Thanks for all the support for making the museum possible! If you'd like to help out! Come along yourself, or check out the PayPal and Patreon links in the description if you'd like to support what we do here! :)

Its still so gratifying to see this place being so successful after years of seeing you talk about wanting to make it happen. You should be exceptionally proud of what you and those that help you have accomplished here. honestly how you keep fitting more into this space is inspiring. :)

You have created a fantastic museum Sam!

For the instruments and synths etc with loads of knobs, it could be useful to set them up so they're doing something decent, then take a pic of all the knobs as a baseline state and put a print out above the machine with a note for visitors, something like "If this machine isn't working very well, try these knob positions to get started" ?

7:00 it might be a good idea to have some laminated patch cheat sheets next to the synths: Can't hear anything - try this setup to reset!

I just absolutely LOVE how exasperated you are around 7:30. "how do they do this!" 😂🤣

@loopinnerthe

Ай бұрын

I think I helped with making that muddle...we had a cracking visit

Dropped by the other week, I was so impressed with what you've got in there! The fully functioning phone exchange was mental. Had a lot of fun with that.

amazing museum, such big place you build up, maybe one day i can afford a visit! Organ room the clear highlight, i love the organ video series so much.

I'm planning a trip to the UK just to come visit this summer!!

@ 13:25 - sounds like the quiet bit "In the court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson. Cracking museum Sam.

@vinylarchaeologist

Ай бұрын

You are right! 🎶

Me and my husband had a ball there a couple of weeks ago. We were there for 2-3 hours and still didn't try everything! And Ramsgate is a lovely little town. It's a bit off the beaten track for visitors from America, but not hard to get to and well worth the trip. Thank you for putting together such a cool hands-on technology museum!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

waheyyy! nice one

I have to make it there one day.

Thanks Sam, for that tour! A lot of work has gone in to that! Fascinating! Thanks for that video!

I love how much the museum has changed and yet it is still the same. When I visited it, it was a happy sonic chaos, I loved it.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

:D

Well done! Good to see there have been many changes since my visit last year. I must go again.

Great video! I wish I could be there in person

This is so impressive. Please keep it open FOREVER!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

we will keep it open for as long as people keep coming. if people dont come things like this dont last.

I visited a few weeks ago, took me a good few hours to get through it, some good stuff

Maybe a printout of default patching / settings could be posted near someone of the synths. I came to the museum last summer and struggled to get a few of them making a noise.

I needed to see this before I went...there are so many things there, that this video showed me new stuff that I walked by and didn't even realize was there! I guess I need to make another trip out.

Give Mitch a raise!

Ha I used to program Teletext as a job amazing 🤩, I can draw a tree and other squarish loking objects

Thanks for the tour. I wonder how long one would have to spend in the museum to experience everything.

Dim7 chords sound so good on a pipe organ. J. S. Bach knew! 🎹

Very nice stuff Sam ! I love the bouncing ball simulator 😀😃

I wished that I had 1/4 of this guy's knowledge and energy.

An absolutely fascinating place and tour. I'd be glad to drop in and stick together if I was anywhere near. And now the only thing you need is a Monotype composition caster and keyboard! Try to get one - that's an absolutely fascinating tech. Keri on, wayward son! You're doing the wonderful job.

Brilliant!

If you build it they will come. Someday me too.

Superb stuff!

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❤

Loved my last visit! Look forward to seeing the museum grow and evolve. When I was there a hole was being actively cut into the wall to the left of the sink xD looks like that's wrapped up now. Once you expand into that final amount of space being discussed recently, is that it? Or does the building go any further back or to the right at all?

QR codes next to exhibits would be delightful - no doubt you could get volunteers from youtube to pull together web page content for different exhibits for you, if you asked during each video - a wiki-type effort for your community

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

definitely! however i have always felt a bit iffy about QR codes. i still dont know how to use them, and not everyone has a smart phone or wants it, strikes me as an added complication the modern age has thrown at us :D. like apps for everything haha

it's great how much of the collection you've made playable! I definitely need to make a visit soon. if I turned up with a zoom recorder to record any cool noises, what's your thoughts on using the recordings and copyright and whatever? keep up the great work.

