Thank you sooOOOooo much for letting us use your extra table!!! It was a blast meeting everyone and hanging out with you. I will be posting a video soon on my channel!

Had a blast hanging out man! Can't wait until the next VCF to see what kind of totally normal computers you show up with!

@ActionRetro

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Likewise!!

I recall as a kid putting a Bruce Springsteen cassette in a Teddy Ruxpin, and being quite amused with the result.

@arbayer2

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oh god /no/

@5roundsrapid263

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My cousin had one. We put an Ozzy tape in it! 😂

A friend and I always wanted to set up a Teddy Ruxpin with way to talk through it then put it at a public place and just start talking to people to see their reactions, but we never were able to get our hands on one at the time.

@kbhasi

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Wow. I'm assuming you were referring to one of the Compact Cassette based models like what was shown in the video.

@SVPunk619

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@@kbhasi Yeah, that was the nightmare fuel from our childhood. So we thought it would have been hilarious. This was early 2000s though so you couldn't buy EVERYTHING quite yet on the internet, and we didn't have time to scour thrift stores or swap meets, etc... to find one

@kbhasi

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@@SVPunk619 Yep! Even though I never grew up having one, I do somewhat remember an Adam Ellis webcomic that referenced that. Also, from what I can tell (edit: from YT videos I had previously watched), a lot of people would've lost the picture book accompaniments over time, those would've provided illustrations and text.

@SVPunk619

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@@kbhasi I didn't care about the cartoon so I didn't want one at that time. Later I knew someone with one and putting rap and rock tapes in it (which of course we recorded off the radio) was funny for a few hours. That was the only time I saw one in person. They had the original tape but I don't remember seeing the book.

@kbhasi

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@@SVPunk619 I remember hearing in a video that one of the audio channels was used for control signals (right channel IIRC) while the other was used for the story audio, so I can only imagine how that would've played out if the tapes were recorded in stereo.

I was there! I bought a Teddy Ruxpin, checked out the 8 Bit-Guy and Macintosh Librarian. Missed you though, but not too disappointed about that. It was a fun time there and I look forward to the next VCF!

8:00 yeah you beat me in that bidding war, but to be honest, I couldn't have lost to a better guy. Enjoy the computer and can't wait to see you and everyone else next yer. Definitely one of the best events period.

This channel is such a joy to watch. Your enthusiasm for what you do really shines through your content and I've binged watched every video. Keep it up!

Vilnius BASIC was developed by Vilnius University in Lithuania, not Romania. BK-0010 was the first computer I ever programmed.

8:43 this is OUR COMPUTER!

I scored a 1985 Teddy Ruxpin last year. I'm still working on turning it into a sing-along Bluetooth device. You are very lucky that that servos still work and the tape deck merely needs a head cleaning!

Thank you so much for coming to and supporting the show! It was great to meet you in person!

You, and so many others, keep the spirit old school computing alive. I love it

This absolutely rocks, happy this kind of thing happens even though I don't know much but thing retro computers are fascinating

Dang, five laptops in one bag. That’s got me beat. Last time I went to Black Hat/DEFCON, I had four laptops in my laptop bag. But none were Libretto or even MacBook Air small. This year I’m going to have five, though. Three of them OLPC XO-1is for mesh networking.

"Maccy did not hold me captive..." Yes he did!

Normally, I say Hack the planet, but this time I say Hack The Bear!

Was super cool getting to hang out with you! Hope to see you again next year!

Thanks for sharing Sean VCF south west Yes I think Teddy Ruxpin has a dark secret to share

I have Teddy and Grubby around here. They won't hurt you. My kids have never seen them on, it may be for the best. Still back in the day I loved him.

You're such a swell guy to share your space with Macintosh Librarian. And thanks for introducing me to her channel.

Hey other Sean! You sure packed a lot into your Tardis laptop bag! How long did TSA hold you up?

I had one of those "TARDIS" bags. I, too, was able to fit a surprising amount of gear in it for travel.

There were ЭЛЕКТРОНИКА monitors as well connected by a TV coaxial to the БК.

@ActionRetro

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oh neat!

@ran2wild370

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@@ActionRetro need some research, as it might have been 50.0 Ohm :-)

@R2AUK

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Interestingly there are TWO video-outputs on BK-0010(-01). The first one is composite black-and-white video. This is a low-frequency analog signal and it can be connected to an RCA input of a monitor. The second one is a digital RGB. It can be converted to SCART quite easily. Yes, there were different Электроника TV-s and monitors compatible with this computers out of the box. Hacking a non-compatible TV was not uncommon too.

