There are some audio issues towards the end of this video. I do not know why, they do not show up in the editor and I've tried re-rendering multiple times. So I don't know what the cause is. They aren't too bad so I'm just going to go with it since these videos are somewhat ephemeral in nature.

@spykillergames8402

2 жыл бұрын

the cause is probably YT

@Fuzy2K

2 жыл бұрын

It seems like the framerate in that part is lower as well :/

@bubbadmatt8124

2 жыл бұрын

I know you said you sell out of your collection, but do you ever get consulting gigs ever? I mean your background I'm surprised you haven't offer stuff like that on the side for like other guys who might have questions towards their own work projects. 🤔 I've met plenty of folks who could've used that just to make some headway with things like pcb design or on resto jobs.

@rivards1

2 жыл бұрын

Even around 17:00, the audio gets out of synch with the video. I've seen this on several of your videos and can't figure out if you're having an editing/rendering problem, or are rerecording audio in "post" for certain sections.

@Ramdileo_sys

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ !! ... At 9:39 .. the hard drives in the US have become "SATA pendrives" 😲😳😲😳.. Two days ago I was jumping on one leg.. because after saving money for 3 months❗❗ I was able to buy my first used SATA 2TB HDD..... and is a mechanical drive ❗❗❗........ we live in the stone age down here 😭😩😭 ..

Making desicions based on the size of ceiling tiles. That's the level of nerdiness I expect from this channel.

18:52 "apparently this video is just gonna be me having fun talking about all this stuff" - ahem, that is the reason we are watching your content :)

@Hiraghm

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, I had the same reaction.

Sometimes I feel guilty because I have a lot of computer crap... Then I watch this series and end up feeling better :-D

Please keep spoiling us with your office vlogs! They are so addictive! I'm looking forward to an new episode of this more than the new season of Discovery.

For keyboards it would be nice if you could get a set of dividers. Place the dividers vertically in a shelf and then slide each keyboard between them slightly leaning on their backs. That way they aren't pressing on each other and the keys won't be rubbing. Kind of like |\|\|\|\|. Then whenever you need a keyboard you just slide it out.

When you do the speed ups it reminds me of the TNG episode 1100101. Love it!

These office blogs are keepin me goin man, it's like watching HGTV but for nerds

I would suggest bolts for the CRT shelves instead of bailing wire. Grade 8 5/16 about 1.5 inch should work and never break. That should also draw the gap between them closed.

@rawr51919

2 жыл бұрын

brackets that work with that would help greatly too!

First, watching the deconstruction of the storage unit and corresponding organization coming together in the office is VERY SATISFYING for some of us! Second, I may be in the minority here, but I don't mind the handheld shots or odd BG sounds like your keys. These videos are just like having comfy company over!

Will you set up your hifi at the office? I would love a video on that, including a flip of your vinyl collection. Thanks for these office videos. They are so fun to watch - I save them for the evenings, after work, to relax with a beer.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

Since it is an office with other people around me I don't want to blast music like that. So I don't currently plan to put it up there. It's not too much different from the last video I did on it here though: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnutw5KHgcbHdaw.html

Yeah, that type of shelving is pretty notorious for drawing blood. The manufacturers stamp the metal and don't bother grinding the edges.

Be careful with how you store the keyboards with their cords. The different types of plastic used in the keyboard housing and the cables can react over time, so that if the cables and touching the keyboard they can actually like burn into the plastic. I've had a few nice keyboards semi-ruined with bad gouges in them that way after just a few years of storage. A very simple solution I use is just to coil up the cords into a sandwich bag all the way up to their origin from the keyboard, and then wrap a rubber band around everything a few times to keep it from unraveling

@firewolf34

2 жыл бұрын

Yes - this is a great point! The technical reason behind this is that they add softeners to certain plastics (usually to make a cable more flexible), which off-gas over time and will soften nearby plastics as well

Those punch down tools are fantastic. Brilliantly simple design.

@45:55 OH MAN! I nearly shit my pants when you took out the Touch & Tell! I haven't seen that thing in almost 30 years! I remember the house card, forest card and the ocean card! I can still hear it's synthesized speech "Ruby throated humming bird" "Jellyfish, Ouch!" "yellow cat [sad meow sound]"

F on the Personal Wheelwriter damage. If they're rare as I think they are, that's gotta hurt a metric ton.

