That « hey folks », I thought you said that OUTLOUD walking into the Salvation Army. That’s just the sort of energy and vibes you bring to a sally anne.
I love how all the visits keep the footage of you beelining to the Tech section, it really sets the mood of going to a Goodwill and ignoring every aisle except for the one stuffed with iPod docks and the occasional grail
I love it because its the exact opposite of my thrift store trips. I usually ignore that aisle but I love seeing it through the eyes of someone who knows what they’re looking against
My local goodwills basically have a few alarm clocks, some shit printers, and a bunch of those stupid UVC phone sanitizer things that do nothing but look cool at a distance in a thrift store, then let you down. @@knowledgeablelandon9960
We are not alone in our contempt. Fkn iPod docks. Always got some shitty little super-fine gauge wire coming out of them wrapped around the AC cord and ending in a frayed mess where whatever the fuck bad connector used to be. Maybe it’s where you were supposed to inject the supplementary audio cancer juice. But nobody knows and thankfully they’ll all be in landfill soon, being taunted for all eternity by CRTs. “Difference between you and me is that I was a general purpose example of a useful innovation rather than a poorly executed assemblage of low quality components existing solely to piggyback the popularity of one manufacturers comparatively short-lived hit product”, the CRTs will say. Also this comment got longer than expected and has forced me to accept the deep and complex aesthetic and functional traumas that iPod docks have generated within me.
I hate to say it, i think i would watch an 8 hour video of you going through ALL of re pc. I hate that i want to watch it, but i also love that i want to watch it.
@@therealelizafoxI mean, Ive never been so I can’t say if you’re right or wrong, but this comment is literally responding in the positive to the video saying they could make an eight hour video on re-pc, and they go there all the time so they’d probably not say that for no reason
i also didnt think i would watch a video CRD produced about a mouse, but i did, and it was good. So i dont underestimate his ability to ramble tbh. @@therealelizafox
So I found out what that 8 Candles Trading Outpost thing is: It's a power supply and controller for one of those 'detoxifying' footbath electrodes that makes it look like the detox is working by accelerating corrosion of an iron coil inside and dumping gnarly looking rust into the footbath. Also: tooge.
The Buffalo snes pads are actually really good, they feel like a brand new snes controller and on top of that are known to have the lowest input latency of almost any other usb gamepad!
Bought two of these for a Raspberry pi emulation station I built for a friend. The controllers are pretty solid. Just as good as a real SNES controller. As far as I know, he hasn't had a problem with them for the 5 years he's used them.
@@gklinger more than likely he was going off of his experience, which is that 99% of knockoff pads are awful. I'll admit to being very surprised when I found out Buffalo SNES pads were really good.
Oh, hey! I was the one who donated that strange, boxed conference phone! I'm pleased to see you're as equally confused as I was when I first discovered it! The assertion that it has wireless microphones is correct, though I know very little else about it. With hindsight of the environment it came from, I suppose the box with USB ports could be a DECT transceiver so the base station can wirelessly sit on a table in the center of a conference room while it communicates with an overhead PA system. But that's just guessing! By the way, you should take a road trip and visit Thurston County thrift stores sometime. Ours are way less picked over by all the turbo nerds in King County, so it's still possible to find reasonably interesting/useful stuff for longer than .2 seconds after it's placed on a shelf. Hope you're back to 100% soon!
it is continuously funny when I post about something and someone goes "oh i dropped that off" hahahaha. god I might go back and buy it just for the laffs sometimes when i drive down to portland i stop at the various goodwills etc in olympia and thereabouts and i haven't had the best luck; should I be going somewhere other than the goodwills?
@@CathodeRayDudeLacey Value Village on Sleater-Kinney is my goto for tech. They've been pretty consistent at putting out whole computers the past little while; I was able to snag a working iMac G4 for $30 a few weeks ago. I haven't seen stuff like that in King County for over a decade!
@@CathodeRayDude Further down another commenter (@i_have_very_niche_intrests_lol ) was the former owner of the 8-track recorder. I feel like that username could resonate with most of us.
We have one of those revolabs sets active at our office :). The USB ports are for passing audio over USB to multiple conference PCs/recording audio from the active call. They haven’t been used as much recently in our office, since everyone uses teams instead of POTS, but nice to have around from time to time as a quick and dirty teams mic setup.
The Niveus Media Center looks interesting. It's a HD TV recorder/media center that cost over $6K in 2005. I'd love to upgrade the motherboard and have a high-end HTPC in an awesome Krell-like metal case.
@@CantankerousDave nope, and that's what makes the Niveus special and also why it can only run Windows Vista. The Niveus - besides being the other major customer for the Seasonic SS-400FL/SS-460FL - is the ONLY manufacturer to have a fully ISF and CableCARD ceritifed system. And this one has the required tuner upgrade, so it supports NTSC/ATSC/ClearQAM and CableCARD.
4:22 I had these Altec Lansing speakers way back in college. They must have had some electrical issue or poor shielding, because they would always somehow pick up the campus FM radio station and play it super creepily below the low level hiss at night. It took me a while to figure out where the creepy midnight jazz was coming from.
We had a TV while I was growing up that was like that. It would always very quietly pick up the local oldies station. Normally you couldn't hear it but between shows and commercials or quiet scenes you could hear it if you were near the TV.
You could not have been in a better location to run out of storage space. That drive and adapter probably cost like 30 bucks there lol. It's funny to think that I could bump into you in SoDo or something, I would feel all star struck. Glad to see you up and about posting again. Love your videos!
I love these kinds of videos. Over here in Europe there are almost no thrift stores left. There were some until around 10 years ago, then ebay ate their lunch. And today the used prices on ebay are almost always higher than new. Even for things you can still buy new. It's a shame.
Over here in Europe? Have you traveled the whole continent searching for thrift stores? I live in a small city and there are about 5. And there are 20 plus in a 30 mile radius. The fact that there aren't many close to where you live doesn't mean there are almost no thrift stores left in Europe 😂
There are 6 stores in my town. I once tried to visit all thrift stores in one day in The Hague (Netherlands), after 15 I gave up. There were more than 30..
i have no idea what a thrift store would even be called here in slovakia. we do get flea markets and second hand shops but they usually don't have much in the way of tech - second hand specifically are more associated with clothes. wish i knew how to begin looking for them if they even exist though
Yea Netherlands they are rather common, so I would definitely not generalize Europe here. As for other used products, we have marktplaats which pretty much half the country uses and if you get past the paid adds there is a lot to find there also.
The Brother inkjet you were staring at has a passable A3 scanner which I've found good for scanning magazines without unbinding them. One day I'll get around to removing the pointless printer stuck to the bottom of my scanner.
That Niveus box looks like it would be fun just for the case. I love the giant heat sinks on the sides, I'd probably gut it and try putting a modern motherboard in it (after I got bored playing with as is of course).
