Opening 8 Months of Vintage Tech Oddities & LGR Mail!
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Date: 2023-07-14
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Mark
1998 Micron Additions catalog: Yeah, in the 1990s, Micron was a solid second tier PC clone maker, for those of us who couldn't afford IBM, Compaq, HP and AST. They competed directly with Dell and Gateway, but I never owned one because the word on the street (my street, anyway) was to avoid them because of poor tech support and relatively high prices. In retrospect, I don't remember the hardware standing out in any way, good or bad.
Handspring Visor: Early 2000s Handspring handhelds were simply Palm clones. They ran the same software and worked the same way. If I remember correctly, they beat Palm to the table with USB sync as opposed to parallel port sync, but I may be remembering that wrong. When I bought my Palm, in 2002, there was little difference between Handspring and Palm. I could have saved some money by going with Handspring, but my employer at the time had a toy budget perk, and I had my heart set on a color screen (which Handspring didn't have yet, so I went with the Palm m505. A couple years later, Handspring differentiated itself from Palm by introducing and specializing in handheld/cellphone convergence devices, which I guess you can think of as precursors to smartphones, except that they weren't really all that smart. It was convenient to be able to make phone calls directly from a contact record, but I don't remember the convergence going much beyond that. They may have had e-mail integration, but Blackberry did that better, and by the time Handspring (or Palm, for that matter) got anything more than that figured out, Apple came out with the iPhone, which devoured all their lunches, as well as breakfast, dinner and midnight snacks. BTW, I still have my Palm m505, but at this point, it would need a new battery, and would have no way to exchange data with anything if it had a working battery, so it's pretty much a paperweight now.
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1998 Micron Additions catalog: Yeah, in the 1990s, Micron was a solid second tier PC clone maker, for those of us who couldn't afford IBM, Compaq, HP and AST. They competed directly with Dell and Gateway, but I never owned one because the word on the street (my street, anyway) was to avoid them because of poor tech support and relatively high prices. In retrospect, I don't remember the hardware standing out in any way, good or bad.
Handspring Visor: Early 2000s Handspring handhelds were simply Palm clones. They ran the same software and worked the same way. If I remember correctly, they beat Palm to the table with USB sync as opposed to parallel port sync, but I may be remembering that wrong. When I bought my Palm, in 2002, there was little difference between Handspring and Palm. I could have saved some money by going with Handspring, but my employer at the time had a toy budget perk, and I had my heart set on a color screen (which Handspring didn't have yet, so I went with the Palm m505. A couple years later, Handspring differentiated itself from Palm by introducing and specializing in handheld/cellphone convergence devices, which I guess you can think of as precursors to smartphones, except that they weren't really all that smart. It was convenient to be able to make phone calls directly from a contact record, but I don't remember the convergence going much beyond that. They may have had e-mail integration, but Blackberry did that better, and by the time Handspring (or Palm, for that matter) got anything more than that figured out, Apple came out with the iPhone, which devoured all their lunches, as well as breakfast, dinner and midnight snacks. BTW, I still have my Palm m505, but at this point, it would need a new battery, and would have no way to exchange data with anything if it had a working battery, so it's pretty much a paperweight now.
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Sb129
I've never seen a big box release for Palm OS software, it was usually in DVD cases. Or loose CDs (like attached to Magazines, I have a couple of those)
Later on the DVD case sometimes held both a disc and an SD card with the software built in. This was after the m500s came out. What a time.
Visor Neo, nice nice. So early on Palm was a part of US Robotics, then 3Com and then it was it's own entity. They had their first party devices (like the III or the V or m500) but Palm also licensed out the OS. So there were many other Palm clones (but they were licensed) Like the Kyocera 6035, TRG Pro, Handera 330 and the Sony Clie line.
Handspring was another licensee and they actually had the original founders there, they left when Palm was still under 3Com.
I personally always loved the Handspring models, the Springboard slot was great. I still have a bunch of modules for them.
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I've never seen a big box release for Palm OS software, it was usually in DVD cases. Or loose CDs (like attached to Magazines, I have a couple of those)
Later on the DVD case sometimes held both a disc and an SD card with the software built in. This was after the m500s came out. What a time.
Visor Neo, nice nice. So early on Palm was a part of US Robotics, then 3Com and then it was it's own entity. They had their first party devices (like the III or the V or m500) but Palm also licensed out the OS. So there were many other Palm clones (but they were licensed) Like the Kyocera 6035, TRG Pro, Handera 330 and the Sony Clie line.
Handspring was another licensee and they actually had the original founders there, they left when Palm was still under 3Com.
I personally always loved the Handspring models, the Springboard slot was great. I still have a bunch of modules for them.
