- [Michael] Hello everybody,
and welcome back to another video.
Now, in today's episode,
we got another viewer donation to unbox.
Yeah, I'm really excited about this one.
Like I said, in the last viewer donations video,
I am always excited when stuff shows up in my PO box.
I have to give a bit of a backstory so that you can
understand why I'm doing two of these videos
so close to one another,
because I just did
a viewer donations video a couple of videos ago.
Well, the reason why
this package wasn't featured in that video is
because it got lost.
Yeah I'm not kidding.
The carrier lost this package.
They informed the sender that it was lost in transit.
And then the sender told me
the package was lost in transit.
So, you know, sorry, it's not going to show up.
Well, yesterday I just took a random trip
to my PO box and this was there.
It showed up.
So I was like, okay, what on earth happened?
So somehow this got lost, "lost" in transit,
but then they found it I guess, and it arrived.
So we're going to be opening it up today.
Now, to make this interesting.
I did not go and look back at the email that the viewer who
sent this package out to me sent me when he initially
offered all these items to me.
I do remember that there's all sorts of computer hardware in
here. I think there's some RAM in here.
There are a couple of cards, I think maybe video cards.
I think there may be a little bit of software,
but just to make this interesting
and to make this kind of a true unboxing,
I did not go back and look at the email
and the photos that he sent me.
So we're going to be kind of experiencing this together
and it's going to be a bit of a mystery package,
but like I said, I have a general idea of what's in here.
So without any further ado,
let's go ahead and open it up. Shall we?
(robotic beat)
And here we go. Okay.
So I do remember this,
this right here is an Ethernet card, Ethernet IC card.
I believe this, yeah, this is a PCMCIA ethernet cards.
Let's go ahead and just open this up and check it out.
Yep, That is exactly what it is.
The really neat thing is I've got a couple of these,
but I don't have the end that you can actually use to
connect this thing to the network.
Right, like to use the card as it's meant to be used.
So this is nice to have a complete kit. So yeah,
that will come in handy for one of my older laptops.
For sure. I believe right here.
This looks like a, well, this could be anything,
but I'm going to guess it's the RAM.
Let's go ahead and check it out.
No. This is one of the video cards,
two video cards actually.
So this first one right here
looks like a Radeon card.
That's what I would guess. Yeah.
Radeon X1600 Pro X 1600,
256 megabyte DDR,
PCI express. Oh yeah.
This is something a bit older.
This right here is an S3 Virge card.
And you can see right here, there is actually a date stamp.
I mean, not from the manufacturer, but from computer comp.
I don't know if that's like a computer store,
but it says 2/13/98 super neat stuff. All right.
So we'll set those aside and right here,
I think this is a power supply. Yes.
And we do have, okay.
I'm seeing some, I think this is software contained in here.
So we got some, it looks like a heat sink here.
Yep, we've got a heat sink here.
Let's see if these are, and yet here's some more software.
What do we got here? Jide Tech.
Oh, you know what?
Oh yeah, this is one of the things that I said, oh,
I could really use, yeah.
This is something that I wasn't going to use for a video.
But for making videos, you know,
for the video making process,
this is a VGA video splitter.
I was looking at upgrading my setup for when I record
videos, you know,
with a 98 PC or with the Dell Latitude D610,
or with any of my computers,
I was thinking about doing screen capture.
Like when I do a video on, on one of these old computers,
it's always the camera pointed right at the screen.
I've tried a couple of capture solutions before,
but it wasn't really able to get anything to work
the way I wanted it to.
And this is going to help with that because this allows me
to split one VGA signal into two outputs.
So I can still have it on the monitor that I'm looking at.
And also on my capture card,
which I still need to get a capture card, but yes,
we do have this right here. It looks like a heat sink.
Let's go ahead and tear some of the tape here on the side.
We can get this opened up here. Yeah.
This looks like an older AMD heat sink, but yeah,
pretty cool stuff. Awesome.
This looks like another PCMCIA card.
