Are Computers The Next Big Thing? Ireland 1983

Every home in Ireland will have a computer in the next five years a demonstrator tells the Late Late Toy Show.
The Late Late Toy Show has all the latest toys and technology and this year according to Gay Byrne, all the kids are bananas for computers.
Nine-year-old Oric whizz kid Mark Feldman from Rathfarnham who has been playing computer games since the age of six. Mark has plans to learn how to programme.
Thirteen-year-old Johnson McEvoy uses computers for programming and games and to create graphics. Johnson has his own Oric computer and can find his way around the keyboard pretty well.
Computers are the big thing this year.
Maurice Cohen of computer sales company ‘Tomorrow’s World’ says,
We’re going the greatest social, cultural and technological revolution that mankind has ever gone through.
Maurice Cohen believes that it is important not to be left behind by technology. He believes that within five years, every single home in Ireland will probably have a home computer, which can be used for games like Space Invaders, business applications such as word processing and financial modelling, and for educational purposes.
There are already around a thousand Commodore 64 computers in Irish schools. Maurice Cohen demonstrates an application that helps people to learn how to use a keyboard and type. In the game, a letter or a number comes floating down the screen and the player simply has to find the key on the keyboard. As the player progresses through the game and becomes more familiar with the keyboard, the letters and numbers appear faster and faster.
This episode of The Late Late Toy Show was broadcast on 10 December 1983. The host is Gay Byrne.

[@johnoconnor6962]

Gay Byrne admits he knows nothing about computers, but he certainly knows about fashion.

[@fieldagentryan]

pink tie coen and johnson christian name hand on shoulder ... ah now dead it bee arm your gideon of to the don bas for thee... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWishZ6eq513iJI

[@edmundpower1250]

Knew

[@josephfisher6745]

Didn't know much about accountants

[@lindahughes4409]

Good ole days when they show the toys

[@rgearr1808]

40 years ago.. if only they knew how big it would be...

[@Dr-Stu]

Maurice wasn't too far off in his prediction.

[@benmacdui9328]

Now everybody is glued to a screen 24 hrs a day and nobody talks anymore. Progress ?

[@ciaran5588]

Gaybo 2022 "so, virtual reality. What do you do on it?" 13 year old "mostly hard core porn & ultra gorey games. I ripped a baby apart with my teeth while playing as a werewolf earlier today. Blood is good Gay"

[@DennisMoore664]

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. I had a friend with a Commodore 64 and learned Basic on an Apple II+ at school, but my best friend had an Atari 800. Thinking Atari would be the gaming system I eventually upgraded to an 800XL - black and silver wih128K. Good times.

[@dac8939]

I had spectrum 48k then gameboy, then nintendo, the super nintendo, then Atari ST then amiga.

[@hugostiglitz6914]

Because of the speed technology is evolving the distance we can reasonably predict into the future is getting shorter and shorter. We are also fast losing our ability to be amazed!

[@johnmcgahern3946]

I didn't know of anyone with a computer in their house until 1989.

[@aljomc6444]

'83 for us

[@shane6115]

Everybody I knew in the 80,s didn’t have a computer because everybody I knew hadn’t got shilling…😢

[@Glynnwilliamson]

that poor kid probably thought he was going to get a free computer

[@italianbirdvideos6190]

Nah, I don't think that will take off. My bet is computers will be dead in six months...

[@ganlyb]

I was given a zx80 for Christmas 1979, about £140. I learnt from the manual how to program, in school no teachers had any skills to teach. As a result I now have millions of pounds in the bank

[@pmacc3557]

Any chance of a loan

[@hanzobi1926]

More chance of dick waggling and wallet flexing tbh mate.

[@cliveo3]

Are you a scammer ?

[@conorcousins27]

Your due a blue Peter badge so

[@ganlyb]

@@conorcousins27 erm you're

[@RazorMouth]

We had a zx spectrum from the early 80s, then a more modern commodore from 1990 and then a Gateway2000 with Win 95 from 1996 with a massive 2GB storage, it was so much that it needed 2 hard drives of 1GB each 🤣🤣🤣

[@max__pain]

My first computer was a micro. Learned some BASIC and wrote some programmes and music with it.

[@francispower1418]

Watching this it comes as no surprise, reminding myself that subsequently Ireland became on of the great tech hubs of the world.

