@DOSboi Aidan I have every episode stored on my server. Need to move them into a public folder though.
@supergeek0177 Жыл бұрын
As a kid who grew up in the 90s, I freckin loved multi media pcs! Encarta ‘95 was one of the first cd-roms I remember using… I thought all the video clips and animations were super cool!
@sanyr80 Жыл бұрын
I thought being able to research for papers in Encarta instead of the physical encyclopedias my dad bought in the early 80s was badass. Definitely a sign of the times.
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes Жыл бұрын
80s is what its like to live
@paulreese7788 Жыл бұрын
Yes Encarta and there were a few other home related information ones basketball, dinosaurs, Indians, dangerous creatures
@HerecomestheCalavera Жыл бұрын
Dude that computer can run "Grandma and Me" like an absolute boss! No slowdowns at all!
@mikeall7012 Жыл бұрын
Stuart was the real deal. When he hosted this show, he was an avid computer enthusiast, and wasn't just some hack reporter, like you tend to see today.
@lenovovo9 жыл бұрын
Wow, I just learned something here, I didn't know that they had touch screen back in 1991.... man, I love these shows!!!! Thanks for posting!
@Ikkepop4 жыл бұрын
@ungratefulmetalpansy touchscreens are an old technology, they just sucked and the software sucked too much to make it viable
@tarstarkusz2 жыл бұрын
But WHO in 1991 didn't know what a tube was? Hell, I was only 21 and I knew what a tube was. Lots of tube stuff was still around well into my childhood. Hell, they were still making tube TVs into the 1970s.
@DusteDdekay2 жыл бұрын
@@tarstarkusz the fuck time are you from ? non-crt screens didn't dominate until around 2007! The last NEW CRT model was introduced in 2010, so you're way early.
@knoxduder2 жыл бұрын
More like 1981. Sony unleashed the touchscreen at the ‘82 Worlds Fair in Knoxville, TN.
@PearComputingDevices2 жыл бұрын
You could buy an Apple II with a touch screen overlay. They used it for education, namely special education.
@Carstein6663 жыл бұрын
11:15 A program that explains how the music track was constructed while it is playing? Wow, I would like to have something like this nowadays.
@lorumipsum11295 жыл бұрын
Man, that part about the twilight years of the coco and how every computer will go thru it sticks, as a computer collector, you can only imagine what it was like once they were left behind and software slowly but surely stopped working with or supporting it.
@livesimplyandhumbly7 жыл бұрын
Portable communications with "wireless LAN", portable handheld computer "pocket Mac". What ridiculous ideas they had back then.
@wallacelang1374 Жыл бұрын
I remember when Radio Shack began as a electronics hobbyists go-to shop that was acquired by Tandy Leather, but after around 10 to 12 years Radio Shack sales began to out due Tandy Leather sales ... so Radio Shack bought their parent company Tandy Corporation and renamed it Radio Shack Corporation. However when sales began to slump in the early 2000s Radio Shack closed up all of its brick and mortar stores in order to do its sells online instead. I miss walking into an actual Radio Shack store in order to buy my latest electronics and hobbyists items.
@The_Conspiracy_Analyst11 ай бұрын
I remember walking into the neighborhood Rat Shack and buying one of those pocket phone dialers and a 6.5536 mhz crystal hehehe
@vwestlife11 жыл бұрын
The ZX81 was initially very popular in the USA due to its low price, but there was a delay in getting the 16K RAM expansion modules here, and rather than wait for the RAM expansion to become available, most users gave up on the ZX81 (since you can't do much with only 2K RAM!) and bought a different, more powerful computer instead.
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
like the c64
@ibazulic6 жыл бұрын
Woah, those applications were fantastic! Touchscreen with a good precision 30 years ago.
