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Rarest of the Rare | The Mindset II Computer
Rarest of the Rare | The Mindset II Computer
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#computer #technology #retrotech The Mindset II was the follow-up to the 80186 powered original Mindset computer, which debuted in 1984. Facing tough financial straits, Mindset Corporation gambled that refocusing on the video and graphics professional market, offering a new model with 512KB of…
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Hopefully this is my last accidental computer purchase. Thanks to Patrons for helping make this video possible!
I so wanted this computer when it first came out but it was expensive and not a standard that could run much software. Still it was very cool at the time. Kind of a noble failure. I'd spend a thousand dollars for a working one on eBay. There's no way that Mindset manufactured 50,000 units. A couple thousand at most.
Usually the blame for destroyes vintage computers is shared by the shipping companies and the sellers that couldn't be arsed to package the items decently.
Well you know what's gonna happen. The Nova Scotia buyer is gonna be surfing around trying to solve a no-post one day and will land on this video. Huehuehue.
Youtube tried to block me for using an adblock. Found a way around. Youtube is NOT going to get in between me and your new uploads. HA! I love your third person skits. Also, nice buy, my friend!!!
Yes! Another brilliant left handed human being.. <3
My employer said I don't have the right Mindset.
I said the right Mindset is rare indeed.
Is anybody hiring?
Congrats for scoring this one .. and thanks for letting us participate!
I really wanted one of those after I read about it back then. Too bad it flopped.
I'm sorry but I agree with the keyboard: oxford comma is life.
From the few listings I can find the prices on Mindset computers are really reasonably priced, considering how rare they are. The more common IMSAI 8080 fetches a lot more on the open market. Usually in the 4,000-6,000 dollar range. What strikes me as baffling unreasonable is the price the even more common Commodore PET fetches. Frequently over $2,000 is quite the high asking prices for something that saw a total of over 200,000 units produced. So count your lucky stars that the Mindset tends to be relatively inexpensive, especially for its rarity. It might be its obscurity that actually keeps the prices down though.
I hope these machines actually start getting cloned for posterity. FPGAs especially make that very possible now. It'd be an absolute shame to see these things go completely away as they die off of old age. While they were a complete failure in the market and exist as a footnote, they're an important foot note. I think a lot of machines that followed them simply wouldn't exist without the Mindset machines having existed in the first place.
Oh yes, it was gorgeous… you can imagine the Amiga A-1000 picked up a few design ideas from it 😉
A beautiful and very interesting machine, for sure. Congratulations!
This taught me something new
I really wish the mister FPGA crowd would show some interest in recreating hardware representations of machines such as the mindset or Lisa so people can have a better experience of them and to archive the hardware. Seems they spend a lot of time cloning arcade game boards.
So no luck obtaining the joystick I take it?
I wonder if someone will eventually make adapters for Mindset.
An interesting chat about a computer I've never heard of. What CPU was used?
What a cool find! A reminder that patience is a virtue, one which sometimes pays off in big ways, certainly here. I'll probably be cancelled among the vintage computer collector community for even daring bring this up, but with such nice industrial design like that laying to waste in one of your other unusable Mindsets, it would be neat to see a case repurposed for use with something like the Commander X16 or any one of the modern vintage recreations. As opposed to sitting on the shelf just because unobtainable parts have long since rendered a system unit otherwise unusable and pretty much spare parts. This new 100% working complete unit would look sick sitting next to a repurposed Mindset case
You did a thing and I'm here to support it. 😁