Found this guy recently, only 200 or so subscribers at the moment but his videos are good quality in my opinion and have been enjoying his content so far.

https://www.youtube.com/@restoredwards

I quite enjoy this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rehsd

He builds his own motherboards from scratch. He recently finished a 286 motherboard and got FreeDOS to boot. He is now working on a 386SX upgrade for it and also started designing a 386DX motherboard.

And then there's also: https://www.youtube.com/@Fox-Tech

He's building a 486 breadboard computer.

Has anyone mentioned this EMM-Computers guy ?
He is building his own XT-class platforms and various cards for them. He explains many things about the stuff he makes and also does reviews of stuffs made by others.
https://youtube.com/@elijahmmiller

Edit: He started couple years ago with XT computer on a breadboard and 8088 CPU with raspberry pi board. Worth watching his channel from the beginning.

all good recent recommendations, i appreciate the technical depth of some of these youtubers

I've just stumbled over a little young channel called "Matt's Workbench".
Looks interesting, quite a few videos about vintage Macs so far. 🙂👍

Really, no one is going to bring up our favorite stoner who puts SSDs in EVERYTHING?

https://www.youtube.com/user/Druaga1

If you are into Macs
https://www.youtube.com/@ActionRetro

https://www.youtube.com/@RapidlyAgeingTechnology

He has some good videos, loved his dual PPRO videos, hasn't posted in a year, however. I know he moved and had some other stuff going on, but I always looked forward to what he was messing with each week or so, even if it was a 1950s vacuum.

Haven’t seen anyone mention Mac84 yet: https://youtube.com/@Mac84
He does all sorts of Mac repair stuff, livestreams, etc.

65scribe as well. Excellent documentaries about vintage Mac systems: https://youtube.com/@65scribe

Apples Anonymous: https://youtube.com/@aa-au
Really small channel. Has some nice videos where he’s testing out and documenting his rather large collection

Canadian Computer Collector: https://youtube.com/@CanadianComputerCollector
More great retro tech stuff here.

i80386sx: https://youtube.com/@i80386sx
Lots of laptop repair stuff, mostly Compaq and Toshiba systems.

Mastergeko4: https://youtube.com/@Mastergeko4
Quite a bit inactive unfortunately, but has some excellent Mac content on there.

Polymatt: https://youtube.com/@polymatt
New channel, great videos on retro tech repairs. Author behind 701c.org, if anyone knows about that site.

Savvy Sage: https://youtube.com/@SavvySage
More good Mac stuff.

SnowFoxComputing: https://youtube.com/@snowfoxcomputing
One of my favorite places for vintage system overviews and other fun vintage tech content. Unfortunately quite inactive though.

THEtechknight: https://youtube.com/@THEtechknight
Longer unscripted repair videos from an absolute technical troubleshooting wizard. One of my favorites.

Might as well also link my own channel here, I do vintage tech stuff too if anyone’s interested. https://youtube.com/@3lectr1c

mogwaay wrote on 2023-06-20, 20:00:

https://www.youtube.com/@Yesterzine Really witty deep dives into UK Computer/Console Magazines from back in the day with plenty of great tangents.

yay, after finishing binging on RoseTintedSpectrum (Breaking Bad Influence) I looked into this one and Yesterzine playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqPaeY … j4AzIDJBGQ2kCOl) is another winner. >30 hours of solid nostalgia material to chew thru.

3lectr1c wrote on 2023-08-02, 00:00:

i80386sx: https://youtube.com/@i80386sx
Lots of laptop repair stuff, mostly Compaq and Toshiba systems.

I opened 130 tabs selecting only videos I would be interested watching judging by the title, thats half of his videos 😮

3lectr1c wrote on 2023-08-02, 00:00:

Polymatt: https://youtube.com/@polymatt
New channel, great videos on retro tech repairs. Author behind 701c.org, if anyone knows about that site.

Good content. Dude clearly knows his stuff, but presentation ala 15 year old Indian cellphone repair videos with soldering to techno music fails it 🙁 Im not a fan of watching someone tinker in silence, prefer narrated battle plan/chain of through/methodology.

I can name you my own Youtube channel which is not so popular, @8BitRetroJournal, and if you like the content I would ask you to subscribe to it.
Growing my channel naturally is a challenge, especially when there's a lot of competition.

