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00:00Hello and welcome back to another video. Today we have a look. This is a bunch of calculators and also
00:05like personal organisers stuff from Japan.
00:09Couple of other things here like some games as well.
00:12We'll have a look at those and we'll actually see what some of the unique stuff that we've got here.
00:18These are all pretty vintage.
00:21So nothing too modern. So we can see what some of the unique calculators and stuff used to look like.
00:35There we go, added the bubble there.
00:38We'll start with the tops but it looks like some of the less exciting stuff.
00:57So we've got that. We've got a Falcom game here. Now the calculator. A few of these are in boxes.
01:12And there we are.
01:18So it's quite interesting. These are very small calculators. They're tiny little cards.
01:23It's used to games but we'll look at those. There's another little card calculator like this.
01:30Assume there's a button battery in the back here.
01:34Do I have to push, or just have to push that in first.
01:37It's not going to be able to take it out. I don't have anything on hand except, look.
01:42Unless if I use a pen or something.
01:45Pushing.
01:46Pushing that in.
01:52There we go.
01:55Nice, that sort of pushes in. It's like a thing only goes one way.
01:58It's a 2016 battery so like 2032 but half as thick.
02:04Not sure about how to turn this on.
02:08Oh, there we go. On.
02:1212 times 6.
02:15And what's enter?
02:18Equals, there we go. 72.
02:21Seems to work quite well. This is a sharp one.
02:24Another sharp one here.
02:26Slightly different looks like.
02:29It is thicker.
02:31I'm sure you know it's the same size.
02:33The same size.
02:34But this one has some extra stuff up here.
02:37Some text. So, I assume you can just take contacts or something like that.
02:41It's got a little phone symbol there.
02:44Some instructions in here.
02:48Oh, what's this?
02:49Oh!
02:52Wasn't expecting that.
02:54Someone's got some postage stamps in the back of this.
02:58Are the actual postage stamps?
03:00There's a hundred if one.
03:02There's a hundred yen.
03:04Not gonna be sure.
03:05I wasn't expecting these.
03:12That's interesting.
03:15Let's put that in there for now.
03:20Back of this.
03:22Same.
03:23Different serial number.
03:24801, 80Y.
03:26Three folds.
03:27Same wattage.
03:29The back's at least the same.
03:32So, that is the off and on button.
03:35As it turns off by itself.
03:37So, that is the on button.
03:4223.
03:43That's not what I typed.
03:46Oh, I did go 12.
03:4823.
03:49Divided by three.
03:51Equals.
03:527.6.
03:56You're not really sure what all these things are.
04:01We'll put that in here.
04:05Yeah, it's interesting to get some random stamps as well.
04:08What about our Casio variant?
04:13I don't see a spot for a battery.
04:17I know this is all self-contained and you can't replace the battery or you have to
04:21fake it apart to do.
04:23It looks like this is actually just solar powered.
04:25It does have the solar cell there.
04:29So, if I cover that up.
04:31There we go, it fades.
04:33This is a purely solar powered one.
04:34Film card.
04:36Is that the same size?
04:41There's no battery at all.
04:45It's squishy.
04:49Holding the power button.
04:51You may see for power.
04:53There's nothing.
04:59So, it's a bit of a problem.
05:03So, one, two, three.
05:05Don't do anything.
05:06Four, five, six, seven, eight.
05:15Divided by nine.
05:18Not so much use if the equals doesn't work.
05:22So, you can just divide it again or one of these buttons
05:26to get the number before you do the next operation.
05:28But yeah, it looks like these numbers here don't work.
05:30Which is a bit of a shame.
05:33Not going to be much use.
05:38So, these here.
05:40We'll look at next.
05:42Pretty much the same size.
05:43Little cards.
05:47These are for some of the sharp organizers.
05:51There's a few different organizers in the series.
05:53The four indicates what they're available for.
05:56There's one who's got different numbers.
05:57Well, numbers are like, sub-numbers.
05:59These are some of the more widely compatible ones.
06:02Looks like it's a Mahjong game.
06:05And something else.
06:09Bit of peeling on the back there.