Proper impressive mate..👍

THIS SOUND REALLY GOOFY Through Effects lolz although. THE REVERB sounds Like a Fantasy movie

I think we have the same theremin! i lost my power cable in a move tho and it's a weird XLR-lookin plug you cant get easily any more I also can't play lmao

Couldn't tell if that was a Clavioline, or a Solovox in that cabinet above the synths due to the LEDs ! If you ever find another one of these, please let us know - we have a Hammond we'd like to fit either to. See you on Saturday !

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

Unbox :)

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

Aaah yes it's this Saturday!!

Looks great y'all (=

the only museum I want to visit. thanks for the tour

Anyone know of a similar museum in Australia?

1:31 I play guitar so the one on the wall caught my eyes. Why does it have so many knobs? They can't all be for tone and volume, right?

Your electricity bill must be enormous..... Nice to see how far it went.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

it was last year when the electricity went through the roof! now a days it is about 100 quid a month. so not too bad!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

ironically the things that use the most energy are the computers.

Great work Sam, please keep up the madness. I'd love to visit, but a 5-6 hour round trip just isn't realistic. Keep up the good work Sir! 🙂😎🤓❤

it would be cool having a vr or those 360 degree view things

Kinda want to hear what it sounds like when guests are using all the stuff at once lol

@KeritechElectronics

Ай бұрын

Far more than enough to give a meltdown, haha!

Looks amazing. All the work you've put in over the years is paying off in this great space. When you say you're expanding the Organ Room, is that going to require you to dismantle the pipes you worked so hard to get setup and working or are those walls staying as they are and you're expanding where the Teletubby wall is?

lol, the display of display's

Oooo been waiting for a recent walkthrough! Ty! ❤ Visit if I could!

That is awesome!! Quick question though, can the Strowger/UAX13 exchange call out to the PBX/PABX's or only PBX/PABX's to the exchange/UAX13?

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

yes it can. right now its not wirwed in but it was wired to before we moved the uax13 around, ill do a video on that when i wire it back in

the googol counter must resume counting towards a googol

Welcome to your interface with the general public - they could break a ball bearing….😂

How many knobs are in there?

When can i move in ? 😆👍

GPT-4 is not able to tell me your favorite artists, but I have never before been more certain than I am right now, that you are indeed a fan of NIN. F'd up if NOT true! 😀

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

Ironically not really into electronic music 😂. Can appreciate it! But heyho!

Does your Big Mouth Billy Bass (7:00) work? Don't Worry, Be Happy!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Ай бұрын

i have no idea. i think it works sometimes.

Love it! It looks so fun! I am, however, going to be that guy… I saw one fire extinguisher in the walk through. With as much electronics and motors as there is in there I’d be very worried about fire. Is there a suppression system built into the museum? I absolutely love the semi-controlled chaos and jumbled nature of the place. Would be magical for a kid to explore. Alas, it doesn’t look as though I would be able to get in there with my walker very well. When you expand please keep wheelchairs and other mobility issues in mind. I am very happy this exists as it is, would be even better with more space.

Bout ye

What you really need is a TARDIS ... 🤪

Nobody could call you lazy. You’re still a young man and you’ve already lived enough for several lifetimes.

What is your take on people who might get upset that a piece of vintage hardware has been modified instead of restored and preserved? Honestly, when I see all those original Game Boys on the wall, I kind of feel that. But then I look at what you've done with them and that feeling goes away immediately. But there are people who would be absolutely against it. They think something like that should be restored back to its original working order and if it can't be, it should be used for parts to restore another one. Have you had anyone react that way and what do you say to them?

If you want to truly preserve these old devices, you may have to make the museum for adults only.

@goldenghostinc

Ай бұрын

Yes, but isn't this museum also very much about wonderment and discovery? And that is what it really does for children. I can only imagine how their eyes light up going through this and turning all the knobs. As a parent I would happily pay extra for that to help paying for the upkeep. Heck, if there was a donate button on the website I think I would push it even though I'm most likely never going to get the chance to visit.

@Pwills

Ай бұрын

@@goldenghostinclook in the description of this video there are links to donate. 👍

@xdendordx

Ай бұрын

And if you want to preserve the love people have for "obsolete" technology you have to inspire the next generation and show them it exists in the first place.

You're either a time traveller or you're actually de-ageing. Why do you look so young?

@russ254

Ай бұрын

all the magic smoke he’s released from vintage electronics, no doubt!

Archaeologists are gonna be F**king confused when they dig this place up