Wow . . . I had a large closet, filled floor to ceiling, with exactly this type of stuff (including two Amiga 2000s), at my old house in N. Berkeley. Lots of memory cards (a 2Mb board was a big deal then), seriously huge 100Mb drives, big CRT (EGA & VGA) monitors, all sorts of other 80s era comp tech . . . left it all behind, had no idea anyone would actually want any of this. I still have a few late 80s / early 90s PCs, no idea what to do with them, but it is cool that some people are truly into this ancient computer tech archeology.

I always had the feeling that all this cursed stuff would come back and bite him... 😰

Awesome show was awesome. Thanks for the shout out. Death to Teddy Ruxpin!

Hey, that's me at 7:27 in the red shirt working on one of my Lisas! VCF was an absolute blast! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to meet you this year, but there's always next year!

It was fun to see you again, man! It was great to see everyone's tables, too! I got tons of stuff, a lot of it free. I actually had to mail myself some stuff that didn't fit in my bag!

The Polybius machine displaying a DOS fatal read error message seems kinda appropriate :-D

It was awesome to meet you at VCF. It was a great weekend to spend (mostly indoors) looking at so many great old and rare computers.

"It traveled back home with me, bear-ied in my luggage"

Ohh, BK-0010... soviets actually had even programmable calculators based on PDP-11 architecture (low power chips) - see Electronika MK-85 and Electronika MK-90 PS. Lots of those machines were killed due to platinum and palladium content in the capacitors used in them 😞

VCF was so fun! It was great to meet you!

This is a tantalum recap because it's good quality.

Thanks dude love ya!

Great coverage of the event!! See you at the next one!

A great video and I hope you can go to VCF South East! Oh, and I can anticipate more Halloween themed Teddy videos in the future! 😉

Gotta tell you a story you might get a kick out of. Back in '07 I was at LGGC (Lake Geneva Gaming Convention), hanging out with Gary Gygax, playing games...well, at the time I was a columnist for InfoWeek, and my editor was also a D&D player. He'd wanted to gift me his collection of surplus laptops - all Pentium 4 machines. One was a mini Sony Vaio, another was a massive, full sized one with a gorgeous screen, and two were Toshibas - one was a fairly middlin' work style laptop but the other was an S75. Full desktop Pentium 4, 2gb RAM, widescreen display...just a really massive desktop replacement. Oh it had an onboard Radeon 9600 card (before I sold it I played Halo on it with no problem). Anyway, so my editor shows up to the convention with a massive backpack full of these laptops and says "Here you go. You never set up shipping, so take 'em home with you!" Meanwhile, my wife had brought *her* gaming replacement laptop, an HP DV9207 (one of those with the "dead in six months" Geforce 7600 discrete GPUs, but that's another story)...now here's the kicker: all of these laptops had some flavor of linux installed on them. I had ZERO login passwords. We get to the airport in Milwaukee, and I gotta pull every one of the laptops out and put them in separate trays. TSA doesn't *blink* at me. My wife, who was 4 months pregnant at that time, has a gallon ziploc bag with our toiletries in them, and they yank HER aside and start shaking HER down, giving her the 3rd degree. About the shampoo, soap, etc. we had with us. Here I am, watching my wife get interrogated and I'm trying to pack up this electronics yard sale...it was nuts.

@ActionRetro

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Oh geez!

I've GOT to go to one of these. I live in Alabama, and I THINK they have a Southeast meeting in Atlanta.

I don't think nerds could convince each other NOT to buy literally anything, Sean xD I'm struggling not to pick up a fifth oldish Apple laptop right now myself.

Love the Mac Librarian. Nice.

Wow! Look at all those beautiful pieces of computing history! 🤤

Ugh, I wish I'd known about this in time to head down. Looks like a lot of fun.

Can never say no to a Thinkpad with the classic keyboard.....

Looks like a great time! I may have to get to that next year - maybe even bring some Amiga's!

It was great meeting you!

Aw man id love to see tsa faces when you went through with all the electronics n your tardis lol i love doctor who

VCFSW was awesome. I will definitely be going back next year.

My guess is a ColecoVision!

My friend.. thanks so much for the videos. I wish you well and next time, take a bigger bag with you ;)

That looks like it was a lot of fun 😊

looks like a blast!

It was great seeing and meeting you! You're welcome back to Texas anytime, especially here in Austin. Woody's Retro Loft has awesome A/C. Just installed it last year.

@ActionRetro

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Same! Will do!

@WRL64

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@@ActionRetro what's your drink of choice? And you need some good Texas BBQ too

@ActionRetro

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@@WRL64 Hah, well I'm a sucker for a good stout!

@WRL64

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@@ActionRetro good man!

