I guess I mumbled a little, so to clarify: I do *not* work for Amazon. I was referring to it being the company store that we *all* buy at, and (obliquely) how in a few years we'll probably start getting half our paychecks in Amazon store credit instead of legal tender.

@FalconFour

3 жыл бұрын

ha, good calling that out. I actually thought that was a reveal. 🤭

@kandothings3337

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Pullman in the 1800s

@PicklesTheOtt

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man! My parent's owned that same model Rainbow vacuum cleaner! The instant I saw it, I was a kid again!

@DeathMetalDerf

Жыл бұрын

I sincerely hope I'm very dead before that happens

KZread knows what I like, so why has it taken KZread FOUR YEARS to suggest Cathode Ray Dude to me?! Well, better late than never. Subbed, and I'll be visiting other vids. First stop: Junk Store Trips #1 - #6! Good stuff!

"Hey, I actually need a second fax machine" I'll take things not heard in the last 20 years for 100$ Alex.

@tsotate

Жыл бұрын

That's "things not heard outside of Japan for 20 years".

@Erhannis

Жыл бұрын

I shrieked at my phone, "Who has EVER SAID THAT?!"

man i wish uk thrift stores were anything like american ones. if you go to a uk thrisft store you essentially find a bunch of clothes no one wants and several hundred novelty mugs

@TrollDecker

3 жыл бұрын

That and a ton of old Barbara Taylor Bradford paperbacks.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

trust me most of ours suck. Goodwill gets more varied stuff than the smaller ones, which *are* largely exactly what you said, but even our goodwills are mostly clothes that literally nobody wants, ruined sports gear for kids, etc.

@paulstubbs7678

3 жыл бұрын

Same in Australia, went to a Salvos store the other day, mostly clothes & books

@KnappstersaurusRex

3 жыл бұрын

The key to thrifting in the US is to go to places with higher populations of rich people. I go to the one in Hilton Head whenever I can and get designer summer clothes and interesting decor for super cheap, but if I go to the one by my house it's all walmart clothes and ugly vases.

@chrism6952

3 жыл бұрын

i actually picked up a pretty cool mug from goodwill. I usually dont even look at that kinda stuff there.

My parents had a Rainbow vacuum. It used a water reservoir to trap dust, dirt, and other detritus which we would then empty into a bucket with a screen over it. When the stuff on the screen dries it ends up looking like a dryer lint filter. Great vacuum, lots of power, but moving it around was a pain as the water is heavy and sloshes around whenever it rolls. Also, you could plug the hose in on the other side of the motor and use it to inflate air mattresses. All-in-all a pretty good system as the water did a good job trapping the particles in a way that was easy to dispose of without releasing them back into the air.

@shanedownes

3 жыл бұрын

my grandmother used one of these when I was growing up in the late 1980s. this is the first I've heard of one since. I just looked it up, and they're currently listed for as much as $300 on ebay

@CRT.v

3 жыл бұрын

@@shanedownes Dang, I really ought to try talking my mom out of hers again. I didn't realize they were so pricey still--she snagged hers at an estate auction for maybe $25!

That bag phone reminds me of when I was younger and knew someone who worked repairing beepers and cell phones. He had phreaked the phone so you could dial frequencies and listen in on conversations. We tried it a couple of times. Turns out people are boring.

Gotta feed that radio to Mr. Carlson and his lab. OH MY GOD IT'S A RAINBOW VAC. You fill the bottom with water, and it becomes the filter element. Someone's grandma rocked the F out of that.

@kaitlyn__L

3 жыл бұрын

That’s pretty clever. Also it reminds me of a bong

@agenericaccount3935

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L Yeah, I think they still sell them too. But the wood grain is no longer an option 😕. I'm sure someone somewhere turned one into an 8 position floor standing megabong.

I actually teared up at the instant DEEP nostalgia that hit me when I heard that "Good luck" Star Fox plug. ❤

Oh, man! A rainbow vacuum cleaner! Fond memories of my grandparents using that - it's a wet vac, so it was perfect for their lake cottage, where it could help clean up flooding events. As soon as you panned over to it, I recognized it. Weird, the things that stand out!

