Those reel to reel tapes... can anyone say TECHMOAN CROSSOVER???????

@crazyboy2006cashier

5 ай бұрын

Thought that too

@Daz555Daz

5 ай бұрын

Yes please!

@paszTube

5 ай бұрын

Thought the same!!!!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I think he might to be too busy for little old me!

@MrCalldean

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuffIt's not just you - it's you AND Neil.... that's enough to get his attention, no doubt about it.

Mark fixes stuff. So Neil must break it. "Oh no! It's as if the kettle committed suicide rather than work for me." 😆

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I use that line all the time in real life. Heavy man!

Heh, always worth trying the Onslow's way to turn TV on in Keeping Up Appearances :D

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

We both had a shock at the boot fail timing bro haha 😝

Great seeing you together, feels like I've not seen Mark on RMC for aaaages (I'm probably wrong).

@kellerkind6169

5 ай бұрын

You're not wrong. I've been asking for Mark to appear on a RMC episode a couple of months ago myself on Neils channels comments

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support. Just to let you know, the reason I’ve not been on much is just due to calendar conflicts with us both being so busy. Plus we hate each other. Obviously.

@kellerkind6169

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff You two have got a Bromance going on :-)

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

@@kellerkind6169 it’s like a marriage. And we’re getting divorced

Loved the video and seeing you lark about 👏👏👏👏

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!! It was a lot of fun😂

I have the PCW 8256, the single drive 256K version. in the 2000's I upgraded it to 512K and put in a second drive. Last year the monitor blew up and I couldn't fix it, so I took the main board out and mounted it in a storage box with an ATX PSU and composite output with a Gotek and a floppy. I also modified the keyboard with a joystick port and a modified SEGA joypad. It was a fun project.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Doing the work of the gods sir! What did you use the joypad for?

Great unboxing video Mark. Always enjoy seeing u and Neil working together , look forward to the next part

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Will!!!

My dad had one of these in the 80s. But I hijacked it from his office aged 12 and set it up in my bedroom where it sat mostly unused but looking very cool indeed next to my CPC for at least a year. He eventually took it back when he realised it was gone and its eventual fate is lost to time, although I did keep many of the 3" disks with his clients' files on (and still have them for posterity).

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Is this the bit where we find out your dad was working for a shadowy government organisation, and you are never heard of again after putting this in the comments?

A fun video. 14:23 “Thwarted by a printer” made me laugh, I can relate!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

The eternal battle!

@TheTurnipKing

5 ай бұрын

Thwarting people is basically the unwritten, unofficial job of any printer. When the robot uprising comes, it will be led by printers.

@Colin_Ames

5 ай бұрын

@@TheTurnipKing 🤣

It was a great surprise seeing the two of you on camera together again. 🎉 Hope to see more collaborations in the future!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Zorko! We do have some more RMCMFS nonsense planned soon.

You two really enjoyed this video 😂 i like it too

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Loads of fun to make and even fun to edit.

Great, The Cave needs some PCWs. Great computers with around 200 games available for them.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Where do I find these gaming treasures???

This pcw DOES need a disk to boot. The belts do melt, and don’t forget when taking the board off, that the write protect pins like to escape! Good luck!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

They really do like to head for the hills don’t they! The belts are sooooo much fun to remove slowly and arduously. Hooray. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!

That Night Moves C64 box in the background! 😁

Ah, Julie Garland....Judy's second cousin twice removed from Margate! Neil has some taste for sure.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I have no idea why I said Julie. Neil really likes it. That and Fronk Sonata.

Brilliant!! Though acting abilities of both celebs is a bit rough round the edges !! Lol😂

I do like it when you guest star on Neil's channel!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Wait… this is my channel!!! I’M SUPER IMPORTANT DAMIT!!! 😂

Really enjoyed this video, only been a subscriber for a short time after seeing you so much on RMC, you 2 guys work really well together.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mick. I think the word “work” might be doing a bit of heavy lifting here but it’s a lot of LOLs filming with Neil.

I have the same yellow and black screwdriver! I got it as part of a set from the Australian equivalent of a pound shop.

I remember these, or a variant, from high school. I used them in my GSCE Business Studies class. I did find one disk that had a bunch of games on them - just arcade ports like Pacman. I don't remember much about the operation apart from when it loads there's horizontal black bars that appear from the top to the bottom and something about pressing the space bar to access the disk(?).

OMG! Printer cable! Packing material!! ...but anyway, that Judy Garland tape would be fine, unless it's been stored close to a magnetic source, like a speaker or a CRT monitor.

I loved this mates !always good to watch you Mark :D :D hope you are well !!

I hope you had lashings of ginger beer! 😁👍

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Neil solved the Mystery of the Missing Scone Knife after this video.

