Kodak DisplayMaker: $2,000 Video Graphics System from 1988

In 1988, Kodak introduced the Display Maker system as a digital alternative to analog presentations. No need to rely on overhead projectors and expensive 35mm slides anymore! Of course, no one bought one.
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[@michaelwhite5641]

I like to imagine LGR chooses a monitor in the same way a wine connoisseur chooses a wine.

[@kshadehyaena]

By swishing it around in his mouth?

[@TheRealColBosch]

By nodding knowledgeably as the waiter is talking, then picking the cheapest one and annoying his date?

[@drewsauveterre8867]

He likes his monitors the way his likes his pinot noir. Full-bodied with an oak finish.

[@yellowblanka6058]

"I'm enjoying the sharpness of these scanlines, and I'm detecting hints of Cyan and Neon-green in the image with a strong beige plastic finish"

[@Ojisan642]

He’s a sommelier of finely aged display technology 😂

[@seangriffin6901]

[Marge Simpson holding two old leaking AA batteries] *”I just think they’re neat.”*

[@arigato7788]

there's a typo in the french text on the front face of the box, they forgot a word so now it just means "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy" LOL

[@Toastmaster_5000]

the really funny part is back at that time, that typo wasn't wrong

[@dwaynezilla]

I think you meant "Preparing and presenting the farts has never been easy"

[@qallincha]

Bien vu !

[@sand0decker]

In Quebecois Français, it still translates properly. They adopted some English style word orders and pas is sometimes skipped for reasons I do not pretend to understand

[@googleinc6033]

@@dwaynezilla woosh

[@strictoaster]

I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of the font selection.

[@plushifoxed]

Strictoaster yeah, im really into those typefaces

[@JimHaderon]

But can it run Cities Skylines in 4k..? 🤔

[@MaxusR]

@Jim Haderon, 1 frame per year or maybe even less))

[@bwgti]

Monitor Cellar

[@unlimitedbitsgaming]

This channel has, now on multiple occasions, pleasantly amazed me at how so much of the efficient tech we use and take for granted today has been around for way longer than I would have thought. But I'm mostly an ignoramus when it comes to technology, BUT that's why I watch content like this, to learn! Another excellent video. You rock for making this stuff, man. I regret not being introduced to your channel years ago (subscribed only a few months back.)

[@xtokumaru]

Too bad you didn't test the video capture feature! I bet that the results of capturing composite video to low-res 16-colors would be... interesting!

[@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365]

"An infrared remote control for controlling the system remotely using a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum" This is pure LGR gold :) :) :)

[@Catastropheshe]

I'll never look at my remote the same way

[@aidancommenting]

My LG came out 2 years ago and it doesn't do that

[@DeelightFenua]

3:29: "Préparer et présenter les fait n'a jamais été facile" on the box actually means "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy".

[@jayhill2193]

wow they did a really good job at marketing this thing huh? The German seems correct though.

[@einsteinx2]

John Hill the Spanish translation seems to be done well also. Though it’s funny how each one is a bit different.

[@fnjesusfreak]

Given it was produced by German Kodak, that doesn't surprise me.

[@gwishart]

That would actually make sense in this context, it's identifying the need for the product. You wouldn't pay two grand to do something that was easy and straight forward.

[@paco4756]

...and neither will it be with this device.

[@kingedwin]

How do we justify this purchase to the accounting office? farts

[@highpineapple]

@ A medically necessary bodily function.

[@ThommyofThenn]

justify a woman's fart

[@FloopDeMoop]

Alright, after you brought it up, I've used one to make a 20 slide presentation on why we need the DisplayMaker.

[@10MARC]

My goodness. Watching this video kicked my Amiga Snobbishness from the eighties into overdrive... "My Amiga 500 could do all that, And add animation, speech and stereo audio for $299". That was over 30 years ago, Douglas... Let it go man...

[@tylisirn]

Not quite in '88, the list price then was still about $700. But still a steal though compared to... this thing.