I wish there were second hand stores of any kind near me.

rainbow vacuums are amazing, they're wet vacuums(at least the ones that I've had), and they were extremely expensive, but they lasted our family a long time, the only thing that sucks are that you need to hose out the container when they're full and let the bowl air dry outside, otherwise they're excellent vacs those things cost like $1k iirc those things are amazing cleaners though, the suction is excellent

@athf226

2 жыл бұрын

Was also going to reply this. My grandma has one she uses once a week minimum that she bought several decades ago and it still goes strong. You can fill the tank with water and dump it after so there's no bags/etc.

@jimb032

2 жыл бұрын

Those were great! They cost more than a used decent car at the time.

@lbrown21494

2 жыл бұрын

My parents have a modern ish one. It doubles as an air purifier and oil defuser. Great vacuum

@LexYeen

2 жыл бұрын

My mom had one when I was a kid, and sometimes the filter water would get brown from all the dirt.

@vladimirvparfenov3935

2 жыл бұрын

YOoo i am reporting in at the Rainbow vacuum fan club!!!

Regarding the battery operated DJ-Lights: On first thought is makes not much senser, but it is nice if you don't have to run a bunch of cables when you set up on a location, especially for Floorspots (The cables look ugly so you have to conceal them and protect them from people stepping on them). So since these lights often also have wireless DMX nowadays, you can elmininate all cables and it looks very clean. Plus installing and uninstalling a bunch of cables also takes time, and time is money. With these lights it is pretty much "set up and go", and at the end of the night just pick them up and put them back into the flightcase (which also acts as a charging cradle). And if the battery lasts for the whole Evening it isn't an issue.

The Rainbow vacuum was a gimmick in 1970s and early 1980's used water as filter...was an expensive vacuum in its day.

@dustinsippel1845

3 жыл бұрын

My Aunty sold one to my parents in the 80’s and they never forgave her.

@KnappstersaurusRex

3 жыл бұрын

Oh they're still going, my parents apparently paid like 3 grand for one a couple years ago

@uNpOpuLArOpInION69

3 жыл бұрын

So its basically a reverse hookah

So, thats going in the cart

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

sure pleased that this was the catchphrase of this video because it at least meant i was putting stuff in the cart

Yes, for May 2021 that's quite a stash of semi-vintage hardware! My nearby Goodwill stores in the Midwest don't ever have that much tech.

@CantankerousDave

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing but junk in my Illinois town. Which is weird, given that we have a game studio here and a university that played a big role in the history of the internet. You'd expect to see old tech from early adopters, but I guess it either gets snatched up quickly, or dropped off at a local e-waste recycling place.

Bro I am such a sucker for old vacuums! I used to use old Eureka models until I got a new pro model for our business.

The fact that your goodwill sells CRTs at all is a miracle. Most of them only sell specialty and black and white ones because they take up too much shelf space and no one buys them. Our Goodwills even say they aren't allowed to be donated there. Value Village use to throw away/recycle original iMacs with their CRTS until I bought one from their recycling pallet and they quizzed me on why I would want an "old round tv."

The clips in the IMAX Laserdisc that do not fill the screen are historical clips filmed on non-IMAX film. Since old clips were filmed for TV on standard film/video at the time, subjects were typically framed up-close to compensate for the lack of detail. Enlarging this lower quality footage with tight framing to the full extent of an IMAX screen 5+ stories tall would provide an awkward and/or blurry viewing experience, so they were typically shown at a smaller size. If you notice these clips are positioned toward the bottom of the screen, this is because in the typical IMAX theater setup the entire audience is seated perpendicular to the bottom half of the IMAX screen, so the audience wouldn’t have to “look up” at the clips and they would be presented at a more comfortable viewing position. The jump to full frame video would have been the shots filmed on IMAX film and appropriate to fill the entire screen. I’m sure that the conversion to Laserdisc could have reframed the older shots to fill the entire screen for smaller sets, but typically IMAX films were such a niche market that it wasn’t worth the time/effort given the ROI.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

ohhhhh, now I get it! thank you!

