Fiery horse with a speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early west in the United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. The law intended to keep him there for at least 20 years, but Gorman had other plans. For weeks, he had been waiting to get one guard on duty, one particular guard whom he thought he could outwit. Finally, his big chance came. He knew that vigilance was somewhat relaxed, and that aside from the man on duty and the room outside the cell, there were no other guards. Hey, guard! Hey, you! Come here. I want to tell you something. It seems you're smoking. That's a story, isn't it? No, Doug. Well, it is. Oh, wait. Don't go away. Let me finish. I got no time to listen to such rot. I heard some men talking outside my window. They said there were still plenty of drugs being brought over the border. Well, at least you're not sharing in the profits. No, but don't they prove something? What? Don't you see? Don't they prove when they framed a case against B.L.S.? You weren't framed, Gordon. You were convicted on plenty of evidence. I still claim I was framed. It's an innocent man doing this to yell at him, and the fact that smuggler still goes on proves it. It don't prove anything of the sort. Yeah, but it... It proves that you had such a slick, well-greased, smooth work in an organization built up that, well, it's going right on working even if you're not there to lead it. All right. That settles it. Settles what? Yeah, I've got to break down and use my last resource. I didn't want to do it, but guard your man. You can serve me what it means to look ahead to the rest of your life in jail.  It'd be bad enough if I was guilty of smuggling. I'd be an innocent. I just can't stand it. You're as innocent as the man at Chad Lincoln. Oh, God, you must judge me like everyone else. Is that all you had to tell me? God, let me ask you. Isn't there still smuggling the drugs over the border? Yeah. Then don't that prove I wasn't the one that was doing it? Well, it proves there are still smugglers we haven't caught. That's all it proves. Who didn't find anyone that could identify me as a smuggler? Look here, Gorman. If you'd been more in the open, we'd have had evidence that'd hang you. We know how you kept away in the background making plans and things without letting most of your own gang know who you were. We got you dead to rights with smuggled drugs in your possession. God, I'm going to take a long chance. I'd likely be killed for squealing, but it's better to stand here to rot in jail. I'll give you the name of the real head of the smugglers, the one that framed me for the crimes. If you can't refuse to take the name of the investigate, come clues now. Write it down for you. You know, nothing could amaze me more than to find that you're telling the truth. Here, God, let me take your pencil. I'll write it out here. All right, I'll give you. Got you.  He came close to the board so I'd get a hold of you. In a minute, you'll be unconscious. And I'll just help myself to your keys and to my freedom. There'll be more than one black market, give me. Where do I care as long as I can have my freedom? The next day, an Indian raced across the plains at the top speed of his powerful paint horse. He reigned up at a ranch hall, shouted to the open door. When a man appeared, he cried out, Blue Garmin, him get out of jail. Blue Garmin, him escape. You spread word.  On he raged, heading south, pausing only long enough in each community to spread the news. He on guard. Blue Garmin out of jail. Him break out last night.  Garmin ranged through town and village road taunt all the Indian companion of the lone ranger to warn everyone that a killer was at large. Get him out of town. Get him out. Many miles from where the prisoner had been captured and jailed, a girl named Sally Marker heard the news. She hurried home to tell her mother. That's the truth, Ma. Oh, Sally. Garmin out of jail after all the trouble to put him there. That's what I wanted to talk to you about, mother. We've got an extra special reason to want Garmin sent back to pay in full for his crimes. I know, dear. He killed Pa. That was never proved. No, but we know he killed him. Pa was his sheriff, and he was almost ready to smash the whole gang of smugglers that Lou Garmin was working with when he was killed. Yes, dear, but... The new sheriff here doesn't even know what Garmin looks like. Garmin was captured and jailed a long ways from here. I don't think any of the woman around here know him by sight. I don't know him myself, Sally. All right. But I think I know where to find him. You? Yes. Remember, Mom? I was with Pa when he died. Oh, yeah. Well, he told me something. He said that Garmin's smuggler gang had their headquarters near here. And he said that Garmin had a hideout not far from town. Garmin did? What for? Well, Garmin didn't have much to do with the rest of the smugglers. He had a hideout and worked from there. A hideout? Yes. You see, the boss of the gang used Garmin as a sort of spy to be sure none of the gang tried a double-cross. Garmin went to this hideout for his orders. And I'll bet he'll go there now. It's a cave a few miles from town. Sally, this isn't anything that you should make clean, too. But, Mom, the new sheriff won't know about the hideout. He won't know Garmin when he sees him. I've got to tell him about it. And I've got to hurry or Garmin will be there and gone. No, I wonder who that can be. Howdy, Miss Marker. Why, Miss Pringle. You mind if I step in? How are you, Sally? All right.  My sakes alive. Did you hear the news? That smuggler named Garmin that was in jail in Amorant is out and running wild. Yes, we heard about it. I thought of you, ladies. First thing I heard of it. You did? Oh, there was talk that Garmin was the one who shot your husband. That's the truth. But there never was any proof of it. Oh, my, my. I do hope he don't come here to get you, too. Do you know anything that'll be dangerous to him? Not very much. I mean, um, well, you know what Garmin looks like, don't you? Neither Sally or I know him on site. Oh. Well, then maybe he won't have any reason to do any murders here. I'm glad of it. I'd hate to think he'd head right for here and start shooting people. I'm going now, Mom. You're going someplace, Sally. I want to talk to the sheriff. The sheriff? He's not around. He isn't? No. Sheriff in his deputies left town to hunt for Garmin. Mrs. Prindler, are you sure? Of course I'm sure. I helped put up the food for the sheriff to take along with him. He plans to be gone for two, maybe three days.  But, Mom, it'll be too late, then. Garmin will have come and gone. There's only one thing to do. No, no, no, Sally, please. I've got to. I'll take Pa's old shooting on in case I need it. Oh, Mrs. Prindler, I'm worried. What was the girl talking about? The father told her about some cave near here. It's a place that Garmin used to use as a hideout. Oh. She thinks Garmin will go there. Oh, but, uh, why should he go there? That's just it. If the place is known. That's just it. Does this Sally the only one who knows about it? She wanted to take the sheriff there, but he's out of town. What would Garmin go there for? Oh, I don't know, but if he is there, it's Sally alone. I hate to think of what might happen. The widow Prindler left the house and hurried home. There she called a man named Janks and her manner changed to one of plenty hardness. I found out that the girl did get told a few things by her old man, Janks. She knows about the cave. She does, eh? Yes, and she's going there now. She gets there, she's likely to find Garmin. I'll get there pronto. Tell Garmin to wait there till we send further orders. Right. And see that the girl's tied and kept there with him. I have to think over what to do about her. She knows too much. But, boss, I don't know Garmin when I see him. Well, you fool, if there's a tall bearded man there, it'll be Garmin, won't it? Who else knows of the place? I'll get there fast. The king of the cave a few miles from town was hidden by a dense underbrush. One could pass within three feet and never notice. Sally rained up in the nearby trees. Oh, oh, there. That's where the cave is. The place where I used to play when I was a little girl had become the hideout of... Sally's thoughts broke off abruptly when she caught sight of a horse. Ground hits beyond the fringe of trees that grew near the opening of the cave. He's in there. If only I can get the drop on him. Drawing the heavy of 44 a father used to carry, the girl crept softly toward the bushes. She made barely a sound as she part of the dense growth and forced away toward the well-hidden opening. She didn't know that every move she made was watched by the tall man who crouched just inside the cave. And suddenly... Best help. Oh. Who are you? What are you doing here? Oh, it's Lou Gorman. You are Lou Gorman. Why did you come here? Because I... I came to capture you. And the sheriff's men are right behind me. You might as well surrender. The sheriff's men? How did they know? Surrender and give me your guns. Better take that gun of yours before you start shooting. I'll talk quickly. Be sure you tell me the truth. Who are you and why are you here? Gorman, you killed my father. You're going to pay for it this time. 20 years in jail wasn't bad enough for you. I hope you do kill me. The sheriff's men can close in then and they'll hang you for it. If you don't kill me, you'll have to shoot it out with them. The sheriff is nowhere near here. But he...  You hear the horse coming, don't you? Better get ready to shoot it out. I think this rope will hold you for the time being. I'm not concerned about the sheriff's men and where they are. All right, everything's clear. Come on in. Good. I had a visitor before you came and I... Oh, I caught her, huh? I came here to warn you that she was on the way. Jinx. So you're one of the gang. That's too bad you had to find it out, Miss Sally. Because now you're too dangerous to us to go free. Did you bring any instructions? Yeah, a shot of weight here until tonight. Then I'll come with more orders for you. The girls to be kept here too and kept ropes so that she can't get away. You watch out for her. You know, her old man was a sheriff. Yes. And they say that she's almost as smart as he was. Well, there's no need for me to stay here as long as you've got the girl a prisoner. I, uh... I want to see the boss. I don't know about that, Garmin.  We've spent a lot of time in jail and I'm going to be paid for it. I'll pass the word. See that you do. Right. Now I'll shove on. Oh, uh, you needn't worry about the sheriff. He's away out on the plains looking for you. I'm not worried. I'm downright sorry about you, Miss Sally. I'd soon as see almost anyone else in that fix. Save your sympathy. You'll need it someday for yourself. Well, there's room for an argument there, but I ain't got the time now. Keep a close watch on her, Garmin. I will. So long. Well, you've gotten yourself into a fine mess. I've learned that Janks is one of the gang and I've learned that he knows the boss. Just wait till I tell that to the law. You think you'll have a chance? My Paul was his sheriff. He told me a few things about dealing with crooks. One of those things was to keep a spare gun hidden. You made a mistake when you tied my hands in front of me instead of in back.  