Lord Sugar shows Stephen Fry the Amstrad archives | Gadget Man

[@TheDoveking]

Im a simple man, I see Stephen fry and I watch it, I'm never displeased. I'd love to sit and have a chat with him over some tea or coffee and talk about anything, definitely a life goal for me.

[@ThaVoodoo1]

I wish I could meet Lord Sugar one day. His range of CPC computer's in the 80's were fantastic.

[@bobfromsoireegames4309]

Indeed. These computers have a fantastic, very vibrant color palette for one.

[@lynnjones4291]

His a nonce ...PEADOPHILE hunters are closeing in on these two...man told me..

[@astroboirap]

they were crap

[@connormatthews522]

Stephen is the only person you can hear say "Your Lordship" and know it's sincere.

[@Spookieham]

Sugar never was and isn't technical. What he was good at was spotting a market niche and hammering it with cheap stuff that customers bought.

[@lukedavis436]

I've just recently saved an old Amstrad Telly from being binned. Pretty chuffed with it!

[@michaelt8682]

wow technology gets outdated fast.

[@ElectricalSwift]

That will happen faster and faster in your lifetime. Things will also get more complicated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

[@jtbwilliams]

@@ElectricalSwift they're getting less complicated though, whilst it's more advanced the use is often simpler, once went to an isolated island in the Pacific ocean and within 5 minutes some of the kids were playing Angry Birds on my tablet. Touch screens and voice control make it a lot easier than back in the day of vcrs, and touch tone phones.

[@dparag14]

Man, windows Phone were really shit. I guess they would've been better if they had based it directly on windows desktop

[@random6306]

Wait Lord Sugar is running Windows XP on his computer....

[@sgl0d10n]

A lot of companies did then and still do

[@rowspt420]

in 2012 yeah, still a few years after windows 7 released but he may have been running software that wasn't supported on 7

[@Neojhun]

@@rowspt420 I had been running Windows 7 almost 2 years by then. Got the MSDN Win7 RTM release.

[@geoffsimms3013]

Fry is an intelligent gentleman and Sugar is a reptile so it was interesting to watch them interact as if they have something in common.

[@Spookieham]

Yes some of it was cheap tat but those of us who remember the PCs and Word Processors know just how insanely popular they were. His first PC clone was way, way cheaper than anything else. I bought one and it got me through my degree in the late 80s. The word processor was an immense seller as it was also CPM compatible.

[@crazyfroggie6546]

Remember the first home pcs were crazy expensive and they couldn't do anything. My old school had a roomful of 186 computers, they were crap but ok to learn word processing and touch typing, anything more you needed to go up to a 286 or even a 386.

[@markenetube]

He did bring "hifi" to the masses .

[@ianrushsmoustache2282]

Amstrad cpc 464 brings back memories, got one for my sixth birthday. The amount of hours I played Cobra Stallone on that 🤣🤣🤣🔥

[@ruk2023--]

Amstrad made some cheap consumer crap (I know, I had one of their hi-fis) but they also truly innovated and changed the tech world immeasurably. Lord Sugar is not wrong about the PCW word processor being a catalyst from typewriter to word processor. I was a teenager when those things were everywhere and my parents still had a typewriter in the back bedroom before it.

[@crazyfroggie6546]

I remember their cheap stereos, sold in tandy for 99 quid.

[@cambs0181]

In my day we didn't have the Chinese, we had Amstrad!

[@hannahalice1000]

Never forgot the Amstrad HiFi which had a crap volume control. One click was whisper quiet and the next click was eardrum bleeding. And they refused a refund citing that that's how it's meant to work. I never bought another Amstrad device ever again.

[@Tuckwoor]

Alan Sugar wanted to charge old people per email to send email from "custom" phones and thought that was ok.

[@Johnny-Joseph]

It's amazing how fast people become outdated

[@BertGrink]

That "podtime" reminds me of the Cheap Hotel in Neuromancer where Case lived in Chiba.

