Rebuilding Tokyo's Tiniest Electronics Shop - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 06:16:59 am
content: Hmm... So it's in his private studio now, inaccessible to the public, and one can't buy any of the products. I wouldn't call that a "shop" anymore; it's a prop for a couple of videos.Better than trashing everything, of course, but worse than finding a cheap location on the outskirts of town where it could be opened to the public occasionally.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 09:45:49 am
content: Offtopic, but this video reminded me again...What is going on with changing thumbnails on Youtube lately? I have seen videos changing thumbnails every day for a week or so.Is that just another Youtube stupidity that is supposed to drive egangement? Or worse, actually *does* drive engagement?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 10:20:59 am
content: Quote from: Ranayna on August 24, 2023, 09:45:49 amYes, it's common technique with the big Youtubers now and there is much talk and promotion of the impact of changing the thumbnail several times in the first few days of a videos release. You can see the instant effect of it in the stats.

author: AndyBeez
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 11:08:09 am
content: On topic, this is definitely worth a replay from almost 40 year's ago. Some people on this forum may have seen this first time around.'Japanese Home Computers' from 'Database', a programme first broadcast in the UK by Thames Television (ITV network) in June 1984.[ Sorry if the presenter sounds a bit of a 'dip-switch' at times, but it was all new to them ]

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 03:33:23 pm
content: Funny it mentions MSX home computers. These where pretty popular in some Western countries as well. Philips used to have a whole range of these machines including ones suitable for doing video overlays & simple effects. Good old times...

author: AndyBeez
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 05:24:26 pm
content: I too remember MSX machines. Pete Perkins, the sales guy with the Apple IIclone'compatible' was priceless. Have any of his PCBs since masqueraded as genuine Apple II parts on Craigslist? Or did his production models just contain "imagination" and empty DIL sockets? So do those stores with their back-dated stocks of Z80A microprocessors still exist - or is the place now a vast pachinko and cosplay parlour? That would be a fascinating place to visit - with a time machine. They probably had a shop selling flux capacitors too.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 24, 2023, 07:01:18 pm
content: Quote from: AndyBeez on August 24, 2023, 05:24:26 pmBack in that time, every reasonably sized town in the NL had an electronics store where you could buy electronic parts. Those Japanese shops certainly wheren't a novelty. Nowadays you likely find these kind of stores in less developed countries. The only difference between 'the west' and Asia is that in the west similar stores are spread over a wide area, where in Asia similar stores are all crammed into the same building. I have visited various countries in Asia and having the same kind of shops in a single building is a recurring theme.