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@chubbycatfish45734 жыл бұрын
The TV board was pretty neat, especially for 1992.
@matthewweng84832 жыл бұрын
I love the J Mouse guy... i kept expecting him to say 'just press T and your keyboard will function as a time machine'
@daehawk95855 жыл бұрын
I like how the Viewsonic man said fricker flee,
@joaogoncalves11493 жыл бұрын
Flicker "flee" on a CRT, ha!
@higfny3 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this on a 4k screen. Felt pretty great until I remembered that someone will comment on this 10 years from now on their 100k screen.
@higfny3 жыл бұрын
@Saber SMAW som only a 1080p?
@allentoyokawa90682 жыл бұрын
Japan invented HD/4k in the 90s
@AcornElectron Жыл бұрын
Already watching on 8k. Resolution looks shocking though since it’s only a 480p upload.
@BaumInventions Жыл бұрын
Hello here is the future. We have gone back to FullHD because graphics cards are so expensive that we started to use the previous generations again...
@filipkogut853311 ай бұрын
I think 4k will be the standard for some years just like Full HD was. Most people nowadays use small screens anyway, where there's no need for such high resolution.
@rendermanpro4 жыл бұрын
The time when in the same amount of memory that used by few Google Chrome "tab" you was able to load 20 whole working Windows XP
@nyccollin Жыл бұрын
Yes, computing was more efficient back then. Not sure if you’re saying you agree with the amount of memory needed for one Chrome Tab or not lol.
@rendermanpro Жыл бұрын
I mean that Windows XP (WHOLE), was about 200Mb RAM footprint, and about 700Mb installed (if clean it, as I remember). Way less than "modern" one single Chrome tab. I don't get how one tab can eat more memory than whole running Windows. People rendered movies VFX in 2000s at computers that will not be able to run one Chrome tab while run out or resources... And it is not about how fast modern computers is, but "programmers quality"
@mustachesally413411 ай бұрын
0:40 that environment in the background is what I remember the most about computer isles at a store such as compusa.
@Murphistic8 жыл бұрын
That TV tuner card is massive :) .
@zorinlynx3 жыл бұрын
Wow, were they actually taping this during the 1992 World Series?? I remember that series well! :)
@fnordist7 жыл бұрын
The Logitech Trackball was great, i used it until 2005 in my garage
@drygnfyre5 жыл бұрын
I've always liked trackballs, once I got used to them. Logitech still has some modern offerings. Or you could probably even use the one featured in this video with a USB adapter.
@mhmrules5 жыл бұрын
Got myself a Logitech Trackball when I upgraded my PC. I've always been fascinated by it, and boy I enjoy using it!
@AndyXiong7 жыл бұрын
"Fricker flee"
@Appleboy781657 жыл бұрын
Spoonerisms!
@nyccollin4 жыл бұрын
Andy Xiong Timestamp much?
@cbw563 жыл бұрын
@@nyccollin 11:16
@kentlisius767511 ай бұрын
We have this fantastic brand new one that is being released and is available on all products except high-end adult processors. It's called Tunnel Falls system on chip and it affords the user an eye into any data in the drive any time in the computer's time line affording us advanced software that would never be available until the computer was about to turn 18!
@wallacelang13747 ай бұрын
When I chose to upgrade to a Windows PC I decided to go from my DOS 2.0 Computer to a Windows 95 PC by acquiring a whole new machine altogether that was originally built as a Windows PC already. I know that I could have bought either a 286 or a 386 PC and using upgrade components, but that would have cost me almost as much money as buying a built for Windows PC.
@MagicCarpetRide86693 жыл бұрын
Wow I'm really impressed by that TV tuner... looks much better than video on computers 10 years down the road. Think about that, in 1992, running Windows 3.0, and you have 30 fps video on your computer. Very, very cool! I wonder how much it cost at the time?
@blackneos9402 жыл бұрын
"One step forward and two steps back!..."
@kentuky12339 ай бұрын
I had it in the year 2000 for about 2 hundred dollars. It was still a novelty back then. It must has been mind blowing in 1992.