Here's another one of those Ethernet IC cards
that we have in the box over here.
And then right here is a Thin Fax card
Fax Data, PCMCIA yeah, these will definitely,
I actually have like, a space for all these PCMCIA cards
in my hardware bin.
So they will be added right to it possibly for use on one of
my older systems. Let's see what this is right here.
I don't remember this PS/2 to Serial Adapter. Okay.
Let's save the software for last,
because I do want to dive into this. I believe
oh, it's taped onto there a little bit.
Oh, we got two things here.
I know what this is though.
This is a power supply,
It's like, it's got the word new written on it.
New 7-25-18. Alright so let's see what this says.
Okay. There's the model number.
I can look that up.
(Blues music plays)
It's for a Dell OptiPlex. Yeah,
That's what this number corresponds to right here.
So this is, this was taken out of a Dell OptiPlex system.
235 Watts,
Okay.
So yeah, that might, hey,
if I ever get a Dell OptiPlex that this happens to fit in.
There you go. I got a power supply now.
All right. So what is this?
Because I feel like, okay.
It looks like a fan. Oh, it's a LGA 775,
that looks like a heat sink.
It's exactly what that is. That's some painters tape here.
Yep. Oh, and it's got a, yeah,
it's still got pre-applied thermal paste on it.
Yep, that is a stock. A heat sink right there
for an LGA 775 socket CPU.
All right,
So let's see what else we got.
I believe this box right here, oh, this is a large box.
Holy crap, Is this the RAM?
Oh, it looks like it's sealed though.
Oh, wait a second.
Let's just set this aside.
My guess is this is the RAM. I could look back at the email,
and figure out what that is.
But if the RAM isn't in anywhere else here in the box,
then this is definitely the RAM, but the RAM could be in,
cause this seems like a large box for RAM,
unless he just sent me a ton.
But I think both of these here,
like this is a Rosewill PCI LAN card. So there you go.
That's, yeah,
That's what that is.
And then this right here is an AGP GeForce FX 5500.
All right. So here's what we got left.
This box right here contains the RAM,
which is definitely if this entire thing is filled with RAM,
holy cow, that is a lot of RAM, but right here,
we got a copy of Microsoft Office, 2000 Professional,
the Academic Edition
and oh, the jewel case is a little broken there.
Yep, That is a piece of the jewel case right there.
But yeah, the disks themselves are intact,
which is the most important thing. Right?
So we'll close that one up.
And we'll grab and disc number one here, pop it in.
And yeah, you can see that the top little lip here,
this piece has, has broken off.
I've had that same thing happened before on like a ton of
jewel cases, it's not that uncommon.
I'm curious what this is?
Dell PowerEdge server, PowerVault storage.
Let's see...
Oh, okay.
So it's yeah. It's like a CD/DVD storage case.
Very cool, I don't own one of these kind of unique.
I've not seen this before.
I assume this contained drivers CDs at one point,
maybe it was a promotional thing.
That's definitely what it could be.
This can be like a promotional thing given out at like a
Dell, I don't know conference,
or like a trade show or whatever.
So that's cool, we'll set that aside.
And right here, we've got the box of RAM when I took it out,
I thought this was something like brand new because you see,
it's got like tape on here.
This kind of looks factory to me,
but this right here is tearing a little bit and it's folded
over. So maybe he just taped this really well,
but this is taped here for sure.
I guess we'll go ahead and tear this off here.
And then we'll cut through these here.
Oh man, check that out guys. Holy cow,
That is a lot of RAM. So yeah, guys,
it was an absolute ton of RAM in that box.
And I'm not kidding.
When I say that now I was initially going to go through the
entire box and just show you guys each individual DIMM and
SO-DIMM that I got, but after recording,
probably half of that footage and taken out half of what was
in there. I thought, you know what,
maybe this would just be better if I summarize it.
So that's what I'm doing here.
So I'm letting you guys see exactly what we've got.
There's a ton of RAM.