[@MacXpert74]

Haha, yep I was thinking the same thing. Why on earth would anyone buy such a useless overpriced piece of crap when you could get a real computer like the Amiga 500 for much less. What was Kodak thinking? :D

[@filanfyretracker]

@@MacXpert74 They were thinking like a vendor to the enterprise market. The sad thing is you probably could have pitched the Kodak better to a board room than an Amiga simply because the suits and grey hairs at the table would go "We can trust Kodak they are a big company with years of experience". Admittedly this product failed but the point still stands. Companies will spend money on inferior things simply because the folks upstairs have a certain perception of the vendors. This is probably why IBM held onto the Workplace PC market for as long as it did before eventually being displaced by Compaq and then Dell. "We can trust IBM they are faithful Big Blue".

[@fastandsavage]

3:27 The French version is just hilarious : the translation of the word "so" is missing. It litteraly says "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy". Maybe too honest ?

[@gwishart]

Surely that still makes sense though? It's pointing out that preparing and presenting facts is a difficult task, hence the need for this product.

[@LeeDee5]

​@@gwishart the other two translations that i'm fluent in (English/Spanish) are both implying [that presentations are easier because (or up until) I used this device], while apparently the French one implies that [presentations have always been difficult]. I get what you're saying though.

[@gwishart]

@Grompf Grouik It appears to have worked!

[@Poodleinacan]

Hahaha, yeah, true. My attention didn't even went on the French part.

[@qallincha]

Bien vu !

[@keiyakins]

"I dunno, I just think they're kinda neat." - practically LGR's motto. And it's why I love you

[@liampiper9357]

8:15 Look At This LGR Graph.

[@Ephunker89]

I was looking to see who else caught it lol

[@Allhandlesalreadytaken9]

@@Ephunker89 I'd say about a nickel's worth

[@MerchManDan]

Now that I know it's there, it makes me laugh.

[@MrTBoneSF]

Anybody tech savvy enough to not be intimidated by the computer keyboard (chicklet!), thick manual, and bare bones software would have been tech savvy enough to just buy an Amiga 500 or 1200, a ton of presentation software, and still have over $1000 leftover for fun and games. They could even overlay live video.

[@idimidodjimi6760]

A500 was scarce in US at that point , and A1200 was 5 years in to the future. A1000 Would be much better system to be compared to this , although it was full blown computer and much much much better this was aimed at different clients. I am an Amiga fan , have most of them, but Amiga did come as a massive surprise to tech industry at that point, sadly poor marketing from the start failed to impose same level of sales as C64 did. If it had you would most probably be typing and watching KZbin on Amiga based computer or a clone of Commodore rather than an IBM clone.

[@Patchuchan]

Probably one of the reasons it never caught on. For $500 less you could get an Amiga 2000 which was expandable and could easily share data with other computers. Amigas were very popular for computer graphics and video processing back then.

[@OlpusBonzo]

True that. Indeed the Amiga, paired with video capture cards, was used in my country for a long time as a cheap character generator by small local television stations.

[@OlpusBonzo]

@@idimidodjimi6760 But for the truth, in 2019 most of us are watching KZbin not on IBM PC clones, but on Acorn Archimedes successors with a UNIX based OS installed.

[@jessehill9993]

I have always hated when tech was way ahead of it's time. Look at OS/2. The Amiga is the epitome of this. Another thing that also counts... the Tablet PC and Slate PC... Fast forward to today and now Slates are Tablets and Tablets are "Convertible PC's". If Bill had his way (but he was giving Steve Balmer a chance) he would have merged the Windows NT and MS-DOS/Windows 9x lines back in 1999. @@idimidodjimi6760 EDIT: I hate it because the amazing technology that was ahead of it's time should had been massively successful. It's the garbage that gets ahead. Part of it has to do with expensive price tags.

[@jeffh3649]

Fun fact: Terminator 2's graphics were NOT made with this hardware.

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

They used SGI hardware.

[@sloppynyuszi]

tzzhc4 which still isn’t that good. A cheap chrome book has more power.

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

True but the comparison was Kodak Displaymaker and what they made T2 with and the SGI hardware was light-years better than the Displaymaker.

[@sloppynyuszi]

tzzhc4 yes, but I think an SGI machine was also $200k per unit. This is only $2k. Nobody said they made CGI effects on it. Probably similar tech to what they computed the moon missions on though. Which is mighty impressive

[@jeiku5041]

@@sloppynyuszi It sure is neat how much technology changes in just 20, 30 years, huh?