@oldtwinsna83473 ай бұрын
This didn't work the same way tv cards work today where the video goes across the expansion bus and into the video card. Instead, this card just shot out a de-interlaced TV signal into VGA format (which was neat in itself) to which you can see the VGA port on the card... that output had a special cable to use when hooking up to the system video card. The software correctly positioned the computer generated black box to fit the output of the video card so it aligned and looked like a natural output from the video card. You can tell particularly since this appears to be an 8 bit card, there was no way to get that video bandwidth across the bus and this kind of stuff required pentium level processing. Cards that came out in the mid 90s operated differently, on a direct bus since hardware encoders became available to make it feasible to fully digitize the video.
@PaulMarriott5 жыл бұрын
2:06 So THAT’s where Apple got the force-touch-move-the-text-cursor-in-lieu-of-keyboard-arrow-buttons-hack idea from!
@drygnfyre4 жыл бұрын
J-Mouse was also very similar to the IBM TrackPoint (i.e. the red nipple). J-Mouse was common on Zenith Data Systems notebooks that lacked the TrackPoint but wanted to offer something very similar.
@connclissmann6514 Жыл бұрын
You might want to trademark that handy name you created?
@HikikomoriDev5 жыл бұрын
0:43 lol he says it like it's a good thing or something
@mrflamewars5 жыл бұрын
Its a shame they couldn't genlock those monitors so they look steady on TV. Genlock means make them run at exactly the same rate and exactly in time with the 60hz TV Cameras. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genlock
@AngstFisch10 жыл бұрын
23:17 Kid Pix sounds wrong
@bassblaster5059 жыл бұрын
AngstFisch LOL that made my day
@liquidalloy3 жыл бұрын
@19:21 Dave Winfield baby!!! yes!
@TheEternitySnow5 жыл бұрын
Logitech won
@daehawk95855 жыл бұрын
Back in the mid 90s I edited my startup files so windows didnt load and I was in DOS with loads of free memory and speed for gaming. Of course win95 ruined that.
@gerakore89482 жыл бұрын
i remember buying that video card. went from 256 colors to 16k colors (24 bit). The math co-processor was the coolest part as it allowed floating point operations and enabled virtual reality software to run. I also had that huge TV tuner card that did not fit into my case. cut my hands pretty good on that trying to install it. amazing now that i am on dual 43' 4k 144hz monitors. i couldn't imagine doing what i do on 13' 640x480 like i used to have
@LionheartNh3 жыл бұрын
My j key mouse isn't working.
@beakt Жыл бұрын
Dave Winfield facing Tom Glavine in the 1992 World Series! They were recording this episode while the game was live? It's Game 1, second inning. The game started at 5:30 p.m. Palo Alto time on Saturday, October 17, 1992. So I doubt it was live. Unfortunately, on this recording the title card doesn't show the recording date, as it often does! And in the news, he mentioned Novell buying UNIX (first announced in December 1992), IBM releasing the ThinkPad "eight weeks ago" (released in October 1992). And he's talking about what's coming up in January. So clearly this was videoed in December, and the guy used a VCR or something to emulate live TV. But, wait! He flipped through several channels! And, the World Series was on Channel 5, which is CBS up there, and CBS broadcast the World Series that year. So maybe they did plan to come in to the studio on a Saturday night just for that segment so the World Series could be on.
@JaredConnell Жыл бұрын
They probably taped the main segments and the news at different times with the news being later so that the stuff they talk about would always be up to date. And maybe they worked the main segments taping around different people's schedules so it ended up being on a Saturday evening this time. Or maybe they always did it that day, who knows? But i doubt they planned it around the world series, that just happened to be on tv at that time.
@elaborate-press8 жыл бұрын
that's awesome!
@connclissmann6514 Жыл бұрын
Windows 11 has a simpler plan: throw out your perfectly good Windows 10 PC and buy a new PC. This boosts OEM revenue and Microsoft have a simpler life, by not supporting older hardware.
@amtwebview17 күн бұрын
Same goes to Apple Inc. who ditched x86 generic ecosystem for their own playground.
@Maskddingo11 жыл бұрын
@3L!5.. Wait... so they are upset about having to upgrade their 286's in order to run windows in 1992? Why are you still using a 286 in 1992 in the first place?
@tcpnetworks6 жыл бұрын
Because they were still on the ground - and being shipped. Fairly obvious, really.