Are they going to untie you anyway? I'll go ahead with my plan. Never mind. After I've shot you, I'll get your knife. Sally, listen to me. Lou Gorman was captured in an hour after he escaped. That's a likely story. It's the truth. He's back in jail right now and he'll be guarded so he'll never have another chance to escape. Go on. Sounds funny. The recapture of Gorman was kept a secret so I could come here. I posed as Lou Gorman in the hope of capturing more of his gang. That's a slick story. But it won't go with me. Mr. Gorman, say your prayers quick because this sixth gun is going to speak with hot lead. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Outside the smuggler's cave, Sally Marker held a gun point blank on the tall bearded man who stood before her. So you can get ready to face your maker. I'm giving you a shot in the chest, not a shot in the back like pawhead. Sally, I've told you, the Lou Gorman, the real Lou Gorman is in jail. I don't believe it. Did your father tell you about this cave, this hiding place of the gang? Yes. He told me about it too. Ed, did he ever tell you about a horse called Silver and the man who wrote him? Silver. The man who usually wore a mask and fired bullets that were made of silver? Yes. Yes, he did. But you have no mask. This beard's a disguise. I saw the horse. The white horse. Wait. I'll listen. Yes, Silver.  Then you are the Lone Ranger. Yes, I am. Oh, you're the one... Pa told me about you. I'm going to untie you, Sally. Then we've got to get you away from here.  But what about you? You have to tell some sort of a story about your escape. Now, there's one thing you must do. You've got to wait until after dark before you go into town. Then slip into your home quietly so no one will know that you're there. All right. We don't know who really heads a smuggling gang. It might be almost anyone in town. You're sure the headman is in town? A government man who had been working on the case or sure of it. Everything points to it. Maybe it's Jinx. It might be. He kept speaking of the boss, but that might be nothing but a dodge. He himself might be the brain. That's one thing we want to find out. Let me help. You can help most by doing what I've asked. Oh, what if I shot you? I don't think you'd have really fired. I would. If I could get the drop on a snake that shot my father. Oh, if I only knew who it was. Gorman? I thought Gorman planned it, but I wasn't sure whether he was the one who did the actual shooting. If Gorman isn't the real leader of the gang, it might be someone else. Now you'd better get away from here. I will, but what can you tell Jinx when he comes back tonight? I'll think of something. If I could help you by staying here. No, no, please go on. Of course, if I may believe I was still the prisoner. May believe I was tied until Jinx came and went. No, you've got to get away. Now go. All right. I'll go. But I want to help if I can. While Sally Marker rode slowly toward the town, Jinx reported to the boss who made all the plans for the smuggling gang. And you listen here, widdle prindle. That Sally Marker girl is going to be dangerous if something's not done about it. So it seems just like an old man. What's the answer? She doesn't suspect me, does she? I don't know how she could. I was afraid something would have to be done when I called at her house early in the day. I had a hunch all along she knew about that cave. Gorman went there already. Yeah, I thought he would. Gorman's a good man, but he's got to be told just what to do. He's there now? Yes, I'd never seen him before. No, I know it. He's a smooth talker number. Sure he is. I wonder if he could take Sally over the border. Why not? She could be disposed of there easier than around here. Well, I'll tell him. It's too bad, but that's what'll have to be done. I'm sorry for Miss Marker. It'll be a blow to her. Not going soft-hearted, are you? Me soft-hearted? Not on your life. Now what if I were getting Gorman over the water? He's got to be got there and tonight at that. I want him safe on the other side before the sheriff and his posse get back. Well, what are the orders? Have him slip into town around midnight. There'll be a man with papers and change of clothes waiting in the shadow of the livery stable. He'll get the clothes and the papers and the place to meet the rest of the boys when he gets south of the border. Is that clear? Yes, I'll tell him. Shadow of the livery stable at midnight. I'll tend to the rest. Good enough. I'll be over at the Marker House tonight. I told Miss Marker I'd spend the evening with her. She's afraid Lou Gorman might stop to call on her. And feeling Lou Gorman, she entertains his boss right in her own house. That's a good one. I sure got a hander to you with her, Prindle. Now get moving. I'm going to Marker's house. I'm glad you came, Miss Prindle. Sally's just been telling me the most amazing thing. We've had all her worry for nothing. Sally? Yes, I know such a day as I had. I'd like to hear about it. For a time I thought I'd been made a prisoner by Lou Gorman. But then I learned the truth. Gorman was recaptured by the law. There's another man posing as him. Think of that, Miss Prindle. You say there's another man posing as Gorman? Yes. He's trying to find out more about the smuggling gang. And who do you think he is? Who? You'd never guess in a hundred years. Well, no, who is it? It's the lone ranger. The lone ranger? Yes. I mustn't let anyone know about it, so don't say a word. Will you, Mrs. Prindle? Oh, no. No, of course not. I'm that relieved to think that Gorman is back in the jail where he belongs. Now, only the rest of the gang can be caught. Sally, how do you know for sure the man is the lone ranger? The horse. That's one of the reasons. The horse named Silver. And the way he spoke. And the fact that he let me go, knowing he'd have to counter Janks when he got back. There's another thing, Miss Prindle. Just imagine. Janks is one of that gang. It mightn't be good judgment to let on, you know it. Oh, Sally won't be the word until the sheriff gets back in town. Sally, what the lone ranger looked like? I couldn't see his face because of the false beardy war. But he had nice eyes and the nicest way of talking. And he was broad-shouldered. Oh, mercy me. Mercy for goodness. What's the matter? Don't declare. I just remember to come away and have the bacon in the oven with the fire going. I've got to hurry right home. Bacon? Do you bake at night? Well, I had a good fire in the stove, and I thought I'd do some bacon while the oven was hot. I have to run along right away. Sally, why don't you walk over with me and then we'll come back later? All right, Mrs. Prindle. You won't belong. I know. Hmm? You come too, Miss Marker. We'll spend what's left of the evening at my place. I've got some recipes I'd like to show you. Well, I know the night air. Come on, Mom. Oh, you come. Well, all right. I suppose to be a nice change. I left a lamp lighted in the window there. I see you did, Miss Prindle. I always feel funny going into a house where there's no light. Here we are. Now step right in and make yourself at home. After you, Mom. I do declare. It's first time in ages that I've been out after them. They're now set right down. Thank you. I'll be back in just a minute. You could have seen the Lone Ranger, Mom. Gee, with him ought to get the leader that gang like... Fairly dear, please don't talk about the smugglers. I'll never forget the sight of your poor father when he was brought home, because he tried to wipe out that gang. I'm sorry, Mom. But I do so want to see the work Pa started finished up. It makes me feel glad to know that a man like the Lone Ranger's on our side. There they are, Scar. You toyed for the surprise of your life. Meet Scar Finner and Red Mason.  Scar, Red. Who are these men? Friends of Lou Gorman and friends of Jinx. Gorman, Jinx. And friends of mine. Trusted friends of mine. Get ropes on them, Red. You mean you, Mrs. Prender? The boss says we're not to hurt you unless you start yelling. Now I see. Maude Pringle, you're the leader of the smugglers. Well, you had to find it out sometime. Well, you smooth talk and simple and old cat. You're to blame for the death of my father. And you'll be lucky if you don't follow him before you're done.  And we towed you. Hurry it up, Scar. You've got to tell James that it's the Lone Ranger he's got in tow when he goes over to the Lone Ranger. This won't take long. Like fun, it won't. Yeah. Hold it. I'm not getting tired without a fight. She slipped away. I don't know how the boss will take it. You'll let that girl escape. Yeah, he'll find out. What am I to do when we get to the livery stable? Well, there'll be a man there with another outfit and he'll take you over the border. The boss wants you to work south of the border now where it'll be safe from the law on this side. All right. Hey. What's the matter? Look over there in the shadows of the livery stable. What do you see? Several men. What about it? Looks like there's been a change in the plans. I thought there was to be just one man there. Maybe I'm to have company when I ride south. It looks so. There they come. That's Scar Loughlin's voice. Hi there, Scar. Bring him in here and sell others of the outfit. What's up?  Well? What's the trouble? So you're supposed to be Luke Gorman. Ask Jinx here. Sure he is, Scar. Yeah. You never know Gorman, did you, Jinx? No, I never seen him before. Well, I have and this man's different. He's no more Luke Gorman than I am. What about the prisoner he had? Where is she? I told Jinx about it. Never mind going over that again. We've got work to do and the sooner it's done, the better. But, Scar, what the same man has told me? Well, he told us all about this hombre. You know who he is? I thought he was Gorman. He's the lone ranger. What? Right, Jinx. That's who he is. Go on, you try and deny it. Well, you haven't heard me deny it, have you? And you wouldn't get far if you did. But where's Gorman? Back in the jail. Why, this whole thing is a trap to get us. But we found out about it in time. If this critter had been able to go through with his plans, he'd have had the lot of us and all the evidence he wanted. The law would have put us all in company with Luke Gorman. In jail. Boy, do you mean to say that? Oh, now that you know who I am, I suppose you'll give me the same as Sheriff Marker got. That's what you've got coming. But, Scar, what about that girl, Sally Marker? He let her escape. And she knows that I'm one of the gangs. She and her ma are tied up in the boss' house right now. They're going to be taken on a long trip. I hope the girl didn't tell anyone else. Thanks. You think I'm here alone? No. You got the company of all of us, and now... Let me get a crack at him. That's Sally. How did she get out? Sally, Sally, come back here. I'll show those killers. She's shooting. I'll shoot back. No, you don't. Ow! Don't take time. Closing, boys. Go on and get him. It's the sheriff. Not while I can find him. Now what you're told? Good work, Lone Ranger. It's two of them. You smack down with your fingers.  We heard the whole thing. We was in the livery stable ever since Tonto told us who the boss of the smugglers was. Thanks.  You see, Tonto followed you from the time you left me in the cave. The sheriff was heading and waiting for Tonto to report. He didn't leave the town at all. Nope. I was waiting to close in as soon as the gang was rounded up. If only I could have drilled a couple of them. Hello, this girl should have come here. Let me go to house. Deputy capture boss woman. Me, untie girl. Untie mother. Girl, grab gun. Come here and run.  Thanks, Sally. You certainly would have saved my life. Sally, big fella. Sheriff, you have the gang now. You'll find a lot of smuggled goods in the widow's house. Yep. We'll have all the evidence we need to say nothing to the confessions and admissions we overheard and the threat again, Mrs. Marker and Sally. Why are these enough to jail at Peckham for life from 20 years left over? What you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