[@ابوحيدرآلشاهين-ي7ش]

Your videos not only enjoyable to watch but also very educational and products history. Love it

[@Manawyrm]

"AMCOR ELECTRONICS LTD. DISKETTE PROJECTRON" and other interesting strings in the raw disk images. Very interesting :)

[@LGR]

Interesting indeed, looks like that might be the OEM!

[@anetanel]

That's Interesting. Amcor was a very popular electronics company in Israel, mainly known for home appliances. I noticed that the package said that this machine was made in Israel.

[@dolphinpix]

Its one of these, ifworlddesignguide.com/entry/16465-projectron

[@kanalnamn]

@@anetanel explains why the strings-command on the image files spits out alot of the string "HEBREW".

[@shamrice]

@@dolphinpix Good find! Looks like the terrible keyboard in this version is actually a step UP from that version's flat membrane like keyboard.

[@laowhy86]

I always stop editing and take a much needed break when I see an LGR vid pop up in my feed.

[@guarapo66]

你好

[@paco4756]

Why are you illegally watching imperialist propaganda? Emperor Xi the Pooh is not pleased with you. PS Hi, I had no idea you watched LGR

[@Archman2312]

Whoa, did not expect to see you here! Cool to see someone else who has an interest in modern China and very unmodern computers. I would not have guessed this overlap is common. Love both your channels!

[@quite1enough]

oh hello there

[@avongil]

Can't believe you are here. Two thumbs up.

[@kylejscheffler]

Yay it's Friday!!! Wait, no it's not. Clint, why are you playing with my emotions?!

[@LGR]

Gonna be away for a few days, so SURPRISE. New LGR video today instead of tomorrow!

[@aveavis2247]

But for me it is friday, because I am on vacation.

[@martin1b]

@@LGRThrifting?

[@BradNakken]

Well, that just means us Australians (and others in our part of the world) get a video on Friday this time!

[@CheapBastard1988]

@@aveavis2247 In Asia I presume?

[@LonSeidman]

If I could be a time traveler I'd grab a Macbook and Keynote and head to the 80's to conquer the business world. If this was a more efficient way of presenting things in 1988 just imagine how horrible the alternative was.

[@straightpipediesel]

You sketched pictures out and let your company's graphics arts department or a service bureau make the slides/viewgraphs. Just like word processing, you didn't type or format your letters, you dictated it on a tape and the office typist pool did the rest. Office "productivity" software didn't make us more productive, we now screw around with formatting and fonts and being perfectionists, instead of spending time thinking and deciding.

[@amaruqlonewolf3350]

You'd shun out a fortune for essentially what PowerPoint does?

[@KillroyWasHere86]

Machine: What is my purpose? LGR: Tracking my farts Machine: OMG

[@IsraelLuisGeerRivera-ff4cg]

Samuel Blair oh yeah yeah welcome to the club

[@dwaynezilla]

Machine: oh ok huh weird

[@qallincha]

To be fair, this is a very high IQ reference.

[@jwflame]

8:05 Strange inclusion of a screen for Midland Bank and the Access card, both of which were UK only things and would be pretty much unknown anywhere else.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I suppose that's why they used it here if they didn't think they'd be caught too easily stateside.

[@Petertronic]

Haha, I noticed that too JW :)

[@Kaufmancab51]

Perhaps because of the handful of Midland banks in Western NY (home of Kodak) at the time? Could be a possibility

[@TheTurnipKing]

@@Kaufmancab51 Might also explain the existence of the hardware. Maybe it was predominantely intended for another market where there were less of the better alternatives available.

[@sithompson74]

That caught my eye too. Must have had some success over here. May have been used to present new developments in banking to staff in branch?

[@PlayMoGame]

It's a good day for YouTubing. Gordon Ramsey on Hot Ones, a new AVGN episode, and a new LGR video

[@W0mpa]

You had my like with AVGN.

[@TheMarcusramsey]

And Pushing Up Roses and Doug Demuro for me. My next week of lunch breaks is set.

[@martinhowser4094]

Cheers, will go watch Avgn next. He’s not great recently, but at least he’s still more watchable than nostalgia nerds boring vids

[@PlayMoGame]

Barry Kramer also put out a 30 minute Kingdom Hearts story summary video today as well

[@RussellTeapot]

WHAT a new AVGN episode? Why it didn't show the notification for me?

