if i were to say the word hoarder you'd probably think of like those
reality tv shows where there's a bunch of boxes everywhere and there's junk
strewn all over the place and there's like bugs and rotting food and
everything is just gross hey linus well brian the
electrician he's always been a little different but
he's also a different kind of hoarder so
take a step inside brian's domicile here
where we're gonna see exactly what a tech hoarder looks like
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so everything looks pretty normal so far
you know family pictures on the walls china cabinets perfectly normal
you know dishes and stuff so i mean this is all pretty normal you got your xbox
your computer i mean wow haven't seen
one of those in a long time the keyboard attached xbox 360
controller a couple controllers there's a random
mouse okay there's this seems like it might become a bit of
a recurring theme this is not plugged into anything it's just there it's just
that well i know why it's there it's there in case you know someone loses
track of the wireless one or the battery dies you just have an emergency mouse
just within arm's reach at all times now that
is a sign of a true tech order you've got an ac adapter that isn't
plugged into anything an ethernet cable that isn't plugged into anything
oh no i knew it
an io shield you'd never know what room we're in if i
didn't tell you but this is in fact the kitchen the kitchen
so we've got ourselves uh not one
not two but three computers yeah and i'm told
that these two are um just a modern
machine for recipes and cooking you couldn't use a tablet for that and a
little minecraft okay machine number a little bit of kitchen minecraft
number two is an old windows xp machine
for retro games which naturally you would play
here in the kitchen well you know just if i can't make it down to the basement
these are a classic oh yeah these are beautiful you have a non-plugged in
d-link access point third computer not plugged into anything
oh look at this relic has a serial port
wait it also has a displayport port oh my goodness there is so much dust in
that dp port that looks like it has never been used probably not yeah we're
gonna head downstairs but brandon you just about tripped over another computer
right there wait well hold on a second why is this one here it's gonna go
downstairs it's gonna go downstairs you know what well look brian we're here to
help all right here we go we're descending
you never know when you're gonna need 300 feet of ethernet cable oh my
goodness what the hell is this
this is very early lcd technology i feel
like a tech archaeologist like what is this 2005 property of blessings
christian marketplace oh that's uh from michelle's old work
manufactured january 2004. yeah i would
accuse you of stealing it but i'm sure they didn't want it anymore and that was
10 years ago oh my goodness is this a
pcmcia card yes it is i love that they
called 10 100 fast ethernet because that
is not fast okay i could give you a pass
on the extra mouse in the living room but this is three mice and three
keyboards on a utility sink yeah to be cleaned to be cleaned
okay this is a three button mouse with no scroll
wheel yeah the best way to clean that is
in a melting fat so they can reuse the plastics to make something modern and
useful is that an ipad 1
oh my goodness i forgot how chunky this
thing was look how thick this thing is
and i actually thought we were done in this corner i was looking under the desk
i was like okay you got your racing but what is this why is there a cd drive
down there no there's no good reason you may you
may stop explaining there is it's to keep the pedals from moving back when
i'm playing them keep driving pedals from moving back yeah
the pedal bumps against the driver using it as a doorstop yes is that a cd
changer why don't you have spotify sir actually i'm
just using that as an amp all right now we're into what is very obviously the
wifey pc so uh i couldn't help noticing
that she doesn't have nearly as good a rig as you i saw that uh minecraft is struggling a
little bit there what's your excuse sir my excuses you're gonna have this much
tech and you're not gonna have her minecraft running
at 100 plus fps that's the interim pc i
have another one in the workshop that i've built for we're going to see if that story checks
out at least she's got a laptop
it's been a bit of an older model toughbook a second gen i5 oh it doesn't
even have usb 3 dude it's a toughbook doesn't need usb 3 to be cool
what do you think guys do i look cool if i do it's not the laptop lttstore.com
anyway this is a second home theater pc yeah there's
nothing wrong with a tv in the basement but come on man
more than one home theater pc also no down also
one amp is not a problem 2 amps is a problem this one's not
hooked up and this one is not hooked up
not yet what is this oh my goodness elite i had a laserjet 6p
still worked 10 years ago and it was used you guys may not know this is a
gravity fed model laser printer which means that the print reliability while
the text is very crisp it's very important the toner cartridge in this
uh-huh i got filled back when i was in high school for 40 dollars and it's
still on the same fill right but that's because you're not actually using it not
