрын

@@enjibkk6850 : Except that you can get this vinyl paint-on "heat shrink" stuff (they actually call it liquid electrical tape), so _that_ one you can easily (even if messily) fix.

This is, like, the most work that you’ve ever done. I salute you, man.

Yes! I hit LIKE for any 8-bit keys video. It’s like Christmas. 🙏

Who else is screaming self adhesive draft excluder that is made for doors and windows?

@stonent

4 жыл бұрын

(hand up)

@steve1978ger

4 жыл бұрын

aaaaah!

"3-dimensional icon for VLC media player" 😂

Congratulations on 200,000 subscribers!!

That restoration took a whole new level of dedication, you can't help but be impressed.

"I suppose if you need a pair of balls..." Are they made of steel?

Absolutely do an ECS video. Retro Man Cave just did an Aquarius series (And it's fantastic by the way, check it out), He mentioned these in the history of that machine and now I'm intrigued by these little weird computer add ons I've never heard of.

11:00 been needing a new pair! thanks, 8-bit guy!

Can we take a moment to appreciate David cutting out 48(!) little circular conductive things, checking the conductivity on each side of each circle, putting all of them up to the right place, and doing all this masking and overall putting that much effort into this thing?

"Obviously this could be fixed [...] but, guess what? I'm actually not going to do that." Right choice. :D

There's also a BASIC adapter for the Atari 2600, believe it or not. Yes, please do a video (or two) on the Matell ECS! I would love to see just what's in the box and how it works!

@Chaos89P

4 жыл бұрын

I believe every console from the 80's had a BASIC computer available for it. Even the NES did, but wasn't as easy to start due to the fact that it doesn't have the same expansion ports its Japanese counterpart, the Famicom, have.

@AiOinc1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Chaos89P The *Famicom* had Family Basic. It was never officially released for the NES in America. Did the Master System have a BASIC mode?

@gwishart

4 жыл бұрын

@@AiOinc1 Not specifically, although there was a keyboard and BASIC cartridge for the Sega Mark-III (ie. the Japanese version of the Master System).

Welcome back!!! I’ve been waiting for a new video on this channel. Don’t get me wrong, I love 8-but guy videos but the repair videos are my absolute favorite.

I enjoy watching such projects way too much, thank you!

Does the intellivision require retrobriting or are the accessories a different colour anyway?

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like the keyboard could stand it, but the other parts are their original colors.

@HelloKittyFanMan.

4 жыл бұрын

All 3 devices are Intellivisions.

I've been thinking about fixing my Intellivision Synthesizer for years, but could never find any kind of tutorial. Thank you so much for this video! It's not a great keyboard, but as far as I know it's the first one for a game console. That's worth something, right?

@SirWussiePants

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I have one in the mass of old console/computer crap in the basement so at least 3 of them were sold!

@daveladr

4 жыл бұрын

@@SirWussiePants Yeah, they turn up from time to time. The darker ones that match the original system color are pretty rare though.

A whole 4 months! Missed this channel!

Dave, you're truly an expert, at fabricating some interesting solutions, to the problems that arise.

woo hoo! a new 8-bit keys!

This old foam looks like it's from a yoga mat.

This is a really impressive fix david way to go!

Wow so much time and effort restoring and repairing that keyboard, I salute you sir

A remarkable amount of genius and industry to repair a complete piece of crap!

@raspberry144mb3

4 жыл бұрын

Such is restoration.

12:55 dangit i wanted that last hit

Although not really interested in the music side of things, I still found myself watching this just for the fantastic presentation and walkthrough of the repairs. Superb vid as ever! 🙂

i admire your tenacity to get this thing fixed. I would of gave up long ago.

*"I suppose if you need a pair of balls, they do keep those in stock"* _- The 8-Bit Guy, 2019_

I can't wait until they start selling the Save Icon from Microsoft Word!

@CardboardSliver

4 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for them to sell the save icon from San Andreas!

I really love your videos. The attention to detail is incredible.

Thank you for your videos. I have anxiety and i find your channel incredibly calming and so interesting.

Could have just grabbed door weatherstripping foam from Home Depot.

David why didn’t you mark the mylar sheet with a sharpie BEFORE cutting them out 😂

Wow, You went the distance for this one. great vid as always.

David great to see you back! Great video as usual.

Where is that "demo" part?

@ondrajavorik1580

4 жыл бұрын

Before the repair part

11:18 "VLC media player" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ppl would die for a channel like this. And he's so busy that he let's it die

That kind of patience comes only from love to old technology... Great job. I always enjoy your work... Please keep up with it. Greetings from Argentina...

Hobby Lobby...UGH!

@Pookie2112

4 жыл бұрын

?

@xnonsuchx

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pookie2112 They're bigots

All of this effort for a piano for the Intellivision. David you are a saint!

FINALLY some Intellivision stuff ! Love it ! There is so much you could cover on Intellivision...

Finally, a new video from 8bitguy. I missed his videos

This was awesome thanks for spending all that time on it great job dude!

A new 8 Bit Keys video? How the day is blessed with such wonder!

Growing up I did not know anyone with an Intellivision and only just started collecting for it (mostly because of the D&D games). I am constantly amazed at the number of things I was unaware of for this system when I was a kid!

Wow! Amazing show of patient troubleshooting!

I just figured something out. I've watched a number of _8-Bit Keys_ videos, as well as computer restoration ones, but it was not clear to me why you even wanted to do some of the stuff you do. The answer hit me while watching this one. *You are a "hot-rodder"!* Just that instead of cars, you use old computers and keyboards, striving to get them back to "cherry" condition. Cool!

Very nice job on this restoration. That was tricky!

Wow, we didn't realize that you also did Inty stuff. Pretty good coverage. Thanks for doing+sharing!

Amazing work on that keyboard! I love tinkering like that but think this project would be a bit advanced for me. Great execution with the material you had available!

congrats on 200k subs

Most delicate restoration for a keyboard. But it worthed. Good job!

A foam rubber workout/yoga mat would probable be the exact match to the foam you need.

I had the ECS when I was a kid. It was really fun typing in the BASIC programs from the book.

So fun to watch how one can overcome the little obstacles you have when you are trying to make things great again. Interesting

My local Goodwill just acquired tons of casio and yamaha keyboards! I thought if only David were here!

That was a lot of work. Respect, dude. Respect.

Back in the early 2000’s I had that full setup, it was really cool to have

The amount of puns at the hardware store segment is over 9000 :D

You rock. In some ways, I admire you. After day #4, I would have chucked the whole thing in the can. You certainly have far more perseverance than I do. The same thing for your 8-bit computer that you are working on. I certainly have the skills to design it (MSEE). I have even toyed with the idea myself. But you are the one with the perseverance to actually make it happen.

Sweet! New video from 8-Bit Keys!

Real cool for something of that age! I remember seeing the keyboard games on the shelves back in the day but never had the keyboard to play them :)

Very impressive. You have far more patience than I do.

A new 8-bit keys episode? INSTALIKE.

It was worth the wait, I missed you

yess!!! i was waiting for your next video ❤️