INSIDE Tokyo's hidden vintage Mac markets!

love these places, I use live in Japan in the seventies, I was hoping you would have gone down the vintage stereo equipment stores. they are just as neat as the computer stores. love your channel .

Oh my gosh.... this store loves the computers so much. They fixed the actual motherboard? Oh wow... I tried to find components in HK's Sham Shui Po recently.. and yeh... The guy basically said..."but it is so old, you don't want that, can't fix it (means he refuses to fix it, and doesn't sell the components to fix it)"... I was so shocked. lol.... I asked him about Chromebooks as well, and he also says that this is not common in HK any more. Basically, it's all cloud based and software locked now. lol.... For me, I would just love a workable PC... If somebody ever writes a book on how to troubleshoot and fixes components, I'll buy it ! lol....

Mac Plus boards are through-hole assembled. It's the surface mounted caps in newer ones that leak and fail. Most through hole ones in older models, even though they're even older, still work. It's almost never necessary to preemptively recap a Mac Plus logic board. However, the analog board might need the solder reflowed because cracks in the joints cause bad continuity, presenting with symptoms like no or intermittent video. So it's not unusual for a Mac Plus to just power up like that one did for you. However, those that don't quite possibly have no bad caps, but just some dry solder joints that need reflowing.

Also, that white thing you called an iPod shuffle was actually an Apple Remote.

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It's already 5 months??? since you travel to Japan?

All of Tokyo looks like a flea market

I’m here in Akihabara looking for that shop. Found it but with none “junk sections”😶‍🌫️🥺

I wonder if the people in Japan realize that "Hard Off" sounds similar to slang used in the USA.

The trademark for アイフォーン (iPhone) was taken long before iPhone was born by one of the camera embedded door bell manufacture in Japan but they let apple use iPhone because they think "Apple" would not make doorbell in the future. Airport on the other hand, trademark was taken by company where they sell PC peripherals and one of their WiFi product is called AirPort. Apple had to rename AirPort to AirMac due to that.

WOW! A sign for ICOM! I have an ICOM IC-705 for QRP operations!

I want to go to Japan so bad

Bro I'm pretty sure thats not the keyboard that works with the macintosh plus

I owned one of the first Mac Pluses. I wish I still had it. Guys, what a great haul!

Genuinely one of the places I want to go to

Great video, love it.

Loved this till I got a trauma reminder of the red ring of death from the stupid Xbox in the background lol

Sam how Autistic are you?
Sam: Yes

Wow Sam from I still call it IUpdate no matter what.

I bought my first MacBook pro retina 2015 at one of these stores in akibahara back in 2016 or 2017...i bought it 2ndhand for 650 USD then

That Mac Plus was the very first Mac I bought in 1989 and launched my career including working at Apple. Good times.

Thanks for the close up of the transceivers. I always wanted to know which ones was popular over there.

Japan is flooded with so much stuff! It actually make me sick! For Australian money, they are not cheap! I need to win a lottery to shop in Japan in my case because I want to visit every those shops and buy everything! Just way too many stuff!

You might have Jizz your pants there bud

my favourite place. Akihabara❤‍🔥👾🎌

Why would anyone even want an i-phone, let alone an older one

So cool that you found an 80's mac for sale in Tokyo. I just wonder what the hell you can still do with a computer that old? I suppose I would buy one just for decoration inside my house.

most amazing second hand mac shop i came across in japan was in kobe, floor to ceiling stacks of every generation of macs, you could hardly squeeze through the piles, never seen anything even close in akihabra and ive spent a lot of time in tokyo

Damn bro, I had an Apple Mac Plus, like new! With the mouse! All working! Just sold it a few years ago for nerds like you wanting a vintage Mac. Maybe I should’ve kept it. But I did get $400 for it. Happy hunting.

We use to have electric component stores like this….. Fry’s Electronics, even Radio Shack pre-90’s was awesome, then it slowly died out… went online. 😢

Went to that same hard off during my trip to japan. Very cool stuff they have there 👍

Luke your mind would be blown if you visited an electronic market in China (where all those misc electronics are made) and are super cheap.

japan looks so unreal lol. literaly eveything I love in one place

Seeing these pref boards and 9v battery connectors is Radio Shack vibes.

Marines had found a newer Canadian? Who cares?! Are you selling anything at Tokyo?!

Damn man. I gotta go to Tokyo at least once in my lifetime.

Feels like we over produced a lot of electronics. Definitely we need to change our habits as humans. Always buying the new tech toys it’s always the best.

If prices are really this low for vintage hardware over there I think it's a collector's nightmare because you'd spend all your money in one day xD

What is the name of the store for all the vintage games? Please share..

I first went there in 1986. I haven’t been there for over fifteen years. Even then you could hear the loud mouth Americans embarrassing the rest of the gaijin.

If the Japanese printing industry had not supported the purchase of Macintosh, it would have been out of business before Steve Jobs returned.