Those Aviom devices are designed to allow musicians to control their monitor mix in the shows mixer. A lot of the major mixer makers make such a system, but a lot of shows will just have a dedicated monitor mix engineer. I am not surprised they came out of a church as churches spend a lot more on AV than many places and also tend to lack manpower to have a bunch of audio people running around.
Avioms are used a lot in theatre. I wish we had them at my main theatre. They require a head interface -- I've never seen exactly how it's all wired up. I'm also not sure if I've ever heard an Aviom sound system sound good. At least as a keyboard player, they usually do some mono summing but everything always just sounds a little cloudy.
@@alextirrellRI True that the sound isn't always great, but I think that might be due to it being a headphone mix and not eq'ed very well. I've played gigs where we had in-ear monitors but we had no control over the mix, so it varied from show to show and sometimes during a show. I would have given anything to have an Aviom mixer on that show.
@@motomike71 Oh of course, I'll take Avioms any day over any other kind of provided headphone mix that you can't control at all. My sad suspicion is that there is something all the audio techs I've used them under is doing wrong in the setup making channels sound worse than they should, that they don't know because they are not the people using the system. They just set it up.
OMG I actually worked somewhere where they used the RevoLabs conference phone you showed @30:30! You were totally right; the little box guys are remote mics and the center pillar was used for receiving audio. It was as craptastic as you imagine it to be.
My experience with them was that the users would always leave the mics off the charging station and they'd always be flat when they were actually needed. They were the bane of my existence.
Laying here feeling like I'm going to puke on Christmas, and this video was exactly what I needed. This was the comfy thing I needed right now. Even without a specific topic I still find your commentary and editing style to be oh so entertaining. Thank you for this.
I had a talk with the owners/managers regarding sticking labels on screens and discs. In my area, they all now put the sticker on the base or back of monitors. But man, I want that Dell monitor speaker!
This was fun. A lot of the same vibes I got off your California trip video. Seeing the XBone as an outdated thing, now that was a real gut punch moment.
The console generation cadence got a bit weird in the 2000s. We got used to one generation lasting a good 7-8 years where now they release a new console every 3ish years again, except nintendo. I'm glad that architecturally they have kinda settled down. As far as I know, you can play every xbox one/xbox series game on any subsequent xbox, and the same thing with playstations since the 4, since the hardware is still compatible and the software stack isn't so different between each new update.
Those USB Buffalo Super NES controllers are some of the best non-first party controllers you can find. Japanese made...or at least designed. Great for retro emulation. Sad that I can't find anything like those here. Amazon has their prices jacked up.
BSR - wow!! They made turntables and broadcast equipment back in the day over here in the UK. Given their size, and looking at the wood, I'd suggest those two speakers probably came out of a 60s-70s recording studio, or radio station etc. I'd certainly have taken them home!!
Yep, you'd have to replace the foam. not particularly high quality speakers though, but they sound great for their initial 200-300 pricetag. Not worth the hassle imho. They're from a later period when BSR was taken over by DAK or something, they're not the $$$$$ speakers you'd find in a studio.
@@derkeksinator17 interesting. I didn't know BSR in any other way than the high end British kit... Like so many others, it's just a name now, intellectual property to the highest bidder to make the lowest cost items!
@@derkeksinator17 Yup. I was gonna say - those speakers appeared in a DAK catalog circa 1983. I remember reading about them. @CathodeRayDude, Google "DAK Catalog". Good times! Internet Archive even has a complete 1984 catalog.
@@eDoc2020 I have two of their turntables in a back storage room. One took a tumble down some concrete stairs at the dorm in college, and kept on working, so they're at least tough. That said, the sound quality of their lower-end units like I have is not good. Tons of rumble right out of the box, but I was a poor kid, and used what I could get. Also, at least the ones I have were made in England, and are set up for 50hz electric. We use 60hz here in the USA. Thus, when you play a record, it is actually playing it back slightly faster than intended.
5:40 Switched-On Bach is just warm-fuzzy childhood memories to me. Used to listen to it constantly while building Legos. It's still something that I'll listen to a few times every year. Nice to see other people appreciate it as well!
Excited to see a couple of my donations in the video. I was in recently and was VERY PROUD that a couple of my other donates had made it to *behind the counter status.* Oh yeah.
33:53 THAT CARVER AMP IS A BEAST. I've been looking for one of those for ages... its a huge steal at $200 if its one of the made in japan ones. shit i need to buy a plane ticket to seattle now just to ship home a crate of audio gear from repc.
Whoa! A hub with coax?! Back in 2005 I worked for a small college that still had 10Base-T hubs, with coax links between hubs, still in use. Needless to say I very quickly changed that out.
Oh I recognize those Avioms at 24:42 ! They’re used by studio musicians to customize their in-ear monitor while recording. An engineer can patch in a bunch of channels from ProTools. It’s especially useful if you’re simultaneously recording drums and instruments in separate rooms.
Chances are that cable modem at Salvation Army is an unreturned rental, so even if it’s a DOCSIS version your provider still supports, you wouldn’t be able to activate it since the CM-MAC address would be marked as stolen
4:3 VGA only displays are super useful as a utility for old tech. No need to worry about multiple inputs or resolution incompatibility. I use em all the time for testing 90s to late 00s arcade games with dead CRTs
Gotta love retro technology. At my work, we still use rs232, rs485, and DVD-ram discs. I even acquired a fanless i5 quad core that has 6 physical com ports on them. I asked the tech what they’re going to do with it when they installed the new one. He just dropped it in to the shop trash bin and proceeded to whistle while I worked. Some things just don’t change much at all or it’s obsolete by the time it hits the public.
32:51 omg that logitch wingman joystick, i bought one of those (not exactly this one) a few weeks ago in my local thrift store, really cool lil joystick, it has a motor for each axis and basically emulates spring tension which can be adjusted thru software similar to the dualsense adaptive triggers and has force feedback, there are like 5 games that support it but still really fun (it was 8 bucks ok i had to 😭), also, mine at least uses a 24v power supply and gets hot real fast lmao edit: 33:02 omg another one lmao, that price tho... good luck selling it 💀
20:30 this sent me down a rabbit hole, Serif is the software house behind the Affinity suite (arguably one of the best alternatives to adobe stuff), I had no idea they were around back then
I don't know what it is about the short scene at 5:11 where you throw the cup and miss the garbage can, but I haven't laughed so hard in years. Maybe just the fact that you left it in. Comic genius! Thanks for making me laugh again.
Not familiar with that specific Terratec dongle but a looooooot of those DVB-T dongles can be used in the states for Software Defined Radio. If I'm not mistaken (and this is one of those "I know nothing about it but like to play with it" things) the RTL-SDR dongle that pretty much every ham/radio enthusiast uses started their life as DVB-T dongles.
