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Well done to the editor of this trailer, for elevating the excitement of this topic. It really deserves it, and we rarely get it in Australia - we're far too modest. But we're used to the Americans doing this for themselves, and that's why they build their own legends. Up close, it gets a bit much, especially for Aussies who like to keep it real - we're good at that. But when telling a story, you have to glorify it. Because it truly has glory! We can't let any era slip out of living memory if it's this good.

They took a lot of b-roll at the Australian Computer Museum in Sydney, at 0:23 you can see my Amstrad CPC with a custom twin arcade stick controller on the left of shot!

Looks awesome! can't wait!

can't wait. Personally i think you should sell it to netflix - would be a hit...but I'll happily watch on your channel

I would disagree - I think we are in a renaissance of electronics hardware. A lot of this has definitely been brought about from microcontrollers like Arduino / BBC Micro:bit and SOC devices like Raspberry Pi. Also there is a huge community of makers on RUclips building amazing devices which are really inspirational - just look at the propulsive model rocket landing series from BPS Space for a great example! People are not building simple projects - like a radio, but more things like battle bots. Whilst knowing how to solder is definitely useful, it isn't the prime goal - getting the project running is. So using connectors like Grove / Stemma QT definitely isn't cheating. And if you want to build your own PCB's there are many companies you can send your design to - like PCBway - where they can do the boring parts. I do appreciate that Jaycar still sells parts, but the markup is often extreme! It would have been good to talk with the management from Core Electronics in Newcastle - they seem to be doing OK - especially with online sales.

Now where did I put that Microbee ? I know ! It's stored in the box with the Dick Smith System 80 next to my old Commodore 64. Great times. Looking forward to this one

Id hope the talk about about the 'Green Machine' Swinburn University super computer in 2000, it was in top 100 word wide, now upgraded twice to gStar and now 2023 OzStar, primarily used for astrophysics research i believe. There was a major change in design philosophy as the whole industry also changed.

oooo how exciting

Ah... fond memories! Who in Australia *didn't* build a Dick Smith kit. Mine was the Electronics Australia Signetics 2650 system with PIPBUG and a 1MHz clock speed with TTY interface. Most of the code I wrote was hand-assembled into hex and then laboriously keyed in using a keboard with attrociously bad keybounce. Happy days!

Wow. This is really going to be awesome. Looking forward to it!

Looking forward ..........

Awesome 😎👍

Looking forward to this but please that music is way over the top for this topic. It isn't a murder mystery thriller.

1:36 - I've been in that office. Gary was my boss for a while Legend RIP x

I see hes' got some VIFA speakers there

I am so here for this! I would love to see some sample code for the CSIRAC btw. I hear that all the instructions were moves, which would make it pretty unique. Hope you are going to cover John Lyons and seL4!

So Awesome - so many memories

This is going to be great if it's anything like your previous work!

soooooo cant wait!!!

Thanks for all the work you have put into this. Looking forward to watching.

I grew up in the age of the transistor/IC . completed Electroncs Trades then moved to computers with my Microprocessors extentions. I fixed all the microbees, board level stuff along with all the Apple computers. Wrote my own code for Z80 PC's and am still looking after networks systems and computers today. just love riminising over the old tech. Thankyou! looking forward to it..

Yay! Finally a mention of the Dick Smith Suoer 80! It changed life and trajectory. Super 80 was originally called the Nova 80 buy tricky Dick had to change the name.

Good to see you back :)

That looks SOOOOOOOO good, I can't wait!!!!!!

Great Stuff. Love it!

Looks good. Love the production

Love it. Great job. Wow.

back from the dead!

Amazing!!!

Wow, looking forward to this even more now. Great to see my friend Kim along with so many other Aussie computing ledgends :D

simply brilliant! well done. Looking forward to the series.

I hope you are going to include analogue computers. Eg the valve one at GAF that was used well into the 1970's for aerodynamic calculations.

Outstanding - can't wait :)

What happened to the channel?

I went to the Waitara showroom in early 1982 and put my name on a waitling list to buy a MicroBee. Owen Hill himself wrote my name in the book. They haven't called me yet. Actually I ended up buying one (in kit form) by mail order a few months later. It was a great machine.

Everything Doug spoke about was what i went through in my early days… i’ll be taking a degree in electrical and electronics engineering soon.

Hydrogen and mercury thyratrons, door knob HV capacitors, 18" long xenon flash tubes, x-ray power supply, Spelman HV supplies, 3 meter FM pirate radio exciters, RF amplifiers, homemade transmission line filters, obscure Industrial and Gothic CDs, Classical and Jazz CDs, S&M and black leather toys all lost to storage warriors like pearls before swine.

