Videos documenting restorations of exceptional vintage electronics and early computers, space hardware and the odd mechanical calculator or Teletype. It often showcases my Hewlett-Packard test equipment collection and, from time to time, my R2-D2 robot build. Things rarely work when I start, but almost always do when I end. A nerdy place for your inner engineer, to celebrate engineering exploits of our predecessors, and learn a lot from it. To contact me, use the CAPTCHA protected email link below.
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Was wondering where that song came from!
just wanna hang out in this dudes workshop for an afternoon .... wow. cool stuff.
How many Globus did they produced?
Amazing... i am too ignorant to even undestrand a 100th of what you are doing/saying but, still,these videos are so incredbly interesting and amazing. I can only imagine what it means to invent this stuff and send people into space with it...
Space War didn't look much different when ported to the GT-40.
The graphic on this machine is so realistic i feel i can touch it
you can make a 'bit' of core memory with household materials, not much use except for the educational value of doing it
spent most of my working life doing tech stuff, and i can honestly say, the new stuff, it's no better than the old stuff :)
Stumbled on this. My first time programming was on an IBM1401. Brings back memories.
Very impressive! You got nice museums there. I am looking forward to the ksc-video. Have been there in 2000, maybe see some changes.
I look forward to the future videos of your road trip. I really enjoy them. Thank you so much.
Can't wait for the next tours 🙌🙏 Thank you very much for bringing us along!
11:38 UNICAC? Is that a variant of the UNIVAC, or is that just a typo? Fascinating!
7:50 is this David Gesswein???
6:39 "Are those LEDs"? "No, No...I went back to incandescent because I couldn't get LEDs to look right". Yea, Carl! We feel the same way in all of our blinkenlight machine restorations, in particular, the Data General Nova 1200 & 800 machines!
4:53 what is the "oddball" Heatkit terminal in this scene?
My cheapie HP LaserJet 1012 recently started doing the two-page uptake paper jam thing. I wonder if it uses the same kind of relay as that Samsung. I guess I will have to take it apart and look.
About the IBM 1130: it’s the first time I see a computer with a big red emergency stop button. Very cool!
The nearest to a Nobel Peace Prize Winner that I got was the fact that Mr. John Hume is an alumnus of Maynooth University. B. A. (Hons) in French and History 1958 M. A. 1964.
Parabens muito bom .
@CuriousMarc: too bad I didn't know you'd be in town. I work in the Bell Works building and could have shown you around. As far as I can tell from the video, your office was more or less right across the atrium from mine.
I think I spotted Sean of Action Retro in the video. Obviously doing moar seananigans!
Poliushka polye is the name of the chiptune song
Congrats to Carl for keeping an 1130 alive. Part of the second year of my Physics degree (1976!) was learning APL on an 1130.
One of the (even) more impressive videos you’ve shared. I so have to go to VCF Midwest. 😅
So this is where severance was filmed, i thoight I reconized it but became confodent after I saw the transistor
The building looks like an airport terminal
Sorry I missed you. Glad you had fun.
Just realised this is the office that represents Lumon in severance! So cool.
I can remember how to tie many different kinds of knots by following the examples on my rope core memory.
My son and I met you and Ken at VCF East. It was a real treat to see you there! Keep up the great videos! You may remember my son as he had you and Ken autograph a punch card.
bell holmdel was designed by THE eero saarinen. i can't believe anyone would want to tear that masterpiece down!
Wow you worked at Bell Labs!! Sad the government broke up the one monopoly that actually helped society. Kept fees low, tech was improving. Yet your cable monopoly is high prices no real innovation. Electricity? Um, no. Just higher prices per kWh. Water? Probably the dirtiest water you've ever gotten. Yet the government decided MONOPOLIES are bad. Kinda confused here.
I used to attend vcf east every year before I moved to Florida last year. Had I known you and ken were attending I would have flown up to meet you guys and listened to your lecture. Hope you enjoyed the site, that univac was once on a battle ship and was used for targeting systems if my memory serves correctly. One of the inputs was a pair of binoculars which could be used as some sort of targeting scope... So many fond memories at vcf including meeting ken Thompson and every year I always got a great Irish breakfast at the bar down the road.
let;s go to the moon. great work young man. thanks March
Love, love, love that IBM 1130! I almost fell out of my chair when I saw it in the background and I was hoping you'd stop for visit. I spent over a decade programming one of those for my company and it's still my absolute favorite computer. I added 8" floppy disk and digital tape to ours and made many modifications to the disk monitor system during that time, making it do things it wasn't supposed to be able to do. I still have bit and pieces of it, including all of the ALDs, a complete load source deck, and several 2315 disks. Is that 1130 on permanent display somewhere? I'd love to attempt to convert my disks to images that I can use with the 1130 simulator. I recognize those Heathkit terminals, too; I built several of them.
This IBM 1130 is now at the System Source Museum (next episode!)
I worked in the microfilm / fiche industry for 40 years stating in 1973. We started because line printers were too slow and whoever received the 5th or 6th part of a NCR printout was not happy. The fiche you showed were computer generated by a COM system. That would take tapes or direct feed and display the print data on a CRT or use a laser to expose the film. The originals were actual photographic film. The copies which you have were done on a system similar to blue prints. The copies of the entire fiche would take about 5 seconds or less. While the technology is outmoded now, it still serves an archival need. The originals should last 500 years and it just takes simple optics to read them
I loved the time I spent as a summer student at Bell Labs in Murray Hill in 1976 and 1977. I visited the Holmdel building once during the summer of 1976. It was and is indeed impressive!
Thanks for taking us along on your tour, Marc.
Thank you
Interviewed at Holmdel in 1966. Wasn't willing to commit to work for them in order to get a college education, but impressive place.
Wow great building, timeless architecture!
240V twist-lock power plugs.
haha!!! @10:35 Give it up for S Gauge model trains! Perfect combination... old computers + best gauge of model train! 🚂🖥
Merci !
Merci à vous!
Fascinating! Growing up, my neighbor worked at Bell Labs in Holmdel maybe circa 1989? At one point they were having some sort of a Christmas event and she brought us along and gave us a tour of her work space (something to do with large printers and maybe phone books I think). I seem to remember the atrium almost resembling a jungle with all of the plants and I think it also doubled as an aviary where they had live birds living in there.
I wonder if you could data dump those prototype AGC modules?
The IBM 1130 (lowest-prized IBM offering in the mid 60s) was for many the first encounter with a computer at all at that time.