Years ago ALL the thrift stores in my area more or less stopped carrying electronics. Occasionally they will shelve terrible speakers or grimy peripherals, but clearly with an eye toward items that are "still useful." End of an era. I'm sure they are still getting vintage electronics as donations but they route it all to e-waste now.
The DB9 to RJ-45 adapter is actually kinda useful. I've got a solar power inverter, and it didn't come with the adapter required to wire it up to a serial interface (its serial communication port comes out of an RJ-45 jack).
I'm a sound guy at my church and we use the Aviom mixers. Basically you take the secondary sends from the sound board to the main Aviom hub and those get hooked to the hub with CAT5; then the musicians and singers use them with the headphone monitors to control what they hear in their IEMs on stage.
Youre so right about that Value Village being an excellent one. The Tukwila Goodwill tho has always been garbo, and yet watching this vid I half expected my mother to be in the background somewhere. Somebody's gotta buy the jigsaw puzzles. I haven't felt good walking into a Goodwill up here in years. Are there any interesting ones left in the Seattle area other than like Dearborn and idk maybe Redmond?
Thrifting has sadly been dead to me in my area for some many years now... ever since the semi local Goodwill closed it's dedicated computer center, which was AMAZING... when it existed. Probably lasted up to 6th or 7th gen intel, real time... and had up to 6th or 7th gen intel in it no less, and compatible ram, and everything else... it was literally like going to an old computer show and sale at your local expo mart, back in the day... but all within a goodwill. It was my favorite place to go and just exist, looking around, and being in my happy place. I can't even tell you how many AMAZING machines I'd purchased for $9 or less... HP Probooks with dedicated gpus, 3rd or 4th gen i7qm's in them, IPS calibrated screens, and they were always in PERFECT condition. Along with aisles of ram, cables, fans, heat sinks, video cards, sound cards, misc hardware, monitors, cases, PCs, laptops, projectors, just absolutely everything, all neatly categorized and laid out, with actual modern and expensive(ish) stuff being behind a counter with a dedicated set of employees who dealt said items. At a point I needed DDR3 2933 sticks for a modern machine, and instead of going to amazon or bestbuy, or whatever... I went there, as they had it, and for about 80% less than new. But... as I mentioned before, it all went away... literally ALL gone. Replaced with old lady blouses, pee'd on kids books, and whatever else is usually at a goodwill store. So... no reason to ever go back again. I checked back for a while, but yeah... every single store has been trash since that all went away. The happy place died. . .
Fascinating! I've never seen a walk-through of American thrift stores before - from a tech standpoint too. Here in the UK, we have nothing like this - at least not as "big box" stores like you do. Thanks for sharing ❤
Those DB9 to rj45 adapters are handy for doing rs232 over CATx. Repinning at the adapter would be useful if the Phoenix connectors on the back of a device buried in a faraway equipment rack were difficult to access and you needed to troubleshoot!
WOAH NO WAY. That Akai 8 track deck was mine. I got rid of it because I didn't need it but you're 100% right, the selector lights don't work and the belt had melted right off.
I actually found a pristine copy of Switched on Bach just a couple months ago in an antique store - and for $3 to boot. Don't judge, but I also bought 3 Herb Alpert records at the same time - I actually like both the music from The Tijuana Brass and his later stuff. Also, those Buffalo controllers are actually pretty good, and have the bonus of being one of the lowest latency USB controllers available.
I haven't been to the Tukwila RePC in over a year. Good to see the same stuff and good to see stuff I donated a few lives ago still there as well. It's like coming home to a bunch of crappy friends who haven't showered in years.
About 15 years ago, I found a Silicon Graphics tower at the Salvation Army by the stadiums in downtown Seattle. I didn't buy it, and if I had I don't know what I would have done with it, but I think about it often and hope it ended up with someone who knew how to utilize it.
Speaking of DVB-T tuners, here in Estonia, we have similar palces where we get a whole lot of US stuff like electronic gadgets with US 110V wall plugs, while we use 220v/type F here
I've struck gold at those thrift stores in Tukwila. Specifically that value village and Salvation Army. Found a 144hz IPS gaming monitor made in June 2022 (Found it in December) $8, GTX 980 Core i7 Gaming PC $13, $800 Yamaha V6A Atmos receiver for $40, $1k Focal Atmos Speakers for $30, Even a Hi-Res $1k Sony Soundbar with a Sub $35, Oh the stuff rich people throw away 😂
What the actual hell, that's insane. I'm guessing that's quite a wealthy area combined with store workers that have no idea what anything is worth equals ridiculous bargains. I'm not jealous at all. 😁
I found around 20 HD-DVDs in the Tukwila Salvation Army a few years ago and snagged them all. Such a great place to just stop and look into if your just driving by.
Couple things, I've noticed every thrift store DVD collection has multiple copies of Jerry Maguire. Also, under that 8 track player was a Carver receiver, I'd give that a look with those funky speakers. Thanks for the walk thru.
That Niveus/Edge thing is like the most 2006 hobbyist gamer thing I have ever heard of and I'm shocked at how industrial the case is. Microsoft was really pushing the whole multimedia center thing with Vista and the Xbox 360 has a ton of Windows Media Center gunk built into it so you could basically FTP music off your computer while you played Crackdown. I get all of the input/output on the Niveus but the Edge is baffling as to what it could possibly be used for. Maybe some weird devkit? Expo equipment?
That curved smasnug monitor is the same model I had. It ended up dying a while back but it actually wasn't bad for what it was. Supported gsync and all that fun stuff, but I think the one I had was larger. They were remarkably vibrant in the color department so for 1080p gaming they were great monitors.
You need some "As seen on CZcams!" stickers to put on your gear when you sell it off. Also, 19:54 "The Windows 95 core energy eminating off of this could kill a medieval peasant instantly." is comedy gold.
The Avion system, if you work in the live music industry or are in a band, is super cool. I worked with one a few times and it's fantastic to have each member of a band just do their own monitor mix. Also I can never set fo in a re pc as I do not have the self control to not buy everything I see
Happy Holidays Gravis! I too did some thrifting and found myself a Sony ICF-SW10 radio for $12, a CIB Casio TV-7500 for $2 and not long ago I found a Grundig S350 for $5 and the big score was a working CRT/VHS combo unit by a company called MPO Videotronics, can't find much on it but it's a lovely looking unit with soft round edges.
I bought a used Inkjet printer at that Tukwila Value Village, just because it was a good resolution photo printer for $14 (a Canon MX922), and ink for it is insanely cheap. $20 for a new wireless chip in it, and it's been doing fantastic since.