right now i used it for a lot of years still going so i'm gonna have to knock a
few more points off for the speakers that are next to a tv but not actually
hooked up not yet
and now it's time for the workshop now
so far this has been i'd say a moderate
case of tech hoarding but my understanding based on all the things
brian claims to be working on all the time is that there's definitely
another level that we can ratchet up to here you'll see
ow very funny justine oh my goodness oh man
okay where do we even start here
what do you have a box machine for
that is the minecraft server and does this minecraft server actually serve to
anyone outside of this house yes oh it does okay so you're running your own
minecraft server yep out of this by the way
very nice love it wooden
server cabinet just as long as you don't have a fire
everything's fine uh the top one is storage
all right how much storage is in here right now three terabytes you have an
entire 4u for three terabytes of storage uh it's also redundant all the drives
are in raid one holy smoke so do you
just like rock out in here what is this what is this amplifier you got going on
here i need better speakers to go with it i'll say that right now
but that's a 500 watt two channel rotel
so there are already
some fascinating relics in here this aio has got to be at
least 15 years old that is a first gen i3
that's a machine michelle was using i just need to make sure there's no
pictures on it before it goes to recycling more wrapping paper very funny i
couldn't help noticing that there was an entire
list of software serial keys some of it
useful some of it probably less useful pc cylinder internet security 2008 i
remember that as a classic that's when i started that database
sims 2. wow you own the entire
sims 2 series and you solemnly swear every single one
of these keys is legit yes all right i might hit you up for something don't
don't worry about it windows 95 windows 98 and 98 se
okay now this is something i think we can all agree can just be thrown away
so you work with an electronics recycler but to do what to just hoard more uh
yeah it's i uh yeah i rescued machines i find interesting
that i actually have an interest in as well as any stuff that i don't have room
for or i've lost interest in or that doesn't work i just i i'm able to bring
it back and get rid of it got it got it the motherboard on the wall behind this
screen yeah that was my first machine really that board was in a computer that
my dad bought new in 95. wow and then
when he got a machine to replace that it was handed down to me since then the
brawl battery leaked out onto the board break some of the traces i hope to find
another one but i still have the rest of that machine which is up on the shelf it's
the old contacts oh interesting so
that machine started all this look what
you did oh interesting so this is like vga
capture what could you possibly hope to do with
this kind of stuff well at least this one's got vr out
i mean some of this stuff wasn't even good when it was new sound cards how's that for a sound card
look at this thing it's got a ram slot on it
called ewe32 look at that gold star didn't they
become something else eventually lg that's right lucky gold star
nuts so this is from 1995. so if you're complaining about how your your you know
rtx whatever doesn't fit in your case and it needs to be so big so this is a
modern graphics card yeah it's a little bit on the thicker side but in terms of
the actual length oh does this quadro 6000 work
it does display i haven't booted windows up with it yet damn daniel
okay floppy and idd cables yep oh no
got a thermal paste rag in here got some random modular power supply cables yep
that's more ribbon cables that's overflow that's the mix drawer so
there's actually some decent stuff in here that's an hx1000 yep piles upon
piles of amd coolers this is like some socket
holy crap this is socket 462. so basically that's why you have three
terabytes of space because this is all just like recycled drivers recycled
drives and that's why you run raid one because this is all recycled drives
exactly what's this fujitsu
2.57 gigabytes yes my friends look this
is back when you know a hundred or even ten megs
really counted or this one seagate medalist 631 megs so
this is probably similar to the drive that was in my family's first computer
yeah so this is probably around the the neighborhood of my family's like
upgraded drive in our 386. so we talked about these actually in our drive savers
video they actually have a ton of old stuff like this lying around that is in
working order because they never know when they're gonna get like a nuclear
power plant or something that's still running hardware from this generation
that's like hey our drive died we need to get the data off of it
so i feel like there has to be a rhyme or reason to this the
very very top is old more much more vintage
socket seven socket three sure wait is this outboard cash yeah wow coast module
so guys cash didn't used to be integrated right
next to the cpu instead you had to actually install
cash now the the theoretical benefit of this is that if your cpu didn't have
enough cash for your workload theoretically you could upgrade it with
more cash down the line optical drives for days