I didn't know how many of you guys would want to just like
go through and read each individual DIMM for probably,
I don't know. It might take me 20,
30 minutes to do all of that. So cause that's, I mean,
like I said, there's a ton in here, so yeah.
I have to give a huge thank you to the anonymous viewer who
very generously donated all of this stuff to me
because yes, the viewer asked to remain anonymous.
He asked me not to disclose his name.
So you know who you are.
And thank you so much for all of this hardware.
This is absolutely going to come in handy for future video
projects. Now I had a decent amount of RAM before.
Certainly not, not as much as this,
but even with my little collection of RAM,
I still didn't have all of the RAM that I needed for
specific video projects.
And you may remember in my HP laptop running Windows 11
follow-up episode, when I upgraded the RAM in that machine,
even though I had a decent amount of SO-DIMMs,
I did not have the specific type and capacity that I needed
for that video. So I had to pull RAM ironically,
out of the Dell Latitude D610, which had more RAM,
even though it was an older machine and I just ended up
swapping the RAM in both of those machines.
So the Dell Latitude now has one Giga of RAM from the HP
laptop and the HP laptop has the two Gigas from the Dell
Latitude. So yeah, I just figured it'd be better to have.
And it's, by the way, here it is right here.
That's the HP laptop, the HP Compaq 6510b.
So I just figured since it's newer,
it's probably better for it to have more memory
than the Dell Latitude D610, which is older, but yes,
one of the side effects of this though,
now that I have all this computer hardware,
it all was not going to fit in my computer hardware bins.
So this is the hardware bin that I was using to store all my
computer hardware. And yeah, not all this is going to fit.
So what I had to do,
and this is actually going to work out much better for me,
in terms of organization.
I used all of the boxes,
or at least most of them
that were sent to me inside of that package
to store all the hardware.
And I guess while we're up here,
I can show you guys my closet.
This is at least one of my closets that I use to store
pretty much everything that's been featured on the channel
and some of the equipment that I use to make these videos.
So I've got my camera box, GH5 box and the lens that I use,
I've got my AT2020 box up there,
which is the microphone that I normally use right now.
I'm using a rode microphone
that I've got on top of the camera, just for
convenience here. And I think that it does pretty well.
And then I've got my ASUSTOR NAS that was sent to me by
ASUSTOR, very generously.
I've got my AT&T videophone box right there.
I've done videos on both of these. And for those wondering,
yes, the NAS gets used here it is.
I've got it set up in my living room.
That's why the audio is so echoey.
So I apologize for that in advance,
but yeah, here it is, it's hooked up the four
12 terabyte drives from Seagate are in there,
and I use it as primarily a file server right now.
So I've been storing all of my YouTube project files on
here, which has been awesome.
Okay, But the other thing I wanted to show you,
and this is really cool.
I have hooked up the AT&T videophone.
So if you guys haven't seen this video,
I'd recommend going and checking it out,
up in the cards right now,
this is a really cool phone right here from the early 90s,
And it is a video phone.
The only thing was obviously you would need to know somebody
who also had one of these phones to well, do a video call.
So that was the major downside.
If you didn't know anyone who had this phone,
it was just like a regular telephone that you were paying
way too much money for.
Cause this cost over a $1,000 back then. And yeah,
but it does work for those of you in the original video.
I said that I wasn't able to hook it up because I did not
have a phone line. And I still don't have a home phone line,
but what I did get
is one of these right here.
This is a Polycom OBiTALK or OBiTALK,
however you want to pronounce it.
And these are really useful little devices.
What they allow you to do is plug in a home phone to the
phone jack on the back of this.
And then, you can then use that phone with your Google Voice
number or a selection of other voice providers though.
A lot of people who get these,
just choose to use a Google Voice number because Google
Voice is free for domestic calls within the United States
when you're calling to other US numbers.
And that's why it literally says Google Voice on the front
of the thing,
the manufacturers put Google voice there
to let people know
that you can use your Google Voice number with this thing.
And so I've got it here, set up on my desk.
I've had this for about a week now,
but I have known about them.