The local science museum (Carnegie Science center in pittsburgh) had one of those massive dome-shaped OMNIMAX theaters, admittedly I don't remember all that much about the IMAX films i saw there but I think this was a common trick, bearing in mind that the full frame in a dome shaped theater takes up basically your entire field of vision. At least from the clip you've shown here it kinda looks like the full frame shots are kinda distorted, ie. so it would look right on a massive curved screen. The I think the smaller windows are arranged on the bottom too because ordinary film clips would distort on the curved screen and a lot of them were large enough that you would have to actually tilt your head back looking up to see the top of the frame. From what I recall non-IMAX movies were usually projected such that they didn't take up the entire screen either, at a more comfortable viewing angle.

Wait, you’re GravisLizard! Everything you make is a delight.

Oh snap. This and LGR Thrifts are some of my favorite things to watch. Currently watching on my Gateway EV910. :) Edit: I have that Sharp EDTV. I got it for Gamecube Progressive Scan games. It's awful. Motion blur on it is horrendous. Which. I mean, it's an early LCD so it's to be expected but yeah, not a fan. haha

@lolman123401

2 жыл бұрын

pretty insane that it's old enough to have an analog warning sticker on it. I have an LG plasma from 2005 and it supports digital TV?!

@CantankerousDave

2 жыл бұрын

I have the 32" Vizio set that's below it on the bottom shelf. It has the world's biggest bezels, but the picture is quite good for 720p. Still works great 14 years after I bought it. It's disturbing that I paid more for it in 2007 than I paid for the 55" 4K set that's currently in my living room. It also has the EDTV logo on it. The way I understood it, "EDTV" just meant that the device had a tuner that was ATSC-capable, but the set itself wasn't HD. Sort of a cover-your-butt measure to let people know they could receive HD broadcasts, but they would be displayed in SD with letterboxes. I still have a Philips DVD/HDD recorder from around that same era whose box touted that its tuner was EDTV.

Awesome love the junkstore hunts

My inlaws had a rainbow vacuum, even that model there is hella expensive still for an old vacuum cleaner, they use water to filter dust

We had that vacuum when I was a kid. It is interesting in that it filters via the bowl of water you could see on the bottom. I remember a chore I had was emptying and cleaning the bowl. Weird bit of nostalgia there.

the removable power supply on the pre-Pi Pi is probably so you can swap it for a battery instead, some old AV gear used to do that too.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Would be kinda neat to have that - I've seen laptops, and I've seen micro PCs, but I've never seen the in-between, a micro PC with a dedicated battery. sure, you still need to plug in a monitor, but small battery powered monitors have been commonplace for some time. It's a niche application to be sure.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

this is suddenly tempting me to see if I could cobble together a sort of modern luggable, like a full power NUC with a huge outboard battery pack driving a PicoPSU as well as a 7" HDMI preview monitor, and with some kind of attached, compact keyboard/mouse.

I could go shopping with this lad and never get bored of his commentary.

6:54 - Wedding/event DJ here. These are accent uplights. They’re battery powered so someone like me can show up and drop a dozen of them around the edge of a room without spending all day hunting for outlets and taping extension cords to the floor.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

How long do the batteries last? gotta be like six to eight hours?

@SCU3A_S7EVE

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, the set I have (which is also made by Chauvet) can run 10-15 hours on a charge, depending on how bright they set.

Those Rainbow vacuums are great, they filter everything they suction through water then a HEPA filter, which is so efficient you might have to change once in a lifetime. All you do afterwards is dump the water out. My grandma actually has that model and it works just as good as the new ones, which most of my family has some version of. They're chunk monsters but they last forever.

I'm really jealous about all the thrift stores that seem to exist in the US. There are pretty much none over here and it just looks like fun to dive into. I rarely get the chance.

I tend to not comment too much on videos, but i love your channel (and twitter) so much i'll do it for interactions sake! Love what you do and i hope you keep doing it!

God if i lived near thrift stores like this I'd be drowning in old tech. I cant resist with this kinda stuff :p

The GE phone is the exact phone we had in my childhood home. What a flash back. I would have never remembered it until I saw it!