06:11But it sounds off, so that's the actual game company.
06:14And you can put these in the organizer.
06:15And then there's an overlay.
06:17So, you can use these printed things as actual buttons.
06:20Using the touch digitizer, which will be just above it.
06:25Got some more calculators here.
06:27This one's a bit more sizable compared to the ones we were just looking at.
06:30It's a Casio one.
06:32AC.
06:33Not turning on.
06:35Might just be out of battery.
06:37It takes two batteries there.
06:39Probably two 2032 cells.
06:43You can't really do much with this one at the moment.
06:45What about this sharp little folio calculator?
06:49Nothing happens with that one either.
06:50So, it's probably also out of battery.
06:55This one.
06:56I'm going to use one small cell there.
07:03Hopefully none of these have leaked.
07:05Let's open them up this.
07:09It's got manual and everything there, which is good.
07:12I'm trying to calculate this one's a sharp one.
07:16So, I like these early ones, except it's a bit of a different color scheme here.
07:20Similar sort of layout, where you've got the buttons up here.
07:23Up, down.
07:25These look at the same location.
07:26So, basically it's a reskinned version of it.
07:30Maybe like a nicer version or something.
07:32It does have like a money bag, so maybe you can use like some money stuff.
07:36It's a bit sticky.
07:37I've got a big arrow telling you where the button battery is.
07:43This one also works.
07:4612 times 6.
07:49Yeah, that one seems pretty good.
07:56What do some of these other things do?
07:59Name.
08:00So, yeah, it does have like a password.
08:02So, that's an encryption stuff I assume for like your phone book.
08:06Put this one back in here.
08:09Interesting thing.
08:10It's a shame.
08:12It's from the rubber or the plastic.
08:14It's a bit sticky.
08:18That's a nice little thing.
08:20Probably put that straight in your wallet.
08:24Two more smaller ones.
08:27So, back to the sharp one now.
08:31Look at the Casio one next.
08:34This one's in a little plastic bag.
08:40It goes in there.
08:42Why is it in the bag?
08:46Did it come like this or is it something someone's done?
08:49Anyway, it's turned it on.
08:51I think it's the other one as well.
08:55It feels a bit hard to read.
08:59Yeah, so there's a few issues with that.
09:04Let's put that one.
09:06Let's put that to the side for now.
09:08I'll figure how to put that in a bit later.
09:11Next, we do have another Casio one.
09:14Let's get our previous Casio one.
09:17Oh, here it is.
09:18Imagine it's going to be this one again.
09:21SL763 and 750.
09:22So this is, I guess, the slightly worse version.
09:31Bit hard to open.
09:36Got the manual stuff in there.
09:38Casio film card.
09:40Slightly different sleeve.
09:44And if we take this out.
10:00What's interesting, I know some of these companies also made radios in the same form factor.
10:05That's quite nice, that one.
10:11And so we'll go 1, 2, 3 times 45 equals.
10:18That looks nice and good that all the buttons work, unlike on this one.
10:25So let's put that one back in there.
10:28Put that to the side.
10:30And we have our next calculator.
10:32Saving this Panicom game for the end.
10:35This is a Teiko brand one.
10:37Which I think might watch some things.
10:41It's interesting that on this, the largest thing is not the numbers, the actual letters.
10:46So I think they're intending to use this to write stuff as Kanji.
10:51So I imagine you can actually probably write stuff in with English characters or Latin characters.
10:56And then you can write actual Kanji.
10:59Now the things are falling out of this.
11:02The back's all opened up.
11:06Not sure if that was supposed to be able to open like that.
11:10But yeah, the back's all come off.
11:13Here's some instructions and we can see if we can get this reverse.
11:16No, this definitely isn't supposed to come off because this thing pulls out like that.
11:21The glue's failed.
11:24Let's just put this on the back and hold it down for now.
11:28Just so we can look, actually, unless the button's swelling, maybe?
11:34They seem pretty flat.
11:36I thought maybe if there were swelling, because they've had some button batteries.
11:39Here's one.
11:40Maybe get a bit of a bulge on them.
11:42But if that was the case, maybe it's pushed the back off.
