Hello my patrons! Next up on the second channel, a decidedly not "mini mail call" episode. Note the chapter marks if you want to skip ahead.
Jan from the Netherlands sent in a whole bunch of ...
2025-08-14 19:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! When I first looked at the Zenith ZT-1 terminal, I never expected to need FOUR parts to get this thing working. I figured it would be a quick fix and I could demonstrate the termi...
2025-08-13 21:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the second channel I'm trying to get back to chipping away at the incoming mail call packages. As you can see in the thumbnail, one of the items is a core memory module...
2025-08-12 00:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! While waiting for stuff to arrive in the mail for the Zenith ZT-1, I decided to take a side quest and figure out why this new clear CD released by the artist Lourde has so many re...
2025-08-05 21:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Ah it's Monday and I'm trying to get through my insanely long to-do list. It's funny how it's nearly lunchtime and I've haven't done anything when it comes to making videos. If on...
2025-08-04 18:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! The Zenith ZT-1 continues to kick my butt. We're now up to part 3 -- and it's time to do two things: See why the video is glitching and seemed to be cut off, and then dig into why...
2025-07-31 01:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the second channel we have a change of pace.... I found this old discarded CD player and decided to see if I could get it working. I'm not big into old audio gear, but ...
2025-07-29 00:07:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons, here is part 2 of the Zenith ZT-1 series where I actually get this machine to show signs of life. Getting to that part required breaking out tools I don't even normally use: my lo...
2025-07-24 20:05:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! It's time for another SMMC episode on the second channel, and this time we have more Apple II stuff, even though it all came from a different viewer. One of the special cards here...
2025-07-21 23:48:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the main channel we have a real curiosity. This is the Zenith ZT-1, which was the proverbial "Web TV" of 1981/1982. This simple device was designed to be an inexpensive...
2025-07-15 17:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! I'm going to be doing some SMMC episodes for a while on the second channel, the backlog is getting big again, so I need to really start to chip away at it. In this episode we have...
2025-07-13 17:37:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons, it's time for another classic Macintosh repair. We're looking at the Mac Plus I briefly showed off in last week's video. It seems to be dead with a clicking power supply. You'll s...
2025-07-08 00:46:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! It's a long weekend here in the United States so if you are bored and stuck hanging out with family, perhaps this video will be a bit of a diversion. :-)
It's a "wrap-up" f...
2025-07-05 19:28:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! So a follow-up from the Trash-Picked TV video on the main channel, I tried polishing out the scratches on that TV. If I ruined the TV, I didn't really care so this was perfect thi...
2025-06-30 21:37:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the main channel I've moved to the 16bit era with a sad Mac 512k. There's nothing too complex about this repair, but it was a fun diversion and a fun exercise to think ...
2025-06-30 21:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the main channel we have a trash-picked CRT television that I found on the side of the road. Wet and muddy, I just couldn't resist bringing it home to see if it worked....
2025-06-26 01:45:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! I'm back from VCF Southwest in Dallas. It's nice to be back in normal temps again! (I'm not used to the humidity and oppressive heat in Texas.) Thank you to everyone who managed t...
2025-06-24 18:25:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons, the Atari 8-bit repairs keep coming! This is the last one though as, if you saw my second channel video testing them, almost all of them worked perfectly. This one presents as tot...
2025-06-17 05:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! It's crunch time leading up to VCF in Dallas this coming weekend, so I'm trying to wrap up some video and post early access here.
I haven't been doing any SMMC videos lately...
2025-06-17 04:51:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Let's continue with the Atari content with a busted up Atari 400 that is giving us garbled screen.
This is the repair video that I asked about in the "Video Length" poll. Th...
2025-06-12 00:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! On a recent second channel video I looked at all of my Atari 8-bit computers looking for broken ones. This 1200XL had some minor issues along with some mysterious mods. In this vi...
2025-06-06 06:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the main channel we have a repair of the somewhat rare Commodore 1551 disk drive for the TED/C16/Plus4 based Commodores. This drive was recently shown on a second chann...
2025-06-04 20:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Let the mods begin on the Philips monitors that I recently featured on the main channel. In this video I go over how I did a super simple mod to disable the silly "Green Only" mod...
2025-05-31 00:29:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Thanks to friend of the channel Mike, I recently ended up with a whole bunch of monitors (of unknown condition.) Two of them were these Philips Magnavox monitors that while lookin...
2025-05-27 18:25:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello my patrons! Next up on the second channel: I'm on the hunt for a broken Atari 8-bit computer. I gathered them up and made a chill video where I test them all up to see if even a single one is...
2025-05-21 23:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! It's time for a quick follow-up on the Dolch PAC-62 iPad 3 screen replacement. I have many many suggestions to try out a video card with a digital video interface and see if that ...
2025-05-20 00:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Next up on the main channel we have some old school analog telephony. This (unfortunately) isn't anything like you would get from the Connections Museum, but I bring a tiny bit of...
2025-05-19 00:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Well look at this, I managed to post this SMMC episode with less than 24 hours before it goes live. I will eventually catch up :-) This is a "shorter" episode than normal, but we ...
2025-05-13 22:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! I hope everyone in the northern hemisphere is enjoying some nice springtime weather. I've been getting out to enjoy it as things are so nice in Portland right now. That doesn't me...
2025-05-12 21:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons! Wow, it's been a whirlwind week. I had a very old friend visiting me in Portland for 7 days, so I took a "mini" vacation from the channels so we could hang out and I could show hi...
2025-05-08 17:15:22 +0000 UTC View Post