Hello, hello.  How is everybody doing today? Yes. I'm live here in studio I want to thank you for joining me. Thank you everybody who showed up early to the chat see a lot of people here a Lot of people are excited to look at what we are looking at today And it's not just lovely cold the pug here Who is getting himself nice and snuggled in there and his bread with his buddies and Those of you have watched the show for a long time. We'll remember old Brutus. Well Brutus survived 14 wonderful years and now Cole has to step in and take his place as the dog of the dog of the shop pretty much So that's what Cole is. Hey, Edward roll Pats NDP X farm key Strong Don honk all you guys showing up here. Who else we got we got Tony Escobar self-elected Mark Bessert over clock wise and Then early on we have Thor see in Samsung. It's preaching some Samsung love So yeah, well, we're here to look at today. Well, it's not Cole again It is something more Rare, well, I don't know about more air. Let me get the audio is adjusted here. We're just letting stuff get in I was planning to go live right about 11. So we're right on schedule. It's not a little bit ahead of time and Hey late true noir noir Anyway, hope you all are doing wonderful on this Amazing Monday.  Let me show you something. I'm gonna go over here to my view of the pug and Then my desktop view right here where I have this This is one thing. We'll be going through a little bit is This amazing manual manuals for This be an oh be a vision MX 5000 unbelievable manuals this one has Any corrections that were made repair tips Just some stuff to look at Well, Brutus Brutus passed away at the end of May So thankfully we had gotten Cole. I don't know a year and a couple months before that so they were doing good together so Anyway, what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at some stuff We're gonna take a first look at these manuals, but before we do that, I haven't said I have even something better than that. I have oh I have some video. I Have some video for you of the B&O In our action. I went up. I took a first look at it This is one that I've got in my shop here to get serviced. It's not something you see every day the MX 5000 this is a NTSC set so it was made for the North American market, but only a couple of thousand of them Made it here and then from what I understand B&O pretty much pulled the plug on them pretty quickly They were made with some subpar Materials like bad capacitors so there's known to have leaky capacitors and There's a couple of things we'll see in the videos. I've got For the functionality issues with this monitor that hopefully we can fix but it's a monitor television It's a very cool piece of tech. This is the first time I've ever seen one in person So I'm excited to get to work on it this month And I have to try to get this done before the end of this month because those of you who know we will all be in Connecticut at the Retro World Expo at the end of August So if you're gonna be there, I hope to see you there, but I want to try to get this Whole restoration of this B&O television wrapped up by then and then in September We'll probably have a regular video on it because it'll be gone by that point but What we're gonna do today is again take a first look at this CRT with this footage I have I have gone out to my shop Tested this CRT some and I've just got that raw footage that I took from my cameras So it's not gonna be edited in any way. This is straight-up raw footage. We're gonna watch these videos and Yeah, so we'll see how this Television looks together I'll tell you some interesting things I found out about it and we're gonna find out more by using this manual I believe But that's we're gonna do so we're gonna look at this and if you're here for that That's great. Now a couple of other announcements really quickly to start off I'm gonna be recording an episode of the cathode ray podcast again right after this live show with Lewis aka Zez So hopefully we'll have some fun stuff there to talk to you about because I just had my 40th birthday a lot of Weird stories crazy things happen So if you want to hear more about personal things definitely check out the path cathode ray podcast That episode should be out later this week I also have a new episode about a very rare PC CRT and this is not one that I've talked about before this is actually from Dell. It's a specific model that Dell made and I say Dell made it. They didn't really make it it's it's a trinitron and I found out some interesting things about it the video will be later this week and It's not a huge lengthy project. So it was it's about an eight minute video So easy to sit through learn some cool things about it I also have a post that I'll be writing or I have written ready for retro RGB comm on The monitor itself with actually more information than I was able to fit into the video so definitely check out the post when that's ready all this will be out by the end of the week no later than Friday and I also will Hopefully be doing a show one evening this week between Tonight being Tuesday Well today is Tuesday August 8th and hopefully eastern standard time I could come on with you a night show with my friend the 8-bit Esquire and it will either be hopefully tonight Or tomorrow night or Thursday night. I don't know which night. I'm pretty available I'm just waiting to hear from him and hopefully we can get together and If I do get that scheduled, I'll put out a tweet and we will try to get a Q&A You know live for you guys so if you have questions come to that show and you can ask us live really almost anything and If you have questions, too, you can post in a tweet I'll make a tweet out and we were whatever they're called now an X right I'll post something you can respond to that if you have any questions that you'd like either one of us to talk about It could be about anything that has to do with CRTs or anything really So any bad anyway, some other people have joined us Alexander Jones Brian Harmon quest for glory. Thank you all koala koa Hello, I'm a fatty cat Thank you all again for showing up. Let's let's get past all that all the announcements are done We've been rolling for about five minutes So let's do it Let's look at our This is actually great timing. Let's take a look at our footage here from Our CRT all right, and I actually do have a little bit of a story here at the end I'll I'll share with you, but I don't want to I Don't want to skip anymore Let's go ahead now and we're gonna look at this be at oh, and I'm gonna play this footage Let me make sure that my audio levels are all right We're gonna start with Again a first look. This is all raw. I don't plan on using this footage for the actual video No, there's another as you can see Cole right down there So Everything should be good on here. This is the B&O itself. It looks amazing. I May interject some I'm gonna put my headphones on so I can hear what I'm saying because I did do some commentary for these videos So let's just let's just play it Gonna get the screen set just like that. How about that? Make sure I got some audio here. I Don't want to deafen myself All right, we're gonna take a quick look here At this amazing rare CRT it is in my shop this week and this is the B&O or Bang and Oliveson CRT This particular one is the She says MX 5000 is an extremely rare television as I said Especially here in the United States. Now if you're in Europe, you'll find these or Japan you may find some of these Pretty pretty easily but over here in the United States There's not really a lot of these and supposedly this particular branded or version of this television is NTSC I just wanted you to see the front Here's a first look it definitely has this glass coating over What is a shadow mask tube under there so you could tell it's curved on all edges But it has this amazing piece of glass over the top of that and just an incredibly beautiful sleek design All right, I'm gonna pause it for a second. I just want everybody to really see what I was talking about That was a quick look at the front, but it has It has just a beautiful Glass coating on there that was quite unique to this television. Of course, there were others that had glass coatings on them But it's one of the most unique features to this it also was not as deep as I had expected I believe this television is about a 25 inch television and It was just not as far and in depth as like a deep of a CRT as I would have thought let's continue on now with the video Beautiful sleek design here I want to give you a look at the back of this television and First let's take a look at this label the label says we have 1989 for a manufacturer date and Not a whole lot more of not a whole lot of other information a lot of inputs over here for RF and Then down here we have S video some Audio video inputs for composite and then there's some power connections to input speakers And this one has a stand that goes with it, but the stand is not here There's also these are just External devices that you could easily connect with this Set like a VCR and things but this particular one supposedly has this RGB input Over this scarred input. I've not tested this So we're gonna see what happens when I plug it up to this Super Nintendo. I Probably would do a full video on this set since it's so rare But this is a first look and we're just gonna do some initial testing before I start tearing it apart and working on it, so Let's look here at Our remote now this remote is one of the heaviest remotes. I've ever felt Really heavy. What do you think Cole? Cole's still trying to figure it all out Anyway heavy do your remote we do have power going to this so I'm gonna flip around Put this light behind the set Let's just see if I can get this to actually power on. Oh, I heard it starting to power on here and Hopefully we'll get a visual At some point There we go Okay So there's a TV running just an RF mode. I guess Let's see if we could change it over to an input Confused, huh? All right. So this was a part. I remember again This is raw footage and I just kept recording. I was trying to get it to switch over through The you know, it was stuck in a while for clock the remote is quite odd And I'll show you a little bit more of it here in a second Let's see. So what I did was I let's say I should be able to try Well, let's just see what happens when I turn this on so I turn on RGB, which I have connected Well, see we're getting an image. We're not syncing though Maybe it's like an auto