I'm so mad these types of stores don't really exist where i live. When i need an old computer or audio stuff, i always need to buy overpriced things on my local craigslist. I think y'all Americans should be glad to have those at all, even if they're empty. I WISH i had a store like RE-PC in my area.
Love AVIOM stuff. I live about an hour from their main headquarters. My middle school's A/V system was built entirely around A-Net, and when they tore it all out and upgraded to Dante the year I went to high school, I convinced IT to let me take the equipment to the high school, where I built a system that allowed our theater orchestra to play from the band room behind the theater and have it sent to the FOH mixer over the existing CAT5 patches
Also, Revolabs is still around and still making teleconference devices. My high school bought about 300 USB3 conference speakers from them in 2020 to do hybrid classes
Me and my mate used to go looking at silly stuff like you do in this video. He's gone back home to another country and I miss him. This is giving me a nostalgia hit and it took me a third of the video to figure out why. It's the sort of thing we used to go. Thanks for this video, Merry Christmas, love your content and admire the effort you put into it.
I wish we had thrift stores here in South Africa. I am looking for a few loose components for HiFi, video gear and computer gear: 1) A decent Tuner. 2) A decent Equalizer. 3) A decent Double Cassette Deck. 4) A decent Digital Hi8 Camcorder. 5) A decent Betamax Video Recorder. 6) Lastly, a decent Pentium 4 Desktop Computer with Windows XP installed. Maybe I will get lucky with these in 2024 ! 😊👍👌
Pure video gold right here. Thanks for scratching my thrifting itch. Now I don't have to go and get disappointed in real life for the next several months.
In Lincoln Nebraska, we had a good will that just sold electronics. It was amazing the stuff you could find there. For years is was located in the old telco office. Then, they moved farther south. But, they had the same sort of content! But, sadly, a few years ago they turned into a "normal" goodwill. I don't bother to go there anymore.
I love this. This speaks to the snarky know-it-all in me. I could imagine dragging someone to each of these places on a date and telling them all of this. But we don't have good thrift shops here and lol date no.
The “Realistic” stereo at Goodwill triggered my wayback machine. When I was in college in the late 70s, I worked part-time for RadioShack. In those days we were salespeople who worked mostly on commission, so no one could walk into the store without immediately being pushed to buy something. I used to sell a lot of cassette player/recorders like those. Good times!
That Re-PC place was exactly like a favorite store of mine in Sunnyvale, CA years back called Weird-Stuff. It's long gone but happy to know there is still a place like it in Washington.
I love stores with super on-the-nose names. I remember seeing a billboard for a consignment store called (no lie) Dead People's Stuff as I was driving cross country last year.
That black and red 2 button Gravis joystick that you called out I think was from around 1989, I had one for my XT computer, at the time it was great and really solidly built. So alllmost 35 years old :O
That Niveus EDGE Xbox 360 is exceedingly rare and sought after by Xbox 360 collectors. You could probably fetch a pretty penny for it if you found the right person to sell it to. They run on the blades dashboard as well. I would also like to see the internals of that thing and how it looks.
Was having a bad day today, then this popped up on my feed. Everything got better, well at least for the next 41 minutes. Thanks Gravis. Merry Christmas.
We need to organize a thrift store field trip the week of VCF-MW, maybe the Wednesday/Thursday before. I know at least a dozen within 20 minutes of the hotel (unless they move it). One of them is my ‘super secret’ spot where I find electronics, often.
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That « hey folks », I thought you said that OUTLOUD walking into the Salvation Army. That’s just the sort of energy and vibes you bring to a sally anne.
I thought the same thing, like CRD is a regular and he just sayin hey
@@hydropumper228 oooo… I hate to be the one to tell you, man…
@@graygraygraygraygraygray Gravis is a furry too. And so am I lol
@@SonicBoone56 psst, don’t ruin the silly little mystery I laid here for our friend H. Pumper two hundred and twenty eight!
Why tf is it having furry discussions here I am interested :3
"That goes in the square hole."
I busted out loud laughing and my wife gave be a weird look. Thanks for that!
I love how all the visits keep the footage of you beelining to the Tech section, it really sets the mood of going to a Goodwill and ignoring every aisle except for the one stuffed with iPod docks and the occasional grail
I love it because its the exact opposite of my thrift store trips. I usually ignore that aisle but I love seeing it through the eyes of someone who knows what they’re looking against
The goodwills in my town don't even have electronics anymore
My local goodwills basically have a few alarm clocks, some shit printers, and a bunch of those stupid UVC phone sanitizer things that do nothing but look cool at a distance in a thrift store, then let you down. @@knowledgeablelandon9960
We are not alone in our contempt. Fkn iPod docks. Always got some shitty little super-fine gauge wire coming out of them wrapped around the AC cord and ending in a frayed mess where whatever the fuck bad connector used to be. Maybe it’s where you were supposed to inject the supplementary audio cancer juice. But nobody knows and thankfully they’ll all be in landfill soon, being taunted for all eternity by CRTs. “Difference between you and me is that I was a general purpose example of a useful innovation rather than a poorly executed assemblage of low quality components existing solely to piggyback the popularity of one manufacturers comparatively short-lived hit product”, the CRTs will say. Also this comment got longer than expected and has forced me to accept the deep and complex aesthetic and functional traumas that iPod docks have generated within me.
"Home labers who don't need this many ports and are just doing it for looks" I FEEL CALLED OUT lol
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I have two Juniper 48-port switches sitting on top of my dryer right now. What do I need 96 ports for? Good question! Ask me a different one.
It's not _just_ for looks. There aren't many smaller switches out there which have higher end features.
I hate to say it, i think i would watch an 8 hour video of you going through ALL of re pc.
I hate that i want to watch it, but i also love that i want to watch it.
RE PC doesn't have 8 hours of content unless you wanna sit there and look at a billion useless cables, lol
@@therealelizafoxI mean, Ive never been so I can’t say if you’re right or wrong, but this comment is literally responding in the positive to the video saying they could make an eight hour video on re-pc, and they go there all the time so they’d probably not say that for no reason
i also didnt think i would watch a video CRD produced about a mouse, but i did, and it was good.
So i dont underestimate his ability to ramble tbh. @@therealelizafox
Apply for a job there. 8 hours of content 5 days a week
@@therealelizafox I'd watch someone turning obscure cables into an educated guessing game xD
So I found out what that 8 Candles Trading Outpost thing is: It's a power supply and controller for one of those 'detoxifying' footbath electrodes that makes it look like the detox is working by accelerating corrosion of an iron coil inside and dumping gnarly looking rust into the footbath.
Also: tooge.
Alsos their site is still up but just shows a page with the text: print ''; /** lol **/
Oh, is THAT how that works. Thanks
The Buffalo snes pads are actually really good, they feel like a brand new snes controller and on top of that are known to have the lowest input latency of almost any other usb gamepad!