[@animallover19581]

Imagine 1983 and they talking about learning computers skills. 2023 nearly and I still know feic all about computers. 😢😢😢 Good thing though in 1983 I married the best girl in the world, still together happy out. 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹😂😃😀😇😇👏👏

[@philfriel001]

My first computer was an Amstrad PCW8512 in late 1986. It wasn't supposed to be a "proper computer" (but it WAS a proper computer, with CP/M on the other side of the program disc, and the ability to run all the software available for that OS), more of a glorified electronic typewriter running the LocoScript wordprocessor, with a screen and the ability to print files out on it's dot matrix printer and save files to disc. Atari, Amiga and C64 and C128 users dismissed it and looked down on the PCW. Sure, the Z80 processor and CP/M operating system were pretty out of date even when the computer was new, but they did the job. And my PCW had 512k of RAM at a time when Commodore 8bit computers only had 64k and 128k. It might not have matched up to the much more powerful and flashy 16bit Ataris and Amigas. But compared to the 8bit Commodore 64 and 128, the various models of Spectrum computers and the various other 8bit machines, it fairly held it's own. The only 8bit computers that I can think of that really outclassed the Amstrad PCW were the Acorn BBC B and BBC Master. They were in a league of their own. But I loved my old Amstrad PCW. It was my first computer and still holds a fond place in my heart, despite the fact that I've been a PC user for over 30 years now.

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

The young lads probabably got great careers. (And could spell)

[@fieldagentryan]

feldman , cohen pink tie , johnson christian name hand on shoulder .. cre ears , spellinseses dildio daggins frow d'ho ... deefer ... xsaxonx ...xreverttrevrex .. facebook miszion mountloaded be da goorhs .. no blasphemy by referndum - no hate speech legislation ...red hand day lawd un um discrticus ..the family of naoise templar not to be fooled by trinitus ...silly childish and not impressive yo much beyond arc*h*bi shoppee ye the ode ... dowdalldecoderrubbish trash .... yawn the gan delf ..the coocoo knobbingworths tax dodge hill ,,, red team eejit to name hawsy in bog in awfullt offally ...weeja ,, eejit ,,..egypt ... the birds have flown freely ..goal den goo is faber gayed ... .. childish ..here - Goose ta po lice ffl ssg ... flutes for loosing should stop gallivanting .." Thou shalt not touch without consent ... putin not satlin no more .... gawk squak hawk ..gree maisons cum promeyesesseded ...white book whiye horse the ivy dreegs are loosing power .. halt uffington stop junk shun ... loco men are loco loco again ..golden butter from aines tombs brought the tails of the greasesons eradicated by the haran sfartans ... purple heart of men u the poop of room has two heads for in fall i bill i ty tee teeech ... ti house book library ...trump to buyden camp 1 what on the island has it dune dun fremen fade in and out ,,the fear trap set ..tomb 69 denied for what in esker did to child !!!!

[@1989Chrisc]

I think the johnson lad became a physiotherapist. Certainly looks like him if you google him.

[@elstow]

ha watching this on KZbin app on smartphone in 2022

[@psychedelicpython]

I’m watching this on my old “12.9” iPad Pro and thinking how far computers and computer devices have come since the 80s. Incredible.

[@patrickryan5570]

Wow back then in 1983 we were on the cusp of a revolution and of course the internet was the ultimate game changer - the smartly presented kids appearing were a credit to their parents as they knew times were a changing - I can only assume they went on to achieve great success in their lives - The best thing in Ireland was a universal appreciation of great education for knowledge is power.

[@DillaDonuts]

Kids seemed to be a lot less fidgety back then

[@fieldagentryan]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5TRYqd9n5d4mrM

[@retrobilly1986]

Not full of cans of Red bull

[@onthewattle]

I want that 64 for chip tune production. Some Lads have made some pretty new drum machines and sequencers for it

[@fieldagentryan]

jtght ... briohnson christian name handicus shoal der sponticus ... arm a gideon to dbt jew know ..wunce up on a thyme ..and glowing no

[@fieldagentryan]

ooh ahhh up Eire ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5TRYqd9n5d4mrM

[@jinxterx]

Triumphant hair flick by the Steve Jobs wannabe at 5:44 😅

[@jimmybrad156]

and 3:38

[@jinxterx]

@@jimmybrad156 well spotted, missed that one!🤣

[@jimmybrad156]

@@jinxterx no worries *flicks hair back*

[@jinxterx]

@@jimmybrad156 lol🤦‍♂️😅

[@forgotmyusername2]

Gas

[@veronicadredd22]

so the Toy show had steve jobs in a grey suit back in 1983 the man is te spitting image of him

[@jakehiller6444]

In 5 years every home will have a computer? Lol my family didn't get a PC until the early 2000s.

[@prefeitobear9209]

For Dublin, localisation is money.