Set interesting So it's like auto-sensing that but Obviously it doesn't accept this type of sync. Let's see what happens if I change the Cable to S video. All right, so that's what I did first off. I just hooked up the RGB and I know I showed it there, right? There it is and in this BCR one input now this top input is not for The RGB, okay, that's for a decoder or some type of a device that Would be specifically made for the television to do diagnostics these other connections here You'll see there's pinouts for that in this manual, but there's a stand I said very futuristic looking cool stand that moves a little bit and it's powered By simply plugging it into the back of the B&O And the same thing there's a couple of other power links you can use in here to power an external device most of the time maybe a VCR or a Stereo audio device where you could have external sync or external speakers and then I was Listening to the owner of this tell me a little bit more about the external speakers And the problem is I wasn't able to get it to sync Once I tried my first cable on RGB and That's it for the first video. So let's go to the second video And I'm continuing to run into the issue here Okay, so now let's just we're gonna watch this and then I'll respond give you some comment here And I'm continuing to run into the issue here where I can't get anything to sync to this set at all I have when I put in a Skart input it automatically switches to I'm guessing the input. That's what it looks like, but it's not syncing and This time I've used a skirt cable. That's different with C sync the other one did not have C sync and I don't think I have a sync on Luma or anything but This one's not syncing and then I can't get anything to respond on the composite video inputs So the only thing I can really try is good old RF. So let's see if we can get RF to work on this set Okay, so I tried a different cable a different type of skirt cable I have one with C sync and one with some other type of sync I don't remember exactly off the top of my head and neither of those would sync to the set Through that input. They were automatically being detected, but it was obviously a sync issue from that picture Now Martin Samuelson says here in the comments that the decoder input one You can actually use that as to channel one input, which is cool. I didn't know that So it's a satellite. You could normally plug in a satellite to that. Okay. Thank you for that information I'll test that later. But the problem Yeah, the menu is on the B&O or that's one other thing The problem on this set is I was not able to get anything Connected through the composite video or S video like nothing would even register when I put it in to the back of this Set at all so I can only get response from the RGB and it would sync and The owner of the set told me that he couldn't get composite to work either. So my My hunch might be is there's a problem with the composite video sync line probably somewhere along either the input board or Somewhere in the processing You know, hopefully something in there is causing this to not be able to sync Hey super guy, thank you for the 1999 super chat. Hey Steve. Good to see you. Well, it's good to see you too Thank you very much but so the Issue here was I couldn't get anything To to sync at first and that was my my question Jobus was is it actually a 50 Hertz television? I started to wonder that But thankfully I was able to get a signal in here, which I'm gonna show you in a second through the RF input So I was not able to get anything to display I definitely see how it could be. I mean, so it's a very real chance that it's a problem with that composite video input But now look, I'm sorry about the background noise here. I have a very bad Whatever air conditioner that was running at the time and it's gonna make an annoying buzzing sound in the background But as you can tell I was able to get a picture Into this set so I'm gonna play it now, and please just bear with me on the sound to get a signal into this set Believe it or not full color proving that it is in TSC. I Don't know how to get rid of that set TV clock We're gonna take a look at the manuals here and see if we find anything but the only way I could get this to work is going Basically to RF and I'm in RF mode. It looks really good for RF But there's no way you can make any adjustments on a set based on RF So hopefully I'm gonna figure out a way to get better a better signal into it. Let's just take a look at a something That will look good Again, I don't know how if I can clear that How do you get rid of that stop? No nothing wants to I'm gonna change the channel, and that's it the sound's not working at all.  It doesn't really tell you anything. It's just dumb. Let's set clock wonderful Let's do it. I didn't even know how to go down. There's not like a down arrow on this that works You press down it doesn't do anything.  We'll even get out There we go. We got rid of the clock. We just let it sit it there. I think it's 2 a.m. on 2020 All right guys, it's just has a great picture. Honestly for our ear to I Was able to get the audio to work by just wiggling the cables of course on RF All right, there we go. Got some audio working. Gosh, this thing's awesome. Thank you. I had to work this and Get RGB going I bet it looks awesome Bass is thumping on that thing. All right What a climactic finish right there for that lovely footage. That's all the footage I have so far and Again, this is a first look but you could see a little bit about You know what it looks like around that set and How the cool design I mean very unique very awesome something that I Don't think is is estimated enough How much how much of an interesting CRT this is from my perspective but People in Europe have tons of these and I know they were available in Japan just not something we saw here a lot and The plan is to open this thing up and do a full restoration. So I wanted to take this first look so I could Go ahead and start tearing it apart and Try to understand it more kind of test it see if it even worked I went for a minute that I was convinced it was not even going to be a An NTSC set, you know, I thought for a second That we were looking at and like Cole's taking a lovely nap here So I thought we were looking at something that was not not going to be very Usable right so let me give us some Sorry about that Right that was probably way too loud. Let's go to here Let's get past a couple of these so now We can take a couple of minutes to First off get your reactions like what did you think? I thought it looked really great for RF Just from the initial testing. I would be very happy to use that If it only had RF just because it's such a cool-looking set But the fact that she can get start hopefully to work Edward had mentioned that The possibility is that the scar connector has a broken solder joint. Absolutely. That sounds like something that could be possible That would that would definitely make it not work So I will check all that Strong said that the remote menus it's servicing all this is brutal. Yeah, it's not you're right It's not very intuitive and I wanted to kind of illustrate that maybe even a little bit further by switching over here and Look at these Amazing Manuals right you don't get this kind of stuff normally With a item anymore, right? This is the the end of The height of the end of the era the beginning whatever for printed Materials to come with your set. Let me get us a little more light in here Take a look at this being a 5,000. Hey race welcome in. Oh Jjags asked me a question my favorite Favorite CRT that I own, you know, I Gotta say there's probably It changes quite a bit What I like the most is just gonna be something crazy man. It's like this or it's the prison CRT which I've highlighted on a live show before and My favorite professional monitor that I have or the bad thing when I personally have that that looks the best Is the Sony BVMA series? I have one with like a couple hundred hours on it and all the regular cards Martin's card lots of stuff, so it's a fun one and as far as PC CRT's I do have a PC CRT with like 2,000 hours on it. It is the GDMC 520 a lovely Lovely PC CRT Sony made Awesome set that's one of my favorites period and After that, I really like these I just mostly like unique ones. It's not so much about Beaches anymore when you go through all of them. It's like this Like I would love to have one of these in my collection so Anyway, this is the remote control right here, which I should have brought down But I left it upstairs. So that's sad bad by me, but it's really plain and has Very feel hard to figure out man But this manual goodness gracious, what do we have here like we have just about 38 Guess it's 38 pages technically With a preface, right? like a novel it says that V video system just to prove this video system is the first video system launched by B&O on The North American continent so this 5000 series is the initial is the initial Record-blake breaking MTSC model right here It's the Baio vision MX 5000 the very first to be launched in the North American continent right here, baby It also has other attachments it's talking about and the be a link 1000 system and Back here, this is December 1989 Lovely time to think forward and to be like yes, I get to have a B&O There is a motorized stand so this Has all kinds of stuff here. We've got diagrams at the bottom and back System can switch look at this. We have a whole a Whole section about the video switching and the video circuit So we're just gonna flip through this book a little bit Check out some interesting stuff This kind of tells us how to work through things main block diagram and the block design how it's designed It does say there's an RGB amplifier, obviously comb filter RF switching RF switch box has three inputs A, B, and C and three outputs So that's kind of what I believe is going on here because it's not like an input button on this television set Yeah, this is from 1989 This is when the year that this was manufactured and sent the United States was in 1989 and it came with S video And RGB Think about that this could have been something huge that just fell apart something went wrong horribly wrong So here's a little bit about this block diagram of the RF switch box So your antenna would come in the RF Wow, look at this. This is great. Can you believe this? Let me look at this stuff. They give you Tells you a little bit about the signals of tuning the real thing I'm interested in is Now this is more about the noise audio section right here the deflection circuit. Look at this This is great.  