The year was 1982 when an innovative and new subscription based computer was released to the general public in Ottawa Canada: The NABU Personal Computer.
Powerful and advanced, it ran entirely off an operating system and software delivered by a 6mbit cable TV connection.
You've probably never heard of it because it was not a commercial success, but let's take a look at the hardware and technical documentation about what makes up this failed computer.
0:00 Intro
3:01 Looking at the outside and inside
9:45 Power Supply
11:15 Keyboard
15:12 Power up test
17:18 The NABU Network and technical information
30:17 Conclusion and outro
Video Links
NABU PC eBay listing: (available as of Nov 20 2022)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394319978146 (original listing. The seller seems to be releasing them in batches now, so try back later and check for relistings)
Some videos from Leo Binkowski, a software developer for NABU back when the company was operating. News report:
• NABU Games Programmer Leo Binkowski ...
Inside a NABU development machine:
• NABU Archaeology with Leo Binkowski p...
NABU PC User's Guide: (Color scan)
https://archive.org/details/nabupers...
NABU Technical Manual and Schematics:
https://archive.org/details/nabucomp...
More information from the seller of the NABU: (including untested flash device for it, pics and more.)
https://pellmill.com/NABU/CodeHTML/I...
Some additional history behind the NABU: (from someone's who's family was heavily involved)
• 04 The "no effort" NABU computer hi...
NABU Network (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NABU_Ne...
NABU PC and other information:
http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/nabu/i...
York University NABU Reconstruction Project:
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/nabu
Adrian's Digital Basement Merch store:
https://mystorec82bd22.creatorspr...
Adrian's Digital Basement ][ (Second Channel)
/ @adriansdigitalbasement2
Support the channel on Patreon:
/ adriansdigitalbasement
Tools
Deoxit D5:
https://amzn.to/2VvOKy1
http://store.caig.com/s.nl/it.A/id.16...
ORing Pick Set: (I use these to lift chips off boards)
https://amzn.to/3a9x54J
Elenco Electronics LP560 Logic Probe:
https://amzn.to/2VrT5lW
Hakko FR301 Desoldering Iron:
https://amzn.to/2ye6xC0
Rigol DS1054Z Four Channel Oscilloscope:
https://www.rigolna.com/products/digi...
Head Worn Magnifying Goggles / Dual Lens FlipIn Head Magnifier:
https://amzn.to/3adRbuy
TL866II Plus Chip Tester and EPROM programmer: (The MiniPro)
https://amzn.to/2wG4tlP
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33000...
TS100 Soldering Iron:
https://amzn.to/2K36dJ5
https://www.ebay.com/itm/TS10065WMI...
EEVBlog 121GW Multimeter:
https://www.eevblog.com/product/121gw/
DSLogic Basic Logic Analyzer:
https://amzn.to/2RDSDQw
https://www.ebay.com/itm/USBLogicDS...
Magnetic Screw Holder:
https://amzn.to/3b8LOhG
https://www.harborfreight.com/4inch...
Universal ZIP sockets: (clones, used on my ZIF64 test machine)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/14161820...
RetroTink 2X Upconverter: (to hook up something like a C64 to HDMI)
http://www.retrotink.com/
Plato (Clone) Side Cutters: (order five)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/12510PCS...
Heat Sinks:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32537...
Little squeezy bottles: (available elsewhere too)
https://amzn.to/3b8LOOI
Links
My GitHub repository:
https://github.com/misterblack1?tab=r...
Commodore Computer Club / Vancouver, WA – Portland, OR – PDX Commodore Users Group
https://www.commodorecomputerclub.com/
Instructional videos
My video on damagefree chip removal:
• How to remove chips without damaging ...
Music
Intro music and other tracks by:
Nathan Divino
@itsnathandivino