cathoderaydude

Project updates

Hi everyone! I have new things in the pipeline.

Almost all the projects from my last update post have turned into disasters due to things not working as expected or me not being able to find parts I needed or just the complexity of the topic exceeding my ability to explain it concisely.

At the moment, I have these things in the hopper:

- How did the earliest modems work... and why have we been using them for 60 years?!

- Incredibly early network-enabled camcorders! &nb...

Bonus video: AV3400 sync signals

https://youtu.be/FhQEBkIIY-M

Here's a deleted scene from my video about the Sony open reel recorder.

Video: Sony's 1969 "Camcorder?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yddRRExWEvs

Finished this up and decided it had been too long since my last video to early-access it, I just wanted it done and out. Enjoy!

Junk Stores #7

https://youtu.be/6EjbmwajSr8

I actually made it out to the junk stores again. Not the most incredible haul, but here's hoping in a couple months things will look better in a lot of ways.

Patreon Q&A #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJsvE2TvNA

I answered questions from you, my patrons! Now I will show those answers to the world!

Q&A? (poll!)

I have no idea how people organize patron Q&A videos. If I did one, would you have questions to ask? If you have one handy, post it below and if I get enough I'll do a video.

Edit: the questions I've gotten so far are pretty dope. send me a few more and I'll do a video answering em!

Project updates

I'm really bad about actually posting Patron Content and need to get better - I promised Updates of some kind. Here are updates.

Videos in the pipeline, probably roughly in order of production:

- How did professional VCRs accept multiple sizes of tape??

- HD analog video on WVHS!

- Open-reel Sony videotape recorder

- IBM Personal Science Laboratory, complete with Actual Science

I don't know if I posted the rough cut of my Video Switcher video on here or onl...

Mail Call 11: May 1st, 2021

https://youtu.be/L4BYTg242aU

Mail Call 10: April 30th 2021

https://youtu.be/C5ILu1l7bIg

Video: Mormon Streambox

https://youtu.be/HJxcv2ZFs20

This one's kinda tepid if you ask me but hey, I bought the thing with patreon money, gotta at least show everyone what it was.

Video: Infolithium to Infolithium Adapter

https://youtu.be/HSJJ_PzZ6UY

No no no trust me I thought about it before I got out the dremel don't unsubs-

Video: Beginning the Eduquest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXBZW9JNKgQ

Just a basic unscripted bench video since I haven't figured out what story I want to tell about this yet.

Mail Call 9: April 14th, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY8ShYMCvns

That's the last of the backlogged ones.

Mail Call #8: March 23, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLqB8g0auUk

Like I said, I shot these and just never released them. Here's one.

New video: Cleaning a Model M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpPd9Nh398

It's 4/20 so i'm rushing this out in case anyone wants to get blazed and watch me scrub a dirty keyboard.

Video's, Tier's

I've had a rough couple months for reasons I can't fully encapsulate - 2021 has been a weird, weird, weird, weird year, much weirder than 2020. Can't give any further detail than that because I just don't know what it is about it, but I've just felt so strange the last few months. Not doing BADLY, just... weird.

Consequently I uh, shot four videos and just forgot to edit and post them? Like, I knew I'd recorded them but just had zero motivation to edit and upload, and eventually started...

Mail Call #7: March 18 2021

https://youtu.be/XEOfgbf5IJE

Apparently I just forgot to share this? This camera showed up in a public video already but there's more detail in here so here it is anyway haha. I found out I forgot to post two mail call videos. Had a rough couple months.

Video Premiere tomorrow

lol I'm gonna try doing a youtube video premiere let's see how THIS goes. 1pm pacific

New video: Disc Camcorders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF91MsWs534&feature=youtu.be

I THINK this is the final draft. Will probably release later tonight, I'm way overdue for a new video. Good luck.

the struggle is absolutely real

i have written over 10,000 words about disc based camcorders and not a single one has yet been expended on the xdcam beast which is gonna take up a chunk of time all on its own. you cannot imagine how hard it is to make this stuff concise

New video: You Coulda Just Faxed From Your PC (Since 1995)

A friend reminded me that people normally post *all* their work to their Patreon, not just their patron-only stuff. Oh right! Especially since youtube's notifications suck!

Hey everyone this is the beginning of Fax February, which was supposed to start in February but was interrupted. It is now Fax February until I say otherwise, which beats the hell out of the Eternal 2016 that just ended.

Mail Call #6: March 16 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTv7JR9g-JE

Still working hard on my next main channel video, but I've gotten some mail!

Windows fax video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szjE6qz05HM

this is an *unfinished video.* i left out the graphics for the latter 1/3 or so because i just couldn't get myself to work on it.

I made this whole video before my big trip in february and I absolutely hate it. I don't know why but it just seems boring and open ended and aaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hope you enjoy maybe i'll finish it and release it ...

How It's Made: Cathode Ray Dudes

This is what it often looks like in my "studio"

Outtake

I was rehearsing a complex manual sequence for the beginning of a video and just as I nailed the fifth take the breaker popped

Mail Call 5 addendum

I took another couple minutes to try to get this thing working today and did, so I wanted to show you basically what it does.

Mail Call #5: March 6 2021 + Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTh8SDeOOA

Kind of a short one because I hurt my neck and it was starting to get real sore. Got some cool gear in the mail. Also just some updates about Where I'm At.

Gone and back again

Hey everyone, I haven't uploaded in two weeks because I had to go on a  long trip to deal with family business all of a sudden and didn't have  anything ready. I'm back but it was an exhausting ordeal, so I don't  know if I'll have anything out next week. Just wanted to let you all  know!

Early access: Norton's Desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7AezjG5YE

This is a review of Norton Desktop 3.0, which is by far the fastest-produced and most grueling "essay" type video I've ever produced. Let me know what you think!

New video: HP Omnishare

https://youtu.be/-Ncp10mIezE

Got a maybe-one-of-a-kind device recently that looked incredibly interesting. Is it? Click above to find out!