So if we go back here We take a look at diagrams That's B C would probably be right after that right C So it says here Now this should be our diagram and our block for our Circuit for our deflection So this is this is going to show us How the deflection works if we had to troubleshoot something and there was a problem We could really use these to figure out because what it does is it tells you the paths of everything And you it's so nice. You actually see You can actually see in here On this diagram it has the values for things Like resistors if you need to check them, but then you would have a part list also so it just Shows you a little bit more on there. Let's see what let's see what the next diagram This is the video output Right, this might be having the issues with the same quote C power supply D we're looking for F. Is there any E? E F. I see some D gauze high power areas right in here This looks like this is yes, isn't the power supply down here switching mode power supply and then the power boards and then All kinds of great stuff. So this is the kind of thing we're gonna open up in service are these boards Now Just looking at the rest these diagrams. I'm wondering if there's a part list back here Cuz I don't I mean nobody should have to look at a diagram to find that but It doesn't mean That we have to have that. Oh goodness gracious. I'm sorry. I know we're talking here. I just kind of roll through this So these are the outputs on the back CS video Now this see Right Okay, now this might be an interesting thing I might need to go up there and retry this Because this decoder this might be the Check it out because I see Where do I see it peripheral video receiver video Decoder sync right here for pin 18 And this just says SVH is why ground up here. I didn't try this So this might be This might be the reason I wasn't able to get sync on there is Because I wasn't going with decoders. This is all great. That's why you can find this stuff here. It's so amazing to have this right More about the power supply Does give you some ways to get through My goodness the microprocessor and through the remote by pressing some buttons. So there are some are some manual Ways, but this is also when you when you have like VCRs and all these accessories hooked up AV switching Okay I do not see anything about here we go See it says AB1 or 2 So that's the one I'm wondering If there's a problem Because I wasn't able to get anything to show up on composite video at all. It didn't even react Anyway, so there's a very great Thing here the remote's up in the garage. I might go grab it, but I do have to Jump off here soon. So I can get ready for my next show Now this is another one and This would have come out later Look at it gives you what is this? Oh a diagram. This is a diagram of the actual boards There's again the connections look at that Here's some specs here. Okay This is great. Here we go. I was wondering if I could find this let's look at the specs here together We've got into your C obviously, right? We said that 28 inch tube, but it's actually a 26 inch viewable area Picture tubes is a system is called a black matrix in line 118 degrees there's the settings the TV tuner range anything else important in here I Do not really see it That did is a heavy set. It is a heavy set 106 pounds. Yes, I Did notice that When I was moving it with the owner. I couldn't believe how heavy it was These are nice diagrams. So you could make your own custom cables if you wanted for this Thing any it really is for anything, right? Leakage current cold Run some tests like it gives you a test over here to do what? radiation the primary source of x radiation is In this receiver is the picture tube the tube utilized for the above Mention function in the chassis is especially constructed to limit x radiation emissions Hmm, it's telling you to test the antivoltage With a multimeter that it looks like 31,000 Kilovolts hey Zazz I know right radiation, baby high-risk warnings, so we're gonna We're gonna finish looking at this a little bit more again more diagrams, but these are the same I'm wondering if I could find a part list because if not, I'm gonna have to make my own part list This is this is even a nice is this I love things like this look at that Let's see this is how about this is cool. Oh Bump all right. So this is a technical bulletin. We have a technical bulletin from B&O On an issue that you will you'll get this would happen right if you get customers would complain This would turn into this where they screwed something up Thumping or interstation noise when changing channels on the MX 5,000 The noise will not be present in the television speakers This probably only occurs in the AV TV mode at an integrated audio video system They auxiliary output is not muting It says remove the cabinet back by loosening the four Phillips screws locate 06 module You'll have to modify that module. Okay Release three white plastic retainer clips Cues to swing module door open cut the copper foil between pin six and seven of Six IC 2004 mount a resistor from pin six to pin six of IC 2007 Close the module lock there were three retent restock So this is a something where you have to go in and physically snip some legs of these IC chips And an installer resistor and that's like oh, we forgot to add that to the bullet the book So that's the kind of thing that this this book has in it and That's kind of information It's really key. Yeah, I do have the remote. It's up there with the set. So look at though this though setup diagram. I Still do not see Part lists though. Oh Here we go. These got to be a part list, right? Yes, ooh Beat it. We got the list. That's this is the stand right here. Sorry. I know it's like crooked for you and me All right, this is the stand. So I'm finding some part lists. This is good What I need to find the part list for is look at this They make an S video breakout cable for your skirt Oh This is just so fun. I'm really wanting to find that This is the back of the TV How to adjust the tubes? Okay So here we have a list of parts Right, here we go PCB 6 PCB 5 and some caps. So this is the kind of caps we would need to worry about changing Or our set it's all listed right here. Oh, that's nice All the PCBs are like listed together power supply and deflection Right at the beginning list of electrical parts. This is what I This is what I wanted to see Perfect right here. This is what we need. We need listings of all these but Some of these parts are not going to be electrolytic capacitors Because they're nanofarads. They're too small So they're probably going to be some other type of materials That's what we needed. This is the stuff you would get when you buy a CRT like this You just get it and you know, that's the time we've lost forgotten all about Folks I know I know what you're thinking. I Know what you're thinking you wanted more, right? You want more you want more? What do you want more of the CRT the dog? Whatever you want more of I Promise it will be coming Very soon friends Thank you all very much for joining me today on this lovely special episode of Retro tech where we got to take a first look at Undoubtedly the one of the rarest CRTs and a historical CRT Very historical the very first B&O to make it into the United States and It didn't survive so there has to be a more of a story there I'd love more information on that and I will dig as deep as I can stand There's much time as I have so thank you all again for showing up I'm gonna go get refreshed and get myself ready to record the Zez Retro show, which I'm gonna can't even remember the name just kidding Zez cathode ray podcast Be on the lookout for that. I appreciate all of you guys for always showing up here again We'll have another live show this week. Thank you all for coming I have a wonderful day and I will definitely see you in the next one


There are many ancient sites dotted all around the world, which indicate a far more advanced knowledge of architectural design than the funded studied civilizations in which they are attributed to. And although as clear evidence mounts, evidence seemingly ignored, evidence which makes said feels of study look rather foolish, as they seemingly buckle to this new form of intellectual peer pressure, such as public free thinking. Thankfully, a rather logical perception, their attempts to attribute advanced knowledge to primitive culture diminishes. As we delve further into this lost history, we reveal more and more compelling links which cross the continents of our planet. There are many, at first perceived as humorously perplexing ancient feats of building, that after further reflection with an artistically motivated eye, reveal an incredible story. These tiny details were added to demonstrate their sheer prowess. Prowess we suspect was inspired by an even greater and even more ancient civilization, a nearly impossible proposition to comprehend, yet one we strongly feel is now a high possibility. Set upon a small hill, 1.8 km northeast of the Stave Field within Ethiopia, gazing upon the mountains of Antoine, are what modern academia claims are two tombs. Attributed to the 6th century, the location indeed contains the remains of King Kaleb and his son King Jebri Mescal. However, like many other unexplained sites around the world, we not only postulate that these ruins were claimed as the work of a less capable, more modern civilization, but there is also compelling evidence to support such claims. They show the same uncanny sophistication, using irregularly shaped stones, somehow fitted together as if made to measure, as found in Egypt, Peru, and many other places around the world. And in a self-locking design, which has seemingly allowed them to survive the eons, who built these incredible structures within Ethiopia? Were they, as the evidence suggests, the same people who were responsible for the pre-Incan ruins found within Peru? We find the evidence to suggest such, highly compelling. In the past, explored, although I'll be it briefly, the astonishing, perplexing, and as yet unexplained ancient ruins that can be found within the ancient city of Aksum, located within modern-day Ethiopia. One of the main reasons we have repeatedly touched upon this exquisite site, a place located so far from the academically claimed civilizations, who some daring academics would even attempt to claim as the builders of such. Its remarkably remote location alone could be seen as a smoking gun in regards to a conspiracy regarding the chronology of man. However, what we find even more incredible regarding this site, the fact that the site is renowned for its obelisks, often named in mainstream reports as the site of a singular obelisk of Aksum, instead of the accurate plural, obelisks of Aksum. Aru's mystery history suspects is due to the toppled obelisk. Not only are there many obelisks at the site, so sharing it online as merely the site of the quote, obelisk of Aksum, is not only inaccurate, but we feel clearly an attempt to stifle people's discovery of this toppled obelisk, which has been estimated to have weighed hundreds, possibly upwards of a thousand tons in weight, once carved, transported, and erected at the site. Located in a place now known today as Aksum City, it is located within the northern regions of Ethiopia, found within the northern Stellae Park. Furthermore, the obelisks alone contain even more evidential features to indicate that these structures were not only built by a lost civilization, but the same civilization, possibly responsible for the Great Pyramids construction and many other ancient ruins throughout the world, for these perplexing false doors permeate the world's ancient foundations. Any ancient site which we come across during our explorations of antiquity, adorned with false doors we know are extremely old ruins, false doors permeate nearly all ancient sites and ruins throughout the globe, and their true purpose for being remains a complete mystery. Additionally, if the fact that false doors