[@ordinosaurs]

I suspect one of the reasons this isn't pc compatible is the graphic 7220 chip. It was incredibly powerful at the time, already a 2D accelerator with provision for creating shapes (box, circles etc), filling surfaces with patterns, rendering fonts at different sizes or scaling / zooming the screen in hardware. And it supported a light pen on silicon. In this type of appliance, this chip was more important than the processor itself, taking up most of the workload with the processor being sidelined to i/o and user inputs.

[@Patchuchan]

The video chip was used in the NEC PC-9801 and the DEC Rainbow graphics board.

[@TheTurnipKing]

The obvious first port of call is an IBM compatible BIOS. Would probably need a disk that would start up the Displaymaker via whatever it's using as a BIOS, then transition into something like TurboXT BIOS, which would also probably need to be specially modified for the displaymaker to be made aware of the exact hardware it has, rather than looking at the PC Bus or for an AT Keyboard, it just knows. But it is, at least in theory, binary compatible.

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes ai take over the world,

[@brycevo]

Wow. This is a really odd clunker, but God is this fascinating

[@brycevo]

Thank you for the ♥️, LGR

[@brycevo]

@@MontieMongoose Thank you for the compliment. I just Comment on videos I like

[@AgentSmith911]

>old >1988 *cries*

[@EddieBurke]

This is what we’ll say about the 2070 in like 10 year

[@Yohoho151rum]

I've been sick at home this week with your videos playing for going on 48 hours now. At one point it was playing stuff from 8 or 9 years ago... Had no idea you had a beard, that thing was sick!

[@The-Urban-Goose]

I love this system's PCB. The blue traces on the black background just look so nice.

[@RegularCars]

Dude... MINT

[@amnottabs]

didn't know you liked woodgrain Mr. Regular

[@nevertryberg]

Nice

[@BertieJasokie]

Noice

[@nimrodlevy]

This, this is why im a fan of your channel! Thanks for delightful odd great time!

[@lashyndragon]

4:00 "a remote control for controlling it remotely using a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum" Why did this make me laugh 😄

[@KzintiCV]

Your excitement about seeing all the sample display art and graphs on the demo disc reminds me of all the time I would spend with a similar demo disc on my family's old Apple 2e. I love that sort of thing.

[@rayceeya8659]

I can't remember the name of the software, but back 80s I used to play around with an Apple II (green screen, no bloody e, c, or GS) that let me make sort of newsletters with some built in clipart. I used to make sort of jokey fake newspapers. At least 10 year old me thought they were funny. But that's exactally what this reminds me of. Trying to do graphics without a mouse back in the 80s. Raise your hand if you ever did that, and etch a sketch doesn't count.

[@mrjsv4935]

Did some drawings with C-64 Koala Painter using Quick Shot II Turbo joystic :D

[@tazcatsdad]

That was “The Newsroom” ... can’t remember who published it, though. Originally I thought it was Broderbund, but I’m probably wrong about that.

[@rayceeya8659]

@@tazcatsdad OMG you're right. I've been trying to remember the name of that program for over 20 years. That little clue gave me a linkt to this, www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1984/newsroom-apple/ Apparently it was Springboard software though but that was the clue I needed top track it down.

[@DimensionDude]

@@rayceeya8659 I've known the guy who owns and operates www.thelogbook.com for a very long time. He gave me his disk of The Newsroom so I could make a video of it running on the Apple emulation of my Dimension 68000. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJq8Y3qFh6yhY68 It's very short, it was really only meant to show the Apple emulator at work.

[@beyondthesky518]

Why do I find the voice of this guy and the sound of old tech so soothing that makes me sleep?

[@RetroHellspawn]

LOOK AT THIS -GRAPH lol, dat sneaky edit. ;) Great content as usual. ^_^

[@neonity4294]

That device was made for the Kodak AG in Stuttgart, the capital of my state! It even shows the old four digit post code (7000) which got changed to a five digit during the early 90s. What a blast from the past. We've got some good technic museums here, a shame nobody was interested in this.

[@Shand1982]

Wow, just wow. It's so interesting to see where we have come from given we're quick to take what we have today for granted. Some work has gone into that product from the Kodak dev team, despite it's obvious flaws, it's mightily impressive.

[@Zizzily]

I give it a weird 50% out of 108 what is this.