And I know people who use them for a while.
And I always said,
when I want to get a home phone and you know,
I don't want to pay monthly for it.
Cause I don't really need a home phone.
I use my cell phone for all of my calls,
but I just wanted to get this
just to hook up the AT&T videophone,
just to kind of have it as like a novelty,
and to use it when I want to use it.
So here it is and all of its glory.
So we're going to turn on the speaker phone here and I've
got a number in redial. And as you can see,
this is the number for the US Naval Observatory Master Clock
for the Eastern time zone.
Yes, this is still a thing.
If you didn't know,
you can dial this number and the machine that picks up will
read back the current time to you,
according to the US Naval Observatory. So here it is.
- [Phone] US Naval observatory,
Master Clock at the tone,
Eastern Daylight Time, 17 hours, one minute 30 seconds.
- [Michael] Yeah. So there you go.
And then it'll read universal time.
- [Phone] One minute, 35 seconds
So there you go. So yeah,
I'm sure some of you didn't even know that that was still a
thing, but yeah.
You can dial that number and if you ever have no other way
of knowing what time it is and all you have is a home phone
and you want to get the exact time according to the us Naval
Observatory. Well, there you go.
That's the number you dial of the course that's for the
Eastern Time Zone and yes, it does work for receiving calls.
In fact, let me show you how that works.
Let me pull up my cell phone here. Unfortunately, I noticed,
I thought that it was going to like identify the phone
number on the screen here, but it doesn't do that.
So let me, let me, show you here.
I go to my phone and we'll dial my Google Voice number.
So we're dialing it right now and there it is.
And you can see that it doesn't, like there's no caller ID.
I thought for sure that it would display the number that was
calling you, but that's not happening so I can answer here.
And then you see just, you can hear me talking on here,
right? So there you go.
And we'll just hang that up.
And when you pick up the handset,
you see it says it there's still that number in redial.
So that was of course the US Naval Observatory's number.
But yeah,
this works with literally any home phone that you can plug
into a phone jack on your wall.
If you can do that,
you can use it with this device right here,
except while there is one major exception,
the only phone that you're not going to be able to use with
a device like this or with any VoIP phone line for that
matter is a rotary telephone.
And this is because rotary phones utilize pulse dialing,
which VoIP phone line does not know how to interpret a pulse
signal.
So if you plug a rotary phone into a VoIP phone line and
start dialing,
you'll eventually just get a busy signal because according
to the phone line, you're not actually dialing anything.
So you need to have a touch-tone phone, which, you know,
99% of the people watching this video probably do if you
even have a home phone, that is, but yeah,
so that will not be a problem,
but if you want to use a rotary phone with this, you can't,
unless, unless you get a pulse to tone converter,
which converts a pulse signal from the rotary phone into a
tone signal that a VoIP line can interpret and actually,
you know, pick up on what you're dialing.
So we don't have to be able to use the phone.
You can use a rotary phone to answer a call just by plugging
it in. Like you don't have to have anything.
I mean, if you plug a rotary phone into a VoIP line and want to
answer a call, that'll work fine.
But if it's, so when you're trying to dial out,
that's when you experience issues on a rotary phone.
So yeah, this is something I really wanting to make a video on this
for a while. It is on my video ideas list.
Just kind of talking about how to use rotary phones with
VoIP lines and just in 2021 in general.
So that is something that I definitely want to do,
but yeah, that was a little side ramble there anyways,
back to the main video or at least the tail end of the main video.
Oh, we've got the 20th anniversary,
special edition of Windows XP.
We've got one of the TracFones.
We've got the Logitech Revue, all the Clappers.
We've got the Windows Live Frisbee.
This right here is the box
that my silver play button came in.
So yeah, everybody that is going to wrap it up
for today's episode,
I've got to give a huge thank you once again,
to the very generous anonymous viewer for your awesome
donation of all this hardware,
which is going to absolutely help with future video
projects. And as for you guys, of course,
I want to thank you all so much for watching.
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