Seconding this. I own the SNES one and a pair of Famicom style ones. They even fit into the controller resting spots on an actual Famicom.
Indeed, Buffalo is a Japanese electronics manufacturer and there stuff is usually decent.
Yup. They're the best you can get. I guess CRD was more interested in sounding clever by criticizing things he doesn't know anything about. Pity.
Bought two of these for a Raspberry pi emulation station I built for a friend. The controllers are pretty solid. Just as good as a real SNES controller. As far as I know, he hasn't had a problem with them for the 5 years he's used them.
@@gklinger more than likely he was going off of his experience, which is that 99% of knockoff pads are awful. I'll admit to being very surprised when I found out Buffalo SNES pads were really good.
Oh, hey! I was the one who donated that strange, boxed conference phone! I'm pleased to see you're as equally confused as I was when I first discovered it! The assertion that it has wireless microphones is correct, though I know very little else about it. With hindsight of the environment it came from, I suppose the box with USB ports could be a DECT transceiver so the base station can wirelessly sit on a table in the center of a conference room while it communicates with an overhead PA system. But that's just guessing! By the way, you should take a road trip and visit Thurston County thrift stores sometime. Ours are way less picked over by all the turbo nerds in King County, so it's still possible to find reasonably interesting/useful stuff for longer than .2 seconds after it's placed on a shelf. Hope you're back to 100% soon!
it is continuously funny when I post about something and someone goes "oh i dropped that off" hahahaha. god I might go back and buy it just for the laffs
sometimes when i drive down to portland i stop at the various goodwills etc in olympia and thereabouts and i haven't had the best luck; should I be going somewhere other than the goodwills?
@@CathodeRayDudeLacey Value Village on Sleater-Kinney is my goto for tech. They've been pretty consistent at putting out whole computers the past little while; I was able to snag a working iMac G4 for $30 a few weeks ago. I haven't seen stuff like that in King County for over a decade!
@@CathodeRayDude Further down another commenter (@i_have_very_niche_intrests_lol ) was the former owner of the 8-track recorder. I feel like that username could resonate with most of us.
@@eDoc2020 Lmfao you're right I missed that
We have one of those revolabs sets active at our office :). The USB ports are for passing audio over USB to multiple conference PCs/recording audio from the active call.
They haven’t been used as much recently in our office, since everyone uses teams instead of POTS, but nice to have around from time to time as a quick and dirty teams mic setup.
The Niveus Media Center looks interesting. It's a HD TV recorder/media center that cost over $6K in 2005. I'd love to upgrade the motherboard and have a high-end HTPC in an awesome Krell-like metal case.
And you'd have to ditch the TV tuner cards since they're probably analog and can't handle digital ATSC signals.
@@CantankerousDave It comes with 2 analog SD tuners and 2 digital HD tuners for over-the-air HDTV broadcasts.
@@CantankerousDave nope, and that's what makes the Niveus special and also why it can only run Windows Vista. The Niveus - besides being the other major customer for the Seasonic SS-400FL/SS-460FL - is the ONLY manufacturer to have a fully ISF and CableCARD ceritifed system. And this one has the required tuner upgrade, so it supports NTSC/ATSC/ClearQAM and CableCARD.
4:22 I had these Altec Lansing speakers way back in college. They must have had some electrical issue or poor shielding, because they would always somehow pick up the campus FM radio station and play it super creepily below the low level hiss at night. It took me a while to figure out where the creepy midnight jazz was coming from.
We had a TV while I was growing up that was like that. It would always very quietly pick up the local oldies station. Normally you couldn't hear it but between shows and commercials or quiet scenes you could hear it if you were near the TV.
Creepy Midnight Jazz and Faust
You could not have been in a better location to run out of storage space. That drive and adapter probably cost like 30 bucks there lol. It's funny to think that I could bump into you in SoDo or something, I would feel all star struck. Glad to see you up and about posting again. Love your videos!
It did in fact cost about 30 bucks haha. If you see me feel free to say hi!
I love these kinds of videos. Over here in Europe there are almost no thrift stores left. There were some until around 10 years ago, then ebay ate their lunch.
And today the used prices on ebay are almost always higher than new. Even for things you can still buy new. It's a shame.
Over here in Europe? Have you traveled the whole continent searching for thrift stores?
I live in a small city and there are about 5. And there are 20 plus in a 30 mile radius. The fact that there aren't many close to where you live doesn't mean there are almost no thrift stores left in Europe 😂
I mean you both didnt say which country you are in. But I’m gonna add to that conversation that in MY European country I haven’t seen one either
There are 6 stores in my town. I once tried to visit all thrift stores in one day in The Hague (Netherlands), after 15 I gave up.
There were more than 30..
i have no idea what a thrift store would even be called here in slovakia. we do get flea markets and second hand shops but they usually don't have much in the way of tech - second hand specifically are more associated with clothes. wish i knew how to begin looking for them if they even exist though
Yea Netherlands they are rather common, so I would definitely not generalize Europe here.
As for other used products, we have marktplaats which pretty much half the country uses and if you get past the paid adds there is a lot to find there also.
The Brother inkjet you were staring at has a passable A3 scanner which I've found good for scanning magazines without unbinding them. One day I'll get around to removing the pointless printer stuck to the bottom of my scanner.
Huh! Well that's wild.
Ha, lucky it's not an HP, so it can scan without ink
@@michaelthomsen8771 Don't forget to top up your scanner fluid.
The music of Herb Alpert permeates throughout every thrift and charity shop in existence.
it's like a universal law, that if a thrift store exists, there will be a Herb Alpert album in the records section
That Niveus box looks like it would be fun just for the case. I love the giant heat sinks on the sides, I'd probably gut it and try putting a modern motherboard in it (after I got bored playing with as is of course).
Those Aviom devices are designed to allow musicians to control their monitor mix in the shows mixer. A lot of the major mixer makers make such a system, but a lot of shows will just have a dedicated monitor mix engineer. I am not surprised they came out of a church as churches spend a lot more on AV than many places and also tend to lack manpower to have a bunch of audio people running around.
Your channel gave me brain cancer
Avioms are used a lot in theatre. I wish we had them at my main theatre. They require a head interface -- I've never seen exactly how it's all wired up. I'm also not sure if I've ever heard an Aviom sound system sound good. At least as a keyboard player, they usually do some mono summing but everything always just sounds a little cloudy.
@@alextirrellRI True that the sound isn't always great, but I think that might be due to it being a headphone mix and not eq'ed very well. I've played gigs where we had in-ear monitors but we had no control over the mix, so it varied from show to show and sometimes during a show. I would have given anything to have an Aviom mixer on that show.
