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Video: Unboxing the Year 2000
🕑 Added 2022-02-02 18:38:22 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWWkBLhkig8
As per my last update, I admit that this feels a little filler-y, and it was in fact all I could really manage due to my condition - you can actually hear my voice going hoarse at time - but I was going to make it anyway, since I received all this stuff and really a big unboxing was the only thing that made sense. So here's that.
Couple updates post-shoot:
As the video explains, this stuff was all bought at the turn of the century, but I cut out a part where I speculated on why all the boxes are missing UPCs because I realized after shooting that I knew the answer: the donator told me that they were all purchased for nearly-free after sending in rebates, and I assume they wanted the UPC to be sent in as proof of purchase.
The Glenayre / Skytel product is, I believe, based on a two-way pager network of the sort that were being tried on a large scale in the mid to late 90s, the same kind of thing that spawned the original Blackberry.
I started setting up the EZCam to try to get the motion tracking game software working, and found out the camera itself is dead, just outputs a blurry, unusable image with streaks. I suspect components of the CCD are separating from each other. It looks like it will allow the use of other cameras, but when I try to install any, my P3 Dell throws bizarre errors - this has clinched the idea in my head that it has some malfunctioning hardware, so I'm going to have to rebuild it and figure out what's going on before I can test the rest.
Also, my plumbing situation should, in theory, be getting resolved starting tomorrow. Cross your fingers and hope.
Comments
Alex Hall
Well, that sucks about th EZCam. I'm pretty sure I still have mine somewhere...though I suspect it could have that same issue....
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The video was good I didn’t notice a difference when watching.
