My faithful laptop of a half-decade has broken down to the point where it's not worth restoring to full functionality anymore, so I've decided to retire it. I'm now using another (older) laptop which I'll detail in probably the next video, and I'm going to pull the hard drive out of this and put it on eBay. It done good.

Video of when I got the laptop in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwXakO8eW4

In this part I give some history on the developments leading up to this radio, and why it was basically the most advanced HT in the world upon its release.

In the next part I give a physical overview of the radio, and might or might not get to turning it on, depending on how the editing goes.

In this part we go over all the buttons and other physical features of the radio. In the next part we (finally) turn the thing on and explore its features.

In February, not too long after I got my Advanced (Canadian equivalent of Extra) certification, I accidentally discovered a net in Maine and successfully checked into it. I then (less successfully) check into the Maritime Net.

This is very awesome and unique early portable fluorescent lantern, which needed just a minor cleaning to look and work excellent. In addition to demonstrating it I disassemble the lantern and provide some technical info.

I decided to pull apart four of my Sony Mavica digital cameras to see who made the 2x and 4x floppy drives. Here are the results.

A thrift store find, right after I got the Memorex VCR. This VCR is excellent, and a better example of a Panasonic VCR than that junk unit from Indonesia I got a couple of years ago.

Turns out that this old VHF radio works just fine, and is very nice to use and gets out great.

The first of what will be a series of videos about my first amateur radio transceiver. In this part I tell the story of how I came to buy this radio, and give some introductory information about it. In the next part I'll give some history and technical info on the radio.

Filmed over a year ago, here I test the generic USB 3.5" hard drive enclosure I got from the e-waste box. Then I tell the tragic story of how the enclosure (and my own stupid decision) ended up killing one of my favorite vintage hard drives.