@mubd12346 жыл бұрын
I remember playing with a CRT monitor based touchscreen about 20 years ago at a government kiosk. They were damn responsive, almost as good as a modern tablet or smartphone. I think it would have been an infrared touchscreen (your finger blocked a grid of light beams as you touched the screen), which was a bit of a disadvantage because the precision was low and the UI was generally restricted to very large buttons only.
@geoffreyoltmans43564 жыл бұрын
Procomm Plus! Still use it occasionally in my professional work to this day.
@X-OR_6 жыл бұрын
Still have my TRS-80 Model 1 In the box !!!
@blackneos9406 жыл бұрын
Joy of Lego What u waitin' for dude, open that beast up and do some retro Programming!!..... :-)
@SWRadioConcepts6 жыл бұрын
I started working for Radio Shack in summer of 1995. One of my first trainings was held in a conference room at a "Computer City." Shortly after, Computer City failed and the store turned into a Fry's Electronics. That was a little hint of what the future held for Radio Shack at the time. Sad.
@hulksmash81593 жыл бұрын
Do you feel somewhat responsible for its failure?
@tiguilherman_plays Жыл бұрын
@@hulksmash8159 I dont know about him, but your question is definitely the result of a major failure.
@QuertyQw33n Жыл бұрын
thank you, Internet, and whoever is maintaining this channel, for the closest thing to a Time Machine.
@MrShiffles4 жыл бұрын
I loved Radio Shack...the first time I saw a Commodore 128...at times I would go there for capacitors and such...still miss that store
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
touch screen fancy fancy and state of the art back then
@simonpetrus19816 жыл бұрын
I miss Radio Shack. They were good.
@maxxdahl60624 жыл бұрын
@@DJKinney Dumb.
@iseeyoo97294 жыл бұрын
The first cordless phone I got was from RS.
@maxxdahl60624 жыл бұрын
@@iseeyoo9729 My first computer was a tandy from radio shack.
@iseeyoo97294 жыл бұрын
maxx dahl Too pricey for me at that time, but I would’ve loved to have one.
@oldtwinsna83474 жыл бұрын
They were once good but that all changed later when you couldn't enter a store without getting a sales pitch on why you must purchase a cell phone from them today. Or when they refused to check you out on a battery purchase because they wanted detailed personal information from you to put into their database and you didn't want to give them anything.
@asaone117 ай бұрын
Loved, the coco 2 and 3. I also had the TRS-80 model 3 with 16k ram and the cassette recorder for input. Later had a 1000SX with one 5 1/4. 360 disk drive. I later got a 20mb hard card for $500 + .
@dennisdoherty11332 жыл бұрын
Hi, it's almost 2023 and I still love my CoCo
@fabian999ification10 жыл бұрын
My right ear is forever alone in this vid :(
@hulksmash81593 жыл бұрын
This video is in mono.
@dans.819810 ай бұрын
@@hulksmash8159 It's actually in stereo, with mono audio routed only to the left channel. In real mono videos, both left and right channel play the same audio.
@kennyadvocat11 ай бұрын
My first computer was a Tandy. A neighbor had upgraded to windows95 so we got their old setup for free. The Tandy had a 3.5 & 5.25 floppy drive. And just a few mb hard drive. We had the huge printer 🖨 that came with it. It worked like an electric typewriter. So loud! I used the music writing game alot that it came with.
@DouglasLippi Жыл бұрын
I want to go back to 1991 and stay there forever.
@jackilynpyzocha6629 ай бұрын
1992 was cool!
@Raptor50aus7 жыл бұрын
I used to work for Tandy in Australia back in 1983 to 1985 (part time while at school) was great back then as they paid 10% on sales to casual staff and the computer were expensive
@nukemanmd6 жыл бұрын
Same here. I worked at a Computer Center in San Diego from 80-81. I'll never forget the time one of the local colleges placed an order for 50 Mod 1 with interface and floppies. On top of that, R.S. had a generous stock option. I'll never forget the shock when I found out what the stock was worth when I was getting ready to buy my first house. It's a good thing that I cashed out when I did.