In the begin of the 80's, when i still had to go to school, we had in a classroom a large printer with eight printer heads. We did never print something on it since the printer stopped working.

This office is going to turn out great I think. I wont lie, I cant wait for the General to take its place.

@43:00 - That ATT has a bad PSU, but everything else should work fine, the battery did not leak before I removed it. And yes, you got it from me a while back. Pro Tip: Over the next several months do yourself a favor and start switching out those shelves for plywood. Those chipboard shelves will not hold all that weight for the long term, they will eventually sag and eventually give way and eventually fail. Probably take longer where you are due to the lack of humidity, but will happen.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, that should be very repairable then! Thanks for the info/reminder. I did remember getting it from you but I didn't remember if you had cleared my saying that at this point. I asked after the next video I have edited that will be released next. That's good to know about the chipboard. It is extremely low humidity here so it may take a while. But I'll keep an eye out and get to that when I can. I'm not a big fan of the chipboard anyway so I don't mind replacing it.

Loving the progress. You know what I'd really love to see is Linus come over and do a big makeover thing with a new server setup, a studio recording space or something like that. Some sponsored thing where they get a pallet of thousands of dollars worth of hardware for nothing as long as they show it off and talk about it. I'm always happy to see that when other KZreadrs benefit so much from it and it would make a great video because there is just so much space to realise something big and the communities cross over so heavily.

I'm pretty sure you could find one of those stackable letter trays for filing paperwork which would be suitable for holding your keyboards. You'd have portions of the keyboards extend beyond the trays themselves, but they should be deep enough to accommodate the better part of each keyboard such that the keyboards don't topple out of the tray, plus wide enough to store any trailing fixed cables as well.

When placing the server rack keep in mind that you're going to need access to the front and the back. Also they spew heat out the back. So ventilation may be important.

I love these vlogs, my favorite to watch these days!

Your physical stamina is impressive. My knees ache just thinking about that work.

By the way, with those Gorilla shelves, there are little nubs usually supplied that let you connect them together.

Have you seen line printers? Never got one for work but if we had stayed on home brew systems we would have needed one. When I started in IT tech support in the late 90's the company I worked for had NCR mini computer feeding WYSE terminals running a COBAL base system. They had 4 GENICOM wide format printers for printing reposts (on green bar paper), packing slips, production labels and invoices. As the old GENICOM's wore out I replaced them with Printek printers. Not much plastic on those. For a little bit we were also using an old Epson DFX printer like the 9000. I like me some production printers that's for sure.

Perhaps instead of baling wire use some nuts and bolts to bolt the shelves together through the shelf mounting holes.

the punchdown tool often has one end of the tip that has a chisel tip to cut off the excess, then one side that allows you to punch down but not cut the wire if you are going to daisy chain the wire to a second connection. flashback of nightmares of doing a ton of cat5 cabeling back in the day when I saw that fall out of the amazon bag hehe.

Super cool to see all of the CRTs on the shelves! Can’t wait for more!

Carl is an absolute legend!

I had a space about 10x10 at my old place, and to maximize my storage I arranged my shelves in a spiral. It was definitely labyrinthine, but it maximized my space. At my current place I have a U configuration, with shelves lining three walls, and a double wide layer of shelves extending outward from the 4th wall. the 4th wall has 2 doors, an entrance and a closet, so I can access both. Have you considered spacing the two heavy shelves apart, and getting a few short shelves cut, and screwing right angle brackets between the two shelves and hanging the narrow shelves between. could make a nice spot for storing narrower things. Just dropping some storage ideas.

Shelby. It's getting about time to break out the "pizza and beer" offer and get a buncha dudes to help you move! Bet there are subs in AZ that would move all your stuff for ya!

Oh jeez, speaking of moving heavy old computers, my arms are going be dead tomorrow! I managed to score a first-gen mac pro from work, not as heavy as your Data General drives, but I had to carry it to my mate's car who was giving me a lift home from work. It was a good 10 minute walk, so pretty rough on my weedy nerd arms. I knew I should've just caught a taxi home instead of getting a lift! Shaky cam isn't as bad this time. Not sure what's different, but it is appreciated. At least knowing your 21" Dell Trinitron has bad plastic makes me feel better about my parents selling their old house with my 21" Dell Trinitron left in the loft of the garage. Aaand now I'm sad again remembering I threw out my HP 4c scanner years ago. With the Star printer, you can't move the tractor feed to a configuration where it pushes the paper? We've got an old Epson at work that allows you to unclip the tractor feed and clip it into a recess in the back of the printer to push the paper. Anyway, good to get a glimpse of the Data General again. I'm really curious to see what you do with it. It would be really awesome if you could set up a second "set" space with the Data General in the background. Maybe in contrast to the other set being mostly games on the shelves, you could somehow make the Data General set more businessy?