[@exerciserelax8719]

Graphics today: Photorealistic landscape with individually rendered blades of grass. Graphics then: "Squares"

[@grahamluna6935]

I'll take the bike, thanks

[@platypusputin8067]

Nah, I don't think this computer thingy majig is gonna catch on.

[@tonyhancock3912]

I am afraid of the keyboard

[@123brownjames]

Gay Byrne saw the future

[@seandelap8587]

I think we all know the answer to this question don't we

[@dirtyunclehubert]

yeah. never amassed to anything much, thankfully.

[@fieldagentryan]

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[@mrcherrytits]

Nah. They'll never take off.

[@davidvincent8929]

SMOOCH. WE HAVE LIVED IN COUNTIES CORK, CLARE, DUBLIN. WE LIVE THIS.

[@OlafProt]

I got a 2nd hand Sinclair ZX81 in about 1983, my friends all had Spectrums. Back then we had magazines with dozens lines to input to make a dot cross the screen or something equally unbelievable at the time. We called it programming, at some point it became “coding” 🙄 really and truly you knew then that they were here. The advent of the games on the Spectrum meant you knew it was forever

[@speakertreatz]

one $ in the wrong place and you got 'error'

[@OlafProt]

@@speakertreatz right 😂 🤦‍♂️

[@guitarstorms]

If only we knew how the computer controls us now....

[@Parakinese]

Cool clip👍

[@fieldagentryan]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4PWoImBbp6rarc

[@barrywalsh7926]

Gaybo didn't see the Twitter Files coming!

[@jimmybrad156]

Looks like Steve Jobs

[@opencurtin]

Gay wearing his pyjama top how nice !!

[@GerryScullion]

What a great video!

[@paulclarke7571]

Didn't get my first computer till 1995. $2200 for a whopping 4 gigs in Canada!

[@pmacc3557]

We were taught to type on the good old fashioned typewriters

[@DaraM73]

I’m pretty sure half BMX’s weren’t a thing.

[@markforresttv]

Now we're watching this from are phones 📱 I wonder what comes next for the future

[@Matchewfitz]

Gay! Bubby! I'm your white knight.

[@dermotspollen]

I still only know how to turn a computer on

[@wiicow]

I’ll never understood how anyone wasn’t scared of a computer making sounds like that

[@solo1y]

I'm not too fond of it even now.

[@anthonywhite6530]

Gay Byrne a national hero

[@mccann82]

Going to have to get me one of these things.

[@davidowen6977]

Late developer 😐 There was a home device ( Tatung?) called an ' Einstein '.......passed me by completely

[@laoch5658]

they will never take off

[@untitled6981]

Mark my words, they won't take off

[@thecarpetman7687]

It’ll never catch on

[@gazurtoids1]

A NORACK WHIZZKID

[@punchy1325]

Awh my first computer

[@OlafProt]

Who knew

[@dontbeshady411]

Larry David says no.

[@fieldagentryan]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6malmp_h9Oif5o

[@Parakinese]

Pretty low audio level though....

[@pozzee2809]

Sadly they we didn’t see all the bad things it would bring

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

@@brianmelcarr Brill))))

[@ColmGibney]

@@brianmelcarr You're missing a comma, using an ampersand, and double-spacing. No word processor either? 😄 Happy Christmas.

[@fieldagentryan]

@@brianmelcarr kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqCamHyPrZ6hprc

[@CAVALIERKNIGHT33]

Q.E.D. Yeu lerne tu spele en skule. Or get a word processor etc.😂🤣😅

[@edmundpower1250]

@@brianmelcarr grammatical

[@roymunson1]

2:20(Morris) putting on the best damn Irish accent by an Indian i ever heard!!

[@conchronic]

Maurice Cohen, more likely he is irish of Jewish descent .

[@roymunson1]

@@conchronic well, I won't say anything about him being a jew, even he really is. Ann frankly I won't stand for anti semitic jokes!

[@vincentmccready]

@@roymunson1 ha!

[@WakaWaka2468]

@@conchronic No such thing as an Irish or European Jew. The Jew is his own small ethnic group.

[@GhastlyCretin]

@@WakaWaka2468 Nonsense. So there's no American Jews by that logic.

[@noelmaher4633]

This was before Solicitors came up with ADHD Defence,92 ,Kids gonna be kids....no ringing up the Radio and Press having just received celebrity diagnosis in late forties...Just the attention bit)

[@bonzodog6872]

You don't need a computer to calculate that it took Gaybo until 1983 to finally unwrap his 1974 Christmas present of a shirt

[@MSTL144]

I do, an oric!