indicative of the ancient pyramid builders' architectural signature and the toppled obelisk weighing hundreds of tons is not enough compounding evidence to convince you that the site was once the work of a lost civilization, the underground chambers at the site actually created using polygonal masonry should be the final nail in the investigative pursuit for all, thus directly connecting polygonal builders to architectural signatures found throughout the globe, most notably ancient Peru, even Giza and the Great Pyramids. Who were these elusive builders? Obelisks are clearly indicative of an ancient Egyptian construction, yet regardless of the reality that this is a rarely shared factual lead, connecting Axum to the pyramid builders themselves and indeed the makers of the false doors, and the additional polygonal masonry is an incredibly interesting link, due to previous research. We know particularly regarding the casing stones in Giza. The polygonal casing stones upon the pyramids were of a significantly younger age than the highly eroded sandstone pyramids, yet here it is in the same build which displays false doors, a feature which does, in fact, date from the same era, a perplexing enigma to unravel. It is a mystery which we find highly compelling. At this present time within history in which we find ourselves, there still exists a smorgasbord of ancient advanced ruins, which can be found all over the world, inexplicable feats of ancient engineering, advanced as yet unexplained ruins, which we believe are to be found upon every continent of Earth, even including the now buried landmass of Antarctica. Many of these surviving relics remain unexplained, due to currently academically claimed chronological timelines for the history of man. A seemingly incomplete story that due to the funded nature and thus rigidity of such opinion, the general public is sold a fairy tale, with more modern, less capable groups being the only options when it comes to claims as to an origin. However, as we so frequently share here upon our channel, many anomalous features of countless ancient sites all over the globe remain impossible to explain. These advanced anomalies come in many shapes and sizes, yet they are most commonly found to be of enormous size. With clear evidence of the requirement of precision, hardened technologically advanced tools, often the only viable explanation as to how such constructions were completed. Tools and technologies which are more recent, well-studied ancestors did not have at their disposal, and thus were simply incapable of completing such feats regardless of what academia claims. One of the largest and indeed most intriguing examples of these ancient feats of stonebuilding can be found at the ancient side of Axum within Ethiopia. Originally the capital of the Kingdom of Axum, this enigmatic place is currently understood to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Africa. It is a site we have covered in the past, with our initial focus being upon the as yet unexplained polygonal masonry, which litters its construction, and the clearly advanced nature of its opposed underground tombs. However, there is another area of significant interest at Axum, one which we seemingly overlook during our initial research. They are known as the obelisks of Axum. It seems academia is only willing to share publicly a limited overview of the site, conveniently noting only those which are still standing. Even naming the site the obelisk of Axum, rather than the accurate plural obelisks, possibly in an attempt to conceal the true size and indeed past grandeur of another site, which is known within very small circles of research as the toppled obelisk of Axum, and our suspective motive behind this subtle deception will soon become apparent. The largest still standing obelisk, in which the site is named after, is 21 meters in height and around 160 tons in weight. And although this is still a remarkable weight for an ancient civilization to have successfully worked with, the now toppled broken obelisk is estimated to have once weighed in at 500 tons when originally in one piece. An additional area of interest regarding the design and possible past function of the obelisks is the presence of false doors. These enigmatic features, found at ancient sites all around the planet, most notably Peru and Egypt, were claimed by the Egyptians in particular to be portals, a threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead, through which a deity or the spirit of the deceased could enter and exit. Not only is Axum unquestionably an astonishing ancient ruin, possessing strong supporting evidence for a past highly capable, now lost civilization, but it is also seemingly ignored by an academia who would rather not have to attempt an explanation of these remarkable underlying characteristics. It is undoubtedly highly compelling. Within the country of Ethiopia, some seriously old megalithic ruins can be found. Many of unknown age. For example Tia, located in the Sado region of Ethiopia. An archaeological marvel, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, remarkable for its large stone pillars. But imagine the surprise of initial explorers when they stumbled across an entire church, in the shape of a Templar Cross, completely carved out of the ground. And if a type of volcanic tuft, I'm sure its initial rediscovery would have come with considerable archaeological interest. Who could have carved such a structure, straight out of the rock, or indeed why? It is known as the Church of Saint George, and is largely thought to have been constructed around 1200 AD, yet, alas, no one really knows. The Church of Saint George is one of 11 monolithic churches in Lalibela, a city in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Originally named War-War, the historical and religious area was named Lalibela after the King Jebomiskel Lalibela, of the Zagatid dynasty. Who supposedly commissioned its construction. Although like the pharaohs of Egypt, he may have just laid claim to the impressive ancient structures, which resided in the region, long before himself. He may have also been attributed with the act due to him being regarded as a saint by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tua Hito Church. No one can really explain how he could have built it, and many religious followers believe he received instruction from God. With many ancient sites upon Earth, if researched heavily enough, reveal evidence that they predate their modern-held suspected builders. For instance the amazingly designed ancient site of Puma Punku, which contains stones created in weight-bearing shapes, with no mortar ever being used, yet the structures were earthquake-proof. These structures were said even by the Incas to have been there before them, they believed they were constructed by the gods themselves. The only conclusions that can be made from such structures including the Church of Saint George is that the builders were highly sophisticated. Enlightening artifacts may vanish, but thankfully, the ancients built structures to last. And a temple church carved into the stone ground, in the middle of Ethiopia, of unknown origin, is a very curious structure.


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, bringing you data-driven insights from theCUBE and ETR. This is Breaking Analysis with Dave Vellante. The world's leading telcos are trying to shed the stigma of being monopolies lacking innovation. Telcos have been great at operational efficiency and connectivity and living off of transmission and the costs and expenses or revenue associated with that transmission. But in a world beyond telephone poles and basic wireless and mobile services, how will telcos modernize and become more agile and monetize new opportunities brought about by 5G and private wireless and a spate of new innovations in infrastructure, cloud, data and apps? Hello and welcome to this week's Wikibon Cube Insights powered by ETR. In this Breaking Analysis and ahead of Mobile World Congress or now MWC23, we explore the evolution of the telco business and how the industry is in many ways mimicking transformations that took place decades ago in enterprise IT. We'll model some of the traditional enterprise vendors using ETR data and investigate how they're faring in the telecommunications sector. And we'll pose some of the key issues facing the industry this decade. First, let's take a look at what the GSMA has in store for MWC23. GSMA is the host of what used to be called Mobile World Congress. They've set the theme for this year's event as velocity. And they've rebranded MWC to reflect the fact that mobile technology is only one part of the story. MWC has become one of the world's premier events highlighting innovations not only in telco, mobile and 5G but the collision between cloud, infrastructure, apps, private networks, smart industries, machine intelligence and AI and more. MWC comprises an enormous ecosystem of service providers, technology companies and firms from virtually every industry including sports and entertainment. And as well, GSMA along with its venue partner at the FIEDA Barcelona have placed a major emphasis on sustainability and public and private partnerships. Virtually every industry will be represented at the event because every industry is impacted by the trends and opportunities in this space. GSMA has said it expects 80,000 attendees at MWC this year, not quite back to 2019 levels but trending in that direction. Of course, attendance to participants has historically been very high at the show and obviously the continued travel issues from that region are affecting the overall attendance but it's still very strong. And despite these concerns, Huawei, the giant Chinese technology company has the largest physical presence of any exhibitor at the show. And finally, GSMA estimates that more than $300 million in economic benefit will result from the event which takes place at the end of February and early March. And theCUBE will be back at MWC this year with a major presence thanks to our anchor sponsor Dell Technologies and other supporters of our content program including Enterprise Web, Arcus, VMware, Snowflake, Cisco, AWS and others. And one of the areas we're interested in exploring is the evolution of the telco stack. It's a topic that's often talked about and one that we've observed taking place in the 1990s when the vertically integrated IBM mainframe monopoly gave way to a disintegrated and horizontal industry structure. In many ways, the same thing is happening today in telecommunications which is shown on the left hand side of this diagram. Historically, telcos have relied on a hardened, integrated and incredibly reliable and secure set of hardware and software services that have been fully vetted and tested and certified and relied upon for decades. And at the top of that stack on the left are the crown jewels of the telco stack, the operational support systems and the business support systems. For the OSS, we're talking about things like network management, network operations, service delivery, quality of service, fulfillment assurance and things like that. But the BSS systems, these refer to customer facing elements of the stack like revenue, order management, with products they sell, billing and