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@fennecbesixdouze1794 Жыл бұрын
"The hottest new game, Tetris" god I love this show so much I can't even put it into words.
@bsrhoad Жыл бұрын
Parents bought me a C-64 for Christmas in 1984. It changed my life, now almost 40 years later I am s successful Software Developer.
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
do you have proof of this? 🤔
@bsrhoad5 ай бұрын
@@Chevroletcelebrity Proof of what?
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
@bsrhoad proof that the c-64 you received in 1984 is what caused you to become a software developer. Also proud that you are successful in this field if you are in fact in the field. 🤔
@bsrhoad5 ай бұрын
@@Chevroletcelebrity What the Duck is wrong with you, you psycho.
@maxxdahl60624 ай бұрын
@@Chevroletcelebrity Why would anyone lie about that? It's happened with a ton of people.
@Diskoboy1974 Жыл бұрын
Still remember getting my C64 on Christmas day 1983. I had asked for a VIC-20 because my school had one, and didn't even know the C64 existed yet. My dad spent a good portion of the night setting it all up after I went to bed. When I came down in the morning, it was running the Christmas demonstration software that most of the stores were using. Needless to say, I pretty much ignored my other presents for the next hour or so. But it turns out, even had I not gotten the C64, 1983 ended up being my favorite Christmas of all time. It's now the tail end of 2022, and I still have that C64, BTW. And it still gets regular use thanks to that SID chip. 😁 And I love the way Stewart pronounces Sega. "SEE-guh"
@DS-pk4eh Жыл бұрын
Hahaha, I had asked for C64 but got VIC-20 with 16Kb expansion! It was OK for a first computer. I got C64 1 year later.
@fattomandeibu11 ай бұрын
Still have all my C64 and all the tapes. No idea if they still work, but I remember going to Boots every Saturday with my dad to pick a new game from the £1.99 section, with the odd treat of him being nice and getting me one of the boxed(the £1.99 ones come in jewel cases, so you can tell at a glance which was budget and which was full priced) games from the £9.99 section. For Americans: Disk drives on a C64 were really rare in England due to the fact they cost more than the computer did here. It's really odd seeing so many disk games when I've only ever seen one C64 floppy drive despite knowing a few dozen guys who owned a C64.
@maxxdahl60624 ай бұрын
@@fattomandeibu Yeah I think the disk drives in the UK were more expensive if I remember correctly, so most people stuck with the datasette. While the 1541 was cheaper here so we went with the disk drive and most software here in the US used that.
@10MARC Жыл бұрын
I still use my Commodore 64 all of the time. There are new games released monthly, and new and incredible hardware coming out all the time. Even the VIC-20 has new software and hardware coming out!
@mick84737 ай бұрын
Same with the Ataris
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
@@mick8473no. not atari.
@nancykerrigan13357 жыл бұрын
I can't stop watching this show. Especially the episodes from the 80s. Between the bad fashion, cheesy production values, and old tech I can't take my eyes away for long.
@cbw563 жыл бұрын
I've been binging for like a week...
@DarylDawkins3 жыл бұрын
@@cbw56 same here. I've been googling and searching linked in for the guests to see where they ended up. So many interesting stories.
@Nunavuter13 жыл бұрын
The early 1990s era when they start talking about the Internet is also fascinating.
@jasonzhang73472 жыл бұрын
Nostalgia
@8BitNaptime Жыл бұрын
I enjoy the massive '70s mustaches that survived into the '80s on some of the guests. Like, it looks like a separate life form.
@ricksnyder92447 жыл бұрын
Those were the days. Hooking up my C64 to my 19 inch color TV and printing out on my old Okidata dot matrix printer
@SteveLeicht15 жыл бұрын
I had a Okimate color printer...all pastel colors...only worked half of the time.
@SteveLeicht14 жыл бұрын
But it was awesome nonetheless.
@OhFishyFish3 жыл бұрын
The C64 is the reason I'm a systems administrator today.
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
do you have proof of this? 🤨
@maxxdahl60624 ай бұрын
@@Chevroletcelebrity Do you have proof you're a celebrity?
@marlop19703 ай бұрын
"Commodore 64, a little 8-bit machine that refuses to die", even today in 2024 I'm still playing new games with a C64 C, 1541 diskdrive and a 1702 monitor. What a great program The Computer Chronicles to watch, lot of great memories. Thanks to all behind this project to keep it alive.
