Computer Chronicles - IBM PS2 - 1987.mp4

[@joaogrrr]

Dvorak's actions in this episode are priceless. Comedy gold.

[@thegougeman]

"Normally it just pops right out" - LOL.. Steward was very gracious keeping things going during that time.

[@GeckonCZ]

15:17 ...and John just deleted system configuration by removing speaker/battery assembly from Model 50/70 :)

[@giantturdburglar]

Dvorak here kinda looks like Bubbles from trailer park boys

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

I,m still able to use OS/2 with pretty good results in 2014 :) QC

[@Animated__Freak]

Last release was in 2001 right? I hope the source is released some day so that a community version could continue the OS/2 dream.

[@DigiFootageFX]

How right Morrow was, looking back, about the importance of marketing the OS and hardware. It's as if Jobbs and Apple in the mid 2000s looked back and saw this episode and took Morrow's advice, and as a result, became the most successful computer company in history by 2015.

[@larryhenry631]

My 1stPC a "Salvation Army Thrift Store" special was an IBM-P/S2-50. came with DOS-3 and lots of info on charity contributions from Indianapolis Upper Crust...(I wiped it - installed DOS-6.20) You hear that Mr. Simon? I really liked reading about you and your wife!

[@leftspeaker2000]

oh john c dvorak you have not even changed

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

John is digging around looking for Stickam.

[@stmbaah]

Dvorak is the man

[@TangFiend1]

My father and I had OS/2 for awhile in the 90's I remember the memory management having a bunch of problems with software that would run fine under DOS.

[@werkis2]

Funny how that guy couldn't put back that PC :D

[@saultube44]

@5:35 High resolution graphics 640x480 16 colors (4-bits), cute xD well I guess in 30 years people will say the same of our modern ultra-wide 8K 10-bit per channel, 30-bit monitors and video cards. 10 MHz CPUs, 640 KB RAM, 150 KB had to be assigned for the graphics mode for the "HD" resolution, 386SX was able to address 16 MB RAM IIRC, and the 386DX 4GB but here they're trying to break the 1 MB barrier, which was complicated at the time, they had to remap BIOS/ROM addresses to high and upper memory to free up RAM for the OS and apps, a model could take years to develop, R&D were expensive and slow, wow, those were the times that when new CPUs or computer models, like the i486 was announced it'd come months/years later lots of hype and when it launched it was a worldwide sensation, now a new CPU arhcitecture is announced and is only like 15 second announcement, a little longer than taking a fart, disappointing...

[@acmild]

Wonder if this clip was uploaded with i386DX 😏

[@alejandromartinezgandara2302]

Nostalgic

[@vitalsfading]

man i miss those days

[@ian_b]

I have a PS/2 Model 60. The engineering is very nice :)

[@supermasterPIK]

The only legacy was the purple and green PS/2 connectors, even in USB times, are up to date.

[@hakemon]

They weren't purple and green on PS/2's. ;)

[@kinmanyuen]

i got myself a ps/2 model 30 286 today. 161 163 I downloaded the startup disk, it works. The 30mb also works flawlessly. Now I need to get the cmos battery replacement :-) The machine is suprisingly silent.

[@staffoffice]

The 32 Bit Micro Channeling has a lot of problems and in typical IBM fashion it was proprietary. It was actually fast and it had that cool 720K floppy drive. IBM's marketing department was horrible and could not market to the home market and this is one of the biggest reasons we don't run OS/2 Warp! over Windows.

[@CallOfDuty4Fish]

I still have my PS2 :D The hard drive exploded though...

[@kinmanyuen]

thankfully the model 30 has 16bit ISA. that is open arcitecture... not the fail MCA in model 50 and onwards.

[@michealbensin]

i386DX, your avatar and name is epic!!

[@semco72057]

I have OS/2 versions 3.0, and 4.0 and it is nice, but did not get the support of software developers like Windows did. Both versions runs some of Windows software as well as Dos software. The PS/2 computers are nice, but IBM gave up on them too soon and got out of the PC business when there was a need for something else other than Windows which crashed too often at the time. IBM was making too much of their hardware proprietary like Apple and hurt themselves.

[@annaoaulinovna]

i was a little chid. in 1987

[@theedrstrangelove]

I still have a PS/2 Model 90 and it works to this day. But it weighs about 50 pounds!

[@sologals361]

In 1987 all i was interested in was who was top of the pops. T'pau , Belinda Carlise or the Pet shop boys,or maybe M.a.r.r.s PUMP UP THE VOLUME

[@theedrstrangelove]

Solo Gals Or the Bangles, U2, Jody Wately, Kim Wilde, Samanth Fox, Cyndi lauper (gosh there were a lot of women on the top 100 in 1987), Prince, and everyone's favorite: Tiffany!

[@sologals361]

theedrstrangelove I think were alone now.

[@michealbensin4705]

Love your KZbin name (Y)

[@kinmanyuen]

11:00 and thankfully the people are on our side

[@chairuser4]

i bet they thought it was the most cutting edge pc

[@NLS87]

Macintosh SE was the real deal in 87... PS/2 = Toy.

[@JaredConnell]

maybe if you're color blind lol. don't get me wrong I love the se but no color and very little expansion capabilities makes it hard to call it the real deal and the ps2 a toy. jobs was a lot like Henry Ford, thinking he knew what was best for the consumers. Ford famously said 'customers can have it in any color as long as it's black'. it jobs thought more about the customers needs in the present as well as the future. who wants a machine that you can't replace the monitor to a larger (and maybe color, I mean the Apple ][ was color lol so why not) one. and when you eventually get a new machine you can't use your old monitor you have to pay for another one built into the system as well. then the lack of expansion cards etc adds up to a very limited machine with a short life span. too bad jobs didn't give us the best of both worlds.

[@SamuraiClinton]

The police force used computers like these in the 90s. I say we should call it the Police Squad 2.

[@BoomRoomFive]

Hah they were so sure MCA would prevail.

[@rowger8927]

Shadow Hawk will be avenged!

[@KristofferTrolle]

The PS/2 is hot!!!

[@BOTPlayingBlackOPS6]

talking about lusting.. ipads, Iphones, Icrap! lol

[@valentine_puppy]

In the Morning to ya slaves.

[@Leonard_MT]

???

[@valentine_puppy]

@@Leonard_MT no agenda show

[@MA-jx6in]

Amiga was way better for it's time multitasking is where it was at