[@MammaApa]

One shaved hedgehog!

[@dwaynezilla]

farts

[@nicholas_scott]

1:08 computer chronicals

[@gastonbell108]

Can confirm: 50% of my farts are, indeed, weird.

[@Metal_Icarus]

Your videos are always well made! The music and your voice make it easy to listen to! Keep making videos man!

[@KuraIthys]

See, this is how you do it. Thanks for including metric measurements. You don't make a big deal out of it, and just include them onscreen. I've seen so many people that make videos justify not including it at all because they 'make content for an American audience', which seems to be a statement that's completely ignorant of how the internet works. At the same time, making some huge deal out of it doesn't seem worthwhile either. So... Thanks from the rest of the world. XD Anyway, that's truly a fascinating device. I wasn't even aware that was a category of thing that ever existed, much less this specific device. That's the kind of thing that's especially interesting to learn about.

[@dedede666]

Thanks Paul for letting LGR share.

[@paulleins7809]

Why wouldn't you just use an Amiga? In 1988, they were running rings around everything graphically and cost a fraction of this. And had a decent keyboard and mouse! And you could get genlock hardware for a song

[@jamesbennettmusic]

my first thought as well - given that an Amiga 500 supposedly retailed for $699!

[@greenaum]

Because then you'd have to be a hopeless cock, like all the other Amiga owners.

[@OlpusBonzo]

Indeed the Amiga was one of the reasons for the failure of this hardware by Kodak. In 1988 you could also have used a Macintosh II with PowerPoint, and although that system costed three times as much as the Displaymaker, you had a better workflow and also that computer could have been used for many more office tasks. At the time even IBM compatible PCs could have VGA cards, introduced in 1987 on the IBM PS/2 and paving the way to the multimedia PCs of the '90s. This Displaymaker was too little and too late.

[@paulleins7809]

@@greenaum what trauma made you this salty about retro computing?

[@MacXpert74]

+greenaum "then you'd have to be a hopeless cock, like all the other Amiga owners." Sounds like someone was stuck with a lousy CGA 286 with adlib sound card. ;D

[@MomMom4Cubs]

The Kodak HQ is still at 343 State Street. It's a college now. As a Rochesterian, I love seeing Kodak stuff still alive and well!

[@FantomLightning]

"Anyone else kinda like old batteries? I dunno I just think they're neat..." Lol I love Clint and his little eccentricities.

[@mglmouser]

I was a pre-press technician back in 1988 where my job was to output pre-press client files onto various high-end printers and recorders (line Linotype 300 film recorders). We did have direct-to-slide imagers. Think they were Tektronics though, but those were quite popular back then. The recorder was in use most days.

[@AmyraCarter]

I remember this. Some absolutely perverted buffoon spent long periods of time making proprietary porn comics with this thing. I won't name names, but I knew the individual. It's the only time I ever saw this device in person.

[@exodiathecoolone]

Making porn via a keyboard? Tell that person if ever you meet them that I'll raise a glass in salute to them.

[@TheRealColBosch]

So THAT'S why he's called Techmoan.

[@figit090]

@@TheRealColBosch roflmao! Yessss

[@TheBodgybrothers]

Long time no see, Amy.

[@nytrodioxide]

That's true dedication to his craft. I respect him.

[@mikemissesthefairway]

This is *exactly* the kind of content that makes LGR one of the best channels in all of KZbin. I love this stuff.

[@laurent4363]

I love your content and I really appreciate the fact that you upload in 4k. So little youtuber are doing this and it's a shame. It's 2019!

[@VorpalStorm]

The colors and fonts used on the DisplayMaker are super appealing to me. ^_^

[@sweetpeachnectar]

funny thing is, that the german text on the box says: "the easiest way to create a colored presentation." when the english one says something completely different and sounds so much cooler. :D anyways, awesome video review as always! :D

[@Rtvoll]

Being from Rochester, I love seeing people review Kodak products.

[@c4tze]

i have a non working one with the keyboard, i could try finding it in the attic and send over to your place

[@DEMENTO01]

10:25 WOW, THAT'S SO FRICKIN FAST

[@alb5338]

It's serendipitous that Kodak as a brand has returned to the alkaline battery field, as I saw some in my local hardware store. The batteries are now labeled as Kodak Max, but still.

