LGR - Cleaning a BMC Monochrome Monitor from 1982

Ralph

Damn, I like these restoration videos! And the swinging way you use your hand to brush the parts is almost unique :D. Please, just get on with the stuff!

LGR

Thank you for the support :)

LGR

Yes indeed! Been back there many times, find something new every visit

LGR

Hehe thanks, I thought the same thing while editing

Timo Schmidt

Love your fast forwards! Reminds me of speeding up the game in the old Sims games, especially when they did some kitchen work!

My first advance video as a Patreon subscriber. How exciting. :) Love these restoring/setup videos of old hardware.

Eric Siegel

This is the monitor you got from that junk shop, right? I was waiting to see it return in an episode :-D Also, have you been back to that store?

Steve Skafte

I find it hilarious that they just slapped a logo plate on top of the knob holes. I had no idea that was ever done!

SuperBunnyBun

Probably the only video on youtube about cleaning an old tv that ends in multiple deaths

SuperBunnyBun

I miss when so many products had the atomic symbol on them, back when things being radioactive was a good thing? Anyway, neat. It's as old as I am

Thomas Fuchs

I love your “let’s clean an old thing” videos! More please! :)

Alyxx the Rat

I think it's really cute that monitor lives a past life as a TV.

Great little video. I have been loving this type of video lately. Keep 'em coming

Dominic Ashfield

Seriously though, if this is the sort of thing you're aiming for with the Monday videos going forward, I reckon it's great. Casual, relaxed, bit of fun.

Dominic Ashfield

LGR does ASMR? 😉

Grunk

LGR - The cleaning show!

LGR

Got two more videos that should be done in the next couple days as well, hang tight!

LGR

Definitely describes what I do more often than not. Thanks :)

LGR

"Games In Color" by Emil Axelsson

"It was behind a bunch of crap and nobody wanted it, but I diiiiid" That sentence from you fits you really well with your lovely obsession with old tech and other junk that nobody could possibly care about. That was really amusing to me for some reason and it's what makes LGR, well, LGR. Nice video.

Simon

What’s the music that starts around 11:18?

Kenny Ketner

nice one duder

Garoninja

Awesome. I was starting to go into LGR withdrawal.

LGR

Thankfully they're made to :)

Jeffrey

"I'm curious if these knobs come off." I'm more curious if the knobs go back on, to be honest. :D

LGR

That'll be in the final draft of the vid!

perkindo

Oh man.... you didn't open the monitor up. :( I was hoping to see if the internals were clean. As clean as the outside already was I bet the insides were in good shape too. "The world may never know." - Tootsie Pop Announcer

good video. i would love to know more about that dc-2 robot in the ad though :)

LGR

Yep, fixed for the final draft. Thanks!

Mat Cooper

That really does look a great setup with the Apple II, delightful!

LGR

Just a composite input so it'll hook up to practically anything from the past few decades, very little conversion needed even on newer systems. I showed it hooked up to a Sega Genesis in LGR Thrifts 39!

blahmoomoo

There's an audio desync at 2:46.

Steve Lovelace

So if this is really just an old TV in disguise, how hard would it be to hook it up to a VCR. I think video on a green phosphor screen would be trippy. Or convert it to HDMI and play Fallout 4.

LGR

All green, all the time. Gotta love it.

LGR

Perfecter timing, was just looking for someone to watch my video!

Gary Leigh

Ah, the early days of computers. When things were still... green.

LGR

Was thinking about such a collab actually. Would have to make my way over to Texas, or work out some shipping options, but that'd be fun if David was down with the idea. I also have an original Apple II and a later IIe that needs work, heh.

Mr Lurch

Ahh. The old “lets turn this TV into a computer monitor” trick. At first thought, when you compare later computers (eg C64) plugged into a composite screen vs a ‘proper’ monitor the difference was night and day. But in these earlier machine, because it really wasn’t pushing the graphics very hard, they worked really well. As for the Apple II, perhaps a collab with The 8-Bit Guy? :) That’d be kinda awesome. An epic YouTube resto on that keyboard! But that monitor combined with the Apple is perfect. As much as the II series could do colour, let’s be honest, 99.% of them had a green monochrome screen sitting on them.

Zachary Outen

Perfect timing, I was just about to look for a video to watch