NABU Unboxing and Setup
When DJ came back to Calgary he brought a surprise with him. It's a new-in-box NABU from the 80s just for me! I'm a lucky man! love
I am going to unbox it, set it up, and start running it. It's gonna to be fun! Cross your fingers that it still works after being in a box for 40 years
And let's hope there aren't any cockroaches inside
If you're not familiar with NABU computers, it's a really cool story, here's the description from https://nabu.ca/
(Natural Access to Bi-directional Utilities)
A personal home computer was released to consumers in 1982 to connect families and businesses on a worldwide network. Founded in Ottawa, Canada, in 1982, families and schools used cable TV modems to connect NABU PCs to a country-wide network. In addition to standard PC capabilities, the NABU computer could download software and information content through the cable feed. Applications included games, programming languages, and news.
It'll be exciting to now be an official part of the NABU community! There have been so many cool things going on with the NABU recently, check out DJ's playlist to get the whole story: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNT_tjSHIQ3lGJR_zOqh9gGeHzykR0spq
NABU computers run in DJ's blood!
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Wow, I thought I knew everything about the 80's technology, Why I never heard of Nabu before? This sounds to me like an alternate reality situation as if this never existed in my Time line. Hadron collider active again? Now I am very curious.I mean I collected everything, I even had the first TV Tennis console similar to Pong. This NABU had no previous reference in any magazines I ever looked at,very odd to me.:) .................Edit...Noticed that one DJ video showing Pac Man and that looked so good, much better than the Atari 2600 version and so much like the original arcade game, Impressive for 1982!
Sorry folks, I'm going to have to push the hack back a bit. DJ and I have to take care of a few things first!
very interesting product. remote terminal based gaming who knew that was a thing.. ok going back to playing XBOX games streaming from the cloud on my TV.
Great stuff, the past is the present
Been keeping up with your YouTube channel.
Yeah it was very advanced for its time. I remember playing zork, some maze game and a few other text based games on a mainframe terminal but wasn’t aware people were playing Pac-Man Qubit and space invaders on Nabu DEC terminal in their living rooms while I was jamming quarters into slots at the local video arcade.
Nice, I never knew this was out there in the 80's. I was focused on the new Apple computers and I guess I was kind of a snob. Once I had an Apple IIGS and an Atari I wasn't interested in anything else until I could have my own custom IBM PC built. If I remember correctly when I bought that Apple IIGS I paid well over 1.5K for it, a monitor and a Dot Matrix Printers. I had to finance it over a couple years! LOL.
I'm going to start looking into @DJ's project here. Sounds fun and very interesting to learn about.
I'm off to watch your unboxing to start things off! Thanks for sharing.
Rich snob. I had a zx80 with 1K of RAM although I did eventually get the 16K RAM module.
I still have it although not sure I have a tv that supports it anymore and I don’t want to do a composite hack.
There’s two ways to use those old computers with rf out. A vcr or a capture device. I have an old pong game and it’s limited to rf channel 3 output as well. I got this: https://a.co/d/cE4sNvO
that’s a bit different than the one I have. But it’ll work just fine