It bothers me how few subscribers you have in relation to the quality of your videos. Some of the best retro computing content on the platform. Love it!

I just love your way of presenting these things…I just had to say. Honestly, I am now genuinely considering a trip to Cornwall. Which is saying something considering I live in Missouri in the US 😂

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

That would be quiet a journey, but Cornwal is realy nice in the summer.

I don't know what it is about your voice but it's perfect for documentaries. One of my favorite channels.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, thats nice of you to say.

@SirRandallDoesStuff

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK I found your channel about six months ago. And I’ve binged watched all your videos . Love the voice and your energy it is easy to watch and listen.

I really recommend everyone to go check those mechanical tools for telegraph as they are fascinating. If you think that mechanical watches with all those gears look cool and complicated you will be surprised how awesome all those tools and boxes are.

Fascinating! Even more so since I love to listen to your narration! This reminds me of near where I live in the midwestern US there's a road called "Telegraph Road." Named so because some of the first telegraph lines headed west from Chicago, crossed the Mississippi River here and ended going west out of town along that road. Of course now there's practically zero mention of that anywhere but back in as late as the 1980's there used to be large trunks of telephone lines that were strung up along that road. Most of those have since been buried or replaced with fiber these days.

When I visited several years ago they had a fully equipped amateur radio station in one of the tunnel rooms complete with it's own special callsign, visitors ( with an Amateur Radio Licence ) were permitted to operate the station.

Appreciate the vid. I’ll probably never make it across the pond so a virtual tour like this of a place I would never be aware of otherwise is a real treat.

Informative and entertaining as always my friend. Thanks for covering PK as well as you did for I had no idea there was a museum there. Added to my hit list of stuff to see when I travel to your fair isle next year. Good cake is a mighty mistress.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

It was very good cake.

Lovely camera work, and really interesting story! Great video 👍

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

It's nice to hear that from someone who knows how to craft a good video him self. I was just finishing watching your game boy colour video, when I popped back to yt studio to see how this video was getting on.

Love this retro networking stuff, great video! 😊

I remember hearing about this place back in the early 2000s in a networking job but never this much detail. Thank you.

Really enjoyed this video, I learnt a lot of new things, thanks for sharing

Went yesterday on your recommendation and it was a fab day out - thank-you!

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

Thats fantastic.

Loved this video, thankyou

Thank you for doing these videos. They are wonderful. You should do more of these types.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I really enjoyed making it. Its not done particularly well veiws wise. That probably has more todo with me taking a bit of time off, and YT not liking gaps in content.

Now that was interesting stuff, sir!

Great video. Ah, I'm glad I don't have to deal with undersea cable faults from our Guernsey to Porthcurno links anymore. Not visited there, but we did find a tiny comms museum at Lizard Point which was interesting too

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

Was this when you where with Wanado ?

@leeselectronicwidgets

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK Skybet

@leeselectronicwidgets

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK it was using the Hugo fibre network via C&W: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUGO_(cable_system) - the incident in 2016 was "fun"

Always remember the digital roots of long distance telecommunications - in particular old school Morse telegraphy. We have in a way even almost returned to the roots with a vast amount of electronic communication being performed as digital transmission of text. The circle is complete. 😊

This is one of my local beaches, and I can confirm that PK Curnow is well worth a visit.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

It really is a very nice beach, my kids loved it.

Tom Scott, Perifractic.. the one person missing is The Tim Traveller ;)

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

I do like watching The tim traveller 😅

11:17: There are a number of roads in France that are two way, but *barely* wide enough for two car traffic...so this isn't just limited to Cornwall in the UK.

im subscribed and rang the bell. KZread never recommended this video to me. No notification of the videos release at all.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know David, I think part of it will be I took a break for a month or so and YT really seams to dislike content breaks.

Who is that guy at 14:26? I've seen him in TONS of KZread videos in such "stock sequences." Is he well known in any way?

A video about undersea cables it is. Let's see how you stack up against Nostalgia Nerd and Tom Scott then :P

11:29 - Norfolk also has no motorways :(

4:03 where did you get this clip from? I would like to watch this film and then be mad at it for clearly not having that German gun (if that’s even a German gun) aimed at that T34.

Excellent! Now I have to go to Cornwall. Last time was 57 years ago. Just as a matter of interest, have you read Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson, an essay on underwater cables, it's well worth teaching down. Thanks and please keep up the good work!

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

I've read a fair few of his books, but that one. I shall keep an eye for it, thanks for the recommendation.

@Penmaenmawr101

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK it's widely available as a pdf on line, a short but v interesting read

Ah, Cornwall, the wall of corn...

A gluey college, according to the chapter names

Thanks for that. I had no idea that there was an open air theatre there but always wanted to go and see the telegraphs. Not sure I ever will though - public transport there doesn't seem great and your description of local driving styles doesn't encourage me to cycle. I was wondering about the use of PK instead of the more obvious PC - there's only one dot difference in morse so it probably wasn't to keep it shorter. Maybe there already was a station with the code PC.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

You can get a bus from lands end, which is fairly easy to get to road wise, and has a huge car part from where you can catch the bus.

Buggerations! I didn't know this was there when I stayed in the area. I guess I'll have to go back.

To normal people, nothing. We are not normal people.

PK because porthcurno- curno - kernow- the Cornish word for Cornwall

Hi

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

Hi Lydia

@Love_all_around_the_world

Жыл бұрын

Hi

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I cannot stand Tom Scott. Unsubscribing.

@RetroBytesUK

Жыл бұрын

🤣 Apparently I met him at a party once, before he was KZread's Tom Scott. He was dressed as a Pirate, but so where most poeple there that night.

@SirKenchalot

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK Interesting but I despise his sanctimonious SJW preaching and can't watch him, or you by extension. I'm not sure why you brought this up.

@SirKenchalot

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroBytesUK It's a pity really, I did so enjoy much of your content.

@catriona_drummond

Жыл бұрын

@@SirKenchalot So you are saying you cannot watch somebody's channel anymore, simply because he merely mentioned somebody whose content you don't like. There are words for that but I will not say them. I just want this sentence to speak for itself and volumes about you. It does remind me however about a certain movie scene where everybody goes nuts when somebody says: "Jehovah".

@SirKenchalot

Жыл бұрын

@@catriona_drummond I'm sorry I don't know that movie; I'm not much of a movie buff anymore. Was it a book first, in which case I may have read it. " I just want this sentence to speak for itself and volumes about you." It certainly does but it says nothing more than that it speaks for itself, what with it being such a short sentence and all; I guess you got your wsih/want granted.If you meant the previous sentence, you should have said so. You've led me to curiosity as tot he words you would use, however, to describe my choice. And yes, the mention and the image are enough when it comes to certain individuals, topics and so forth.

Lots more fun about landing stations at kzread.info/dash/bejne/fZOi0LebiJrbpbQ.html