@AiOinc15 жыл бұрын
@@tcpnetworks You could still get the Commodore 64 in 1992. That doesn't mean people *did* get them. Small notebook computers existed in 1990 with 386SX for cheap too.
@anonUK4 жыл бұрын
Let's say I want to run some old games from 2005-ish, ie. Pentium 3/4 era XP machines. UK charity shops don't sell old computers because of GDPR and pron; and compatibility modes on my modern Windows 10 64-bit laptop aren't always reliable. So, if I've got some old software I want to hold on to, I may need to shell out for an old spec computer one day. If I had been in that position 25-30 years ago, I might have been looking for a 286 to run my old stuff which would complement my up-to-the-minute 486DX PC which could run the new stuff.
@Maskddingo4 жыл бұрын
anonUK i think i said "in 1992".
@anonUK4 жыл бұрын
@@Maskddingo 25-30 years ago, yes.
@sideburn Жыл бұрын
Fricker Flee?
@Clay36138 жыл бұрын
Why didn't that keyboard/mouse become common in laptops?
@ferrreira6 жыл бұрын
Usability. The early laptops had trackballs and they were not very good as well. I think Apple pioneered the use of trackpads on their 90s PowerBooks.
@drygnfyre5 жыл бұрын
@@ferrreira They did. The PowerBook was the first to use both a trackpad and place it below the keyboard. Most other laptops at the time had a trackball side-by-side, or it clipped on as an optional accessory. There's actually another Computer Chronicles video about the PowerBook line where they show cross-sections of trackpads and trackballs.
@gerakore89482 жыл бұрын
ever seen the red mouse button in the ibm thinkpad laptops? i guess it was called the trackpoint : www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/6/30/21292182/thinkpad-trackpoint-mouse-nub-button-trackpad-challenges-design-user-input
@ssokolow2 жыл бұрын
The J Mouse? Because you still have to press down the J key once before you can tilt it. What became popular instead was pointing sticks like the IBM Thinkpad TrackPoint series. I can't be sure, but I seem to remember that it was the push to give smartphone users as similar a pointing experience on laptops as possible that banished them to a tiny niche... and, as someone who grew up on Thinkpads with pointing sticks, I'll never forgive them for it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
@medes5597 Жыл бұрын
Zenith notebooks used it briefly. I don't remember it having much of a following.
@a9udn9u2 жыл бұрын
They got that evil trackball technology back then??
@deadsi3 жыл бұрын
Didn't know they made mice with one button in them days
@todaysgrailtomorrowsbeater6 жыл бұрын
Zach Galifianakis invented a mouse button back in ‘92.
@michaelmcconnell73023 ай бұрын
You've got to buy, ornyou GET to buy 🤠
@AcornElectron Жыл бұрын
How to spend money on hardware because the people that make software can’t optimise. For 40 years.
@johnbrown929 жыл бұрын
Watch TV to cool just recently got my Comcast tv through the internet with their latest plan lol.
@DataWaveTaGo6 жыл бұрын
A great time to sell upgrades.
@user-dq2fi2vc5jАй бұрын
I LOVE USA!
@tHeWasTeDYouTh4 жыл бұрын
0:47..... "spend hundreds of dollars' you mean thousands of dollars
@AnimalHouseVetVideos11 жыл бұрын
Thank fuck I found this video. I've been searching for days for any info on how to upgrade my Core i7 system to make it good enough for Windows 3.1. Typing this from my jmouse keyboard as we speak. I've also duct taped some ISA cards into my computer case and written 80386 on the side in black sharpie. I think I'm all set guys. See you in... THE FUTURE. *puts on shades, wipes Windows 7 partition, crams Windows 3.1 diskette into Blu-ray burner*
@Roman-nu1om2 жыл бұрын
72hz is far from flicker free, needs at least 85Hz!
@IkarusKommt3 жыл бұрын
How great it is that those terrible CRT monitors and their flickering and distorted images had finally gone.
@Banzeken Жыл бұрын
When viewing these old CRT monitors with your own eyes the flickering is not perceivable. It only looks bad in the video because the video camera’s shutter speed and monitor’s refresh rate are not matched, hence why you see the horizontal lines flicker on the monitors.