@shawnerz988 жыл бұрын
Grid did eventually integrate the 386SX in to the 1550. I have a 1550SX.
@paulreese7788 Жыл бұрын
Loved computer select in the 90s all the magazine articles on one disk
@changkwangohАй бұрын
I love these comps and I want one now!
@sologals36110 жыл бұрын
That touch screen is more responsive than my smart phone.
@ArcadeGames8 жыл бұрын
I was 10 years old, still playing NES. I dabbled with the C64, but I wouldn't get a real PC until 1993.
@prettyboyjesse Жыл бұрын
I wish I could walk out of a Radio Shack with some junk today :(
@jackilynpyzocha66211 ай бұрын
I had a 1000 RLX 286, 20 meg hard disk drive(faulty), one 3 1/2" floppy drive(great), the related monitor, printer, keyboard, mouse and three-year warranty: that took care of the hard drive problem(it jumped from DOS to Desk Mate) at will. It was replaced and worked great! Print Shop, Wheel of Fortune and other software(IBM-Compatible software "Expert Brand"
@Generali087 Жыл бұрын
"Is the touch screen coming back as an interface?" 😂
@jvolstad Жыл бұрын
I remember Procomm +. It was great.
@OnTheRocks714 жыл бұрын
25:35 oh yeah btw here's wifi. Wonder if anything will ever come of that.
@remino Жыл бұрын
5:45 The struggle is real.
@Sinn0100 Жыл бұрын
This is actually quite sad....you are witnessing the end of Tandy right here. This machine the Tandy Sensation was an incredible computer for its time but Tandy made too many mistakes along the way. They failed to innovate and the Sensation was their end. What a shame....they were the first to allow a customer to fully customize their kit before buying it.
@werpu128 ай бұрын
Actually the first half of the 90s was a hard time for all computer manufacturers. Acorn went under but ARM could save itself, Atari went bankrupt, so did Commodore, Apple almost went bankrupt and many workstation manufacturers as well. One of the main problems was that the PC was finally becoming really good and the other one that Motorola could not compete with Intel anymore on tne 68k line and wanted everyone to move over to PPC! The PC became so good that manufacturers which formerly had superior sound and graphics stopped being able to compete over those things anymore (aka Tandy) on and given the mass manufacturing and research other companies with custom GPUs for their own machine also had a hard time. SGI could compete for quite a while but later on was also blown out of business more or less by off the shelve 3d solutions from the PC side.
@spladam3845 Жыл бұрын
That wireless LAN thing sounds crazy, it will never catch on.
@ichigokarasu8 ай бұрын
Ironically, this is one of the first episodes I've watched that ISN'T in Stereo, but they demonstrate that Beethoven program pretty extensively.
@shawnerz988 жыл бұрын
A CD player on a portable laptop?!? Bah! It'll never sell!
@abdulazizalserhani76256 жыл бұрын
I disagree with you! you moron >:(
@Ikkepop4 жыл бұрын
Is the touchscreen comming back as an interface ? YES, but not until 2006 or so
@patrickmusson45719 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to bring people like Alan Turing in a time machine so they could see what computer science has achieved. J Presper Eckert, the co builder of UNIVAC back in the 50's saw some of the modern computing industry as he lived until 1995 but I think he would even be amazed at the power of 21st century machines.
@hulksmash81593 жыл бұрын
They are even better now.
Жыл бұрын
Conrad Zuse would be also a good idea to show where computers went.
@borkingdoggouwuuwuw Жыл бұрын
@@hulksmash8159you should see them now😮😮
@ArumesYT11 жыл бұрын
Weird. Everytime I watch this video, my right ear goes deaf. Then, when I switch to another video, my ear is suddenly working again!
@livesimplyandhumbly7 жыл бұрын
It's psychosomatic. Too much guilt from copying that floppy.
