2200 forgotten vintage computers are being liberated from a barn in Massachusetts

Instead,they ended up on eBay, at a bargain-basement price of $59.99 each. And when the modern retro computing community turned them on, what they found was something worth bringing back to life.

It took a while for anyone to notice these stylish metal-and-plastic machines from 1983. First, information spread like whispers in the community of tech forums, Discord servers, and Patreon channels where retro tech collectors hid.

But then, a well-known tech YouTuber, Adrian Black,did a video about them, and these eBay machines, slapped with the logo of a company called NABU, were anonymous no more.

The NABU is an incredibly interesting story, but I would like to take this time to highlight Adrian Black, one of the very finest retro computing YouTubers out there. He's incredibly knowledgeable and capable, kind, calm, and takes his time to fix and showcase the hardware he works on. He's the Mister Rogers of retro computing, and living proof that no, not all YouTubers are flashy, algorithm-chasing airheads.