[@jerrywatson1958]

Great video, I love retro tech. I guess because it was new when I was young. I had an Amiga 500 that I did screens like that with. Then I got Wordperfect for the Amiga it was my go to computer for years with IBM PC emulator HW board and Mac software emulator. It did it all and I even later got an accelerator for it too a 68030. I miss my Amiga. I wish I had the money back then for a Video Toaster From NewTek. It did animations I could only dream of. I don't know if you can get your hands on one of them, can you?

[@ectofrost]

That is a great intro man. Short but very eye catching.

[@doomfussel3179]

8:15 LOOK AT THIS GRAPH

[@Guciom]

Does it make you laugh?

[@doomfussel3179]

@@Guciom EVERYTIME I SEE IT

[@Markimark151]

Kodak and Xerox were the pioneers of digital projectors. Those companies invented so many computer graphic technologies, they were both from Rochester, NY that my uncle used to work for Kodak in their film laboratory.

[@MrDuncl]

In 1996, when you got to the top of the loop on the Roller Coaster at EuroDisney a Kodak Digital Camera took a picture of each pair of riders. When you got off the Roller Coaster all the pictures were displayed on TV Monitors and if you wanted one you could buy a good quality Kodak Dye Sub print which would be ready in about a minute. Very high tech stuff back then.

[@Markimark151]

@MrDuncl Kodak was really innovative, they used to sponsor rides at Disney World and all their other theme parks. They had pictures for splash mountain. Even their 4D theater that use to show Captain EO and Honey, we shrunk the Audience, we produced by Kodak technology.

[@retrocademediaofficial]

Love the new intro, although I will always be partial to the keyboard keys played over soothing music. So nice and calming, so jazzy.

[@TrailBlazer5280]

I really love the look of this thing especially the keyboard. You have yourself a full computer museum over here

[@Faselbob]

I love how the text on the front just says something different for each language. The German one says "the easiest way to create a presentation in color"

[@einsteinx2]

Hidden haha I was thinking the same thing. I speak Spanish and noticed that the English and Spanish lines are a bit different too. I mean it’s fairly normal to have translations change a bit to fit the language but they seem to have gone a bit further when they could have been more similar and still made sense. The French one says “facts” instead of “presentation” which is kind of funny as I’m sure there’s a word for presentation in French haha.

[@gwishart]

Given the structure of Kodak at the time; it's more likely that each national division was asked to come up with something for their market.

[@MontegaB]

Man that 5154 on that stand that the DisplayMaker just perfectly sits under is beautiful. Well done.

[@Bloodhound3323]

i have no idea what you're talking about half of the time but i still love your videos for some reason

[@fandarzelig]

I love LGR and this video is great example why. So many other channels feel like a talking head reviews of Wikipedia entries with some commentary thrown in. Here we get a nice full product review and demonstration that illustrates what technology was like in the past.

[@blanchfor]

That's an incredible find!! Wish I could find something like this

[@deadmetalbr]

That sans serif font the demo disk liked so much for its oversized text is giving me Reader Rabbit flashbacks.

[@Mini-z1994]

Fart pie chart! Good options there too. Oh for the: Oh god that wasn't a fart. Okay for: That fart was okay, not the best I've done though. Huh for: Huh felt like a wet one but isn't ? I'll take it, it's a winner that spared my underwear or the toilet, think i need too stop eating that stuff at least at work. Weird for: Weird feels like i need too fart, but maybe not here in the presence of others. I can totally see someone messing with a system like this one weekend when nothing is happening at the office & then promptly forgets he made it later & someone needing the device finds it on the following Monday.

[@pauljohnson7548]

Better than a fart pie *shart*

[@MrVolksbeetle]

I like finding old paper ‘C’ and ‘D’ cell batteries. There’s one with an electric cat on it that I remember from childhood. Always gives me a fuzzy feeling seeing one.

[@GameHammerCG]

Wow, Access cards and Midland Bank. That brings back memories. Wow. This looks like a nice bit of old kit. I’d never need it - most people wouldn’t - but I do like looking at it. :)

[@KirbytPink]

Can it run Doom?

[@vapeck42]

Thanks for another great video. I love the oddware and obscure ones the most. I have also decided to start building a retro PC because you make me so nostalgic for them. :)

[@AndyMelton]

When you unboxed this I was anxious to see it in action. Thank you for sharing!

