Cathode Ray Dude [CRD]

I am an adult now, I can finally do the thing I always wanted to do, and it cost me five dollars. A couple notes about this: Keep in mind that I couldn't exactly reshoot, for obvious reasons, so that's why the narration or pacing might feel off. I also don't think this result is typical of any modern hard drive, but I wasn't going to destroy a 2TB just to figure out what that sounds like.

This is a basic documentary video of me locating and replacing a failed RAM chip in an Apple IIc, in which I make a number of gruesome mistakes but ultimately am triumphant. I recommend not attempting this kind of project unless you're experienced at soldering, have removed ICs before, and have watched a bunch of videos about repairing 80s computers, because there are plenty of pitfalls; these machines are very fragile. I turned the camera off for the trace repair process because I was frustrated and needed to concentrate, but it's about like you'd expect - I stripped a tiny piece of wire, bent it, dropped it into the holes, then pressed the new socket in so it traps the wire ends in the through-holes. The only detail that isn't visible is that the other end of the lower bodge wire had no available hole to drop into, so I had to wrap it around the appropriate leg of the neighboring IC. I *did* run a RAM test with the lower trace missing (it took me four tries to get the trace repair

This video is about a project I undertook to make an easy way for anyone to convert an NES gamepad to work on the PC Engine, since the PCE has a really detestable controller if you ask me. The parts are available inexpensively on Oshpark and Digikey and you can perform this mod yourself for less than $10. I believe this mod will work on the Turbografx-16 if you just use a full-size DIN-8 instead of a mini-DIN-8 cable; the pinouts appear to be identical, but attempt this at your own risk. Let me know if you try it and it works! If anyone is interested in a video about how to design the circuit and board, let me know and I'll put one together. If anyone's interested in a variant with turbo, I'd be willing to look into it but would appreciate a few bucks to cover R&D. My head showed up in a few shots unfortunately, and there are a couple steps I had to cut because the footage was entirely head-focused. I hope it doesn't disrupt things too much!

In this essay I will tell you about 15-30 years of home video history that you have never heard about from anyone, anywhere. It covers entire categories of technology you never knew existed, and completely defies the most common conceptions about what happened when in the history of consumer videotape. You will link this video to other people during conversations. I made it for that. This is the work of several years of investigation, research, and about 1200 source files culled from Google Books, Youtube, Pinterest, and dead eBay listings. I have cried over this project, I have started from scratch five times, I have put it down for a year and a half and picked it back up, I have wondered if people would find the unfinished project on my hard drive after I departed this mortal coil. But here I am, posting it, against all probabilities. This is because the amount of ground covered is immense. There's thirty years of history in this video; I am summarizing a lot. I am ignoring certai

In which I obtain a completely unsuspecting video camera for $40 which includes an incredibly rare cathode ray tube technology that almost nobody knows exists. Fun! Prizes! A bad picture! For more information about this technology you can't do better than this blog: https://visions4netjournal.com/indext... REGARDING THE WHINING NOISE: I am so sorry! I did run a filter which I thought had removed it, but apparently I'm no longer sensitive to the higher components of the CRT whine. I will do better in the future. I recommend you don't scrape all the indextron tubes off of ebay unless you intend to make your own videos; they're rare as hell and largely unpreserved.

I've been collecting professional video cameras for years, meaning to make a video about them sooner or later. I realized they aren't that big a topic individually, so I figured I'd do a quick and dirty run-through of the whole collection, minus the red JVC camera, which I did a more in-depth review of in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQd_... Someone pointed out that the Panasonic here isn't a DVCPRO machine, just full size DV. Whoooops. I swear, I thought I had read in the manual that it was DVCPRO! My other remarks on the format are largely still accurate as far as I know.

In this video I expound on some absolute speculation about the motivations behind the design of a little camcorder from 1993. Am I right? Am I just making up fantasies? Nah, I'm probably right.

I needed to modify one of my cameras, and there's no part of these that isn't worth at least ten minutes of consideration. Included a little bit of sample footage from my Panasonic AG-DVC200 from it's maiden voyage outside the home.

If you've ever wanted to try out dialup, or have a need (there are plenty, believe it or not) to make a dialup connection, you don't need a phone line or any monthly fees to do it! You can get this gadget on eBay for thirty bucks, spend about fifteen minutes configuring it, and any pair of modems (or anything else) will be able to talk through it. The rest is up to you.

Hands down, this is the strangest flash memory format ever created, but it was created for very good reasons - just much, much earlier than it had any right to exist. Merry Christmas! FYI, I didn't include much test footage because this video is meant to be about P2, not the camera - I just couldn't demonstrate much about P2 *without* the camera, so I kept it down to the absolute minimum, the features that would only show up because P2 was in use. Support my channel: https://patreon.com/cathoderaydude https://ko-fi.com/cathoderaydude 00:00 Intro 01:38 Flash history 04:33 Comparison to videotape 08:50 Overview of camera/card 10:28 Cost/capacity 11:38 P2-specific features 19:52 P2 teardown 24:58 Proxy video appendix 26:53 Conclusion