Excellent video as usual chap. I have one of these with the gotek solution in it. Worth a do. That solid green screen is definatelt because it's waiting to boot from disc.

@MarkFixesStuff

4 ай бұрын

Really looking forward to getting this going now!

@TheGeoffers08

4 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff there are some stonking titles for it. The version of Head Over Heals is excellent. I look forward to the next instalment.

You don't get anything on screen until a valid boot disc is inserted into drive A.

@roskelld

5 ай бұрын

Was it called Start of day Disk? My memories of the machine from school was that you always booted with one disk and then put in the word processor or spreadsheet disk after it loaded into some sort of prompt.

@frankowalker4662

5 ай бұрын

@@roskelld Yes there was a Start Of Day Disc, but you can also boot with Locoscript or a custom boot disc. I made one that booted straight into BASIC so I could write and play games.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

What were some of the games? I need to think of the next video!

@frankowalker4662

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff I wrote my own games in BASIC. Simple single screen collect em up's while avoiding stuff usin the joypad to move. I started writing a Pac-Man game but gave up as it ran too slow. LOL.

@frankowalker4662

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff I've heard there was a Batman game released, but I've never seen it.

An engineer’s tap I believe is the term!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Professional Slap is the preferred term here. But that would make Neil a professional slapper… ummmm 🤨

Looks like a lot of Techmoan content in that box.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I love Techmoan

great videos guys

I used a PCW8256 at school before they went to Microsoft Windows 3.0. We used Locoscript and also a couple of games like snake. I was a CP/M based system that boot straight from the floppy disc and it was a bulletproof machine. The printer is a positive bonus with it was also powered by the PCW. This was back in 1989/1992 era.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Ohhh! Great Info!!! Id love to play snake. 🐍

When we got PCWs at school, they didn’t come with plugs fitted (those were the days!), so one of the kids wrapped the bare ends around a lamp plug’s pins, and shoved it in the socket 😂

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

It’s the old school way!!

Techmoan's your man for the reel to reel tapes.

Had a good chuckle at the VHS-C stuff, well done mate

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Data protection done right!!

Surely it's only a massive magnet when powered up.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I’m fairly sure they have stored magnetic potential when off? At least for a bit? To be honest I’m not an expert on monitors and it was a throwaway comment but now I’m curious and you might well be spot on!!

@firstsurname9893

4 ай бұрын

​@@MarkFixesStuffThere's no strong permanent magnets in a CRT, certainly none powerful enough to affect a magnetic tape from outside the case. If you're interested in reading up on CRTs I recommend "MIT Radiation Laboratory Series - Cathode Ray Tube Displays".

I just realised that if you squint, the keyboard resembles that of the Speccy +3. I wonder if they shared common keys, if not part of the case itself.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

See Ben Rattigan’s comment above ☝️ I said they look like CPC keys. The +3 and CPC were both also Amstrad of course.

I had a later version of this word processor around 1990, an Amstrad PCW9512. It took the same 3inch CF-2 disks but the monitor was a white screen rather than green. It came with 2 software disks the main word processing software and I think the other disk allowed it to load some version of BASIC. I also remember the daisy wheel printer was very noisy. When I was in college they also had some PCW9512s but they'd modified theirs to a 3.5inch floppy drive.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Ohh. I like the old white screens. I plan to fix these drives but then replace one with a FlashFloppy unit

Fixed it! lol

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

The RMC effect

Love the RMC fixes stuff crossovers. Don't know much about PCWs but i do have a few reel to reel tape recorders.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Well I’m able to beat you then, because I don’t know much about either!!!

MFS at the Cave is always RMC Gone Wild in my head.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

RMC with no inhibitions.

How many pints did you guys have before filming this? This was hilarious towards the end. 😂

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

True story, I don’t actually drink anymore! Imagine if we had!!!

@GeirSandstad

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff I'm trying hard not to... 😂

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

“Messy”, Geir. The word is “messy”…

@GeirSandstad

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff Ohhh....I know what it was. It must have been the fumes from Neils latest restoration project. That arcade cabinet should have been disinfected. 😋

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

@@GeirSandstad that paint was intoxicating actually!

OMG this video is so funny 🤣

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!!! 🙏

So much innuendo. 😁

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Not from me!

you need a CPM/locoscript/game bootable disk in drive A. do not get anything but a green screen on turn on. 512K was misleading - most of that was just available for a RAM disk and not program space. this has a good high resolution screen i think. 90 columns wide.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. I’m really looking forward to trying it out properly :)

Yeah my dad in his love of the latest tech had one of these when he went back to Uni. Keyboard looks suspiciously like a cut down 6128.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

It’s really true.

I love your humour mark. 😅

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I love that you love it Jim!!!

Haircut 100!

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris! I hope you have a Fantastic Day!

