LGR Thrifts - Episode 35

Those stringed golf balls are homemade Thumb chucks

I have a IBM ThinkPad 500 from 1993

the rgb switcher should come really in handy and if not for you for some of cour collegues. Because especially switching tons of consoles it is always a pain to swithc them with quality.

Ezydenias

Same here - I had Pac Man and Frogger. I remember how annoying the sound was - it used to drive my parents crazy.

Jason Dupree

These are so dang relaxing Clint! Thanks for taking us along with you.

Jason Dupree

the dangly golf balls on a rope are for a game called ladderball which is fun because it feels like you're throwing a bolo... bola... bolas... whatever they're called

Peter Metzger

Yass!!!! :D

floverSaeu09

Great old album of trance :D

StigDesign1

I saw the same Polaroid Spectra AF in my local Value Village with box and everything, however I am in Canada so... neat!

Andre Pothier

great video !!!

I believe that keyboard was from the Sony vaio from about 2002. I had one that was more blueish in color. You can see the notch for the hand rest on the edge of the keyboard. It would be a neat Idea to go over these pc's. They came with very useful bundled software and had its own matching mouse, speakers and monitor. I never had the monitor, I purchased it at Best buy in 2002 at a discount since it was a display model.

do you any of the PS/2 ports on your old computers?

My all time favourite space shooter was Decent Freespace, the follow up to the original Decent's. If you need a copy to review I can fly one over from Australia!

Dude! I owned that Sony VAIO keyboard, and the VAIO desktop! I would totally send you a picture of the machine, but it's in my Mother's attic, and I'm on vacation. If you want to know though; it was on two Sony VAIO desktop models that a local Staples had in 2002, it had a Pentium 4 @ 1.8ghz and 512MB of RAM. I'll send you a tweet if I ever get my hands on it again!

Ian Guebert

Oh that Sony keyboard looks suspiciously like it went with the Vaio my family had when I was younger. Specifically this lovely model, <a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005T3JG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005T3JG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg</a> That's the "PCV-RX560" but they had a bunch that looked the same with different guts. Ours was an early Pentium 4 with RDRAM and Windows ME. It was awful!

JennaKay

I had an intense joygasm seeing that mini Pac-Man unit. That was actually my first experience playing Pac-Man (at a wee five years old), having never played the arcade unit till many years later.

The Enforcer

Typically they're donated to friends or right back to Goodwill

LGR

Thank you! And I've never stopped using the camera glasses, and you can see them in quite a number of the shots in this episode. I also use other cameras, just whatever I have on me at the time

LGR

Oh, that switcher looks like a powerful beast indeed (which ain't a surprise knowing who it was built by). Great score on the tabletop Pac-Man… especially knowing other retro peeps talking about them going for ridiculous prices elsewhere.

Rob Caporetto

Awesome video clint, always love the Thrifts episodes! Question, do you nolonger use the video camera glasses that you used to use in the older episodes?

Douglas Beck

What do you do with the boxes you replace? I've always been curious if they're discarded or passed-on down to someone else's collection.

avfusion

Awesome to see that DJ Ferry Corsten CD and that Eiffel 65 tape. Makes me all nostalgic. Plenty of food for future LGR videos too.

Alyxx the Rat

Wow that Prodigy starter kit really takes me back - my first ever online experience was logging into Prodigy with the integrated 2400 baud modem on our brand new IBM PS/1 (1mb of RAM and 30 MB hard drive!!) back in the late 80s. Blew my 10 year old mind. Your videos really make me want to go thrifting here in DC metro. Thanks for another great vid!

Joon Choi

I was sitting in my garage listening to the rain thinking to myself. I wish there was some lgr to watch . Because It was raining when I started watching thrifts long ago. As it was for you. Then BAM ! NEW OUR THRIFTS!

Thank you sir, made my day :)

A new Thrifts always makes my day. I still need to make a Twitter account so I can send you all my thrifting finds.

Thrifts is always fun for me :)

LGR

You had way too much fun making this particular episode didn't you? XD great episode man and awesome finds! I need to get back into thrifting soon!

Marcus Zertuche

Ha! Didn't even notice that.

LGR

Ohhhhhhhh well alrighty then!

LGR

Thank you, I'm happy to hear it!

LGR

That Eiffel 65 cassette was actually Metallica!

moosemaimer

I very much enjoy these episodes. It's such a simple concept that just works really well.

Techmoan

The golf balls on a string are for "Hillbilly Golf", a simple yard game I've played at family get togethers. <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Hillbilly-Golf/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.instructables.com/id/Hillbilly-Golf/</a>

Tanner Schultz

Depends entirely on the typewriter. Sounds like you're referring to a mechanical frontstriking typewriter, and yes the typebars will get stuck if you type too fast with certain characters. That is why machines that fixed this issues, such as electric spherical element typewriters like the IBM Selectric, proved so successful in business :)

LGR

Oh and by the way, is it normal for typewriter 'arms' to always bunch up if you press more than one key at once? Tried a few typewriters in thrift stores before but that always happens. If it's standard behavior, how in the world did people manage to type fast on those things?

Cool! My thrift find made it into the outro. :) Saw a few cool things myself today. Like a old cash register from before the Euro was a thing, all mechanical with levers you need to pull to select the numbers. And a ZX Spectrum look alike (at least in terms of the keyboard). It was meant to add titles to VHS tapes or something like that. One thing I rarely find over here is cartridge games and really old computers. Like someone else said, I'm afraid most of those old computers got recycled here in the Netherlands. Dang it, I really wanna find something like a Commodore some day for a really good price. :P

Should have gotten the keyboard. The joke would surely have been worth it. xD

BastetFurry

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

LGR

Man I love Thrifts mostly because where I'm from (Malaysia), we don't have computer/computer software that survive from the 80's-90's since most of them ended up straight in garbage bins/recycling centre. So its kinda cool still seeing these old software ended up in thrift store for sale.

Wallace Fung Wooh Sheen

Oh you're online. Hello! Thank you for hours of entertainment. Unfortunately I tried thrifting across Melbourne, Australia and there was *nothing*.

Adam Baxter

I sure used to! Still do when the mood strikes

LGR

It's something I found in June, you didn't contact me until I'd owned it almost two months :)

LGR

Didn't know you listened to Trance!

Adam Baxter

I like how the thumbnail is something I found just days ago and asked you if you wanted it.

steinaech