@layzer806 жыл бұрын
my right nut itches when i watch this video
@hopydaddy4 жыл бұрын
Gee, I thought it was my headphone that was faulty !!!
@tonijoncevski8607Ай бұрын
“Never die.’ Everything dies.
@chloedevereaux18015 жыл бұрын
the grid 1550 is the computer out of aliens 2 that runs the cannons in the air ducts :D
@AcornElectron5 жыл бұрын
My left ear enjoyed this.
@hulksmash81593 жыл бұрын
This video is monophonic.
@jordancobb5093 жыл бұрын
Computer City was my first job out of high school.
@dgiglio848 жыл бұрын
25:39 "Wireless" LAN? Meh. That'll never catch on.
@deacon64536 жыл бұрын
To me, it sounds slow I have CompuServe with a 12000 baud modem so imagine how SLOW it would take wireless than a Modem
@yeshuaeselmashiaj60374 жыл бұрын
I my primary we had that computer with cassettes , not even floppys just cassettes.
@BoomRoomFive11 жыл бұрын
Wow, in the news, she mentioned the beginnings of the ipod. I had a Tandy 1000SX.
@markchas45547 жыл бұрын
Apple was probably hinting around about the Apple Newton.
@jason3fc11 жыл бұрын
I started on a Tandy 1000EX in 86. Good times.
@davidlewis17872 жыл бұрын
Ah the combover chronicles, seeing the progression of the famous combover from the early 80’s to the early 2000’s. Marvellous
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
yeah he got better at it over the years
@manolokonosko2868 Жыл бұрын
I never noticed it until you mentioned it!!!!!!
@QuertyQw33n Жыл бұрын
wow. I feel so old. I was born in 1991.
@Mathijs3034 жыл бұрын
18:41 A lost user interface I've never seen.
@ochiorbus Жыл бұрын
"We are a dying bread living in the twilight of the coco."
@timcsmedic21623 жыл бұрын
As an employee of Radio Shack in the early 90's, I'd cringe when I heard CoCo... Here's the Tandy 3100, try this one. XD
@samoryTureАй бұрын
Touchscreen back then?
@staratelrusregion46523 жыл бұрын
Как они выводили информацию на экран?
@LeonHouseDaily-ne5bu Жыл бұрын
His name was, “Mark Paulson” just doesn’t have the same ring.
@AlainHubert10 жыл бұрын
And over 30 years later, videos like this on KZbin can't even have sound on both audio channels. Hurray for technology !
@Kyntteri9 жыл бұрын
What happened over 30 years ago?
@AlainHubert9 жыл бұрын
***** This program was produced and broadcast on PBS stations in the USA and Canada, with sound on both the left and right audio channels, not just the left one...
@Kyntteri9 жыл бұрын
AlainHubert That would be about 24 years... and if the uploaded file has a mute right channel, it's either a badly done digitizing or faulty source media to begin with.
@AlainHubert9 жыл бұрын
***** 24 years then. And you're right, it's a badly done digitizing of the audio content. But we're lucky, at least they didn't stretch the picture to fill the screen, with everything being squashed, and respected the 4:3 original aspect ratio.
@cakestalker7 жыл бұрын
Especially with headphones, the single channel audio is annoying, fortunately I found a way to fix it via my sound settings.. otherwise it would be unwatchable.. or unlistenable rather..
@jackilynpyzocha6622 жыл бұрын
Our tv(large) had one, which blew! Ow! 1960s/70s
@jackilynpyzocha6622 жыл бұрын
1960s/1970s
@jackilynpyzocha6622 жыл бұрын
1970s!
@jackilynpyzocha662 Жыл бұрын
1970s, huge tube! Eastfield Mall, Springfield, MA
@Mr_Damion_Scott4 ай бұрын
The good ole days
@GeoNeilUK11 жыл бұрын
More like typical Computer Chronicles era prices, where add ons that come built in nowadays cost more than the computer and software that nowadays you'd download for free would cost you hundreds of dollars. It couldn't have been just the march of technology that changed prices so much, could it?