[@pedrorubiomoreno9119]

I love your videos. I love vintage computers and "retro" technology in general. I kinda wish technology was more like in the 80s-90s. It was painful sometimes, but also fun other times. Thank you for sharing these videos with us! Also I liked the system you just reviewed, but I think I like the artwork in the box shown at 12:30 more. I have a thing for 80s and 90s artwork!

[@Mr.Morden]

What kind of insane fiend puts their graphics files on... film?

[@Sizzlik]

I remember that from the early 80's. The unforgettable sound of "Next image please" *Click RRRR Clack* (No such thing as remote control..you had an assistant =)

[@no1DdC]

I had a teacher who did this in the 2000s.

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Sizzlik Most magazine loading slide projectors had an input to advance the slide via a long remote control cable or the second channel on a stereo tape recorder (with speech, music and effects on the first channel). Could run fully automatically once set up.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@Sizzlik In grade school, it used to be a fun privilege that one of the kids gets to run the filmstrip projector!

[@Sizzlik]

@@ChristopherSobieniak i know

[@PeaceLoveAndGuns]

Your videos are so relaxing.

[@tl1024]

Thoroughly enjoyed, thanks for the nerd tech. Keep it up, and see you again next week! Thanks for keeping it alive for "the rest of us"!

[@aldwinflores7029]

Any LGR upload makes me happy.

[@Liquatic]

That's a nice looking keyboard for being made in the 80s. Looks almost modern day.

[@foxsux6000]

what a waste of chips at the time, a literal chip coffin.

[@jackkraken3888]

Its fun to see how such specialized devices like this even existed. Now so much can be done with a standard PC, yet I wonder how many actually get used to their full potential.

[@jacobporter1010]

But can it run Crysis?

[@flopflips420]

Love the new intro Clint!

[@buckstarchaser2376]

Still better CGI than Matrix 2 and 3. Also, that monitor you're using is exceptional from what I remember of the era.

[@SeanDuffyProductions]

Great video, awesome to see you opened it up to look inside!

[@whiskersmcclean157]

Thank you Clint! Love your content.

[@jsc315]

I'm really impressed with how much that were able to compact into such a small device for it's time.

[@medicwine]

This is making the artist side of my brain go crazy. I wasn't around for that era but there's something just so perfect about the idea of business guys having the ability to show off those crazy ms-paint looking graphics, and that being an actual useful thing... Like, not that it's in itself interesting but just how it looks. It makes me wanna go out and write a dystopian future scifi with an aesthetic something like Maniac on netflix. I don't know to word this and cant over-estimate... This just set off my inspiration so hard. I'll probably be coming back to this video a lot.

[@johnbagley8211]

What a generous donation! That could have been a super slam home run in profits LMAO.. Thank you Paul :D

[@Video_Crow]

When I saw it, I instantly saw a giant neon LGR sign flashing over it in my head!

[@Lylgrymy]

I am so thankful for the steady progression of technology.

[@HaydenX]

Chiclet keyboards are the quintessential bane to productivity...as soon as I saw this thing's keyboard, I groaned in sympathetic frustration for you.

[@Jonathanmestrejedi]

Getting my certification for this awesome Kodak Graphics Tool right now. Who knows when it might come in handy.

[@JohnVance]

The graphics really *are* pretty nice. Kinda charming and retro.

[@Yetus]

I love how much you love it. Thanks dude, as always.

[@thierrykurt3867]

Thanks for the images of diskettes !

[@ericchandler90]

"God said 640x480 16 color is a covenant like circumcision." RIP Terry Davis.

[@DeBovenkamer]

Nice piece of equipment, and definitely hard to find !? Thanks LGR!

[@deralfenderson]

"Nostalgically blind" - what a beautiful phrase there. Keep up the excellent work, Clint.

[@glarynth]

It's amazing what kind of interfaces we had to put up with back in the day. I'm glad there were people who could see the potential of computers in the future, because if I'm being honest, I'm not sure I could.

[@bernhardire2557]

How in the world could that monitor stand fit just so friggin' perfectly? 😳

[@q306005]

I had to give this a like the moment it started cuz of that sexy new intro animation. Very nice.