SO MUCH RETRO TECH at Free Geek Twin Cities!

great video love it

Wow I wonder if one of those hard drives could be used for a modded PlayStation 2

Who cares if they’re broken?? You can fix everything

I want to go to one of these stores

Oh btw i make funny cmments
IDK WHY
People:
Just any PC towers
Me:
DELL PRESICION T3400

For a couple decades, we had a place like this in Silicon Valley called Weird Stuff; gigantic warehouse full of all sorts of old tech. Computers, blade servers, old telecom equipment, video gear, anything you could imagine, really. Lab equipment, test units, hell even some old traffic lights. Additionally, they sold new stuff, like spools of Cat 5/6 cable, speaker wire, etc. Tragically, they closed down a few years ago.

I remember getting rid of my last CRT monitors and TV sets one at a time. I loved my SONY TVs, but I don't miss them. 50~60" LCD TVs are easy to carry. A 32" CRT really should have 2 people to move them. That said, I still have a CRT monitor for my old old Commodore/Amigas.
A friend used to work at a TV, he did board-level repairs on TV. Such repair abilities are mostly gone nowadays. Those TV repair shops have died out or they do basic modular repair on LCD TV. = PSU, screen, Light system, and motherboard. There is basically no profitable business model for repairing TVs anymore. Those guys have retired or died.

Compare 2002 to 2022. There used to be 4 repair shops that I used to know of. There is now only one left that covers about a 100mile x 100mile repair service area. In 2002 it had 8~9 employees. In 2022, its just the owner and 1 employee. Many of the TV companies just replace warranty TVs. Once your 75" TV is out of warranty and dies - good luck in fixing it. It'll be trashed and you'll drop $400 for a new TV. Even those $1000 TVs may live for 2-3years.

$1PATA drives, LOL. Worthless, But for an old PC rebuild - can't be a $1.
Still amazing that today, a 1~2TB SATA drive isn't worth much.

I see four homebrew PC, in the video - I've sold to clients Like the blue one. Which was a pretty sharp case, its front bezel is metal, even the black grating.

The 4:3 LCDs are great for retro gaming consoles and older PC setups.

Hey, yo know anyone from Twin Cities 128? - from the 1980s?

No more Amigas? SIgh I remember seeing Amiga 2000 setups with a Toaster and monitor on Ebay for $200 and Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 for $75~100 and I didn't any of them.

Really wish that existed when I lived there. I hauled an IBM XT home on the city bus from savers

Man a shame there isnt anything like this anywhere close to me.

Not trying to flex but I am close to a city with a free geek store

There should be more places like this don't dump you old stuff give it away or to a place like this I would love to volunteer or visit it but unfortunately in the wrong country nobody has the skill or wants repair anything anymore

they really should keep the imacs and strip them for parts at the very least

Do they also run linux on their Macs?

so much memories. must be nostalgic to walk around the place.

Holy fucking shit, FREE LCD MONITORS? wtf those go for a lot of money still where I'm at

I wish there was such shops here in Ireland

Wow. Just that cable stock is a fantastic resource. This store/service is fantastic, I wish there was this sort of in the UK (well at least near me). Or maybe not, there would likely be one outcome - a very full house! Taking the time and care to test and wipe hard drives is fantastic.

There's a sort of cool store like that, but not nearly as much old stuff, near me in NC. Called "The Grid" it's a branch of Goodwill

Ya sucks

Once covid is over I need to get back there.

Great Channel, glad I found you :)

Apple loves creating e-waste.

🤩 This was amazing! I could watch this for hours!

Funny how its litterally a "Drive Cage" hahahah

I didn’t know they were based in Portland! I’ve volunteered there myself a few times but I didn’t know I was volunteering at the headquarters, though it might explain why the warehouse takes an entire city block. I totally love that place and I’d love to go back when they’re open after COVID.

A drive for a $ now thats a deal

Why not just delete the partition and redo it? I hear dban wears out drives.

Who's gonna buy a ps1 for $50 when you can get them on ebay for like $20, and just wait til it arrives... but... i'm actually surprised that in this instant gratification world we live in, people rather buy stuff online than in person.

bro the free monitors!
imagine puting together a dope-ass flight sim rig with those

Reason no one wants those old LCD monitors is they contain Mercury in the backlights so not exactly the safest thing to have in your home ive given away loads and some people even recycling centres wont take them.

I got a sticker of their logo at an event a while ago, but I didn't know what it was for. I think it's pretty cool that not only do they have an old electronics thrift store, but it's in Portland which is pretty close to me. Maybe some day I'll check it out.

The number of times I saw a device in this video that I either own or am using at this very moment was unimaginable. The other video on Free Geek had a scene at the beginning of a bunch of laptops, of which half I could recognise and one of which (an HP Pavilion G6) I was using at that very moment.

One of those computers was a core two quad

Apples anti repair policy should be made unlawful, it sickens me... Soecially since their based in a country with third world garbage disposal....

I used to have a trabsparent blue pc tower for my pentium90mhz computer, havent seen the one you pointed at but the one i had was more mac like and i quite disliked it. Played many hours of quake on that one. I clocked the cpu from 90 to 99mhz and felt like a king 😂

One man's junk is a another man's treasure.

Apple sucks. So much junk Apple.

This place makes me SOOO happy. Is there a place like this in STL?

Who donated an Apple Xserve Raid???????

How would you do anything with the iPads? Wouldn’t Apple’s built in “feature” where you need the original Apple ID that the hardware was registered with to be able to wipe and redo it?

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I need to find one of these in Chicago, I miss living near one of these places in my old city.

I bought 2 computers on ebay, he scammed me 1 computer valued at $ 230, he sent me one and the other did not send me, he blocked me as a buyer

le compre 2 computadora en ebay, me estafo 1 computadora valorada $230 me envia una y la otra no me envia, me bloquea como comprador


solo me contesto diciendo que es una fundaciones sin fines de lucro cuidado con ello

Can you help me out?
I'm looking for two turntables and a microphone

Exuse me for such a question , but I wonder why every time after finishing a phrase you look at the cam for about 3 secs , that looks a bit distracting , why not cut these moments on editing