We used to have that GE telephone from the late 80s to the early-mid 90s. I completely forgot about it until I saw it here.

@mattburwick4206

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! Glad to know there's two of us who remember!

The vacuum cleaner bit had me in stitches

I too have had my assortment of thermal printers starting with a GB Camera and Printer. I have an embedded printer sitting around waiting to become a thermal instant camera eventually.

4:42 That boombox looks like someone sat on it

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

it's absolutely absurd

OH MY GOD. when i was younger my aunt had one of those rainbow sweepers and holy shit i was obsessed with it. to be fair i was obsessed with all sweepers when i was younger for some reason lol. but especially that rainbow. i always wanted to play with it and thought it was so cool that a sweeper took water. blew my mind. ah, that took me back seeing that.

I was today years old when I realized that sound bit in Star fox 64 was him saying "good luck"

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

voice clips in n64 era games were BAFFLING to me

So glad to see you putting out more videos. Man, Goodwill is my jam for sure. Kind of sparse pickings in the one you were in but I have seen some stuff. Great video.

Wow, I remember seeing that space shuttle video at the huge dome theater at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on a class field trip back in 1987 or 1988. I remember feeling queasy during the POV shots taken from that zipline escape system. Projected on an enormous dome, it's pretty immersive.

I've been an old electronics nerd in Seattle for ages but this finally turned me on to RePC! Thanks! :)

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, glad I could help! Check em both out!

My mom has a Rainbow vacuum! She bought it probably ten years ago at an estate auction and loves it. She had to replace the water basin for it because it had a crack from being dropped down concrete stairs, but it was easy to find a replacement. It's a good, long-lasting vacuum. The one in the video is only the second one I've ever seen, though. If I remember right, she told me they were semi-popular in the 80s, but pricey.

FYI, they apparently have pallets of vintage computers in the back. although every time I ask about it, they say its not for sale, or to check the eBay store.

The Realistic stereo receiver at 9:28 looks like one of best Radio Shack sold back in 70’s. That might sound funny today when our most recent memories of Radio Shack are a joke, but they were perfectly competitive with their contemporary rivals such as Kenwood or Sony. Radio Shack commissioned major electronic makers like Technics and Pioneer to build their receivers.

re: wall warts: For 5V 1-2A, you can get DC barrel jack adapters and a *good* USB power supply. I have used multi port adapters to get rid of a whole stack of wall warts. For anything over 1.5A you want a meter or multimeter to check if the voltage is starting to drop.

A barcode handscanner is also used with the Phillips CDi. It was, or is popular with driving schools in Germany. I went there in 2009 and they still used a CDi.

I love watching these videos. You could just wander around the store looking and things and making amusing comments, nothing trimmed out, and I would watch the whole thing. It's also fun to see what thrift/junk stores in different cities have.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

It's really neat, at the same time I have a hard time really "seeing" everything on the shelves - I probably could have made a lot more comments if I slowed down and picked up on the stuff that was just invisible to me because it's so common on thrift store shelves.

@probnotstech

3 жыл бұрын

@@CathodeRayDude Yeah, everyone has different stuff they look for. I'm sure someone was super excited about something super mundane to us...like those lamps.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

I frequently wish I could run into people who collected stuff that wasn't electronics, or at least not per se. I never meet anyone who's hardcore into vacuum cleaners or, yes, lamps.

@probnotstech

3 жыл бұрын

@@CathodeRayDude There's guys on KZread into vintage vacuum cleaners and fans - that's totally a thing. Haven't found anyone into lamps, but I'm sure they exist.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

@@probnotstech oh certainly, I just never encounter them casually, out in the world or in online social circles

Rainbow vacuum cleaners were the mutts nuts back in the day! Very expensive and still quite desirable today

I watched that astronaut video at the IMAX at the Dayton Air & Space Museum in the mid 90's. It was awesome at the time. Thanks for the nostalgia.

