Thrift store finds, mostly computer stuff
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- A bunch of computer components and electronics I got at the thrift store recently, ending somewhat of a dry spell recently (except for the Sony Hi8 camcorder, which I made a video about).
gotta love that shrek music in the background
Ohh yes, there's nothing better than Smashmouth lol
Yep, Shrek music by Smashmouth
*What are you doing in my swamp?*
@@amystery5238 Distorted version? What do you mean?
Every 5th grade graduation ever
I hear Shrek in the background
+hompalai you mean smashmouth allstar... that song was out wayyyy before shrek
***** no, shrek sings it
its all Ogre now.
I hear dank memes in the background
It's all ogre now
I've never heard anyone mispronounce Celeron before.
I actually think his pronunciation sounds better, normally it sounds too much like a boring vegetable.
Me neither
lol "intel celeeron"
Yes that cracked me up, it's not sulleeron its cell err on!
davidca96 ikr
To each their own.
Understood, nonetheless.
Paul Hojda hkl
Aka intel celery
found a terabyte western digital hard drive for 3 bucks at a thrift store in Michigan.
Nice
+Vee Theet why would someone sell something like that for so low?
Devin Hepburn I don't know, But I didn't complain.
Vee Theet
i dont know why you would, that's awesome!
Does it work?
Somebody once told me...
You got some cool stuff from the thrift store
I went to a large Goodwill store in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and I was appalled at how expensive their tech stuff is now. I was hoping I could buy a a 4 or 5 year old PC tower for $100 but boy was I in for a shock. They want $228 plus tax for 2009 Dell computer with Windows Vista on it. The odd thing about it is they're obviously over stocked with computers. They had at least 80 PC towers covering an entire wall and I was the only one there.. Even their used TVs are ridiculous. They wanted $550 for a 2004 60" HDTV. I walked over to the cashier and said "You guys realize this stuff is used, right?" lol
ldchappell1 I have seen Goodwill stores charging more for a used DVD player with no remote than what a brand new one costs!
vwestlife They probably don't realize how much DVD players have come down in price. 10 years ago I paid $119 for a Toshiba DVD player at Best Buy. Last year I went to the same store and bought an LG Blu ray player (that also plays DVDs) for $53. I've seen brand new DVD players as low as $29.
ldchappell1 lol cool story brah.
ldchappell1 I think all the thrift store owners have been watching re-runs of Dave hester in Storagewars... "yuuup... Thats $900 dollars there... as it sits".
Well who donates a good 60" HDTV to goodwill anyways?
0:04 WHAT
ARE YOU DOING
IN MY SWAMP!?
WTF!
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GOING TO ROLL ME
Somebody once told me...
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed...
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
Matthew Morciglio oh the years start comin and they don't stop comin
James Baxter Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
smash mouth lmao
REMEMBER THAT SONG BRO???!!!
Did you find Macklemore?
Lovin' the All Star playing in the background, and that you reply to way older videos, respect man :) Keep the videos coming, I love them ^-^
Yes, I realized it was just the CPU cooler. Still not bad for $4. And my dial is full of AM stations here; you must live out in the country somewhere. And what are you talking about the "A-D converter"? The pocket TV and video capture device I showed only deal with analog signals, not digital.
That processor, according to Wikipedia retailed at $89. I rounded 3.99 to 4 to make it easier, by the by. If Wikipedia is correct (and I am correct), you got that processor for around 4.5% the original price, giving it a 95.5% price decrease.
@scryedzxp Also, camcorders are part and parcel of my ability to make videos, so I like to experiment with numerous different models and formats -- especially when I can often make a good profit, or at least break even, when reselling them on eBay.
According to uxwbill, the official pronunciation of Hauppage is "hop hog".
Hi, just found your channel and your radio station idea is fascinating! I love the fact that you've used an old Windows 98 system rather than a fancy iMac or something. Your thrift store finds on this video are very interesting! I bet that Apple Mouse is worth a lot more than you paid for it! Best regards, Carl.
Wow, those Sim games are a hell of a find! I've played Sim City 2000 and it was so awesome. You'll have a lot of fun with those games.
Damn that radio station hit the meme before anyone else did
@scryedzxp Vintage computers all run their own different software and games, so that's why I have a collection of them (Mac, Commodore, Atari, etc.). Also, the old PCs you see all have my old personal data on them, so that's why I keep them. But when it comes to things like stereo components, Walkmans, etc., which all serve the same basic purpose and are interchangeable, I keep the one or two which work best and have the nicest features, and sell or donate the rest.
I found a brand new windows xp install disc box still in the package for 20 dollars and I bought it while I could. I have only used windows xp and windows 7, but that's because all I do is edit documents and write so it doesn't make sense to buy an new computer with the latest windows.