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

The plastic is SO BAD on that monitor, it's one of the worst I own. And the other Dell I put next to it is nearly as bad as well. It's kind of shocking how brittle it is now. Ah, that's too bad. I don't think they are desirable to anyone else but me. The only one I've seen on ebay recently is in the box but they think they struck gold and want like $400 for it. But they don't seem to be common. That is very interesting about the push configuration, I will have to look into that because I would definitely prefer that! I didn't know that was a thing at all, here's hoping mine does it. My main concern with the Data Generals is having them setup in a way that makes them accessible and serviceable. So they probably won't be in a "pretty" space but instead in a useful space so I can get to them. I'm still working out the floor plan overall though. I actually want a dedicated area with a desk for them, but until they can do something at least I would rather keep the space free for other things.

For storing keyboards I built something. It's conformed to the depth of the shelf ,and it's open on the front and back with spacers so that the keyboards don't rest against each other. I kind of looks like a comb. I made the spacing just slightly wider that the keyboards so I could put them at a slight angle. It works well, and it allows me to store my keyboards fairly well. I'm sure with quite a bit of work with an engineer I could design something better, but it worked for me in a pinch.

Man I tell you what if we ever go into a post-apocalyptic world, like Fallout you are going to be the person that everyone will be seeking out because you have all this old technology and you are so knowledgeable about it and this old technology that everybody just wants to throw out into a wasteland is the technology which is going to keep Society going when that day comes. Cuz if you notice old things seem to work longer than these newfangled gadgets we have today. And they're easier to repair in general. I'm still dying to know if this man is part Mexican don't ask me why but maybe it's because I am and I just see it all in him but I could be wrong.

Granted I don't have a lot of keyboards, but those upright wire pan lid holders work good for the few I have. They kind of look like oversized desk top office paper/file holders.

I wrap the keyboards in cling wrap. You could find something perhaps a little less wasteful and protects from the light.

Oh my goodness... An AT&T PC-6300... We had one of those when I was a kid.

Best of luck with your new office!!

i bought a lot of uline keyboard boxes which work really well to store my keyboards

If you're ever in Iowa, I have an Amdek color monitor designed specifically for use with one of those AT&T PC 6300s. Considering parting with all my 6300 goodies.

That's a lot of crt's. I am not as big of a fan of having a bunch of crt's so I got rid of them all years ago. I do still have my 13" crt TV that I keep for if I want to play duckhunt. I was just getting tired of moving them and storing them when at the end of the day, none of the ones I had were that special. Granted I didn't have any really special ones except the 21" viewsonic you mentioned. I believe I had one of them too, but when I got a 21" lcd that was better in nearly every way I couldn't justify keeping it.

42:41, I know what it is, It was my first ever very own PC bought with my own money ...and I had it for quite a long time until I could actually work a part time job and upgrade (in the mid 90's)

I see many things I want, many things… I am so glad you have doxxed yourself tech tangent. I know the address to the office , I will be paying you a visit to take the things I want. Don’t worry, you will not be there when it happens, you will just becoming to the office for a surprise morning! Woot woot.

Your storage room is looking good! When you use the punch tool, make sure that when you terminate the keystones that the longer pointy bit (blade) is pointed out as its supposed to cut the excess wire off. Lots of keystones and patch panels also have the colour coding right on them for both 568A and 568B standards. I'll have to look as well I have little cutters that are great for stripping the jacket off of cat 5/6 as well. May have to send you a set of those! I did send some shelf brackets from your wish list as well already.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And good tip on the punch tool, I don't think I would want to mess that up. In the next video I open the keystones I have and I think they were color coded like you mentioned, that will make life a lot easier. I got a new crimp tool in the next video as well that has an integrated cutting tool for the jacket. It worked fairly well when I tested it, but I don't know if there is something else better out there. And thanks! Those are going to make my bookshelf project a lot better!