customer service. And what we're seeing is telcos have been really good at operational efficiency and making money off of transport and connectivity but they've lacked the innovation in services and applications. They own the pipes and that works well but others be they over the top content companies or private network providers and increasingly cloud providers have been able to bypass the telcos, reach around them if you will and drive innovation. And so the right most diagram speaks to the need to disaggregate pieces of the stack. And while the similarities to the 1990s in enterprise IT are greater than the differences there are things that are different. For example, the granularity of hardware infrastructure will not likely be as high where competition occurred back in the 90s at every layer of the value chain with very little infrastructure integration. That of course changed in the 2010s with converged infrastructure and hyper converged and also software defined. So that's one difference. And the advent of cloud containers, microservices and AI, none of that was really a major factor in the disintegration of legacy IT. And that probably means that disruptors can move even faster than did the likes of Intel and Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco and the Seagates of the 1990s. As well, well, many of the products and services will come from traditional enterprise IT names like Dell, HPE, Cisco, Red Hat, VMware, AWS, Microsoft, Google, et cetera. Many of the names are going to be different and come from traditional network equipment providers. These are names like Ericsson and Huawei and Nokia and other names like WinRiver and Rakuten and Dish Networks. And there are enormous opportunities in data to help telecom companies and their competitors go beyond telemetry data into more advanced analytics and data monetization. There's also going to be an entirely new set of apps based on the workloads and use cases ranging from hospitals, sports, sports arenas, race tracks, shipping ports, you name it. Virtually every vertical will participate in this transformation as the industry evolves its focus toward innovation, agility and open ecosystems. Now remember, this is not a binary state. There are going to be Greenfield companies disrupting the Apple cart, but the incumbent telcos are going to have to continue to ensure newer systems work with their legacy infrastructure in their OSS and BSS existing systems. And as we know, this is not going to be an overnight task. Integration is a difficult thing. Transformations, migrations. So that's what makes this also interesting because others can come in with Greenfield and potentially disrupt. There'll be interesting partnerships and ecosystems will form and coalitions will also form. Now we mentioned that several traditional enterprise companies are or will be playing in this space. Now ETR doesn't have a ton of data on specific telecom equipment and software providers, but it does have some interesting data that we cut for this breaking analysis. What we're showing here in this graphic is some of the names that we've followed over the years and how they've, how they're faring. Specifically, we did the cut within the telco sector. So the Y axis here shows net score or spending velocity and the horizontal axis that shows the presence or pervasiveness in the dataset and that table insert in the upper left that informs as to how the dots are plotted, you know, the two columns there, net score and the ends. And that red dotted line, that horizontal line at 40%, that is an indicator of a highly elevated level of anything above that we consider, you know, quite outstanding. And what we'll do now is we'll comment on some of the cohorts and share with you how they're doing in telecommunications, that sector, that vertical relative to their position overall in the dataset. Let's start with the public cloud players. They're prominent in every industry, telcos, telecommunications is no exception. And it's quite an interesting cohort here. On the one hand, they can help telecommunication firms modernize and become more agile by eliminating the heavy lifting and, you know, all the cloud, you know, value prop data center costs and the cloud benefits. At the same time, public cloud players are bringing their services to the edge, building out their own global networks and are a disruptive force to traditional telcos. All right, let's talk about Azure first. Their net score is basically identical in telco relative to its overall average. AWS's net score is higher in telco by just a few percentage points. Google cloud platform is 8 percentage points higher in telco with a 53% net score. So all three hyperscalers have an equal or stronger presence in telco than their average overall. Okay, let's look at the traditional enterprise hardware and software infrastructure cohort. Dell, Cisco, HPE, Red Hat, VMware and Oracle. We've highlighted in this chart just as sort of indicators or proxies. Dell's net score is 10 percentage points higher in telco than its overall average. Interesting, Cisco is a bit higher. HPEs is actually lower by about nine percentage points in the ETR survey and VMware's is lower by about four percentage points. Now, Red Hat is really interesting. OpenStack as we previously reported is popular with telcos who want to build out their own private cloud. And the data shows that Red Hat, OpenStack's net score is 15 percentage points higher in the telco sector than its overall average. OpenShift on the other hand has a net score that's four percentage points lower in telco than its overall average. So this to us talks to the pace of adoption of microservices and containers. You know, it's going to happen but it's going to happen more slowly. Finally, Oracle's spending momentum is somewhat lower in the sector than its average despite the firm having a decent telco business. IBM and Accenture heavy services companies are both lower in the sector than their average. And real quickly, Snowflake's net score is much lower by about 12 percentage points relative to its very high average net score of 62%. But we look for them to be a player in this space as telcos need to modernize their analytics stack and share data in a governed manner. Data bricks net score is also much lower than its average by about 13 points and same. I would expect them to be a player as open architectures and cloud gain steam in telco. All right, let's close out now on what we're going to be talking about at MWC 23 and some of the key issues that we'll be unpacking. We've talked about stack disaggregation and disbreaking analysis, but the key here will be the pace at which it will reach the operational efficiency and reliability of closed stacks. Telcos, you know, in a large part, they're engineering heavy firms and much of their work takes place, you know, kind of in the basement in the dark. It's not really a big public height machine and they tend to move slowly and cautiously. While they understand the importance of agility, they're going to be careful because, you know, it's in their DNA. And so at the same time, if they don't move fast enough, they're going to get hurt and disrupted by competitors. So that's going to be a topic of conversation when we're looking for proof points. And the other comment I'll make is around integration. Telcos, because of their conservatism, will benefit from better testing and those firms that can innovate on the testing front and have labs and certifications and innovate at that level with an ecosystem are going to be in a better position because open sometimes means wild west. So the more players like Dell, HPE, Cisco, Red Hat, et cetera, that do that and align with their ecosystems and provide those resources, the faster adoption is going to go. So we'll be looking for who's actually doing that. Open RAN or Radio Access Networks, that fits in this discussion because O-RAN is an emerging network architecture. It essentially enables the use of open technologies from an ecosystem and over time, O-RAN is going to be open, but a lot of questions remain as to when it will be able to deliver the operational efficiency of traditional RAN. Got some interesting dynamics going on. Rakuten is a company that's working hard on this problem, really focusing on operational efficiency. Then you got Dish Networks, they're also embracing O-RAN. They're coming at it more from service innovation. So that's something that we'll be monitoring and unpacking. We're going to look at cloud as a disruptor. On the one hand, cloud can help drive agility, as we said earlier, and optionality and innovation for incumbent telcos. But the flip side is can also do the same for startups trying to disrupt and cloud attract startups. While some of the telcos are actually embracing the cloud, many are being cautious. So that's going to be an interesting topic of discussion. And just private wireless networks and 5G and hyper local private networks, they're being deployed at the edge, this idea of open edge is also a really hot topic. And this trend is going to accelerate. You know, the importance here is that the use cases are going to be widely varied. The needs of a hospital are going to be different than those of a sports venue, different from a remote drilling location and energy or a concert venue. Things like real time AI inference and data flows are going to bring new services and monetization opportunities. And many firms are going to be bypassing traditional telecommunications networks to build these out. Satellites as well, we're going to see in this decade, you're going to have, you know, you're going to look down at Google Earth and you're going to see real time. You know, today you see snapshots and so lots of innovations going in that space. So how is this going to disrupt industries and traditional industry structures? Now as always, we'll be looking at data angles, right? Because it's in the cubes DNA to follow the data and what opportunities and risks data bring, data brings. The cube is going to be on location at MWC 23 at the end of the month. We had a great set. We're in the walkway between halls four and five, right in Congress square. It's boots CS 60. So we'll have a full, they called Stan CS 60. We have a full schedule. I'm going to be there with Lisa Martin, Dave Nicholson and the entire cube crew. So don't forget to stop by. All right, that's a wrap. I want to thank Alex Meyerson who's on production and manages the podcast Ken Schiffman as well. Kristen Martin and Cheryl Knight help get the word out on social media and in our newsletters, Rob Hough is our editor-in-chief over at Silicon Angle. Does some great stuff for us. Thank you all. Remember, all these episodes are available as podcasts wherever you listen, just search Breaking Analysis Podcast. I publish each week on wikibon.com and siliconangle.com. And all the video content is available on demand at thecube.net. You can email me directly at david.valante at siliconangle.com. You can DM me at dvalante or comment on my LinkedIn post. Please do check out etr.ai for the best survey data in the enterprise tech business. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE Insights powered by ETR. Thanks for watching and we'll see you at Mobile World Congress and or next time on Breaking Analysis.


