Videos from “vwestlife” (25 video results)
A quick presentation of my "new" IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X60 laptop. It's actually from 2006, but it's almost as small and light as today's "netbooks," yet is MUCH faster, has ...
Added: 2 days ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 253
4.0
02:46
It's been a very long time since I did any video game videos, so here are eight games all in one video: Ms. Pac-Man, Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Q*Bert, Beamrider, Space ...
Added: 3 days ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 130
5.0
09:36
My dad's home computer, in nearly daily use since he bought it new in 1999 at PC Richard's. Here are the original specs: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00190906&product=93186 I ...
Added: 6 days ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 329
4.0
06:48
I've thought long and hard about buying a new laptop, but netbooks are too tiny and slow, regular laptops are too bulky, I hate touchpads and Windows Vista, and Windows 7 ...
Added: 1 week ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 349
5.0
01:10
Just some silly and pointless video of me trying out the various fader and transition effects of my old Sony camcorder. This is just raw footage from the tape, so as you ...
Added: 1 week ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 199
4.0
04:08
I came across this fantastic song on a recording of "TBS Radio" 954 kHz JOKR from Tokyo, Japan in AM Stereo. "Maridi Mondo Morita" is as close as I can make out the title....
Added: 1 week ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 233
5.0
02:37
This video is mostly a response to YouTuber "solartape," but may be useful for anyone else dealing with a computer that prompts you for a password as soon as you turn it ...
Added: 1 week ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 819
5.0
05:21
Presenting more goodies from the 1993 "GCW" shareware CD-ROM, including some AutoDesk .FLI animations (such as the video's intro) -- which is such an obsolete format that ...
Added: 2 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 144
4.0
07:50
Images and music taken from an old CD-ROM, dated 1993, containing many .GIF files of computer generated artwork and .MOD files of digitally sampled music. Likely most of ...
Added: 2 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 148
5.0
05:35
In decades past, basically anything with a handle on top was considered "portable." This 1984 Sharp "My Video" VC-363 falls into that category, featuring a mono VHS VCR,...
Added: 2 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 333
4.0
06:59
This strange little Symphonette "satellite speaker" is quite stylish in its faux woodgrain pedestal design, but clearly wasn't built for playing music. Put any decent amount ...
Added: 2 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 318
5.0
02:48
General Electric had many great products in the early to mid 1980s, and this was one of them... the AM/FM stereo clock radio cassette player, model 7-4960. It came with ...
Added: 2 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 280
5.0
07:16
I had a few minutes left at the end of my Digital8 camcorder tape, so I decided to use it up while playing a rather nice song from a generic "Jazz Combo" CD bought at a dollar ...
Added: 3 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 208
5.0
04:41
Various scenes recorded in mid to late October 2009. The limited resolution of my SD camcorder and YouTube's encoding won't do justice to the detail of the leaves, but at ...
Added: 3 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 123
5.0
06:01
It is impossible to find the correct ORIGINAL version of "The Monster Mash" on iTunes or Amazon.com MP3, so here it is, as it was played on 1250 WMTR in Morristown, NJ on ...
Added: 3 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 169
5.0
04:16
Just a quick update of some of my new goodies, and a preview of some of the videos that will be coming up soon on my channel. I'm putting my vintage Sony Digital8 camcorder ...
Added: 3 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 227
5.0
03:03
100,000 pixels put to the test in five different ways.
Added: 3 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 376
4.0
06:46
As performed by Jim Kelfner. Dubbed from the 1990 Sheffield Lab audiophile CD "Prime Cuts" onto normal bias Type I cassette tape, with no Dolby NR. The analog level meters ...
Added: 3 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 201
5.0
01:46
Can a CD player count as "vintage"? I think this one does, with high quality construction and several features you don't find on modern components. This Sony was definitely ...
Added: 4 weeks ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 384
4.0
05:23
Replacing the cabin air filter and fuel filter in my 1997 Volkswagen Passat TDI diesel... or at least trying to. It seems I got a defective fuel filter. No amount of priming ...
Added: 1 month ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 1686
4.0
10:48
This old Philco tube type clock radio has outstanding AM reception and sounds great. At night it picks up stations from all across Eastern North America, even just using ...
Added: 1 month ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 241
5.0
10:39
Just having some fun with Record Store Tabby and an old scratchy Duran Duran LP. 100x100 pixels of animated GIF goodness!
Added: 1 month ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 190
4.0
01:32
Just as I suspected... the pitch control with strobe is the only difference between the Pioneer PL-990 and the Sony PS-LX250H turntables. The Pioneer also hard-wired the ...
Added: 1 month ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 422
5.0
03:59
Yes, a real unboxing video this time -- only because a brand new turntable is probably not something you'll often see being unboxed. It is a Pioneer PL-990, which I consider ...
Added: 1 month ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 658
5.0
10:01
Demonstrating MIDI music playback in DOS on my CompuAdd 810, a 9.54 MHz "Turbo-XT" computer circa 1991, with an Aztech Sound Galaxy BX II sound card installed, which is a ...
Added: 1 month ago
From: vwestlife
Views: 269
4.0
09:24