@lttbriantheelectrician

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechTangents haha yeah it would be rather counter productive 🤣 The brackets showed as having been delivered a while ago so I'm hoping that you've gotten them and they didn't disappear. When terminating you just have to use the same standard at each end, and using A on one and B on the other will create a crossover cable which can be useful if you need to link old routers/switches that won't do it automatically. I'm looking forward to seeing your next vlog, they're definitely among my favorites!

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

Ah! I think I got them and opened them in the next video then! So not lost and I do have them. That's actually a good reminder to make sure I use the same standard. I always to A if I remember right but I'll double check the colors on the keystones when I work with them. Thanks! They've been much better received than I would have guessed!

@lttbriantheelectrician

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechTangents ah ok good im glad you've gotten them! Basically any manufactured patch cable I've seen is wired with the B standard. I was taught that we use the A standard up here in the great white north (eh? 😝) and the US used the B standard but not sure how accurate that is. I've heard the B standard may be better for dealing with interference but practically I've never noticed a difference. With the right crimp tool it's easy to make your own patch cables too!

Looking good man!

You can show 6 with one hand - just have to clarify it's in binary!

I'd use the wall hampered by the door to set up something I've been thinking about for (eventually) my own keyboards. Either get thin, free floating shelves to set up in the walls (I actually have one with a very small barrier towards the edge which would fit nicely) or get small, squared wall hooks to hang them there. The disadvantage is that it would probably be something of a custom fit for each keyboard, whereas the free floating shelf would be free for all. Anyway, the keyboards would be safe from being crushed, easy to reach and also on display at the same time. I think you might be able to get those very cheaply in the US, since they are not absurdly expensive here in Brazil.

Ooooh, my procrastinating uni work just got easier, yay 😃

Can we have an unedited rack buildup video? Asking for a friend.

Best channel ever love it!!! Keep up the good work. If i lived there i would help you out but i live in Sweden so i can give you possitive carma insted!

My Epson ls800 acts exactly like that printer...I don't like the idea of a sacrificial page. It also won't feed paper with the rubber roller. Only feeds with the tractor feed holes. Makes it difficult to load.

(48:12) This reminds me of: 1. According to one of his past Instagram posts, Rene Pfitzner, one of my favourite comic authors/artists, uses a Cintiq 21UX. For a while, he tried to use a Cintiq 24HD, but switched back, however, the 24HD was used by one of my favourite graphic artists, Joey Ellis, when he wrote and illustrated 'Wolfie Monster and the Big Bad Pizza Battle' (the tablet is shown on one of the back matter pages, and I saw it in photos on his Twitter), and I believe he currently uses a newer Cintiq. I'm sure there's another artist I like who also uses an older Cintiq. 2. As you may have guessed, inspired by Jens K Styve having posted videos on Twitter of him(?) trying different fountain pens that were of the same models used by famous comic artists (IIRC), I dreamt of challenging myself to use the same models of pen tablets that other artists (whose art styles I love) use.

You can do any vlogs. We will like it. Not just office. They can be shorter also.

You can count to 31 on one hand using binary. Unfortunately depending on how you orient yourself when doing so, either 8 or 4 is basically flipping someone off, and there's a few other rude gestures sprinkled in somewhere through there I'm sure.

Who needs a gym membership, when you own CRTs!

@crazyedo9979

2 жыл бұрын

CRT's are only for warming up. The real exercise is done with card punches/readers, DASD's and mainframe cabinets. After six years of training you can apply for the iron admin. There are diciplines like single/relay mainframe power supply dragging and IBM 3390 hard disk kickoff.😁

Nice lot pc Keep up the work

So, Shelby, did you start that eBay search for the keyboard with the missing numblock enter?

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

I just did now, thanks for the reminder! I don't remember if I said it was the enter key in the video but it's actually the + key that is missing. The XT keyboard has a slightly different layout so it's a little weird.

@klaernie

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechTangents you didn't say. Funny thing is, I though just the second you said that you intended to start the search that by now I'd have forgotten that one again.. ;)

Never knew you could hit swap SSD’s like that. What’s the adapter you used to connect to your PCB (the drive way)? Would like to get one.

Ok that shirt is awesome - need to get me one of those. Lol

I like too use a Crt TV or monitor for modern machines

Have you thought about getting help for your addiction to old printers? 😜 Looking forward to the next video!

Why not use some brackets to screw the shelves together in the storage room you assembled and put in during the video?