[@kungfuasgaeilge]

I was surprised to hear Stephen answer 'how are you?' with 'very good'.

[@matthiasknutzen6061]

Wanna hear a joke ? Windows phone

[@MrStephenlloyd]

well it dates the episode as widows phone stopped getting updates in 2017

[@Wandering1500]

It was a shame it was such a flop because I really loved my Windows phone.

[@batchint]

phone box

[@AndersPuschel]

[mock indignation on] That's not funny! I Had one. [mock indignation off] No, but seriously, I had one. Almost never used it though.

[@LouSkunt44]

My windows phone was utter shit I had to take the battery out constantly due to crashing...

[@vantheman1238]

Stephen looking sharp bud

[@philread7668]

I'm one minute in going 'oh fk off lord alan sugar

[@anthonydowling3356]

Stephen fry is a million times more clever and has massive more charisma than Sir Pig face.

[@RafaelHabegger]

But there is no Future for iPods

[@IchigoKurosaki011]

ipods already gone and iphones are overrated trash, lol.

[@IchigoKurosaki011]

@RandomlyInaccurate cult*

[@Avidcomp]

@@IchigoKurosaki011 Imitation is the best form of flattery, and boy have iPhone's been imitated. Apple set the bar with that particular product. iTunes is "trash", but not overrated, because it's not rated.

[@Neojhun]

Poor windows phone, a nice attempt but woefully missed the mark. I was a Windows Mobile PDA users, that transition to internet smartphones was rough.

[@kael13]

Apple did fuck up with the iPhone 4. I remember picking up a “bumper” thing for mine for free.

[@richardt9092]

I just threw my amstrad emailer out one of the best tech toys ive owned.

[@marcushull12]

I have just boarded my mk1 and mk2 in the eves of my loft , a time capsule for someone in the future lol

[@lukedavis436]

I've still got mine on display alongside a bunch of stuff, I plan to hack it's firmware and make it compatible with VOIP!... even though the product was crap....it looks amazing

[@Wok_Agenda]

Hey lord sugar, I am looking for a keyboard and a monitor for a 1512D do you have one?

[@nitramluap]

1:00 - Funny... I never get annoying notifications as I know how to configure them so they aren't annoying. RTFM!

[@hesamiar]

What an odious man, this Sugar fellow.

[@waltertomashefsky2682]

Lord Sugar? Lord Sandwich? Surely there must be a Lord HP Sauce somewhere in Blighty🙃

[@cub1c698]

What are these fossils they are using

[@cambs0181]

They're Alan Sugar and Steven Fry.

[@cub1c698]

@@cambs0181 Good one

[@chip1gray]

did anyone else see the windows xp screensaver in the office ?

[@matttradie1341]

Whose going to clean all the semen off of the interior of those pod things after a few days of them being used to ‘relax’?

[@nutday5]

if that's not cheating then it was definitely a anatomical skeleton,

[@minners71]

*If *an *skeleton.

[@cajiky]

"the latest windows, Windows 8" smh my head

[@bob-wo3ir]

The video is from 2012

[@themadplotter]

shake my head my head? Well done.

[@MelsvanWees]

Is this old? Upload says 2020 but google and everything looks so old 😂

[@TheKopakah]

Then read the description dumbass

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Tbf there was no future in the iPod, when was the last time you saw one?

[@pattimercer9357]

Stephen, why the same outfit for every show?!

[@chokesmc]

That Tom bloke won the apprentice didn't he?

[@Czechbound]

And now Windows 8 doesn't have MS support. Time moves on

[@richardhunt809]

Sugar knows fuck all about technology.

[@richardhunt809]

Watching him slag off Apple is like watching the manager of a Sunday league team slagging off Man Utd or whoever.

[@thepieman4398]

"Lord Sugar" nameplate on the door. FFS. His early Hi Fi separates stuff was actually ok at the very low price it sold for.

[@AgentMrX7]

To everyone bagging him for still having XP, the frigging US Govt especially the White House still use Windows XP

[@SkateSka]

Was wondering if they were gonna pressure cook one of them in the tube. Disappointing.