Holy cow! I had that same DSL modem when I first got high speed Internet. Good times...good times.
"As I'm getting ready to edit my next video on the ibook, SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD IS GONNA ROLL ME, I AIN'T THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED."
The town where they make the A/V chips,or made them, for TV capture has an old Algonquin name rendered by early Dutch settlers. Here in the old Dutch town of Brooklyn, we say it "HOP-ogg".
@Tabby266 The Vornado script logo is the same as was used on fans. The company has moved since then and branched off into different things, including commercial real estate.
I had two celerys, I mean Celerons. A 300 MHz one, and then a 500 MHz one.
Did you know a company called Zobian Controls made a mouse for the 8-bit Atari?
It was a 1-button mouse called The RAT.
Later they made a 2-button digital version call The SuperRAT.
Somebody ones told me the world was gonna roll. I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. I never thought I would see the day someone has all star as background music.
103.9 FM! *$OMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD'S GONNA ROLL ME I AIN'T THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED!* _Door breaks_
@scryedzxp I have a general rule that if I don't use something in one year and it has no sentimental value to me, then I either sell it, donate it, or recycle it. This way, my entire collection fits into the one basement room you see in my videos.
Loooooooove Sim Copter! Spent many hours putting out fires and rescuing stranded hikers.
I thought it did as well but I installed it a few weeks ago and have fallen in love with it. It's streamlined and much faster than Win7. I have it running on an old Intel Core2Duo with 4gigs of ram that I found at the dump lol. I'm using it has a home media/file server and it's working very well. Also put it on several other PCs. It's awesome because the network works nicely with Mac & Ubuntu! BTW, I'm loving your vids with all the cool old stuff! Make many more!
Great stuff! I never knew America Online made cameras either, you should post some photos taken from it just for the heck of it. I wonder how good it is.
The thrift stores here are pretty bare too. And when they do have something decent, they want an arm and a leg for it. Like a cheap iPod dock for $50 that was covered in all sorts of "gunk" and even the cord was sticky and nasty. The Goodwill had a nice GE Flip clock radio I got for a good price, though.
i like how the all star in the background is slightly sped up
That pocket radio manual is hilarious.
I would love to find a thrift store like the one you shop at.
The mini TV is a nice find
I had one of those serial port Mouse, lasted me years.
heh... I remember getting the occasional AOL CD advertising their services with a trial. My mom turned one into a coaster by covering it with yarn using a pattern she found online. best use for one of those CDs.
No need for the AoL clue, it would not be physically possible for a film camera of any normal format to have its lens up in the corner like that. That was the fashion for early compact digital cameras though, don't know why. The really early ones had such small CCDs, and hence lenses, that maybe the idea was to have it just sticking out of a pocket so you could take covert snaps.
I used to have one of those little radios when I was a child, I used to go to sleep listening to Radio Luxumburge, as it faded in and out! :)
we don't have ANYTHING like a thrift store or electronic deposit/recycle place anywhere...
I wish we had, I love collecting electronics..
+deWaardt Preach it brother. The only place near me that even REMOTELY resembles a thrift store is a Savers.
Oh.... Well, Then we can both relate :)
+David Steets (Steetsman) Good news: I managed to acquire a PowerMac G5 for 50 bucks :)
I almost brand-new machine, 4gb ram and a 500gb hard drive. Works like a dream
+Ibrahim Ahmed (fafafefefofo0) Nice.
My model is the DP 1.8ghz
Upgrade yours to OS X Leopard 10.5.8, and you can pump some life out of yours again.
The Dual 2ghz PPC G5 is still a very powerful machine, I can help you getting some tools and apps to make it just as usable as any other home PC :)
Right now my G5 is running in the background playing music over my surround set, because the G5 has optical out, making it compatible with my surround and giving superior sound quality :)
AOL is so obsolete, Its now a joke..
***** They pretty much used Road Runner from Time Warner Cable when they turned into AOL Time Warner back in the day.. so they tried to stay relevant.. But that plan failed since by that time.. it was too late.
But you can still use AOL with Broadband provided by another service. But what's the point in that, unless you love using the AOL client program.
+Valueless Dollar I still use ICQ. Same as AOL.
That celeron d was packed on my birthday
I love that ridiculous way that the shop wraps up the mouse wires. Way to stress the cables...
Is that shrek music in the beginning I’m hearing!?!? I DONT BELIEVE IT!!!!
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
I liked All Star before Shrek made it a meme. Does that make me a hipster, or just old?
Windows 8 sucks, windows 7 is the chosen os.
Alex B. Wind
At least Windows 10 is as good as 7.
Windows XP is the chosen os in my opinion
at one point, i bought a pc at a thrift store for about $20-$30. it is a compaq persario made around 2000 that ran windows 98 and had an intel pentium 3 processor. i tried to put in a spare power supply that i had cuz the old one was broken, but the cables didnt support it. so im still looking for a power supply that would be compatible with the case. speaking of the case, its slightly broken and turned into a very yellow tint from the uv light.