We had a rainbow vacuum growing up (they were door to door sales, i think possibly exclusively? I could be wrong on that though). It was a very good vacuum, and you could put smell good stuff in the water tank to help your house smell good as you vacuum. But it was also cumbersome, a pain in the butt, and gross to empty out

Unfortunately the Goodwills and other thrift stores where I'm from in the US have gotten wise to what stuff is actually worth and know full well that vintage computer tech will sell for big money to collectors, and same with the nicer clothes. They even opened up boutique stores where they put all the nice designer clothes and charge way too much for them. 😢

22:27 This is WILD and SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I'm so surprised that more things didn't do this.

love the "analog only tuner" sticker

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

yeah that's interesting, I wish I had paid more attention to the specifics - like, maybe it only does direct input progressive, but maybe there was an EDTV analog broadcast standard. i don't THINK there was, but eh, could have done a little more reading.

@supercattelephone

3 жыл бұрын

@@CathodeRayDude I personally think that it's just for component. Since the NTSC standard hadn't really changed since 1954 when they added ntsc color. So the EDTV would take advantage of things like the Wiis 480p mode or most DVDs full resolution.

ha ha rainbow goes door to door and tries to get you to buy their very expensive vacuums. funny side note, had a Kirby (another door to door vacuum salesman) use this as a tactic... "yea those Kirby's use water to filter......" "you ever fart in the bath tub?" (silence) "well do you smell it?" lol

When you plugged into the ATA, the voice that read the announcement was unmistakably Allison Smith’s. She’s known for her recordings in Digium Asterisk, and I recall hearing her in some Vonage ads. It’s neat to see she made it into the hardware, too.

in Chicago, grocery stores had Rainbow carpet cleaners for rent

this conent is so relatable. please more!

The original Raspberry Pi has a fullsized SD Card slot. Also the PC Engines APU Systems have that as boot device.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, I forgot about the Pi - since the slot's on the bottom, I never see it when I look at pictures.

"I actually need a second fax machine" - literally no one this century

I still have an old 32" EDTV plasma (yeah, they actually made plasmas that small) in storage. Native resolution is something like 852x480 and it actually looks _great_ playing regular old DVDs off of a progressive scan DVD player. Nearly as good as my 1080i CRT!

Aww Re-Pc. I love that store. I go to the one in Sodo now and then since I work across the street from it.

EDTV still only took a 480i analog broadcast, but they supported 480p over component video. It was a total scam on the public.

Pretty sure my family had that GE phone in our living room growing up until cordless phones became cheap enough.

My problem is all the goodwills I go to are pure clothing and like 1 lamp. I am not sure how you found a goodwill that still has junk in it in 2021

In the UK charity shops haven't taken CRTs for at least 5 or 6 years because they're pretty hard to dispose of and nobody would ever buy one.

I had to look up if re-pc was bigger than I thought... Nope, you are going stores I've gone to for more than a decade and know WAY too well. That's so cool you are in the area!

Really old Cisco Switches: proceeds to show Cisco Switches that are still in production at many companies (or at least look very similar to the venerable 2960 series that just went out of support less than two years ago.)

Guy who thinks the monitors are trash: "I do need another fax machine."

I'm so shocked to see that radio/turntable combo, as my parents had that exact model when I was a kid! And yes, the turntable was every bit as bad as it looks. I ended up using my battery powered kid's record player more often than I ever did that one. That's wild!

The vacuum is. Rainbow, yes. High end vacuum at one time. Still worth having, kinda like an ElectroLux.

The Grandstream ATA - USB is for power input only. Basically its a common type of 5v power supply now rather than using a 5v barrel connector. - Its probably firmware locked to a specific provisioning server address. I am not a vonage customer, but I use the grandstream units at work, I assume that by loading the mac address into your vonage account on their website, their provisioning server will wait for it to call home, then respond to it with the correct settings. The ATA then goes and does a sip registration based on the settings it received from the vonage provisioning server. - Pick up and dial *** wait * wait * and it should read out its ip address that your router issued to it.

The rgb lights having batteries are most likely for a cleaner power source, or utility (in case the power source is not easily accessible). Most likely the former reason is why aio lights have batteries.