That is nuts!

Oh please do show us more of the elektronica!

Thanks a lot for this video! Especially that BK part :) When I was a kid I had a bit better model BK-0011M but I donated it more than 10 years ago and now it's almost impossible to find those anymore. However, I got a working BK-0010-01SH from Slovakia last year, although a bit cheaper than yours (VCF published a video with that epic battle over BK-0010-01 :)) it is in a worse cosmetic condition and without that NGMD controller of yours. When I got it and powered up its PSU (via 220v -> 110v step down transformer) several caps just blew up. I got PSU fixed but then a bit later bought a 110v psu for BK just to avoid any unnecessary risk. Just in case you decide to get PSU for it I used this one: MEAN WELL RS-15-5

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come down again! I wasn't able to make it this year, it was announced after I had already committed to going to a convention in Houston that same weekend.

And now you know my pain. I travel with a minimum two laptops, assorted power adapters, interface devices and cables. I think my bag weighs at least as much as yours, if not more.

It's criminal that your channel isn't 10x bigger, your videos are amazing and the production quality is awesome!

Five Nights at Teddy's

8PrickGuy

That teddy bear is cursed.

Hack the Ruxpin to say, "WTF are you starin' at?!?!?" and "Your soul is MINE!!! Mwhahaha!!!!" 🤣

1984 is calling and says, "hold my beer" and then requests you to stuff a 23 lb Commodore SX-64 into that bag too.

I have to get to one of these events.

I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS

I had one of those teddy ruxbins as a kid. oh the 80s.

LOL one of your best intro

that is a proper computer bag, no way you can loose that one

I'm weird and I'm darn proud of it! 🤪🤣

I wonder if that Chembook would run a 1GHz Coppermine Pentium III CPU. It was fun seeing you again, Sean!

The memory board in the regular plastic bag, please get an EAD bag for it 😂

OMG. БК again... that cost a fortune a cumulative annual salary for 120rubles/month.. so it wasn't affordable at all for ordinary people. Instead it was spread across schools in late 80-s and after 1991 I guess leftovers were pushed to schools as well.

I know fuck all about computer history, a little about how they work and everything about how little I know. Not interested in one way about getting into it but love watching your vids as I do learn a lot of stuff I will probably never use, but I like it.

Sheesh, a bit of Skinamarink at the end there eh? :P

LOL, I somehow ended up in one of the floor shots of the venue.

I can't wait for the unBEARable puns

0:36 A whole ass iMac G3

Worst. Post Credits Scene. Ever.

OMG THAT IS MY SCHOOL

Are there any VCF events in Southern California?

On a sidenote... Which of the VCF's would be easiest to attend if I fly in from Sweden with maybe some Swedish computers for a display?

@Toonrick12

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Probably West or Midwest.

@panopolis8051

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VCF East is relatively close to some major international airports (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark)

Wait, Maccy is a practical effect? I thought he was done in post!

I recently just “inherited“ a Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby. Now I’m really interested in this “hacking“ idea…

6:44 Whoa! _Two_ Commodore 900 prototypes .... Most famous for having been discontinued in favour of the Amiga. The case design influenced the Amiga 2000 though.

@bozimmerman

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Thanks for noticing! Including all the people who came to VCF-SW, you are now the only person to do so. BTW, our demo was the Model 2 running graphic demos while shelled into the Model 1.

1:27 Man that's 12.5 kilogrammes (for those who use international weight systems) Also nice nickname for a bag. Did you ever watch Doctor Who?

The history of personal computers in the soviet union is that something that made it to the VCF youtube channel ?

Is there any event like this in northern va or dc.

I wanna meet Maccy too!!! :o

The thumbnail reminds me of job simulator

I don't suppose anyone knows what those monitors/screens were at 6:30 do they??

Does anyone know of any similar shows that take place in Florida or a nearby state?

@mhyzon1

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There is a VCF south usually in the Atlanta area. So it depends on what part of Florida, I guess.

(2:51) Looking at the label, I can tell that it was an early ASUS laptop from back when they used to produce white label laptops that other companies could brand with their own logos! (4:17) Aahh!! SHE WAS THERE!!!! (4:25) She actually let you hold her?!

An armadillo.

You lost me at “Texas is such a fun time” :-)

@jeeps42

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any time I left the building it was hell

Does the bear like to eat Texas barbecue?

Were you channeling Neil Breen

Damn, I could understand your Russian and I don’t even speak the languages. Good job! Greetings from the Czech Republic.

Anyone remember Sergei's last name? He was the HP plotter guy. I need to get in touch with him!

yoo the Soviet computers part is sick indeed, greetings from mother Russia