@@motomike71 Oh of course, I'll take Avioms any day over any other kind of provided headphone mix that you can't control at all. My sad suspicion is that there is something all the audio techs I've used them under is doing wrong in the setup making channels sound worse than they should, that they don't know because they are not the people using the system. They just set it up.
Man id grab those avioms
OMG I actually worked somewhere where they used the RevoLabs conference phone you showed @30:30! You were totally right; the little box guys are remote mics and the center pillar was used for receiving audio. It was as craptastic as you imagine it to be.
Did it require a sacrifice to get it working? "Alas, poor Skippy, I knew him well, a man of infinite jest.....that's why he had to go." :P
And probably cost like $800, just because.
@@Aeduothat’s optimistic
We had an 8 mic system. They were absolutely terrible 😂
My experience with them was that the users would always leave the mics off the charging station and they'd always be flat when they were actually needed. They were the bane of my existence.
Those Buffalo controllers are actually really good. As a matter of fact, I used one regularly until I got my 8BitDo SN30 Pro.
Laying here feeling like I'm going to puke on Christmas, and this video was exactly what I needed. This was the comfy thing I needed right now.
Even without a specific topic I still find your commentary and editing style to be oh so entertaining. Thank you for this.
I had a talk with the owners/managers regarding sticking labels on screens and discs. In my area, they all now put the sticker on the base or back of monitors.
But man, I want that Dell monitor speaker!
This was fun. A lot of the same vibes I got off your California trip video.
Seeing the XBone as an outdated thing, now that was a real gut punch moment.
It was only 3 years ago, but felt like a decade. And I was playing my Xbox360 the other day.
The console generation cadence got a bit weird in the 2000s. We got used to one generation lasting a good 7-8 years where now they release a new console every 3ish years again, except nintendo. I'm glad that architecturally they have kinda settled down. As far as I know, you can play every xbox one/xbox series game on any subsequent xbox, and the same thing with playstations since the 4, since the hardware is still compatible and the software stack isn't so different between each new update.
@@Aeduo It also didn't help that Microsoft chose the most confusing naming conventions since the...Wii-U.
I'm so old that I *still* refer to Xbox360 and PS3 as 'next gen'
@@XanthinZarda Microsoft and confusing naming conventions is basically cannon, they always do that.
Those USB Buffalo Super NES controllers are some of the best non-first party controllers you can find. Japanese made...or at least designed. Great for retro emulation. Sad that I can't find anything like those here. Amazon has their prices jacked up.
BSR - wow!! They made turntables and broadcast equipment back in the day over here in the UK. Given their size, and looking at the wood, I'd suggest those two speakers probably came out of a 60s-70s recording studio, or radio station etc. I'd certainly have taken them home!!
Yep, you'd have to replace the foam. not particularly high quality speakers though, but they sound great for their initial 200-300 pricetag. Not worth the hassle imho. They're from a later period when BSR was taken over by DAK or something, they're not the $$$$$ speakers you'd find in a studio.
@@derkeksinator17 interesting. I didn't know BSR in any other way than the high end British kit... Like so many others, it's just a name now, intellectual property to the highest bidder to make the lowest cost items!
@@derkeksinator17 Yup. I was gonna say - those speakers appeared in a DAK catalog circa 1983. I remember reading about them. @CathodeRayDude, Google "DAK Catalog". Good times! Internet Archive even has a complete 1984 catalog.
@@NiddNetworks High-end kit? I only know them from the cheap record changer mechanism.
@@eDoc2020 I have two of their turntables in a back storage room. One took a tumble down some concrete stairs at the dorm in college, and kept on working, so they're at least tough. That said, the sound quality of their lower-end units like I have is not good. Tons of rumble right out of the box, but I was a poor kid, and used what I could get.
Also, at least the ones I have were made in England, and are set up for 50hz electric. We use 60hz here in the USA. Thus, when you play a record, it is actually playing it back slightly faster than intended.
I needed this tonight. Thanks bro. You can use the good controller
5:40 Switched-On Bach is just warm-fuzzy childhood memories to me. Used to listen to it constantly while building Legos.
It's still something that I'll listen to a few times every year.
Nice to see other people appreciate it as well!
Spot the distinguished discerning listener. Do you wear a monocle by any chance good sir/madam? 😂
@@Cyba_IT No, but I do smoke a pipe, does that count? 🤣
@@oxtcn Yup, that totally counts. 😂Happy NY my good fellow.
@@Cyba_IT And to you too, Sir! 🥳🎉
Excited to see a couple of my donations in the video. I was in recently and was VERY PROUD that a couple of my other donates had made it to *behind the counter status.* Oh yeah.
33:53 THAT CARVER AMP IS A BEAST. I've been looking for one of those for ages... its a huge steal at $200 if its one of the made in japan ones. shit i need to buy a plane ticket to seattle now just to ship home a crate of audio gear from repc.
I'm local and might yoink it, it also caught my eye over the 8 Trac player
Whoa! A hub with coax?!
Back in 2005 I worked for a small college that still had 10Base-T hubs, with coax links between hubs, still in use. Needless to say I very quickly changed that out.
Huh, I didn't expect you to do a thrifting video ever again. This is a pleasant surprise.
Oh I recognize those Avioms at 24:42 ! They’re used by studio musicians to customize their in-ear monitor while recording. An engineer can patch in a bunch of channels from ProTools. It’s especially useful if you’re simultaneously recording drums and instruments in separate rooms.
Standart for "low cost" productions. If budget isent a problem they use a dedicated Monitor Mixer (person) to to theyr inear mixes.
Hahaha, these are the exact 4 stores I tour on a regular basis.
"The windows 95 core energy emanating off of this could kill a medieval peasant instantly"
Incredible quote, 10/10.
How the hell did I miss you in Value Village you walked right behind my red forester.
Your sense of humor is excellent, I could watch an eight-hour Re PC deep dive without pausing
The amount of respect I have for you for nerd-purchasing your way out of a phone storage problem. DUDE.
Chances are that cable modem at Salvation Army is an unreturned rental, so even if it’s a DOCSIS version your provider still supports, you wouldn’t be able to activate it since the CM-MAC address would be marked as stolen
4:3 VGA only displays are super useful as a utility for old tech. No need to worry about multiple inputs or resolution incompatibility. I use em all the time for testing 90s to late 00s arcade games with dead CRTs
Gotta love retro technology. At my work, we still use rs232, rs485, and DVD-ram discs.
I even acquired a fanless i5 quad core that has 6 physical com ports on them. I asked the tech what they’re going to do with it when they installed the new one. He just dropped it in to the shop trash bin and proceeded to whistle while I worked. Some things just don’t change much at all or it’s obsolete by the time it hits the public.
I loved your past thrift store vids! Thanks for keeping up with the vids and I hope you feel better, Gravis!
I bought Switched on Bach on vinyl a few weeks ago. I'm glad you mentioned it because I love it so much.