@K24Z3CU25 ай бұрын
I love this show. Thanks to KZbin for allowing it to be copyright free. It's great to watch tech from the time we we growing up! Fortunately I was an 80s kid and got to try a lot of this tech! Computing is in my blood!!
@rabidbigdog4 жыл бұрын
The knitting lady invented Wizards.
@logan_cadfgs Жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1140">19:00</a> Bill’s segment is the best. So chill and articulate, then he presses a key and drops the bangers. Had no idea the C64 could handle all that synth hooked up!
@JustWasted3HoursHere10 ай бұрын
Even the SID by itself was impressive! And I wonder what these guys would think of some of the demos coming out of the demo-scene right now with SID and VIC-II sound and images that are extremely impressive. Robert Yannes, the designer of the SID chip, said that he originally wanted to have 32(!) voices, but couldn't make that happen for one reason or another. After he designed the SID chip he left Commodore and started his own company: Ensoniq, a synthesizer company. Can you imagine if he had been able to do the 32 voices like he wanted?
@aenoymotors3 жыл бұрын
Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you!
@Dookie69uk Жыл бұрын
That little granny is gangsta lol. Instead of watching TV all day, she is coding.
@raspberry1440kb3 жыл бұрын
and the C64 would have a continued existence for another six years after this episode!
@geoffreyoltmans43564 жыл бұрын
Boy, there's a market that disappeared... expensive encyclopedia software. lol
@vcv65607 күн бұрын
I bought the DVD rom of Britticana in 2003. I think it got used a dozen times then ka-put.
@Pau_Pau93 жыл бұрын
This show is *perfectly titled!!* Very near in future, we will look at this show as documentary on advancement of modern computers!! With SOOOO much going on with modern computer, why is there not "Computer Chronicles ^ 2.0(Squared)"??
@jfh4003 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="81">1:21</a> oh my god this is a world where people were just hearing about Tetris
@tetsujin_1442 жыл бұрын
You know it's really quite interesting the way it works, you put these pieces together like they were parts of a jigsaw puzzle, but you do it while they're falling so it creates this fast-paced gameplay experience! I've never seen anything like it before!
@kellygrant49649 ай бұрын
And who would have thought that still in 2023 there is new software still being developed for this great little machine.
@doctorsocrates44138 ай бұрын
It is now 2023 and i still use my commodore 64c ...
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
use it for what? elaborate 🤨
@doctorsocrates44135 ай бұрын
@@Chevroletcelebrity to play games mainly..i use a flash cartridge.
@retroheadstuff8554Ай бұрын
Me to.. it now 2024 😀
@eijentwun5509 Жыл бұрын
I still can't believe the Amazing things they had for the C64 in the 80's. We had gotten an Amiga 1000 around that time and started to neglect the C64 a bit so maybe that's why.....but wow!
@wallacelang1374 Жыл бұрын
When I had decided to buy an actual home computer during the 1980s I had around a dozen to choose from. After reading various articles in computing magazines I was clearly caught between the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64. So I chose the Atari 800, however a friend of mine bought a Commodore 64 and let me try it at his house. I felt like if I had the money I would have really enjoyed having both computer systems.
@RemnantCult Жыл бұрын
Truly a computer for the people. Learning to work on a C64 is a great learning tool and is just a fun platform to get into.
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
you should get an iPad, you would be blown away. 😲
@jovmilos3 жыл бұрын
Those 80's C64 games in Toys”R”Us shelves would be worth a small fortune now
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
no, not true. all those games are available freely online now.
@pauldavis56655 ай бұрын
@@Chevroletcelebrity He's talking about the physical copies. They are worth a lot of money to collectors now especially if they are still sealed.
@chrismcdonnell7448 Жыл бұрын
Even in 2020, The 8-Bit Guy is still writing games for the C64. Also, I played Skate or Die on my NES.
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
Skate or Die was a commodore 64 game.
@androskris4 ай бұрын
Wow that intro at Toys R Us brings me back. They had the worst quality control for their price tags on C64 games. I can remember swapping tags easily and getting an expensive game for cheap.