@straightpipediesel Жыл бұрын
@@Banzeken You can most definitely notice the flicker on a color monitor at 60 Hz. As they said, you have to run them at 75 Hz or better 85 Hz for a flicker free experience. Another issue was with fluorescent lighting, the differing frequencies between the screen and the lighting flicker would make it much worse.
@Banzeken Жыл бұрын
@@straightpipediesel In my recent experience with looking at and filming my Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 200 CRT monitor at a 60hz refresh (I have mutliple newer videos of my channel covering an old Pentium 90Mhz and Pentium II 400Mhz computer) I have not been able to pick up anything resembling flicker outside of tiny camcorder-related scrolling line imperfections, and certainly nowhere near the level of flicker as seen in this Computer Chronicles video. Same can be said for my tests at the same refresh rate with a Sony Trinitron CPD1730 from 1993 although it sadly started acting up (due to age-related issues) some week after I bought it 2nd-hand, therefore I have no videos on it. I’m sure someone out there might possibly perceive some minuscule flickering but my eyes have not been able to perceive anything resembling distracting flickering using these two monitors.
@straightpipediesel Жыл бұрын
@@Banzeken It's bad precisely because they're running the monitors at 75 or 85 Hz, while they're filming at 59.94. The cameraman can also compensate with one monitor by tweaking the shutter speed, but with two monitors at slightly different speeds and phases, they can't. Also, the resolution matters, you're probably running it at a lower resolution than normal. Lower resolution = larger electron beam = more intensity = phosphors fade out longer = less flicker.
@modmutt11 ай бұрын
I never knew Luke from Linus Tech Tips had a dad who works for ViewSonic, or is it his older twin brother, or maybe he's just a time traveler...
@2lotsill11 ай бұрын
Was poor growing up. Didn’t have a home computer till ‘98 or so.
@alexsmith66079 жыл бұрын
Dose anyone know where i can get 486to586.EXE 3DFX.exe Qumm Doctor screen. 486to568 idk if it work`s was on this old 486 i found 3dfx.exe did emulate 64 megs of ram for your video card like a swap file , is there anything like this today? Qumm Qemm Would take 256k and make it 640k take 4megs and make it 8megs mac had the same thing. it had a swap file type mode to have like 128 megs Doctor screen not the right name it would scan your video card if the mode did fail it would emulate the mode so the game would run on video card that did not support. It was on a GateWay 486 the huge one that was like 4 feet tall but the hard drive did turn into files like AZBA78A BA79Z9A7 C9ABA883 and so on so i lost it all.. Is there a site for old dos/win toons?
@johnbrown929 жыл бұрын
+Alex Smith You are looking for Qemm for an older 486? There is nothing like this for new machines because it is not needed. Since AGP video cards can use system memory. The other thing was a vesa emulator I bet I used to use one lol. Just google QEMM memory manger download in google ;-)
@hamtaro12611 жыл бұрын
Plus the Volume Quality is suck on these videos, Also, Hi RougeAmp!!!
@serajeemdtoriqularman59553 жыл бұрын
OK Intel 😂
@cesaru36194 жыл бұрын
Im sold! where can i buy that great "trackball", that's right Nowhere, no one use that crap anymore...
@parkerlreed3 жыл бұрын
... /s? Trackballs are still alive and well. I use an MX Ergo daily at work.
@Maskddingo11 жыл бұрын
Seems like PSU can't handle their own tech. Shameful. Glad I turned them down for my CS degree.
@Maskddingo11 жыл бұрын
DERP!
@aris95 Жыл бұрын
Clickbait woman at 12:50 :)
@RighteousBruce11 ай бұрын
6:15 Im now using a View Sonic 4K 150Hz 28" monitor lol
@alexsmith660710 жыл бұрын
I wish Microsoft had giving us a choice , Windows GIU are , Command Line Windows no gui , just think how great it world be , even ver of windows eat`s up more of your computer with useless colorful windows that dont help to make them system run better
@drygnfyre5 жыл бұрын
Windows Server has an option to boot directly into a command-line interface and not use a GUI at all. Even the 9x releases had an option to boot into MS-DOS if you preferred.
@jsan41083 жыл бұрын
Or just download linux server edition and bam all cmd