32:51 omg that logitch wingman joystick, i bought one of those (not exactly this one) a few weeks ago in my local thrift store, really cool lil joystick, it has a motor for each axis and basically emulates spring tension which can be adjusted thru software similar to the dualsense adaptive triggers and has force feedback, there are like 5 games that support it but still really fun (it was 8 bucks ok i had to 😭), also, mine at least uses a 24v power supply and gets hot real fast lmao
edit: 33:02 omg another one lmao, that price tho... good luck selling it 💀
20:30 this sent me down a rabbit hole, Serif is the software house behind the Affinity suite (arguably one of the best alternatives to adobe stuff), I had no idea they were around back then
Last 2 times I went to Goodwill, I came home with 4k monitors. One 27” Samsung and another 32” Dell. It’s crazy!
I don't know what it is about the short scene at 5:11 where you throw the cup and miss the garbage can, but I haven't laughed so hard in years. Maybe just the fact that you left it in. Comic genius! Thanks for making me laugh again.
Not familiar with that specific Terratec dongle but a looooooot of those DVB-T dongles can be used in the states for Software Defined Radio. If I'm not mistaken (and this is one of those "I know nothing about it but like to play with it" things) the RTL-SDR dongle that pretty much every ham/radio enthusiast uses started their life as DVB-T dongles.
Years ago ALL the thrift stores in my area more or less stopped carrying electronics. Occasionally they will shelve terrible speakers or grimy peripherals, but clearly with an eye toward items that are "still useful." End of an era. I'm sure they are still getting vintage electronics as donations but they route it all to e-waste now.
The DB9 to RJ-45 adapter is actually kinda useful. I've got a solar power inverter, and it didn't come with the adapter required to wire it up to a serial interface (its serial communication port comes out of an RJ-45 jack).
Likely a console cable like for a Cisco switch
I'm a sound guy at my church and we use the Aviom mixers. Basically you take the secondary sends from the sound board to the main Aviom hub and those get hooked to the hub with CAT5; then the musicians and singers use them with the headphone monitors to control what they hear in their IEMs on stage.
the new Hub supports dante. and you can even send the mixes back to the hub and out to the dante network (and to wireless inear transmitters).
This was good. I've been on bed rest for a month and this felt like walking around the outside world for a bit.
Youre so right about that Value Village being an excellent one. The Tukwila Goodwill tho has always been garbo, and yet watching this vid I half expected my mother to be in the background somewhere. Somebody's gotta buy the jigsaw puzzles.
I haven't felt good walking into a Goodwill up here in years. Are there any interesting ones left in the Seattle area other than like Dearborn and idk maybe Redmond?
What a fun xmas present. Thank you sir!
Thrifting has sadly been dead to me in my area for some many years now... ever since the semi local Goodwill closed it's dedicated computer center, which was AMAZING... when it existed. Probably lasted up to 6th or 7th gen intel, real time... and had up to 6th or 7th gen intel in it no less, and compatible ram, and everything else... it was literally like going to an old computer show and sale at your local expo mart, back in the day... but all within a goodwill. It was my favorite place to go and just exist, looking around, and being in my happy place. I can't even tell you how many AMAZING machines I'd purchased for $9 or less... HP Probooks with dedicated gpus, 3rd or 4th gen i7qm's in them, IPS calibrated screens, and they were always in PERFECT condition. Along with aisles of ram, cables, fans, heat sinks, video cards, sound cards, misc hardware, monitors, cases, PCs, laptops, projectors, just absolutely everything, all neatly categorized and laid out, with actual modern and expensive(ish) stuff being behind a counter with a dedicated set of employees who dealt said items. At a point I needed DDR3 2933 sticks for a modern machine, and instead of going to amazon or bestbuy, or whatever... I went there, as they had it, and for about 80% less than new. But... as I mentioned before, it all went away... literally ALL gone. Replaced with old lady blouses, pee'd on kids books, and whatever else is usually at a goodwill store. So... no reason to ever go back again. I checked back for a while, but yeah... every single store has been trash since that all went away. The happy place died. . .
I had a boombox with mics back in the 90’s as a kid, i made dozens of hours of not too horrible fake radio station tapes. Ah fun times.
Fascinating! I've never seen a walk-through of American thrift stores before - from a tech standpoint too. Here in the UK, we have nothing like this - at least not as "big box" stores like you do. Thanks for sharing ❤
Those DB9 to rj45 adapters are handy for doing rs232 over CATx. Repinning at the adapter would be useful if the Phoenix connectors on the back of a device buried in a faraway equipment rack were difficult to access and you needed to troubleshoot!
WOAH NO WAY. That Akai 8 track deck was mine. I got rid of it because I didn't need it but you're 100% right, the selector lights don't work and the belt had melted right off.
hahaha i love it. i don't blame you at all I couldn't make room in my life for this either
I actually found a pristine copy of Switched on Bach just a couple months ago in an antique store - and for $3 to boot. Don't judge, but I also bought 3 Herb Alpert records at the same time - I actually like both the music from The Tijuana Brass and his later stuff.
Also, those Buffalo controllers are actually pretty good, and have the bonus of being one of the lowest latency USB controllers available.
I haven't been to the Tukwila RePC in over a year. Good to see the same stuff and good to see stuff I donated a few lives ago still there as well. It's like coming home to a bunch of crappy friends who haven't showered in years.
About 15 years ago, I found a Silicon Graphics tower at the Salvation Army by the stadiums in downtown Seattle. I didn't buy it, and if I had I don't know what I would have done with it, but I think about it often and hope it ended up with someone who knew how to utilize it.
Well I’m in Spokane, our thrift stores are just full of foreman grills and adult diapers…. I’ll take karaoke machines over that 😂
Speaking of DVB-T tuners, here in Estonia, we have similar palces where we get a whole lot of US stuff like electronic gadgets with US 110V wall plugs, while we use 220v/type F here
I've struck gold at those thrift stores in Tukwila. Specifically that value village and Salvation Army. Found a 144hz IPS gaming monitor made in June 2022 (Found it in December) $8, GTX 980 Core i7 Gaming PC $13, $800 Yamaha V6A Atmos receiver for $40, $1k Focal Atmos Speakers for $30, Even a Hi-Res $1k Sony Soundbar with a Sub $35, Oh the stuff rich people throw away 😂
What the actual hell, that's insane. I'm guessing that's quite a wealthy area combined with store workers that have no idea what anything is worth equals ridiculous bargains. I'm not jealous at all. 😁
I found around 20 HD-DVDs in the Tukwila Salvation Army a few years ago and snagged them all. Such a great place to just stop and look into if your just driving by.
Couple things, I've noticed every thrift store DVD collection has multiple copies of Jerry Maguire. Also, under that 8 track player was a Carver receiver, I'd give that a look with those funky speakers. Thanks for the walk thru.