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Paul
LGR Handspring devices were always an enhanced Palm clone. Handspring was started by disgruntled Palm employees who thought what Palm was doing with the hardware was inhibiting the potential of the OS. Their devices always ran PalmOS. The Visor should have a CF card slot on the top and there were actually read only CF cards cartridges produced for it with games and other software you could run on it. The first PalmOS based cellphone. The original Handspring Treo 90 convinced caused Palm to buy Handspring. The first Handspring Palm OS cellphone was released the same year as the first Blackberry cellphone (the blackberry required a dongle to make phone calls because it didn't have a microphone built in. A few years later Blackberry started creating cellphones that looked and operated suspiciously like the first Treo phone. Essentially Handspring created the first true modern smartphone.
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LGR Handspring devices were always an enhanced Palm clone. Handspring was started by disgruntled Palm employees who thought what Palm was doing with the hardware was inhibiting the potential of the OS. Their devices always ran PalmOS. The Visor should have a CF card slot on the top and there were actually read only CF cards cartridges produced for it with games and other software you could run on it. The first PalmOS based cellphone. The original Handspring Treo 90 convinced caused Palm to buy Handspring. The first Handspring Palm OS cellphone was released the same year as the first Blackberry cellphone (the blackberry required a dongle to make phone calls because it didn't have a microphone built in. A few years later Blackberry started creating cellphones that looked and operated suspiciously like the first Treo phone. Essentially Handspring created the first true modern smartphone.
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Veotax
So, the lack of a plug on the Rockwell: don't know if this is the cause, but for a long time companies weren't legally required to include plugs on the end of cords for appliances. So if you brought something, it would often just have bare wires on the end of the cable and you had to go buy a plug and wire it up yourself!
This eventually got changed (like 30-40 years ago, so it's been a while) and now everything has to come with a plug.
That might be why it didn't come with one, if it came from the UK! Or someone might have just taken the plug off for some reason, I guess!
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So, the lack of a plug on the Rockwell: don't know if this is the cause, but for a long time companies weren't legally required to include plugs on the end of cords for appliances. So if you brought something, it would often just have bare wires on the end of the cable and you had to go buy a plug and wire it up yourself!
This eventually got changed (like 30-40 years ago, so it's been a while) and now everything has to come with a plug.
That might be why it didn't come with one, if it came from the UK! Or someone might have just taken the plug off for some reason, I guess!
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Smirenka
21: 23 As someone with autism-related fine motor issues, those type of keypads are the only way I can really manage MMOs with any degree of proficiency. I was absolutely devastated at how poorly Razer handled the transition after they bought the rights to the design. The fact they to this day (20 YEARS LATER) don't have onboard storage of any profiles is inexcusable, and I've upgraded to an Azeron product instead, after an artist on twitter used theirs in a little cute animation to celebrate their broken. wrist? Arm(I forget) healing.
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21: 23 As someone with autism-related fine motor issues, those type of keypads are the only way I can really manage MMOs with any degree of proficiency. I was absolutely devastated at how poorly Razer handled the transition after they bought the rights to the design. The fact they to this day (20 YEARS LATER) don't have onboard storage of any profiles is inexcusable, and I've upgraded to an Azeron product instead, after an artist on twitter used theirs in a little cute animation to celebrate their broken. wrist? Arm(I forget) healing.
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virtuserable
I freakin' love these episodes. Unboxing brand new, pristine, devices is so boring. I can do that myself. Unboxing some nostalgic stuff from the golden area of computing gives me that feeling I had in the 90s. All of this stuff invokes a story of 'Person walks into a CompUSA, buys something they had no idea what it did, used it once and put in their tech closet of shame only to ebay it 30 years later!
Thanks dude
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I freakin' love these episodes. Unboxing brand new, pristine, devices is so boring. I can do that myself. Unboxing some nostalgic stuff from the golden area of computing gives me that feeling I had in the 90s. All of this stuff invokes a story of 'Person walks into a CompUSA, buys something they had no idea what it did, used it once and put in their tech closet of shame only to ebay it 30 years later!
Thanks dude
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Chumba
Clint. ignore the H8Rs. your approach here is great (and I am one who doesn't like to waste time. I always enjoy these and they are some of my fav vids that you do. I am sure the folks who send you items - by now - completely understand your flow around this stuff which is accumulate and then share a bunch at once. Keep up the great work here and don't change a thing on these vids, IMHO: )
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Clint. ignore the H8Rs. your approach here is great (and I am one who doesn't like to waste time. I always enjoy these and they are some of my fav vids that you do. I am sure the folks who send you items - by now - completely understand your flow around this stuff which is accumulate and then share a bunch at once. Keep up the great work here and don't change a thing on these vids, IMHO: )
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Timothy
46: 20 You underplay the incredible historical importance of Dennis Ritchie! He's arguably the most under-recognized giant in the history of computing. Not only did he co-create UNIX with Ken Thompson, he invented the C programming language! Our modern technological landscape would be unthinkable without Ritchie.
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46: 20 You underplay the incredible historical importance of Dennis Ritchie! He's arguably the most under-recognized giant in the history of computing. Not only did he co-create UNIX with Ken Thompson, he invented the C programming language! Our modern technological landscape would be unthinkable without Ritchie.