@Strahan740i Жыл бұрын
I loved the C64. I still have fond memories of Mail Order Monsters, Bard's Tale III, Ultima series, Saboteur, Maniac Mansion, Telegard, so many fun games. I like the looks I get from the kids when I tell them I had some games on cassette tapes, lol. The bugs and glitches were great too. Like in Ultima IV, if you are in the overworld, take out the overworld disc and put in the dungeon disk. Walk until it needs to load the next map chunk and you'll get a wildly F'd up terrain made of dungeon parts. You can usually find a way through, and if you find a treasure chest you can loot it forever - they never empty or disappear. Then in Bard's Tale III, if you go to the utils menu during the intro song and choose "transfer a character", the game doesn't give a hoot what disk you actually use when it says to insert your character disk to transfer a char from an prior BT game. So I popped in Ultimate Cookbook recipe disk, lol. The names of the available characters were gibberish and if you tried to take them out of the camp in your party, they'd be uncontrollable and go nuts and slaughter you. But the part that made it valuable is they were typically LOADED with gold and had all sorts of nice items on them you could snatch :)
@joejoseph003 ай бұрын
I remember begging for a mouse, GEOS 2.0 , a modem and a printer after I saw GEOS 2.0 at a computer store in the summer of 1988. I had tried an entry level mac at school and wanted a similar OS for home. I was very pleased with the purchase of GEOS 2.0, still impresses me today. I used it for GeoPaint and GeoWrite mostly and the spell checking , fonts. Then with the 1670 1200 baud modem learned about the burgeoning BBS life, chatrooms, sysops, message boards, empire turned based games, downloads, ccgms color , some very artistic bbs surfing was had, and I made a few petscii drawings myself. I have 3 fully functioning C64s today, my kids will learn programming on them.
@ZagnutBar2 ай бұрын
My dad bought the original Spectrum Holobyte version of Tetris for our Apple //e. I always thought that was the first platform (that's what I told my Gameboy friends at school who thought they discovered it first). Very interesting to learn nearly 40 years later that it was a C64 game.
@JustWasted3HoursHere10 ай бұрын
Ah, such great memories hanging out with my friends playing games on the old C64. We'd connect to the local BBS to see what they had, at the mind-boggling speed of 300 baud! Yes, you too can download a 16k program in about an hour! Anyway, I think my original C64 is sitting in my mom's attic. As for GEOS, it is surprisingly full featured considering the resources it has at its disposal. Luckily it can make use of expanded memory, acceleration (like with the CMD SuperCPU)* and even hard drives! Unluckily, it came out right around the time other windowed OSes were coming out, such as for the Amiga, Atari and Macintosh. * Using GEOS with the CMD SuperCPU (which runs 20 times faster than the default CPU) and expanded memory is a RADICALLY improved experience.
@richardhedderly5 ай бұрын
This is a great episode of the show given it was right at the top of the curve for the C64. From then on the Amiga got much cheaper and other 16bits took the market. The Genesis / Megadrive in the following year really made a dent in 8 bits. GEOS esp for the 64 / 128 showed how much the system could be pushed. A classic.
@peterhelpme Жыл бұрын
I always remember my old Sinclair ZX Spectrum ... as a poor man's Commodore 64. I own both till this day 🙂
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
that zx spectrum sucked. especially with that crummy expansion unit on the back. I remember spending hours programming the stupid thing from a book and just moving the unit slightly caused it to reset or crash and lose everything. not to mention the crappy keyboard on the thing.
@curiousottman2 ай бұрын
I had to put down playing Sam’s Journey to watch this. What a C64 moment!
The way that musician talks reminds me of Tim Meadows' "The Ladies Man" character.
@fennecbesixdouze1794 Жыл бұрын
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="926">15:26</a> Love how Kildall is disappointed that they're selling their game too cheaply: for ONLY the equivalent of $75 in today's money. 😂
@andrewchristiansen83113 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="8">0:08</a> Gauntlet to the bottom left. I have that on steam the new 3d re work its awesome.
@airjuri Жыл бұрын
As a comic relief, yesterday i did presentation on my employers monthly developer Teams meeting, about how to do C development for C64 nowadays :D cc65 is the compiler and i just showed how incredibly slow Basic is compared to compiled C-language.
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
You mean interpreted BASIC, but there is also the C64 BASIC compiler BASIC Boss that speeds BASIC up 100 times or more.
@airjuri8 ай бұрын
@@NuntiusLegis Jep, i mean the basic basic V2 basic that is basically in use when you do not have compiler for it :) Is there basic compiler for C64 that uses basic dialect without line numbers? I'd like that.