Don't have a PCW, but it is a CP/M machine, i suspect it will do nothing without a disk to boot from.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I suspect you suspect correct.

EMI tape guide 1-60 in the original recordings of SGT Pepper

I was hoping for a box of fraggles ☹️

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I was hoping for Frazzles!

You used them at school ? I used them on one of the IT courses I went on --- circa 1994-95.

Great to see the PCW get some YT love :)

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I didn’t think I’d be that interested in this machine but it’s really starting to appeal to me. Especially after learning that the system has some games available. As much as I love word processing it’s not a favourite hobby of mine!

@mattsword41

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff but there are spreadsheets too Mark... SPREADSHEETS! What more could you want ;) (Even DTP with Fleetstreet Editor - a stalwart for my homework back in the day ;))

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

@@mattsword41 gawd. That program name hasn’t aged well!!

We've got a mint one of these in the loft (well it was mint when it went in there). It was the wife's from when she used to do freelance secretarial work before we got married LOL

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Mint??? I didn’t know they came in flavours!!??

@microknigh7

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff

The PCW as mutch as I remeber needed to be booted off a floopy or you just get a green screen.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. I looked it up after the video and you are right. It bodes well for the machine working ages the drives are fixed.

Brown fuse == 13A ? Surely it should be the pink/red ones which are 5A ? My memory is fuzzy since I haven't been in the UK in a while. Pretty sure that they had a blank white screen until they boot and run code.

@nemesis2264

5 ай бұрын

It had a black 5A fuse, red are 3A. At least you got the brown 13A right.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

I find it difficult to discern the colours from each other unless they are all together

Good plan. Open at Neil's just in case there's any incriminating grumble films in there.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Mustn’t grumble. Apparently.

Hope you change that plug to a current compliant one ( no insulation on the live and neutral pins). Green screen is normal until its either got a locoscript boot or cpm/plus disc in the top drive (drive A) . Had one as a kid when my step dad upgraded the works pc to a 486DX

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Funny you should say that. I was thinking of a short video about old plugs, checking them and what is a compliance fail. Might not be sexy but it’s important. I’ve just bought a box of tough plugs.

If those reel to reels play then I’ll eat my socks. Even if the tape isn’t too brittle or stuck together, the print through will be something horrible.

8256 has 1 drive and 8512 has 2 - the bottom is double density vs the top single density. The 8256 has a 1 single density drive As others have said, solid green screen normal until it picks up a boot disc Dont plug/unplug the printer with the machine on as it can fry the motherboard

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Bloody hell! So much brilliant info! Thank you so much!

Mr Handsome ❤

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

My new maleslot name.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Mail slot. Oops

Blank green screen is normal for a PCW. It won't do anything without a disk to boot.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!!! Drive repair is the way to go next I think!

lol

Can this be a new thing, blindfolded test of guess my computer from its smell?

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

It’s a tuna? A haddock…. ??? A night out in city centre? No… it’s a PCW

And never hit SHIFT EXTRA and EXIT at the same time unless you want to warm boot it (the equivalent of CTRL-ALT-DEL in dos)

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Ohhh pro tip!! Thank you again!

I’m a respectable married man, but I ❤ Mark just a little bit.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

… respectable? You ended up in the wrong part of town, friend… Thanks Rosstee!!

Oooh, Reel to reel tapes. EDIT : I can transfer them to MP3 if you want. (I'm in the U.K.)

@rimmersbryggeri

5 ай бұрын

I prefer DCC. ;).

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Might be a future video there then? I think maybe I’ll deal with the PCW first Franko. Thank you!

@frankowalker4662

5 ай бұрын

@@MarkFixesStuff Yeah, could be fun.

it doesnt boot like a new computer, it has to boot from a amstrad boot disk, i think its a locoscript disk, check on you tube

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’ll get a boot disk!

Hi Mark, whatever happened to the fire damaged Amiga 600 that you used the Ultrasonic cleaner on?

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

The computer itself works. I made some errors with the new 3d printed case so I need to find a way to fix my mess up 😧

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

It’s still in the list though

How do I get back those 22:10 of my life? :)

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

Ummm… don’t watch it again?

It's probs a reel to reel tape case

@microknigh7

5 ай бұрын

Haha the answer came with the next item LOL

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

@@microknigh7 darn it haha!😛

How about a live duo fix it stream drinking game. Stream, fix stuff, attempt solutions, if solutions fail - take a shot goto 10

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

30 If $drinks>15 gosub 100 100* Print “You Died of Dysentery.”

where's mark's pony tail ?

@iangough3062

5 ай бұрын

Marks ponytail has gone on holiday with the gummies.

@MarkFixesStuff

5 ай бұрын

@@iangough3062 the gummies are roadying for Judas Priest right now actually. My pony tail is the support act.