22:04 THAT EXPLAINS WHAT THAT WHOLE LASERBARCODE THING ON MY PLAYER WAS ALL ABOUT

Dude your goodwill is awesome! The goodwill near me never has anything good.

that vonage box is a wireless phone box that uses a sim card so you can turn a desk phone into a wirless phone. got one from koodo, they are 30.00 cdn a month

Dude I'd be in heaven at that goodwill as I am currently looking for some crt's for retro gaming and I also just love the aesthetic of them as well

Good to know that RE PC is still going

"Cause im a good little worker" laughed my ass off

What was that silver unit at 1:31? That looks like some high end late 70s or early 80s AV tech. And was that a laserdisc player at 1:39? or just a 5 disc changer I wish we had a place like REPC here. We used to have a somewhat similar store but they closed a couple years ago.

damn. you check if the stuff works AT the goodwill? thats smart. i usually wait to see what i have to fix at home, its part of the fun for me.

I wish you could like videos twice, got to the end and realized I had already liked it 😢

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

a comment counts!

@paulstubbs7678

3 жыл бұрын

Bring it up on another computer.....

The issue with the fax machine may just be a bad or dirty paper detect switch - quite a common problem with lots of old faxes (and printers in general) back in the day

I use headphones to hear KZread late at night at home, I live by myself tough and the second audio on the video made me look around me several times. hahaha... Recently discovered this channel, excellent videos.

the chauved led pars are battery poewered because youre supposed to put a lot ow them all around the place by the walls, what is called uplighting, and if you dont need to worry about running dozens and dozens of extension cords and gaff taping it all down, you're golden. btw it has wireless DMX.

That D2 plug looks a lot like some of the retail display computers I saw installed at Best Buy. They pretty commonly are just used to run a video off SD card or some kind of simple interactive display with a touch screen. I wonder if that's one of those.

Since it uses PCMCIA for power only, you can power it from that laptop and use any other device to get the VGA signal.

I forget that there's old electronic equipment at Goodwill stores. I ought to check for old 8mm video cameras and VHS decks (I want to transfer some videos to my computer) --EDIT-- Went to my local Goodwill... no video cameras, no VCRs, a bunch of DVD players and old flatscreen TVs, and a few very old clock radios

We have an IMAX theater where I live and it was honestly the most underwhelming experience of my life; just... a screen, but BIGGER.

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

yeah theaters do nothing for me, I can watch a movie on any screen larger than like 12" and be happy.

@MLX1401

3 жыл бұрын

Original IMAX was actual, special movie film, shot with a special camera and projected with an imax movie projector - and looked AMAZING. The modern IMAX though, is digital image shot to the screen with laser projectors; technically kinda cool too, but the result doesn't look different than any other digital movie. Just like you said...the screen's just bigger :P

That first Goodwill...when you looked at the lamps, the one with the grey accordion flex bit...that's actually a potentially good deal for someone if they are looking for a lamp for light treatment (such as for seasonal affective disorder). Those things are usually $50 plus, so if it worked and was being sold for under $20, I hope that made someone's day (longer).

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the EDTV designation was for televisions without digital logic inside of it.

I love goodwill I always get sound systems there

I love these videos. I can’t wait for a stream someday!

@CathodeRayDude

3 жыл бұрын

do you mean like my normal streams or like a livestream of a thrift trip?

@RubberBanned

3 жыл бұрын

@@CathodeRayDude I meant your normal streams. But I would like a vlog of your thrift shopping, too. You’ve a great screen presence.

oh I had a rainbow that my dad hung onto forever, it used water somehow; but he said it worked better than the new cheaper ones

Those Panasonic Cobras, as that's what they were called. Were really quite expensive when they came out.

I see the Tokimemo box on the corner, good stuff

Okay, so if the TView Gold card just draws power from the PC card, couldn't you power it with one comp and then just plug the VGA into a different computer?

I love this. The Malaise era. I never looked at it this way. Nice CR Guy.

I still have a 52 inch plasma Panasonic TV stuck on my wall that works better than most of my other TVs. I loved plasma and would have loved to have that one

That cell phone and the SCM calculator (adding machine? ) are super cool

The goodwill I go to has the equivalant quality of stomach bile; garbage. But what I see from your goodwill is amazing. I always wanted a boxy monitor.