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
@@airjuri Well for C, you also have to get yourself a compiler, but I don't think you can have an interpreter as well.
@BenvanBroekhuijsen Жыл бұрын
Hmm when seeing this kind of video, I feel like going back in time. On the other hand, would I really want that? I think I would go nuts. It's a shame I cannot go there and try for a month or so :D
@royf.90348 жыл бұрын
Oh that floppy drive that it had. It was slow as molasses in January. In a class by itself. I remember one game that had me switching from one floppy to another every 2 minutes, and one of those minutes was just waiting for the disk to be read.
@fitfogey5 жыл бұрын
The 1541 had an inherent bug that made it slow that was fixed in the 1571 drive. 8 bit guy covers this if you search for him on youtube. I never knew that before watching one of his videos about that.
@gregorymalchuk2724 жыл бұрын
@@fitfogey Given how much development work is still ongoing in the C64 community, I wonder if we crowdsource a patched version of the chip, though that would probably also require reverse engineering and modifying Commodore Basic 2.
@fitfogey4 жыл бұрын
@@abdulazizalserhani7625 Right I wasn't saying there weren't workarounds. My point was just that it had a bug that made it that slow. Again, 8 bit guy talks about all of the workarounds like fastload, etc.
@Think-About-It3 жыл бұрын
I thought it was fast! Much better than my commodore casset tape drive.
@tetsujin_1442 жыл бұрын
With fast-loaders you could make the 1541 up to 10 times faster! But then it would still be like one third the speed of the Apple II's disk drive, though. :)
@haizahmedhaiz53873 жыл бұрын
They should write a game dedicated to combovers of the 80s...it would be some hair-raising ribaldry..
@valley_robot2 жыл бұрын
I watch this mostly for the bad haircuts and combovers
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
@valley_robot I work in retail and I've seen plenty of your generation with stupid hare cuts to 🤨
@Valitzu7772 жыл бұрын
How does a kid growing up with a name like Max Toy get his revenge on all his adolescent bullies? Become the president of the greatest 80's computer and rake in the cash! 😀
@ShieTar_2 ай бұрын
I loved the C64, but to see a show promote GEOS in 1988, a good 2-3 years after the AMIGA OS, Windows 1.0 and the Macintosh were around, is kind of funny in retrospect.
2 жыл бұрын
Iteresting watching a man called Max Toy trying to sell the C64 as something more than a gaming machine
@beavacuda4 жыл бұрын
Mike Dunsmore was awesome as Happy Gilmore's caddie
@oubrioko4 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1235">20:35</a> *Lionel Richie* - _All Night Long_
@Kennephone2 жыл бұрын
and people are still making software for it in 2022
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
no. all software production ceased in 2021
@bigmaxy07 Жыл бұрын
I was a teen at this point but working in this industry must have been so rapidly moving forward at this time.
@GoWithAndy-cp8tz5 ай бұрын
this is a good old bread box with amazing tunes :)
@surefmeurope57664 жыл бұрын
The Knitting Machine - Dream Weaver!!! HAHAHA 😃
@jeddis9211 ай бұрын
That little computer still refuses to die!
@kraftwerk9744 жыл бұрын
The Chiefet's haircut could not be missed.
@jcp01200010 жыл бұрын
Awesome video
@echopathy7 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh... Lucy Morton is SO DANG RIGHTEOUS! @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="350">5:50</a>
@MrLyosea Жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="15">0:15</a> Never again these days would you hear someone call a 6 year old pc an "Oldie".
@sa3270Ай бұрын
"Interest in the C64 is still going strong."
@pauldavis56655 ай бұрын
The good old days of old tech.
@lowstaar2 ай бұрын
The C64 was ahead of its time
@MegaasAlexandros9 ай бұрын
Presenter says like its unexpected new titles are still coming out for the machine... Fast forward 35 years and not much has changed, new games are still coming out except nowadays they are generally better!!!
@YouTubeCensorshipStinks4 ай бұрын
This is why I get annoyed when people say they are too old to learn computers. These old cats were the ones who helped pioneer computing. My programming instructors decades ago were in their 60s. Just be honest. If you're scared, or not interested, that is fine. Just be honest.
@bigrock9637Ай бұрын
Love the violet disks...