That modem is what verizon sold with their dsl, I have the exact same one sitting in a box somewhere, sticker on it and everything.
where do you find all this
stuff
I live in MA
will the goodwill store have that stuff
good stuff to resell on ebay
your thrift store rocks mine just has purses, furniture, and little kid toys
@NJRoadfan I turned down FiOS because I don't want to be locked into a Verizon monopoly with no competition and no regulation of monthly rates. Also, Verizon says you can't go back to copper once you get FiOS, and tells you to buy your own generator if you want FiOS telephone service during a power outage for more than the 8 hours provided by the battery backup unit they put in your house.
I love going to thrift stores they are fun to hunt for treasures I can spenf hours in CD's and DVD's but its fun for books and tapes and many other things lol
Nice finds! The Optimus mini TV reminds me of a Casio mini TV I have. That has an AV input too, that's why I got it. The resolution of the LCD sreen is extremely low, though.
@vwestlife Well, considering that almost everything you buy (shown in your videos) are antiques and are the same kind of items (multiple vintage computers, camcorders, record players, etc), don't you end up not using most of them (since you'll just be using one of them most of the time), and then subsequently end up throwing the rest away? Or do you try to find a use for everything you buy?
Funnily enough, the station that plays in the beginning (101.9 WEMP New York) lasted for a whopping 3 weeks before switching to an all-news format. What a shitshow.
hey now youre an allstar playing in the background really quite,
+Jesse Watson Allstar by Smashmouth, great song. Did you mean quiet?
It looked like you just got the cpu fan and heat sink, not the Celeron D. Normally it’s in a plastic container at the top of the box. Was it in the box?
I have that same exact DSL modem and I have yet to find a hand held TV like that. Dunno what I'd use it for but I've always wanted one.
Do you actually keep all of these stuff or do you eventually throw some of these stuff away? I mean isn't your basement completely crammed enough as it is?
Wow! That's some cool stuff. The thrift store in my town has nothing but crap :(
Really nice! I've got a serial Intellimouse around here somewhere.
As pointless as it seems, SimTower (and its sequel YootTower) are some of my favorite games ever. The last version of ST was released for Win3.1; it was never made to run in Win9x but it does work. SC was made for Win95 and ran just as well in XP. I haven't tried to see if it will run in 7... but it's got me curious now!
I still use DSL today. It is $30/month while the next cheapest option (Cable internet) is $70/month.
the other day at one thrift store i frequent regularly had a bunch of boxes of assorted intelimice. some had just serial, just ps/2 connectors, and a few had both connectors. Get this all of them ad never been opened. i wished i would have bought 1 or two of them,
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD IS GONNA RULE ME
@DrCassette The Optimus TV appears to use a passive matrix LCD, so it has very poor contrast and lots of lag/ghosting on motion. Even the grainy LCD of the older Handycams is much better in comparison!
When I go to thrift stores or Goodwill, they always have outdated junk. I look at it and ask myself "Do I actually have any use for this?" and the answer is usually no. The last thing I bought was a digital joystick with a gameport connector on it. I was hoping that it would work with my gameport to USB adapter, or that the company made one. No such luck. It only cost me $1.50, but now I have another joystick sitting on the pile that I will probably never use.
When this area has bulk trash month, I always find mice and keyboards. I used to take them all, but now I only take them if they're fairly modern or there's something unusual about them. I have more keyboards than I know what to do with.
lurkerrekrul The Goodwill in San Francisco has tons of tech stuff but their prices are ridiculous. I went there a couple of weeks ago and they want over $200 for 5 and 6 year old PC towers with Windows Vista on them. They charge $7.99 for used USB keyboards and mouses. Ten years ago you could go in there and walk out with a fully functioning computer (with the monitor) for less than $100.
ldchappell1 I haven't seen a computer in any of the three Goodwill stores in this area in a couple years.
The last time I went to them, I saw a CD-ROM drive for $10, an old 2-axis, 2-button analog gameport joystick for $7, a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse, both without the receivers and a bunch of regular, dirty keyboards for about $5 each.
That's the kind of stuff that people just throw out during bulk trash month (which starts either next month, or June).