I don't know if I should be angry at you or make you my favorite utoob channel.

Yeah I could buy it online if I had a credit card and a paypal account. There are no brick and mortar shops in South Eastern Michigan.

I tried to change with the times. Too many things changed. Too many investors tried to rip me off instead of investing in marketing my idea. I had banana boxes with all kinds of parts that I got at pennies on the dollar. Plates, rods and tubes of aluminum and steel, resistors, capacitors, series trigger transformers, lasers, RF amplifiers, KT88 tube audio amplifiers... All liquidated. I can never recoup what I had. I used to repurpose things and solve people's problems. Some people called me a hoarder but I had the parts on hand to build the project at 3 AM even if I didn't have the money. I also usually gave away the finished product so I was not a hoarder. You need real estate to store all of this stuff. When you become homeless, a lot of people come around to "help" you. They have ideas on how they can haul away all of your stuff to the metal recyclers after they have picked through it. Thieves, tweakers, recyclers and landlords, they are all vultures. Let's scrub the land of all of the old cars up on cinder blocks. Let's make everything pretty and sterile. Let's all support capitalism and buy it instead of making it. I know that I sound like an old man shouting at the clouds. It might be my own damn fault for not rolling with the changes but I have untreated ADHD and have too many coping mechanisms. I'm also pretty naive and let too many people take advantage of me. Thanx for listening. I've vented enough for now.

I used to work at and buy from a surplus company in California called Halted (started by Hal and Ted. You could buy discreet components as well as surface mount by cutting them off of a reel. I owned a stereo zoom microscope and a hot air pencil. After a while Radio Shack closed, so did Halted, so did Weird Stuff. You could buy stuff mail order but you needed a credit card and a paypal account. I got old. I moved back to Michigan and got COVID, went into a coma and almost woke up dead. Things have changed. I was at ground zero and didn't realize it. I lost my collection of parts to storage locker laws and storage war mentality. I would love to continue to invent and make but have lost my spark, not to mention my ability to walk.

Meh, kids today don't have hobbies. They just want to make Tiktoks or become a programmer, coding some stupid flappy bird phone app. Honestly, SMD is not as big of a hindrance as this video makes it seem. Then again, I started out using surface mount so I'm biased. Through hole on a bread board is still convenient and still accessible. People have just lost interest. They're too busy with the shiny new thing, the "iPhone 98S plus max" or whatever it is now.

I would say it is better than ever. I can have any component or tool I want for dirt cheap from AliExpress. Devboards, toolchains, MCUs are all available to the public for peanuts. $5 protoytype boards, 3D printers. I don't long after the days of Radio Shack catalogs AT ALL.

12 mins of my life watching this, I LOVED IT ! BIG Thumbs up !

Repairing electronics or creating our own equipment is difficult to rationalize when we can buy something ready made from China for less than our cost of components. Hobbyists may have limited access to brick and mortar electronic stores which might have been sources of inspiration for previous generations BUT they do have unlimited access via the internet - both for incredibly cheap components and incredible on-line tutorials. I must admit that I rarely create circuits from scratch any more, it is TOO EASY to just meld "modules" together to produce a workable tool or appliance. The introduction of dirt cheap micro-controllers and micro-computers has allowed using me to successfully complete projects that would have required an extensive knowledge of electronics to produce prior to their existence. And now there is AI, things are happening too fast for comfort. We might be on the verge of developing technology as dangerous as the nuclear bomb.

Mike Osborne late VK3ZCZ much missed. A splendid lecturer at CIT, devotee of car rallying and all-round lovely bloke.

Mike Osborne late VK3ZCZ much missed. A splendid lecturer at CIT, devotee of car rallying and all-round lovely bloke.

Yes, electronics as a hobby has had it's best time a few years ago. In my home town there was one shop that sold electronics parts, when the shops had to stay closed for the Chinese Flu, many shops did not survive. Now the electronics parts shop is gone. I think this is very sad, I loved to go there and listen to the latest jokes, and he tried then to order the rare parts I needed. Ordering in China is not the same, sometimes you do not get what you paid for. Sometimes the parts are fake, sometimes there is wrong information, sometimes used parts are sold as new.

Much of the decline is due to the fact that software development as a hobby has exploded over the past forty years, and the two hobbies appeal to the same sort of person.

no place to get parts radio shacks big mistake