@JulianSarnoff Жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1403">23:23</a> this whole next paragraph sound like it was taken out of the infomercial for the turbo-encabulator.
@lambrinos4 жыл бұрын
If you notice, Gary’s right cheek is swollen and looks like makeup is covering up a bruise. He got into bar fights towards the end of his life, ultimately ending his life in one. I wonder if this is an example of that.
@gregorymalchuk2724 жыл бұрын
I knew about the fight that killed him, but how do you know he repeatedly got in bar fights?
@fordxbgtfalcon2 жыл бұрын
Probably had a swollen tooth here.
@lambrinos2 жыл бұрын
@@gregorymalchuk272 Stuart Cheifet mentions it in this more recent interview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5-YnZ2JrtySZpI
@maxxdahl60622 жыл бұрын
I don't think he was quite at that point yet here.
@thechillhacker Жыл бұрын
First off, what a name for a president of a "totally not just a game machine" computer company: Max Toy xD Am I the only one who wants to see a collab between Bill Morrow and LookMumNoComputer on a muxed-SID 64/128? And yes, the C64 was my second computer, after a CoCo, both in the early 90s. Being a poor kid then was awesome for learning programming. Got a computer with no storage devices, no software, and an old spare tv? cool. guess you are learning BASIC, and maybe a few cool PEEK/POKE locations... Then there's the warnings to everyone NOT TO TURN THAT COMPUTER OFF xD ah, good times
@RayinSD Жыл бұрын
Best home computer ever!
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
To this day, I don't consider a place without a C64 a home.
@chadhartsees Жыл бұрын
GEOS was amazing. A real technical feat.
@floydjohnson7888 Жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="160">2:40</a> I remember wondering how they pulled off GEOS in the 64K of RAM available once you got a handle on the 6510's bank-switching, as well as whether or not they offered the "SDK" to create one's own GEOS apps.
@Frostie36722 ай бұрын
It wasn't until 1988 when I was in college that I bought a C64 so I was a bit late to the party.
@TheUtuber999 Жыл бұрын
I didn't catch a word Cynthia Steele said. What a doll! 😍
@Lachlant198418 күн бұрын
I don't understand how to play Tetris, but even I don't think Stewart was playing it very well.
@dougjohnson42668 ай бұрын
I can't even imagine have as much cubicle space now as they did at minute <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="170">2:50</a>.
@Chevroletcelebrity5 ай бұрын
there stuff took up more space and people were more obese back then so they needs it
@jayburgh Жыл бұрын
Mad to think the C64 was considered old in 1988 😮
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
Meanwhile, it is considered timeless.
@telesniper26 ай бұрын
The good old Commode 64
@incumbentvinyl92912 жыл бұрын
Max Toy? Sounds like something from an adult store.
@WrvrUgoThrUR7 ай бұрын
Reminiscing about watching this show triggers two reactions: 1. Computers really were lame and pitiful back in the day. 2.(and this one wins out) It was the bestest, coolest computer gear at the time, and I WANTED IT ALLL!!!!!
@eldiablo37943 ай бұрын
RIP Kelly Flock <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="723">12:03</a>
@oldtwinsna83472 жыл бұрын
Was Max Toy any good for Commodore? Trying to read up on him but not much info out there on what things he actually did for Commodore, whether good or bad. Appears he was the last in the revolving door until the infamous Medhi Ali arrived to take the throne. Toy's predecessor was Thomas Rattigan, who it seems may have had some good success but was terminated. And before that was Marshall Smith, who is well known to have fully authorized the total destruction of the LCD machine, which if it had moved forward we know in hindsight it would've been a smashing success. But again, can't really find much on Toy.
@DonaldMohrMusic Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure an LCD commodore would have done well. The price of the screen would have made it ultra premium, and Jack was a bargain builder.
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
@@DonaldMohrMusic I think CBM had their own LCD plant, so could havbe been cheaper than the competition.
@ZagnutBar2 ай бұрын
Someone should tell the host that the goal of Tetris is not to make the tallest stack you can.
@infinitecanadian4 ай бұрын
The Atari ST was more popular with musicians because of its built-in MIDI interface.
@sa3270Ай бұрын
I was shocked when they said Russia was hit by their first computer virus. Then I remembered it was 1988.