@jesuszamora69495 жыл бұрын
Mostly, yeah. Integration of components became easier over the years. Think of all the shit on your PC motherboard that old computers needed bulky ass cards for. As for software, when more people buy, you can charge less. The market for software was comparably small in the 80s to early 90s.
@luxxeon3d7 жыл бұрын
Touch screen was laughed at when HP introduced it back in the 80's? Wow. Someone was ahead of their time by 30 years.
@medes5597 Жыл бұрын
It wasn't the idea of touchscreens that was laughed at. It was how expensive they were for how very poorly the early HP models worked.
@Synthematix Жыл бұрын
4:04 staring at screens all day causes bad eyesight
@Blackadder755 жыл бұрын
They always tried so hard to make computers for the home use educational , all those multimedia CD roms with encyclopedias and other crap. The real reason PC's made it into everybody's home (outside proper business use) was the same as always: Games and Sex .
@fortroadmassive40954 жыл бұрын
Francis was ere!
@LeonHouseDaily-ne5bu Жыл бұрын
Is that Robert Paulson’s brother?
@13thFlProductions10 жыл бұрын
2:17, Lol 4K! Little did he know 20 years later we would have 4K displays!
@floydjohnson78883 жыл бұрын
And 4GB of RAM (a million times what his TRS-80 shipped with) is considered paltry in 2021
@christineayres53394 жыл бұрын
At 21min mark IT HAS A HEADPHONE JACK LOL WINNING
@knifelunatic11 жыл бұрын
1991. Just a little before I started using computers.
@averagemoes Жыл бұрын
Can’t hear right side
@nilz234 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else think Maria Gabriel sounds like she's having a stroke whenever she says her name?
@OhFishyFish7 жыл бұрын
I lost my right ear, please let me know if you see it. ʕʘ̅͜ʘ̅
@livesimplyandhumbly5 жыл бұрын
CoCo Users Group is still going strong.
@nesossin9 жыл бұрын
what is up with the sound on this video?
@superspit5 жыл бұрын
It was edited on a Tandy Computer.
@rooneye4 жыл бұрын
14:48 he looks like the snooooooop kid.🤣🤣
@markfrost2707 Жыл бұрын
who else didnt know they had touchscreens back then?
@Replicant26004 жыл бұрын
Still have a trs80 with a tape player, leaderless tape :).
@X-OR_5 жыл бұрын
I still have my TRS-80 (Model 1) in the box.
@kevinlau63726 жыл бұрын
HP should've kept the touchscreen during the late 1990s.
@DavidJG242 Жыл бұрын
xerox was the first gui interface Stew
@raven4k9985 жыл бұрын
400 dollars for 16 k of ram you got ripped off man
@CraigsChannel211 жыл бұрын
OMG a 386 running at 20 MHz for 1299.00 and that was 20 years ago. wow
@SWRadioConcepts6 жыл бұрын
That was a decent entry-level computer in 1991. $1299 for a complete system was very reasonable. It wouldn't really need to be replaced until 1995 or so when you wanted to get on the world wide web/information superhighway.
@tipperary10824 жыл бұрын
He hammered his Kiki!
@EvanZamir2 жыл бұрын
That combover is the real classic.
@LionheartNh6 жыл бұрын
I love the way Maria says her name...and she's hot hot hot.
@yellowblanka60585 жыл бұрын
? It creeps me out every time, so weird and robotic.
@chloedevereaux1801 Жыл бұрын
errr wasn't microchannel developed specifically for the IBM PS1???? i think it was, frickkin tandy...
@The98deville Жыл бұрын
PS/2
@Kawa12er5 жыл бұрын
omg they had touchscreens?