That Niveus/Edge thing is like the most 2006 hobbyist gamer thing I have ever heard of and I'm shocked at how industrial the case is. Microsoft was really pushing the whole multimedia center thing with Vista and the Xbox 360 has a ton of Windows Media Center gunk built into it so you could basically FTP music off your computer while you played Crackdown. I get all of the input/output on the Niveus but the Edge is baffling as to what it could possibly be used for. Maybe some weird devkit? Expo equipment?
That curved smasnug monitor is the same model I had. It ended up dying a while back but it actually wasn't bad for what it was. Supported gsync and all that fun stuff, but I think the one I had was larger. They were remarkably vibrant in the color department so for 1080p gaming they were great monitors.
You need some "As seen on CZcams!" stickers to put on your gear when you sell it off.
Also, 19:54 "The Windows 95 core energy eminating off of this could kill a medieval peasant instantly." is comedy gold.
I thought about it, and then I was like... nah. I just want people to have the stuff if they want it.
Thriftalongs are my favorite videos of yours: stumbling on random tech products to sass on brings out your best! Thank you!!
The Avion system, if you work in the live music industry or are in a band, is super cool. I worked with one a few times and it's fantastic to have each member of a band just do their own monitor mix.
Also I can never set fo in a re pc as I do not have the self control to not buy everything I see
the new Aviom system with Dante support is great.
The goodwills around here won't even accept electronics as donations anymore so there's nadda.
Love thrift stores. Thanks for the tour.
Dude, you're in Washington too! Righteous. Also that Walking Dead compendium in the first case, good stuff.
Happy Holidays Gravis! I too did some thrifting and found myself a Sony ICF-SW10 radio for $12, a CIB Casio TV-7500 for $2 and not long ago I found a Grundig S350 for $5 and the big score was a working CRT/VHS combo unit by a company called MPO Videotronics, can't find much on it but it's a lovely looking unit with soft round edges.
I bought a used Inkjet printer at that Tukwila Value Village, just because it was a good resolution photo printer for $14 (a Canon MX922), and ink for it is insanely cheap. $20 for a new wireless chip in it, and it's been doing fantastic since.
I'm so mad these types of stores don't really exist where i live. When i need an old computer or audio stuff, i always need to buy overpriced things on my local craigslist. I think y'all Americans should be glad to have those at all, even if they're empty.
I WISH i had a store like RE-PC in my area.
Love AVIOM stuff. I live about an hour from their main headquarters. My middle school's A/V system was built entirely around A-Net, and when they tore it all out and upgraded to Dante the year I went to high school, I convinced IT to let me take the equipment to the high school, where I built a system that allowed our theater orchestra to play from the band room behind the theater and have it sent to the FOH mixer over the existing CAT5 patches
Also, Revolabs is still around and still making teleconference devices. My high school bought about 300 USB3 conference speakers from them in 2020 to do hybrid classes
Me and my mate used to go looking at silly stuff like you do in this video. He's gone back home to another country and I miss him. This is giving me a nostalgia hit and it took me a third of the video to figure out why. It's the sort of thing we used to go. Thanks for this video, Merry Christmas, love your content and admire the effort you put into it.
"Here bro, here's your controller"™®©🎮
I wish we had thrift stores here in South Africa. I am looking for a few loose components for HiFi, video gear and computer gear:
1) A decent Tuner.
2) A decent Equalizer.
3) A decent Double Cassette Deck.
4) A decent Digital Hi8 Camcorder.
5) A decent Betamax Video Recorder.
6) Lastly, a decent Pentium 4 Desktop Computer with Windows XP installed.
Maybe I will get lucky with these in 2024 !
😊👍👌
Pure video gold right here. Thanks for scratching my thrifting itch. Now I don't have to go and get disappointed in real life for the next several months.
Had an appendectomy when I was young. Glad you pulled thru. I have similar interest to yours innthis vid. Love looking around at old tech.
In Lincoln Nebraska, we had a good will that just sold electronics. It was amazing the stuff you could find there. For years is was located in the old telco office. Then, they moved farther south. But, they had the same sort of content!
But, sadly, a few years ago they turned into a "normal" goodwill.
I don't bother to go there anymore.
I love this. This speaks to the snarky know-it-all in me. I could imagine dragging someone to each of these places on a date and telling them all of this. But we don't have good thrift shops here and lol date no.
I love these thrift store videos! It's been a while, so it's good to see another one again!
wow that niveus media center thing is a crazy find, ive been looking for something like that for along time
The “Realistic” stereo at Goodwill triggered my wayback machine. When I was in college in the late 70s, I worked part-time for RadioShack. In those days we were salespeople who worked mostly on commission, so no one could walk into the store without immediately being pushed to buy something. I used to sell a lot of cassette player/recorders like those. Good times!
35:58 thanks for sharing the vista product key for us 😂
That Re-PC place was exactly like a favorite store of mine in Sunnyvale, CA years back called Weird-Stuff. It's long gone but happy to know there is still a place like it in Washington.
I love stores with super on-the-nose names. I remember seeing a billboard for a consignment store called (no lie) Dead People's Stuff as I was driving cross country last year.
Great vid! Feel better and thanks for still putting out a banger.
Oh my God, I wish I was close enough to try to make a pass at that Windows Vista / Xbox 360 media center thing. That tickles all of my fancy
That black and red 2 button Gravis joystick that you called out I think was from around 1989, I had one for my XT computer, at the time it was great and really solidly built. So alllmost 35 years old :O
I hope you're healing well and I greatly appreciate your posting something fun for us to watch on Christmas! Be well!
27:40 really cool very old CRT console TV- probably tubes and black and white! I would take that one.
Love these kind of videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a great year ahead
That Niveus EDGE Xbox 360 is exceedingly rare and sought after by Xbox 360 collectors. You could probably fetch a pretty penny for it if you found the right person to sell it to. They run on the blades dashboard as well. I would also like to see the internals of that thing and how it looks.
13:08
I'd be that someone if I came across that bag at the thrift store. I pinned hundreds of those over the past year.
Was having a bad day today, then this popped up on my feed. Everything got better, well at least for the next 41 minutes. Thanks Gravis. Merry Christmas.
We need to organize a thrift store field trip the week of VCF-MW, maybe the Wednesday/Thursday before. I know at least a dozen within 20 minutes of the hotel (unless they move it). One of them is my ‘super secret’ spot where I find electronics, often.
Oh this thing seems like it'll be junk *sees coin collection port* I WANT IT
5:55 hahahahah my mom LOVES herb alpert and literally gave me the christmas album today as a christmas gift
Shhhh..... don't tell anyone else my mom also digs old Herb Alpert LPs or else those albums will go viral!