@JonitoFischer7 ай бұрын
Sadly, processor speed evolved much faster than the ability to code efficiently (I assume he was referring yo programming in assembly language)
@speedbird7373 ай бұрын
he spelt SPREDSHEET wrong lol @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="527">08:47</a> and his MEMO is in a DAIRY!!!! any cows?
@9852323 Жыл бұрын
The music reminds me of some sort of pump. strange sounding music.
@TopSecretVid2 жыл бұрын
Damn I miss my 128...
@estebanvillalobos23033 жыл бұрын
1988, commodore 64, old but good... haha
@incumbentvinyl92912 жыл бұрын
300 dollars for an encyclopedia on a CD. .....
@ayaygabriel2 жыл бұрын
Probably worth it. Wikipedia sux
@incumbentvinyl92912 жыл бұрын
@@ayaygabriel Not only is it free, but you get free updates constantly.
@fennecbesixdouze1794 Жыл бұрын
Stewart Cheifet: "Is the C64 really a game machine and not a real computer?" Max Toy: "Well it would be easy to say that, but it is much more than just a toy." Stewart Cheifet: "Counterpoint: your last name is literally Toy".
@aliren6118 Жыл бұрын
I swear I think some of these software prices have already been adjusted for inflation.
@dj2bklyn Жыл бұрын
Funny a knitting prog run by an old lady lol
@lonwillis783 Жыл бұрын
COMMODORE 64 I HACKED IT! YES! I hooked up a switch to the 6502 halt command to copy cartridges! I had fun with that computer. Copy C000 and up to a tape!
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
Sounds really interesting, you should publish a tutorial. :-)
@chloedevereaux1801 Жыл бұрын
c64 LESS then $200!!!!!! it was $699 on release..
@TheUtuber999 Жыл бұрын
I paid $125 for mine new in April of 1985. To be fair, it was from the AAFES catalog, where prices were much lower than retail.
So the Koala pad was technically the world's first mouse
@juansebastianpulidovelasco2195 Жыл бұрын
Eh... No, not at all. But it's true that graphic tablets, somehow, are an older technology than mice.
@tetsujin_1442 жыл бұрын
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="158">2:38</a> - "The award for popularity must go to the Commodore 64, a little 8-bit machine that refuses to die." "DIE!" C64: "I REFUSE!" PLA chip: "Well, 'refuse' is such a strong word..."
@TheUtuber999 Жыл бұрын
And later in the video a review of Skate or Die.
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
Only the very early ones had frequent PLA failures.
@danVal27 Жыл бұрын
It's commodore sixty FOOOOOUUUUUR 😂
@TheFellerHasAChannelGodDamnIt3 ай бұрын
The C64 came out in 1983. They refer to the machine as "old". Really shows how fast technology was growing and improving at the time.
@Legotech018 жыл бұрын
Wait, I can get an encyclopedia on a CD for $300 and a Cd drive for just $800? Sign me up! (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1524">25:24</a>)
@glarynth8 жыл бұрын
DON'T HOLD THE DISC LIKE THAT!
@oldtwins8 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind a cheap encyclopedia print set was like $1000 back then. A good set such as Britannica was several thousand dollars. Very few regular people owned a set for their home, they were mostly just sold to schools and libraries. So while $1100 sounded like a lot, it was just a matter of time (like in 10 years) before technology caught up and put an end to these print text dynasties. So quite a historical thing here.
@TheUtuber999 Жыл бұрын
@@oldtwins Yep, Encarta was that product.
@jamesg8728 ай бұрын
It's important to remember that this was new technology at the time. And manufacturers had to struggle with supporting different interfaces like SCSI. The irony is that optical media from this era still works fine. It is archival quality, something that shows how different the times were.
I don't know why but I find this so hilarious, the pathetic block graphics of some crap version of Tetris, ridiculous...
@plechaim3 жыл бұрын
Its the original version of Tetris
@eijentwun5509 Жыл бұрын
I didn't like the missing ridges in the blocks...dont know why they did that.
@tr1p1ea Жыл бұрын
Because people, for some reason, are smug because it's currently several decades past this point in time, which somehow makes them feel superior...
@where_is_jana Жыл бұрын
@@tr1p1ea I've noticed that superiority complex in comments on Computer Chronicles too. I find these videos humbling because in 30-40 years' time, people are going to look at our "superior" tech and think how primitive we are.
@NuntiusLegis8 ай бұрын
Even the latest versions have blocks, it's a game about blocks.