i just purged a bunch too did you now yes couldn't tell
got some of them imac power cables do these work
uh those ones i think have graphics issues so i'm probably just gonna
salvage the drives and ram out of them and bummer
that's the thing about all-in-one computers that's so uh frustrating and
wasteful hey yep as soon as they stop working you
can't even use them as a monitor although some of the older imacs i think
you could but not the newer ones anymore is that an epc manual
why would you even have why would you care about why would you keep this
because i actually have one a friend gave me well yeah but you don't need the manual it's
just powering on your epc install the battery
pack connect the ac power cord turn on the epc i've never actually looked at
the manual complicated ew
gross no no don't look at that don't look at that we're done here i o shields
for days you know i always keep these things just in case
i ever encounter that board again or like find one that happens to have
exactly the same layout it has never once paid off oh my
goodness cyrix cpus and you got a whole shelf why
these are worth more in gold than they are in functioning processor oh that's a
133 a 133 oh with the integrated fan huh
but you could overclock the snot out of that thing athlon athlon xp era very
nice one gigahertz k7 a lot of people don't know this but amd was actually the
first to break the one gigahertz barrier the more you know
oh socketed laptop chips it's going to be like banya's core like early
early core series i would guess right uh core 2 i think oh wow
a gravis gamepad okay now this
had a really amazing feature for the time you see this uh threaded insert
right here so you could actually take this little winky joystick and you could
screw it into it and then you could use it
like uh like uh like more like an arcade stick and like a fight pad so a lot of
you kids probably won't know this but before there was a three and a half inch
floppy there was a five and a quarter inch
floppy yes my friends i forget what the
capacity of these was but one thing is for sure adventure math fit on at least
two of them risk disc one of two disc two of two
oh man there was a great risk custom map for supreme commander that seems to have
been lost to the bowels of the internet unfortunately hey
if anyone out there is watching and you still have that old supreme commander
risk map let me know it was flippin awesome okay
so i gotta know the stories behind at least a couple of these so this one you
were saying was your very first pc yup that's the one that started it all oops
now this is a classic right here turbo button this really did make your
computer go slower when it was activated common
misconception a lot of people think the turbo button was designed to make your
computer turbo up when it was enabled but
actually it was because computers were too fast for games and games used to
have their physics tied to the clock speed of the cpu so when cpus got too
fast they needed a way to enable compatibility for these old poorly coded
games so you would press the turbo button and it would actually clock your
computer down so my parents when i wasn't allowed to use the computer used
to lock it and our power button wouldn't work anymore little did they know i had
a key for it as well but i haven't booted this up in years
i still need to fix the keyboard on it but it did work the last the compact
portable pc yes it is wow
no way so guys the way i could actually
tell not because i i recognized it immediately was just because
i knew that it had a handle on it that looked just like this so there you go
the entire back of it is the computer there's your five and a quarter inch
floppy drive there's your i don't know what is this like a seven eight inch
cartridge i think it's an eight inch it's green monochrome and you've got a
brightness style yeah and this is actually the plus model it
has a hard disk wow technically
they're right it is portable
okay so to challenge brian to prove that there's a use
for this collection i said okay find me a game i used to
play i want to play me some commander keen right now so he pulled down this
486 and this was what particular variant
this is a dx2 so clock doubled 66 megahertz
i'm surprised ega track
look i used this crap remember when the speaker was built into
the computer
oh it is too
i don't know what the controls are i thought it was space it might be control
or something
oh
he looks like some demented dog what is this
what i've been i'm stuck what the heck you need the key
now our final piece of tech archaeology
here is this this is an amd based laptop yup it's a
k62 366.
holy crap that display
is horrible even with the pointer trails on or even
without them you'd basically have point pointer trails are off that's not
pointer trails oh my goodness
it's horrible are you sure they're not on positive can i double check you can
double check but can i double check oh wow they're
off what if we turn them on
that's awful how far we've come so imagine this it's after midnight and
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video description massive thanks brian for showing us your
little tech museum here it started out as tech hoarders and ended up with
tech museum hoarders edition
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