Maybe someone from those who already have a YouTube channel could advise me in this regard. I have seen sites where you can buy Youtube subscribers to influence the YouTube algorithm, do you think it would have any effects on the popularity of a channel?
Has anyone tried it?

MikeTech: https://www.youtube.com/@miketech1024/

Relatively new channel and has been increasing in new subscribers pretty nicely, I subscribed when it had only couple of hundred. Lot's of dumpster rescue type of stuff which I think is nice. Host is pleasant dude also and he has this nice guy+garage feel, but camera work is still excellent.

IBM Museum: https://www.youtube.com/@IBM_Museum

These suggestions wouldn't be anything without the institution called IBM Museum. All kinds of weird and wonderful from the IBM world. Does lot's of livestreams which are fun although sometimes big part of the show is him fiddling with the audio, which is just adds to the flavour 😁

https://www.youtube.com/@drueking

This guy is a low volume channel but the quality of his work is par excellence. So many tech youtubers are so hamfisted when it comes to mechanical skills but not him.

https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport

He's doing a video series on setting up a dial-up ISP just like you would do in the old days, also doing interviews with people that have experience or worked on these things back in the day.

Really interesting.

schmatzler wrote on 2023-09-10, 01:33:

https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport

He's doing a video series on setting up a dial-up ISP just like you would do in the old days, also doing interviews with people that have experience or worked on these things back in the day.

Really interesting.

that is a good channel and i like the quality of that series!

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in the many recommendations on the thread there are lots of channels with low sub and view counts, but they still form communities of sorts and sometimes a series or a video or two get 100k+ views, maybe after a ref on reddit or someplace

if you carry on and look below this are legions of channels with hardly any subs or views, most of them only last a few months before the creator (understandably) gives up, they are harder to find - usually discovered via one video when looking for an obscure topic and paging down past the regular channels and newer videos

but i also notice, especially in gaming, channels that have several uploads a week for years on end - but with very few subs and very few views (often you can pick a several years old video and there are still '6 views') and yet in among the voiceless gameplay vids there are also occasional face to camera videos with the "hello youtube" and "this channel will be developing" and so on - talking to no one

at one level i wonder why they carry on, maybe if its just streamed uploads it becomes a kind of gaming journal but when there are streams with talking (to no one) and videos with talk of "hello youtube" and so on i'd think it must be strange even after years of getting virtually no feedback to carry on anyway. And yet i hugely appreciate that they do carry on because what they leave behind is all kinds of quirky intersting gems in among the mass of videos, handy gameplay examples, maybe a playthrough, a tech hint and so on - perhaps thats the motivation, its for the good of history 😀

do you like arkanoid / breakout type games...?

https://www.youtube.com/@ArkanoidGames/videos

an example of what i mentioned above: "but i also notice, especially in gaming, channels that have several uploads a week for years on end - but with very few subs and very few views"

yet this is a treasure trove of game genre specific short videos, really handy for those trying to remember a game and just a visual database for others (and if the channel owner sees this, many will appreciate your efforts! )

i didn't realise there were quite so many implementations of this type of game, all the hours of programming and so on these must represent! there are other game genre specific channels out there too

Daniël Oosterhuis wrote on 2023-07-17, 09:47:

He's mentioned earlier in the thread, and he is a member on VOGONS as well.
The gist of what is known, is that he simply hasn't got the time for retro computing in his life right now, though he himself hasn't said that publicly (word of mouth from others), so it can't exactly be verified.

That is a valid reason.... And he do not owe anyone an explanation untill he has time to give it. Same stuff with Octavius King (former Octavius Kitten), though she gave an explanation as to why, when she made a video after nearly half a year of hiatus. The reason was her mental health, and I hope she has someone to help her when the forrest comes crashing down on her. Anyway.... I do not have that much time for my channel, yet alone going on Vogons. Mentally I have been drained for the last year, and my body are having issues like bad eye sight, sore muscles and a pain that roll's quickly around the body from the feet's and up to my shoulders and down again.

Plus issues with cancer in the family, my children also takes a lot of my time. So... Nope. No time for making youtube and extremely little time for forums and that stuff.