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes4 жыл бұрын
Touchscreens became available commercially in the early 1980s. HP released the HP-150 in 1983, which featured a 9-inch Sony CRT monitor surrounded by infrared emitters and detectors which could sense the user's finger touching the screen.
@GeoNeilUK11 жыл бұрын
UK v USA: The TRS-80 Model I and the ZX81 (Timex 1000) are similar spec, yet, in the US, the TRS-80 sold well, while the ZX81 didn't and the two computers look very different. I think it's mostly the different looks that did it, the TRS-80 I looks like a "big boy's" computer for computer-y things whereas the ZX81 looks like a game system (and it was no good at games) In the UK, the ZX81 sold OK whereas the Model I was unheard of Having said that, we bought British then, unless it was Commodore
@demianschultz37493 жыл бұрын
What the heck with doctors and their handwriting? Do they get trained for that?
@jackilynpyzocha6625 ай бұрын
My friend says I am well-educated, I rely on these videose for basic info!
@DataWaveTaGo2 жыл бұрын
At 0{19 - 85MB Hard Drive! WOW! I could use it to store one Word File!!! Crazy!
@Back2BackLakers2010 Жыл бұрын
$1299 for 20 mhz processor.......ahh the days!
@dj2bklyn2 жыл бұрын
Wheres the sound
@shaolin955 жыл бұрын
what a bargain! $1300 with 85MB of HDD! wow
@BrianClarkpharmd4 жыл бұрын
Sadly i was a d*ck broke teenager at that time and couldn’t afford one of those fancy 80mb HDDs. 3.5” floppies for me. Could still do quite a bit just on floppy back then
@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes Жыл бұрын
my right ear divorced me.
@FlipMore10 жыл бұрын
Get load of that sign "20MHz 386SX WITH 85MB HARD DRIVE!" Hehe $1299
@m9078jk38 жыл бұрын
Something funny is I remember back in 2001 going into a Goodwill thrift store and seeing much more powerful Pentium PC's in there for $10 each you know like the systems that would cost $2,500 or more 5 or 6 years earlier back in 1996 and 1995 when they were the new hottest and latest PC's . I would buy them and resell them for $100 for easy pocket money to buy new computer parts for myself.Back in 1998 I would acquire those 386's and sometimes more rarely 486's (usually slower SX 25's or DX-33's for $10 too.They were useful for me learning how rebuild PC's or modify them.I would sell them too.
@FlipMore8 жыл бұрын
+m9078jk3 lol right on, those were the vintage days
@hopydaddy4 жыл бұрын
At the time, I thought that was the best and the greatest... wow blazing fast 20 MHz.
@warwagon4 жыл бұрын
4:47 now THOSE are coke bottles.
@kaydog8904 жыл бұрын
Were you born with an extra chromosome, or did sitting next to a router do this to you?
@TheStevenWhiting11 жыл бұрын
And then Tandy went tits up. Well here in the UK they did.
@mjsimons97576 жыл бұрын
Bad management killed Radio Shaft. RS thought they would get rich selling cell phones and got away from their core market.
@Jwdude1236 жыл бұрын
You. Just wanted to say tits up
@theedrstrangelove4 жыл бұрын
When I was young, we had no computers. We walked to school 5 miles barefoot, uphill, to and from, in the snow, and only ate once a week.
@PearComputingDevices2 жыл бұрын
1991 was honestly the start of their long and slow death. Heck it might have even started before this but once they started selling the same junk as everyone else and stopped selling stuff that nerds actually wanted it made them irrelevant. I mean they basically had just one kind of customer: the nerd and once they left their base behind it was only a matter of time. Sad really. Other electric stores done the same thing and failed too. There's a formula for sure but you can't abandon your core customers like this and expect to thrive. Even Best buy is on skaky ground. Sure the internet didn't help any, RadioShack was always a tad bit more expensive than going to specialty store online, but with RadioShack at least you could have it that day. I think that's what helps keep best buy afloat. People want this and that but if they need something that's a whole other matter..