11:45But nope.
11:46Those look fine.
11:47So let's just hold this on for now.
11:57How do we do this?
11:58Might be out of battery.
12:01So we can't really test that.
12:05So I've tried everything I can think of with this.
12:08Holding it back when I'm pressing every button.
12:11Nothing's going to happen, so I'm not sure what exactly is wrong.
12:15Thought it would be interesting to get this one working.
12:17But whether it's an issue with the batteries dead, which can be a bit difficult to think most of these
12:22are 2016s.
12:24It would fit, but it just wouldn't be thick enough.
12:27So if I held it, I managed to get it to work.
12:30Maybe at some point in the future I'll get some more batteries and I'll probably give it another go.
12:34But hopefully it isn't actually a device itself, which it very well could be, given the age of these.
12:41Let's have the year.
12:43Is it on there?
12:44Let's see if we can actually find the year for this.
12:47Should have it on something.
13:07The quick glance, I can't find a year on here either.
13:10At least we can see what it looks like.
13:13It's a dot matrix display as opposed to one of the seven segment ones that some of the other calculators
13:18have.
13:19Where you can get a little katakana at the top or kanji.
13:23You can write quite a few different ways.
13:26So it's an interesting little thing.
13:30Yeah, not exactly sure when this one came out.
13:34So again, put this to the side.
13:38I think what I'm most interested in is this.
13:41So this is a Famicom game.
13:48It's obviously not exactly organizer related or calculator related.
13:53Even though there are some sort of similar things on game consoles like the Famicom.
13:57This is Dragon's Lair, which is a game by Donald Bluth.
14:01We thought it was originally an arcade game, which used LazerDisc to play actual animated video.
14:06And you'd have to press the button at the right time to get the good things to happen.
14:10But what's interesting about this cartridge is it's one of a couple Famicom cartridges.
14:13Where they're actually used with a different color front and back shell.
14:17Pretty good condition.
14:19And we see a bit of scuff sort of yellowing on the white part.
14:22But yeah.
14:24Yeah, the back is purple.
14:25And the front is white, which is a pretty rare thing for them to do.
14:29There's a couple other games that do stuff like this.
14:31But yeah.
14:32Something you probably haven't seen before.
14:34Now Dragon's Lair is invisibly a very bad game on the NES slash Famicom.
14:39Actually the American NES version is different to the Famicom and the European slash international NES version.
14:47Where that one has a different MMC or maybe even likes it completely.
14:51So it has a different mapper chip.
14:53So it isn't as advanced.
14:54Now these ones has a few differences to the American version where it's got some fed up things.
14:59There was a few other changes.
15:01It's also still not very good.
15:03Now one of the interesting things about it is that it actually has a portion of the source code of
15:08the game on one of the ROM chips.
15:11And that's because there's a larger ROM chips that was needed.
15:15And as a result of something happened in the process of creating the ROM to be burnt onto the masked
15:21ROM chips for this.
15:22So it ended up with the excess space being filled with a portion of the source code, which should be
15:28interesting.
15:29Yeah, but this is a very poorly received game.
15:34And it actually did so poorly in Japan that the follow-up for the Super Famicom, where they've got the
15:41Super Dragons Lair, whatever they call one of the follow-ups.
15:45Actually didn't use the name Dragons Lair, they did it in the West because of how poorly it was received.
15:49So they actually changed the name of the follow-up game to try to hopefully have a bit of a
15:53better time selling it.
15:55It's been a bit interesting seeing all these different calculators, a few very unique ones.
16:00All right, the little solar powered, well that solar powered as well, but this one.
16:04Much better condition, easy to see.
16:08And basically these little credit cards, about twice the size of an actual credit card.
16:14But it's an actual fully functional calculator.
16:16Obviously no super complicated stuff, but it's got multiplication, division, like all these standard things, roots.
16:25Pretty interesting.
16:28Yeah, and then you've got the actual organizer game, so you can plug those actually into it.
16:33And we've got an interesting Famicom game, so that's an interesting lot we've just had a look at.
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16:51See you next time.
16:52See you next time.