One of the Goodwills does have a large, fancy, USB joystick priced at $8. I noticed it on Sunday, the day AFTER the color changed. My friend said he saw it on Saturday, but passed it up. It's been there for the past 3-4 weeks, so I keep hoping that the color will change back to Blue so I can buy it for $4. I have no idea why a crappy old analog joystick disappeared in a week, but that joystick is still there. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way. Not that $8 is a bad price (if it works), but I really don't need it, so half price would be better.
lurkerrekrul Are you in a rural area? I don't imagine Goodwill stores in smaller towns would get many second hand computers. The city I live in has a population of almost a million. It's either that or maybe they don't have a technician who can analyze and refurbish them. The Goodwill I go to has computer department and everything is guaranteed for 30 days.
ldchappell1 I'm in the suburbs in New England. It's not a huge city, but not really a small town either. I usually find more computer stuff during bulk trash month (different area each week, the city will haul away almost anything you leave on the curb) than I do at Goodwill though.
lurkerrekrul It never fails to amaze the things people throw away. That's how I got my 150 watt stereo system with floor speakers, a half size refrigerator, microwave oven and the computer I'm using right now. Our apartment lease prohibits us from dragging in discarded furniture like sofas, chairs and carpets because of bedbugs.
@winfr34k I didn't get any software with it, so I don't know if I can get it working... but I'll try.
Those microsoft mouses were used in our schools in germany, who had bought dell computers.
@TexasToast09 Actually the iBook is very fast and responsive when editing DV video (MiniDV / Digital8) in iMovie, because that's the video format it was originally designed to work with. Only encoding the finished output to a .MOV file takes a long time, but I can let that run while I'm doing other things on my PC.
Great vid, love your channel. I just couldn't focus with that smashmouth playing in the background hahahahaha
@uxwbill The AOL camera works! Low light sensitivity is poor, but the flash works. It has some internal memory in addition to the CF card slot. Saving a photo to memory is slow -- there's about a 10 to 12 second wait after pressing the shutter button (seems even slower than a floppy disk camera). I found another pop-open door, with jacks for DC 6V input, USB (although it's a full size Type A USB jack like on a PC, not the typical mini jack), "Digital", and "Video Out" (with 2.5mm jack).
Why's that radio station playing Matchbox 20's 3 am playing at higher pitch than the album version?
Old CPUs are easy to find cheap. Compatible motherboards that still work are another story.
Shrek is love, shrek is life
I bet a lot of people stayed around because of the shriek music
You live in New Jersey, right? Where the hell do you find all of this stuff? Any specific stores?
my best thrift store find: IBM PS/2 L40 SX, price: $25
Looks like that Celeron D 356 was around $90 when first released in May 2006. That had dropped nearly 30% to around $65 when this one was made in July 2007. So it would seem it had lost 95.5% of its original value (93.8% of release value) as of 2011. Based on data from the cpu-world website.
Is that not what I said?
No Worries. Happens to the best of us.
@lenoat702 Thanks for the offer, but I already have Word 5.5 for DOS because Microsoft actually offers it as a free download on their web site!
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! I just got an apple IIe on ebay and found your videos. I can't stop watching them
Enjoying all vw's vids here, but I am so so so jealous of the thrift stores in the US (I think you're in the US)... Here in the UK there's nothing like this, least not here in Nottingham.
Yes, but you have Nottingham University! :) And yeah, he's in New Jersey. Don't feel bad, I live in Ohio and I never find cool stuff like this around my area, just old clothes, broken stuff and dirty couches. Then again, I gotta expand my horizons.
***** I went to Nottingham Trent Uni... Also known as "The other one"... lol its not that great :)
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
my lord and savior shrek has summoned me
what a nice start to a video
Gotta love the all star music in the background
@vwestlife Odd, the installer gave me the option to keep both copper lines. You are locked into a duopoly anyway since your choices on the pole here are the ILEC and cable. All the good CLECs have vanished and those left don't provide competitive pricing and are treated like 2nd class citizens in the CO (good luck getting timely repairs if your line goes down). Never had a problem with the battery backup either, for most its a moot point since landlines are rapidly disappearing from use anyway.
Shrek meme at the beginning?
isn't it "seller-on" not "cih-lee-ron"?
Which thrift stores do u go to cause the ones that I go to have almost nothing in the tech part
***** LOL thats right however i am a total nerd/geek
Shrek is coming for you
have you asked about their junk pile, of broken items?
(or do they have any broken items?)
i've seen videos of pickers that salvage the parts/components, like me.
made quite afew new projects w/ salvaged parts.
do you/will you re-sell your picks?
thanks for the video!
Speaking of Westell Router, I've looked inside, I see that it does have a Texas Instrument CPU Chip, and I have no idea what's that for to run on the Router including Texas Instrument CPU.
Yesterday, I went to savers and they had a flippin alienware
Does the iBook still work and if it does, can I buy it and for how much?
What do you do with all this stuff?
Hey don't know if you ever found out who made that AOL camera but I had one with the same body style and features and it was made by Vivatar.
OMG MAROON 5 IN THE BACKGROUND PLAYING!!! 😄😄👌🏼
... Those tags look exactly like the tags at my local thrift store.
Also, very much the type of things I find lol.