Guys subscribe and turn notifications on leave a like and drop a comment down below. Get here first and win giveaway calls I will pin as first comment on some of my videos. Be fast and good luck. What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I bring you another Red Dead 2 video and today I bring you 10 plus tips that you need to know but before we go any further guys if you do enjoy the video and would like to show you support you can by hitting that like button and if you are new around here and enjoy the red dead videos be sure to subscribe. Okay so I can't promise you red dead beans out there that you don't know about some of these but hopefully there's at least one tip here which will help you out so let's go. Okay so something that irritates me I get into a fight I get punched in the face and I drop my hat and forget to pick it back up mean I spend the rest of the day running around in the sun burning my head. Well there is a super easy way to retrieve your hat all you have to do is simply stand next to your horse holding the left bumper and tapping that right bumper to green lock that horse wheel and boom select your hat simple okay so a simple trick I recently found out which saves you a little time and it's a quicker way of pulling up your map instead of pressing star and selecting it all you have to do is simply hold that start button and your map will pop up. Another tip guys did you know you can melee on your horse by kicking so if you're running alongside other horse riders you can kick this shit out of them like those good old road rash days and I'll let you younger kids would not remember that game so to kick while riding your horse simply hold B or circle and just kick kick kick away a tip for you parrots out there if you get your hands on a legendary animal parrot and you misplace it in the wild which trust me is easily done it automatically goes to the trapper so rest assured guys you will not lose that parrot which is a great addition because they can be pretty damn hard to collect okay so did you guys know about warning shots so you can walk into a crowd of people and scare the shit out of them they're doing a warning shot where you shoot up into the air it's easily done simply pull out your gun hold the left trigger and press up on the d-pad this is seriously useful for like I said warning shots or intimidating people intimidating witnesses it really works try it out okay so moving on and as you guys know you can go into first person view via pressing that back button or select button whichever you prefer to call it the button to enter the cinematic camera where you can tap this button and you'll go into first person which for many is what they prefer but even with this angle the weapon upon aiming it still isn't like that classic first person you still seem to shoot from the hip as you ain't aiming down those sights while people you can actually aim down those sights and it's really easy to do and it makes things much easier also all you have to do is be in that first person view and press down on the d-pad aim that weapon and you will be aiming down its sights and there you go guys enjoy okay and moving on and another tip for you looters out there instead of constantly pressing that loot button which is square or x you can just constantly hold it this makes things much faster when you are looting numerous items instead of pressing and holding and releasing pressing and holding and releasing you just press and hold and walk through each individual item okay so moving on and probably my favorite thing I've found out in the game so far and that is hands free traveling without the fast travel tram crap which yes in many instances would be quicker but my method is great for when you want to go and do something and let you basically hands free travel to any location so mark a place on the map you want to go to mount your horse and find a nearest road then while riding your horse simply hold a upon walking on the road or x if you replace station user then simply press and hold that back button which takes you into that cinematic camera mode and there you have it guys you can then put your controller down do what you want to do and your horse will take you to your destination awesomeness okay so moving on and did you know you can save stamina for both your horse and with Arthur while running at full speed what you have to do is time your button pressing with the horse's gallops if time right you will save a load of stamina you mean you can travel further without stopping great for when you are under run for those but at least two okay so lastly guys are you a victim of wearing masks through hydro identity and it not working well guys i have the solution the problem i have figured is if you try and break the law within places you are already known people know you the other clothes you are wearing and the horse you are riding so even if you have a mask hide in your face and your identity it actually doesn't hide your identity you will get colored so what you have to do is change your clothes and your horse before going on a mad one i suggest guys on your horse as you know you can select an outfit to put on whenever you want swap between your main outfit and whatever outfit you want to do probably make a crime outfit put this on where your horse is saddle as you know you can easily do by holding lb by holding right bumpers going across through the horse wheel and it should be the bottom of the screen and simply just press when the trigger is to roll between the costumes you have there so have yourself a crime costume so when you don't want to be that low-biding citizen and you want to cause havoc and rub the heck out of people and absolutely everything wear that crime outfit and don't forget to put on that mask too once you are done people simply get out of the area make sure you haven't been spotted or being chased simply switch back to your standard costume take off that mask and you are sorted people and it is as simple as that guys and guys that is it for this video if you guys have any tips you'd like to share do so by leaving a comment down below and i know guys we have come to the end of the video if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps me out if you are new around here and enjoy red dead videos be sure to subscribe but friends as always for stopping by and hopefully i will see you on the next one


Hey everybody, this is Brian and welcome back. I have not done a video in Wow, I don't even remember last time I did a video. I know it's been at least five six months Maybe last but my memory is kind of faded because it's been so long. Oh my gosh, things have just been so busy I have not had a chance to even breathe So what have I been working on? I'm glad you asked I have been working my tail off at work I I changed jobs. Not only did I change jobs. I changed careers um I was a network admin. I'm sorry a server administrator. They call him a network administrator But I was a server administrator and I don't even touch servers anymore. I'm now management I manage over a group of people that do Telcom work routers switches. I also manage another group of people that do uh, unix systems backups things like that Um, so I was contractually obligated to get a Cisco certified network administrator or a CCNA within six months So I was just study study study for Months on end. I did get my CCNA, but I've been So busy if you go to void realms.com you can see that I have not even had a chance to put it in my certification list I don't think it's on my resume right now I should probably update my resume. Anyways, um So yes, I have been working my tail off Um, I've really been soul searching. I miss programming so much. I love dotnet and cute Um, I have to admit I've been loving cute a heck of a lot more than dotnet lately especially now that I've seen some of the future visions of microsoft with the abomination that's going to be windows 8 and They're taking away all the free tools. There'll be no more express versions Boo microsoft bad microsoft So, I don't know. Um, I'll probably I don't know. I think I'm going to focus more on cute because I really love the language But I also want to dive a little bit more into java and non microsoft technologies Maybe some linux tutorials are in order um, also, uh, yeah I was in a relationship and it ended badly um It's one of those awkward things. I'm not going to use youtube as therapy I know some people do I just I don't feel the need to really talk about it But I did want to kind of bring it up. So, you know, I've been busy We're trying to be friends a lot of people say that dude that never works being friends Just never works cut your losses and run, but we're going to try and be friends Don't know if it'll work, but I'm willing to give it a shot And this little jump for joy is not about the relationship being over. It's about my daughter. She graduated high school So it was a really big push on her part and mine as well to get her through high school and now She's going to be starting college in about a month Which is part of the reason why I took the management role simply because I need money to put her through college Yeah, that's If you've ever been through a breakup or a job change or college, where's my little job change Um, you know exactly how stressful that can be So all of that's just been unwieldy and then my house. Oh My goodness. Holy home repairs batman. I mean Wow, I put this little graphic up because it kind of represents my house I've been doing electrical. I've been doing structural. I've been doing accessibility. I've been doing extermination and rodent I've been doing I did plumbing yesterday Um heating is uh next on my list. I think the only thing I haven't done is rip the house down and rebuild it from the ground up so Wow, I think I have touched a skill saw more than I've touched a keyboard in the last six months It's just been ridiculous, but Knock on wood. I don't want to jinx that. I think most of my home repairs are done. So maybe I can get back and do more videos Um, I put this little page in here. This is actually archive.org Um, this is something I've been kind of searching for I'm looking for a way of uploading things Namely my videos to something other than youtube youtube is awesome. It's great, but I get a lot of feedback saying brian I'm sorry. I live in a country where either a youtube is banned or the bandwidth to youtube is so horrible Is there any way you can put it on like a bit torrent or Uh network news or something that'll allow for you know broken downloads to resume well I've been searching high and low and archive.org is aiming to be the library of the internet and I've talked with them a couple times and they said yeah, you can upload videos and they will host them and they will even Make bit torrents and seed them So i'm really looking for something like that. I might do when I get the time a couple trial runs with archive.org just to see how that works And which brings us full circle to the reason why you're probably watching this is my youtube channel It has been horribly neglected for a long time and I have to apologize But if you look at these numbers Man, I think the last time I looked at this I had 2,000 subscribers. So this is just Quadrupled in my subscription base. It's just ridiculous And video views over a million views. Look at that. Wow 1 million views If I hit a dollar for every one of those views You wouldn't be watching this video right now because I'd be on a beach somewhere just relaxing And I'm about as white and nerdy as they come. So I think I need a lot of sunblock but This kind of brings up a good point is out of these 1 million views Probably a quarter of these have sent me a message of some kind through some media whether it be email or youtube or facebook or I even had one guy. I don't know how he did it looked at my personal cell phone number. I'm like, whoa, dude, seriously but um There's so much feedback that I don't think I could possibly in a lifetime respond to all of it So if you're one of those users that's You know sent me a message and feel like you're totally just getting blown off I'm sorry. There's just no way I can keep up with the feedback I'm really hoping that you know some of the more advanced users that have been watching these videos Kind of chime in and start, you know helping you guys out. I just they simply There's no way I can keep up with it Um, I love getting feedback. I love reading what you guys tell me.  It's a community and you give feedback But I just I cannot get through all this feedback. I wish I could I wish I could just get paid to sit here and Do this all day, but unfortunately I have obligations so um I guess that being said if you're one of those people that have messaged me and have gotten a response feel very very fortunate because There's a lot of people out there saying Brian where yeah, bro But what I wanted to do is kind of address where I want to go in the future here. Um With cute and dot net Like I said, I actually did I say it? I don't know. Um, I really kind of want to focus on cute and maybe java Not so much dot net anymore Although I will probably do like a full Vbc sharp from you know inception all the way up to like web and desktop programming I just have to find the time But I think the core of our tutorials are going to be focused more on cute and then more on java Just because that's where my interest is headed So anyways, um, this is brian. That's a picture of me. This handsome young fellow Um, you see I'm not smiling because that's all the home repair that I have been working on and I have no hair because of it So thank you for watching. I look forward to doing videos And I really I look forward to your feedback as much as I hate to say it chances are I may never get to it, but um Keep in touch. Let me know how you guys are doing and just help each other out man. Seriously. That's what we're here for