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Wojciech
9: 15 Clint, that seems to be a polish guy, so you should read 'ch' in his surname as 'h' like in 'horse' and 'w' like 'v' in 'vocabulary' - polish pronunciation isn't that easy, but always 'ch' sounds 'h'. for english person i think easier to say 'vihary', because sounds very similar. Have a good day!
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9: 15 Clint, that seems to be a polish guy, so you should read 'ch' in his surname as 'h' like in 'horse' and 'w' like 'v' in 'vocabulary' - polish pronunciation isn't that easy, but always 'ch' sounds 'h'. for english person i think easier to say 'vihary', because sounds very similar. Have a good day!
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rf2gw35
I don't have the time, money, or space for collecting these sorts of things. Realistically, I would only get a momentary rush doing it myself. Watching these unboxing videos gives me the exact same kind of rush and I don't have to spend money or worry about curating a giant collection and what not.
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I don't have the time, money, or space for collecting these sorts of things. Realistically, I would only get a momentary rush doing it myself. Watching these unboxing videos gives me the exact same kind of rush and I don't have to spend money or worry about curating a giant collection and what not.
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Darren
Ah duke forever, I still have my talking Duke head I got with pre-order and a sad day it was, the last game I ever bought physically. Came home with a worthless disc that required an account to play and a full size update. Came home and had to wait hours to play a game I bought and paid for.
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Ah duke forever, I still have my talking Duke head I got with pre-order and a sad day it was, the last game I ever bought physically. Came home with a worthless disc that required an account to play and a full size update. Came home and had to wait hours to play a game I bought and paid for.
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Andrew
My heart skipped a beat when I saw that Micron catalog. I exclusively collect Micron stuff and just this week acquired a Netframe 3100 server that makes a brief appearance 12: 21. Very cool thing you have there. Catalogs rarely show up online, so to see one is extra special.
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My heart skipped a beat when I saw that Micron catalog. I exclusively collect Micron stuff and just this week acquired a Netframe 3100 server that makes a brief appearance 12: 21. Very cool thing you have there. Catalogs rarely show up online, so to see one is extra special.
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jakethreesixty
My mom used to work at Kmart, I think the last major game release they did was GTA V, nobody preordered it there so I wound up with a stack of Trevor posters I gave to all my friends, good times
That'll be 10 years ago this September
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My mom used to work at Kmart, I think the last major game release they did was GTA V, nobody preordered it there so I wound up with a stack of Trevor posters I gave to all my friends, good times
That'll be 10 years ago this September
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Chris
Me, my Mom, and Sister all worked for Circuit City in the 90s. That AS/400 backend was awesome for it's era. Not much in retail today is as good. Even with the passwords, the programs on the Toshiba is probably only the frontend to the AS/400.
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Me, my Mom, and Sister all worked for Circuit City in the 90s. That AS/400 backend was awesome for it's era. Not much in retail today is as good. Even with the passwords, the programs on the Toshiba is probably only the frontend to the AS/400.
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realjohnhammond
Cliff these unboxing videos are some of my favorites (together with your thrift episodes and many others, so please don t think too much about a few comments, just keep doing you because that s why we follow you!
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Cliff these unboxing videos are some of my favorites (together with your thrift episodes and many others, so please don t think too much about a few comments, just keep doing you because that s why we follow you!
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lazygamereviews
Thanks for the great video as always Clint. The unboxing videos are super cool because of the random weird stuff people send. It's like an hour long oddware episode. So I'm not complaining at all lol
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Thanks for the great video as always Clint. The unboxing videos are super cool because of the random weird stuff people send. It's like an hour long oddware episode. So I'm not complaining at all lol
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troublecluster
The ILM/Lucasfilm badges at the start of the video are given out to ILM crew after projects have wrapped. It is a long standing tradition at the company to this day. Awesome video as always, Clint!
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The ILM/Lucasfilm badges at the start of the video are given out to ILM crew after projects have wrapped. It is a long standing tradition at the company to this day. Awesome video as always, Clint!
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Moustache
LGR opening is one of my most favorite type of videos on LGR. After long time you forgot what is inside and its kind of thrift store vibes, sometimes you don't know what treasures are hidden inside.
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LGR opening is one of my most favorite type of videos on LGR. After long time you forgot what is inside and its kind of thrift store vibes, sometimes you don't know what treasures are hidden inside.
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dwaynezilla
Dedicated unboxing videos are very much appreciated. I definitely wouldn't watch lots of little ones; it'd be too much of a tease. Mail openings are best done via gorging, of course, lol
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Dedicated unboxing videos are very much appreciated. I definitely wouldn't watch lots of little ones; it'd be too much of a tease. Mail openings are best done via gorging, of course, lol
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AreaNinety
Pedantic transparent era apple collector here, that iMac is Blueberry not Bondi Blue. Bondi was only on the very original slot loading. I felt like a techmoan puppet typing that out lol
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Pedantic transparent era apple collector here, that iMac is Blueberry not Bondi Blue. Bondi was only on the very original slot loading. I felt like a techmoan puppet typing that out lol
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