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

I'm probably going to use nuts and bolts to connect the two sets of shelves together after I was recommended that instead. But the top and bottom of the shelves aren't easy to attach with brackets because the pins that hold the shelf braces in block it some. I'm pretty happy with how sturdy they are after having it up for a while though and I"m not concerned about it.

I used that star printer in high school and college

I've a strange affection for printers, too. Right now I'm trying to find a Windows driver for my Gorilla Banana printer.

I have seen other KZreadrs clic the Rode module to their cap to valid the beard noise. I have been enjoying your moving series.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that but I feel like it would be too distracting. I've kind of got it worked out now where I point the mic down instead of up and I've trimmed my beard a bit more. Those two together have pretty much solved the problem now.

@jamesdk5417

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechTangents I saw them clip it on the side of the cap next to their ear so they couldn’t see the flashing lights.

You can display number “6” with one hand. In China they made up symbols for “6” to “10”, to symbolize them by hand, which they actually use. From 0 to 10, all one-handed

@draketungsten74

2 жыл бұрын

Or he could use binary.

I like the sad dock station for your desktop. Where did you buy? I would like one.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

This is what it is: amzn.to/3HogImy They used to make a 4 bay dock that went into the 5.25" bays which I also have, but I think it's discontinued. The smaller 3.5" one is actually better designed though so if you don't need the slots it's just better all around. I've been using the 4 bay one for over a year and it's worked great. (This isn't sponsored, I just really like it!)

@amplifier28

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much and wishing you continued success with your KZread channel. I enjoy your videos!

Perhaps I missed it, but what model/dimensions are those shelves you placed the CRTs n such on? I've been looking for something decent (but preferably not overly expensive) for the same sort of purpose, but having an idea of what you're working with there would be pretty helpful.

I may have missed it... but what about your minicomputer? Did you get that moved yet? Will it be in the new office?

Nice

Pipe and drape!? What was your pre-youtube line of work?

Those are some beefy shelves.

8:06 i think is a punch down tool for krone

What solution do you have to prevent any fire spread ?

I spy a VIC-20 at 13:25!

I have an HP SCAN JET flat bed scanner but can't use it with windows 10

Carl 👌👌👌

I'd give my sister's kidney for one of those CRT monitor's lol

What are keystones?

Out of curiosity: Have you any bad experiences with failing SATA connectors on these camera SSDs? Because those internal connectors aren't actually designed for repeated plug-in cycles, and I would have expected them to fail rather quickly. The WD Hard Drive Interface Guide for example states: "[I]nternal SATA cables and connectors are designed for only 50 insertion and removal cycles." That is probably just a statistical minimum value, but I wouldn't expect them to actually last, like, an order of magnitude longer than that. So I'm wondering if you had any issues with that in practise. My instinct would have been to use USB, which can handle way more cycles (1,500+), but you're the guy with the practical experience.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

That is actually a very interesting question that I had looked into myself before I settled on this solution! The SSDs and the docks(the camera doesn't normally support SATA, I added a USB-C to SATA adapter for that) I'm using are all standard consumer grade hardware that will have the standard 50 cycle rating for the SATA connectors. I was concerned about that, but I've had far more problems with cables failing than connectors and USB-C has a lot more fragile little conductors in it now. So I was not too confident in using USB-C SSDs all the time. My workflow with the SATA drives is specifically set up so I never have to use a cable, I'm basically treating them like cartridges. I think this is likely to be more robust in the long run.

I'm in Tucson, got a working microcline 421. Interested?

BLADE SIDE OUT!

I second the request for keyboard storage solutions. Anybody got a life hack for that?

Just because a keyboard is dirty, doesn't mean that it is garbage.

I'm on KZread Premium but I'm not sure how well it compares to the standard KZread ad stream in terms of revenue.

@TechTangents

2 жыл бұрын

If I remember right it's about 3-4x as much for creators as the average ad viewing user. So it actually helps a lot!

At least it wasn't the, Touch and Don't Tell.

I'm allergic to Ad so I use KZread premium ^^

3:43 Thats what she said

@GDI221

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry

Good work but, the jingling keys are kind of annoying.

0:01 Surely you could count the first 31 (decimal) episodes on one hand, though episode 4 would’ve been, uh, profane. ;-)

those 386 likes .. somhow hurts to make it 387 ;D

Please build all New Windows Vista gaming PC 🙏🙏🙏

If I don't see video for Data General soon I am unsubscribing bring it in please!!!

Man I am so happy for you. You are radiating with joy! Congrats!