 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 The LG ultra wide festival for 2019 has begun this year's concept is superheroes And I'm apparently one of them learn more at the link below for your chance to win an ultra wide monitor and other great prizes from LG So Everything looks pretty normal so far You know family pictures on the walls Got trying to cabinet 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 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 there. 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 yeah within arm's reach at all times. Now that is a sign of a true tech hoarder 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 I O 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 not one Not two, but three computers. Yeah, and I'm told that these two are Just a modern machine for recipes and cooking 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 of 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 display port 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 the 10100 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 bat so they can reuse the plastics to make something modern and useful Is that an iPad one? I think that's mine actually And the other one is Oh my goodness, I forgot how chunky this thing was Look at how thick this thing is And I actually thought we were done in this corner and I was looking under the desk I was like, okay, gotcha racing bat. What is this? Why is there a CD drive down there? No, there's no good reason. You may stop explaining Actually, there is. It's to keep the pedals from moving back when I'm playing the driving To keep the pedals from moving back Yeah, the pedal bumps against the drive You're literally using it as a door stop 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 I couldn't help noticing that she doesn't have nearly as good a rigging as the iPad I'm noticing that she doesn't have nearly as good a rig as you I saw that Minecraft is struggling a little bit there. What's your excuse, sir? My excuse is that You're going to have this much tech and you're not going to 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 her We're going to see if that story checks out At least she's got a laptop It's a bit of an older model Toughbook 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 Old amp Also one amp is not a problem Two 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 I had a laser jet 6p Still works Ten 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 poor The toner cartridge in this I got filled back when I was in high school for $40 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 these 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 Ah, 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 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? 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 some 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 PCCillin 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 some 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? Yeah, it's 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'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 barrel battery leaked out onto the board wrecked 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 at sealed context 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 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 Old 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 you know, RTX whatever doesn't fit in your case and 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, is this Quadro 6000 work? It does display I haven't booted windows up with it yet Damn Daniel Okay Floppy and IDE tables Yep Oh no Got a thermal paste rag in here. Got some random modular power supply cables Got some more ribbon cables Got some 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 drives Recycled drives and that's why you run RAID 1 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 Check that out Or this one Seagate Metalist 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 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 7 socket 3 Sure Wait is this outboard cache? Yeah Wow Coast module So guys, cache didn't used to be integrated right next to the CPU instead you had to actually install cache Now the the theoretical benefit of this is that if your CPU didn't have enough cache for your workload Theoretically you could upgrade it with more cache down the line Optical drives for days I just purged a bunch too Did you know? Yes Couldn't tell Got some of them iMac power cables Do these work? Those ones I think have graphics issues so I'm probably just gonna salvage the drives and RAM out of them Bummer That's the thing about all-in-one computers that's so 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 for- 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 IOS 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, Cyric CPUs and you got a whole shelf, why? These are worth more in gold than they are in functioning processor That's a 133 A 133, oh with the integrated fan huh? Bet you could overclock the snot out of that thing Athlon, Athlon XP era, very nice 1 GHz K7 A lot of people don't know this but AMD was actually the first to break the 1 GHz barrier The more you know Oh socketed laptop chips This is gonna be like Banyas Core, like early, early Core series I would guess right? Core 2 I think Oh wow A Gravis gamepad Okay now this had a really amazing feature for the time You see this 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 a, like a, 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 3.5 inch floppy There was a 5.25 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! Disk one of two, disk 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 Is this the compact portable PC? Yes it is Wow No way So guys the way I could actually tell not because 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 5.25 inch floppy drive There's your I don't know what is this like a 7, 8 inch? I think it's an 8 inch it's green monochrome And you've got a brightness dial 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 you 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 that might be a controller or something Oh It looks like some demented dog What is this? I'm stuck I need the key Now our final piece of tech archaeology here is this? This is an AMD based laptop? Yeah it's a K6-2 366 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 all you want I believe you 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 someone's knocking on your door Did you order pizza in your sleep again or is it something a little bit more worrisome? 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