MailCall 0x0E: Mail from viewers like you!

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• the ethernet to token ring transeiver (with the BNC's) is a SUPER handy device, and when they were in use, that was a commercial grade one. they are crutical for bridging the token ring networks with standard networking. great gift.

• 5:28 those caps tend to pickup a charge from the air. Put a resistor on it.

• Nice, those Dell idrac vflash sd cards.. At my workplace I just decommissioned 70 Dell servers that had those cards.. and I thought: 8gb sd cards are kinda nice for retro use, and decided to take all of them, gave most of them away at a retro Commodore meeting and kept a few for myself 😉

• Maximus Dominus – that's a mouse-ful

• Recently got an InteliVision and composite modded it. Had one backing the day. My parents kept the games, but, not the console. Love playing it…..again

• LOVE that huge! cap. WHEN is it from?

• Think those capacitors are big? The ones used in the earliest television sets were the size of shoe-boxes. Lots of games are sold without physical media inside; they only have a code to activate a download.

• the lotus one was a fcking scam haha

• FYI, I recommend removing the 9-digit ZIP code since that narrows down someone's location to a single side of a street or a single apartment building.

• Oh man… I am so very jealous of that oscilloscope peripheral! I hope you show it off in a video soon.

• 50:21 Intellivision!!!

• Happy New Year, Shelby!

• It's so weird to see stuff from my junk pile in someone else's junk pile. 😀

  The voltage switch on that Celeron cooler was for undervolting the fans. Back when I was running it, I installed dual fans to keep it cool since it was overclocked to 450MHz. The Celeron 300A was legendary for its ability to run rock solid at 450MHz even though it was a 300MHz CPU. The dual fans just got a bit loud, so I'd drop them down to 7V whenever I wasn't loading the CPU too much.

  I thought you'd enjoy those Y2K stickers. I installed hundreds of those on our company's computers in 1999. Those were the last of them that I had left over in my toolbag. They've been a drawer ever since.

• Hi Shelby,
  Happy New Year from Germany. The PCIe SCSI HBA is super cool especially as the LSI ones are quite compatible and well supported. I was listening to the manufacturer's/designer's name about a dozen times but didn't understand it. And the search engines don't find any reference to this project. So it would be very kind if you could add a link…

• Oh man, I forgot about the Cambridge Computing Z88! It’s such a bizarre little device – the word processor is just a special mode of the spreadsheet program

• Of course the Z88 has a membrane keyboard, it came from Clive Sinclair!!!

• Just a note, Shelby, I noticed that you cut out the street addresses of senders (for obvious reasons) but for several US ones left the ZIP+4 code visible. In some places in the US, a ZIP+4 will get you to a precise street address or post box. (In my dense Chicago suburb, my ZIP+4 will narrow you down to just three houses.) If you want to fully protect the locations of people who send you things you should at least cut out the +4 part.

  Great video, thanks!

• Those giant capacitors. 🤣
  As you flipped though that Commodore catalog, I said "Oooh, Marble Madness" right before you did. Hehehe…
  I'm guessing that Lotus 123 version was a basically just a physical license (software was installed from the local Netware server). Of course nowadays full on physical documentation isn't necessary but back in the day, a box was the only proof that you had purchased the software license (enterprise or small business licenses not yet a thing perhaps).

• Those xg fm soundcards also showed up in some Sony laptops from the early 2000s

• Oh wow, the USB connector in the floppy eject hole, that's one hell of a good idea!
  Very interesting mounting solution for an older machine to have a front panel port, an old floppy drive with a flap for the slot and the USB port as eject button, it'd be quite nice IMHO

• An external rubber membrane key board?
  just did a little looksy about the Cambridge Z88 and that's what I hear to be a typical Sinclair thing

• why can't I help but imagine David instant spawn behind Shelby when unpacking the Commodore finds

• Well, it's not mail from viewers like me because I don't send anything to Youtubers.

• 45:00 – I still use DDS4 tapes, simply because I still have a bunch of them. Streamer is extremely reliable and I only have to fix a loosen spring about once per year. You could still buy usb model. It can read DDS-1, 2, 3 and 4 tapes. I hope You'll have fun with those.

• Do not use the z88 power supply it may fail and be dangerous!
  Cambridge Computer were notorious for buying up the cheapest power supplies. They had recalls of their power supplies.

• 5:00 You got a railgun you need to power or something?

  I had a bunch of those little IDE to SATA boards that fit on the back of the device. Worked very well, often had individual LEDs because who doesn't like having individual device activity LEDs, and even though they needed their own power you could very neatly stick a Molex-to-Molex-&-FDD connector in the chain.

• Hi Shelby. I'd be really interested to know more about that PCIe SCSI card, and maybe if I can contact the manufactures to purchase one. Didn't quite catch the name. I currently run a PCIe to PCI card for my film scanner, but that involves getting the right lowprofile PCI card in order for it to fit in the case. It's a bit janky to say the least. Having a single PCIe card would be so much better. I've tried a bunch of different PCIe U320 cards, but I think the scanner is too old as none of them will see it. Thanks.

• have you ever played Polarity? it's kind of like what you're doing with the magnets on the globe, but more like a game of Go with magnets.

• Imagine the bang if one of those caps failed…

• Ooh, Sanborn, NY… that's just a few miles from here. (I went to college there.)

• 27:47 – OOOH! YaxiPads! I have a colored pair of those for my MDR-V6's! XD

• I've seen oil filled capacitors bigger than a standard household microwave. Caps can get quite large, especially very high voltage ones. The capacitors i was referring to were 10KV, at only a few uF. Just filter caps, but they had to be large due to the voltages they operated at.

• 0:04 I hear that as "it is time for a mayo video" 😂

• SMMC!!

• I think i still have a pass through Vodoo board of some sort. Don't know where it is, but it's in the house somewhere. ^-^

• That retail sticker on the maxi gamer shows how cheap these cards were at one point. The one donated to you is clearly the card that came in the box because of the text on the PCB but being green is rare for the maxi gamer 3d, they were normally yellow even though the picture on the box is of a green PCB.

• It's Shelby's delight at opening packages with things like a massive capacitor that make this video so fun

• i remember useing the neo tn the early to late 2000's

• Those damn Y2K stickers bring back some memories. "Yes, we have to individually check each machine in this classroom of identically built computers for the audit"
  Insert check disk, watch computer reboot 3 times, get pass result, stick on green label. Now repeat 29 more times. Come back next day to find *@&$ kids peeled all the stickers off. Fun times.

• 51:25 Envelope tractor paper. That's a new one lol.

• I believe I have that exact HP cable, salvaged from a junk tape drive. Nice to know it's so useful!

• Smyrna's not even on the Metro Atlanta Top 10 Dumb City Names list. We have a town called Cumming.

• 5:13 …so the plan is to charge it up and go looking for someone you don't like?

• TT is the best. Shelly looks like a big ole nice SOAD Singer.

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