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44 thoughts on “More Seattle Thrifting (+ RE-PC)”

  • Yes, I know I can license crab rave. I do not like their licensing terms. You have to pay a subscription _for eternity_, and if you ever stop they can (and do) immediately claim all your videos retroactively. That's absurd.

    Okay this is my third time trying to correct this but I got it right this time: That's a Fire controller, not a Luna controller. I thought it was Luna because someone who worked on the team thought it was. It appears they had never heard of the standalone Fire gaming product, which says a lot about internal Amazon culture. Damn, I wonder if maybe knowing that your company already has a gaming platform might be useful information when developing a gaming platform. There's just no way to know

  • Seattle proper… Sure if you consider Sodo-Stadium properly Seattle.

  • Dude, if I can get a 7×4 space in the dankest corner of the most disused part of your basement to move into I'll pull focus for free.

    Anything to get the fuck out of Texas.

  • You know when high society got their hands on the 3D Text screensaver. gibe d pusi b0ss

  • I wish we had something fun like RePC here in Sacramento. We do at least have some fun independent thrift stores

  • Seeing that Extron was funny. I just bought an Extron DVS 304 which is a pretty killer video scaler.

    I'm using it to scale my Gamecube and PS2 to a 1024 x 768 VGA CRT and it works super well.

  • I had absolute kittens when I found my solid metal aluminum manfrotto vintage giant tripod at the local Valley village.. The crazy thing!?? The hot shoe was there too 😮😮😮

  • Those little slimline Dells are garbage, but I always wanted one for some reason

  • The ADAT machines are still potentially useful since many professional audio interfaces still have ADAT ins and outs. If you're doing live recording, you've got a quick and easy backup recorder in case your laptop flakes out. Alternatively, ignore the tape side of things and you've got access to an extra 8 line inputs. There's better kit out there for this sort of thing for sure, but if they're going for peanuts then why not?!

    (If this place were near me, I'd totally spend a few hours a week routing through the bins for the off chance of finding a Dante PCI-e card for $3…. 😉 )

  • Is the Lumix + lens weatherproofed for those brief hailing winter outside times?
    I can't totally dismiss the tripod piles. A couple of years ago in a Union Mission thrift store I found a brand-new tripod in perfect condition that retailed at that time for $200. I paid $10 for it. Not a Hollywood tripod, but a better-than-$20-"Nikon" tripod. I use it a lot.
    Your thrift stores DWARF my rural local thrift stores. I'd envy them if the cost of living in larger thrift store areas wasn't six times higher than it is here.

  • Ah yes, the Gateway destination. It sported a LOVELY 66mhz LX chipset and was WAY underpowered for its intended application of a MediaPC. Yes, a premium PC in 1996 over $2000 with a 66mhz bus. And the motherboard standoffs were stamped in INCLUDING standoffs for the Slot 1 but because the sheet metal was so thin they could be pulled with pliers. The onboard hardware didn't have support outside of Win9X so forget about Win2K let alone XP.

    The monitor though had a horrible dot pitch BUT was among the first VGA monitors of the size.

    So many HTPC cases came out after the fact IMHO not worth touching with a 10ft pole.

  • @CathodeRayDude What's wrong with the SilverStone HTPC? I am literally midway through picking parts for one XD

  • Hey Bill here's your crosley turntables want a puddin pop😅

  • WiFit boards are excellent to repurpose for interactive installations and weighing applications.

  • 1 minute in.. "I needed a lens for camera".. (thinking hmm thrift store score) .. nope .. Buys at full retail at the camera store 1 very expensive lens.."OK now lets go to the thrift store".. Hilarious stuff my man.. I'll stay for the comedy.

  • Streamer Detritus is a phrase I find funny as a nobody streamer who continues to do it because I don't know why. 😂

  • I feel like people often overlooked how big of an impact optical mice have had, it's one of those quality of life things that nobody really thinks about, I remember in about 2000 my step brother gave me a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer and it was a subtle but at the same time huge improvement, I do kind of in a weird way miss cleaning my mouse ball though.

  • Wish we had stores like this in the UK!

    All our stuff seems to just go straight to landfill.

  • That first "hey bro here's your controller" controller looks like it might be a Pelican Chameleon which is probably one of my favourite to hold controllers of all time. It's recessed L2 and R2 buttons that site halfway up the back of the controller just feel amazing in the hand and I've been hunt for a more modern equivalent for a long time

  • It's Seattle. If there's ever a place for two used computer stores…

  • 02:39 oh hey. that's the weird off-brand amazon harry potter themed? gaming headset i got as a christmas gift one year

  • I thought that was a NBN FTTC NTD at 9:22 but it turns out "Casa Systems" either originated or labelled the same device that we got in AU.

  • That Mad dog external dvd burner is rated from 100 to 240vac and plugs directly into an outlet. no special multi voltage power supply needed on that one.

  • "These speakers probably don't sound half bad"
    it's the other half i'm worried about

  • Microsoft actually bundled the Arc 2 using Bluetooth with there Surface computer line.

  • Wow, RE-PC looks amazing. Reminds me a bit of Weird Stuff in Sunnyale CA, which is sadly closed.

    But the focus is KILLING ME.

  • Hahahahahahahahahahaha, I remember Vinyl Dying my CD burner tray. I was trying for a nice rich blue. I got a horrible splotchy mess . Yes, I know NOW what I did wrong.

  • 11:45 "somebody's buying these and making horrible frankenstein drum kits"
    Have you met my friend DankPods?
    edit: I paused to write this comment and upon resume you immediately mentioned him

  • Damn man you're making me miss Seattle thrift stores. I used to get all sorts of computer equipment at a now long extinct thrift store on NE 15th called The Last White Elephant. And the DI up on Aurora was always a great spot for computer hardware.

  • Speaking of U-Matic. An old school I used to attend had this dank basement they called U-Matic Park. It even had a huge poster some enthusiast had made, with U-Matic Park in Jurrasic Park style movie poster layout. When you went inside, you'd understand why. There were literally MOUNTAINS of piled up U-Matic tapes, and I mean you've seen nothing like it, mountains the size of rooms with piles and piles of U-Matic tapes, you could get lost in there amongst the machines in the wild.

  • I thought thrifting in Seattle was gang shoplifting in bigbox stores 😂

  • 26:34 I got a variant of that keyboard which isn't an addon for anything. It's not in use.

    I think the last time I used it was experimenting with layouts for a hexadecimal number pad.

  • I remember getting a gateway destination monitor 32" out of the trash around 2005. Fun this is that it would sync perfectly to 1080i.

  • I have the older version of that Realistic amp and it’s perfectly capable for lower wattage speakers. Has a more 70s look as well

  • My local Goodwill has a telescope right out front… without an eyepiece.

  • 13:34 I hope you set that monitor back to 100Hz afterward, otherwise I'd be quite offended that you went in and adjusted a monitor that was perfectly capable of operating at a nice smooth non-flickery (to the eye) 100Hz down to a deeply unpleasant 60Hz. If your goal was to troll though, mission accomplished.

  • OH OH i had one of those realistic amplifiers, or at least one extremely similar to it! my mom ran a chicken restaurant for a while and when it shut down we gutted it for all the stuff and that was what powered the store music and microphone for calling out orders. i used it for my dumb teenage music experiments until life happened and lost it along with a bunch of other junk. fun find!

  • A shame about the big old Hammarlund short wave receiver..I have not had the heart to see how many of the big/ small stations have closed down nothing will be left but the aging ham operators…

  • we've been running that vcr you saw at the start for longer than i've been alive, it's family to me

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