[@pauljackson112]

By the looks of that screensaver, Lord Sugar is still rocking Windows XP. Blimey.

[@Neojhun]

It was 2012 enterprise still holding onto WinXP with their cold dead hands.

[@rolandexclusive6306]

i''m not surprised alan thought the ipod would fail. i felt the same way. because the ipod wouldnt exist without the windows touch.. including the technoloy for the touchscreen.. came from microsoft!

[@macklee6837]

Stephen, the goatee needs a shape up mate

[@gnuemacs1166]

Sinclair has the laptop before amstrad a decade earlier

[@handsolo1209]

I think Stephen needs to watch some Louis Rossmann videos to see the "quality" of his beloved Apple, or bet yet, go to NYC and visit him in person.

[@Naytexo]

Rossman is a incel bitch.

[@mrjohn.whereyoufrom]

Hand Solo Each to their own. I had an Apple, went to Samsung, then to Sony and back to Apple. I just love Apple operating system. I just couldn’t get on with Android.

[@portlyoldman]

I love Rossman’s channel, watch it avidly, however, his main beef with Apple Is the apparently deliberate lack of maintainability both in the hardware and protectionism of parts and information (about which I wholeheartedly agree) I don’t recall him complaining about quality. Also, despite this, he DOES, repair Apple products. The hardware of all the modern high end phones, I would argue, are comparable. Just for the avoidance of doubt, I despise Apple’s commercial practices while owning several products 😎

[@branchsnapper2228]

Sugar needs flushing down the toilet

[@nr1w0r1d]

No, that is not hilarious, Stephen. You are hilarious!

[@x67th]

Remember when people believed a Windows OPS on a phone was a good idea

[@Minotauro_di_Chieti]

I can't imagine what happens when the cameras aren't shooting and the wives are not looking.

[@johncooper1165]

Lord Sugar isn’t just a pretty face

[@snizzol]

Windows XP screensaver... Twitter got hacked... hmm how come..

[@nybbleme]

Ah nokia and windows 8. Gotta love deprecated tech.

[@batchint]

do you like sweet music yeah but not on an ipod

[@jonathanirons231]

Ouch this is cringeworthy. What posessed them to make this awful drivel.

[@secretsquirrel5498]

I bought one of Amstrad's first Internet phones.. Biggest load of bollocks ever.. Straight out the back of "Dell Boy" Sugar's Reliant Robin..

[@cambs0181]

Someone brought one?

[@dave3295]

Jesus Lord Sugar is an oaf. You can take the boy out of the working class, but you can’t take working class out of the boy. btw, nothing wrong with being working class, just Sugar almost plays up to it. Almost like he needs to pretend to be that to validate the fact he came from nothing to become a billionaire.

[@MammaZizou]

Sugar is an irredeemable charm vacuum, his poor wife, I bet it’s not even worth the money, after all these years. Push the kent off a cliff.

[@lynnjones4291]

Dirty old men ...times up...

[@kolya9876543434343]

What lovely boomers they are

[@08mlascelles]

Hey, slag off Alan Sugar all you like, he definitely is an obnoxious boomer twat, but you take that back about Stephen Fry, he’s a god damn national treasure!! 😂

[@ldorman]

Jealous that you never will be as famous as them? ...not to mention as wealthy if someone cares about financial success

[@kolya9876543434343]

@@08mlascelles None of them are bad, actually. They both are lovely even if they find it quite difficult to tweet, no, because they find it difficult to tweet

[@kolya9876543434343]

@@ldorman It's definitely hard not to be jealous when we are talking about Stephen Fry. He's just fascinating, love him with all my heart. I'm so happy that he's back on the screen after quite a while

[@pauljackson112]

I don't think Nikolay was being disrespectful guys. He was sincerely enjoying a couple of older generation individuals navigating the perils of modern tech 😂

[@toyota420xp]

Windows phone...lol

[@Ifyoudonttakeitucantfakeit]

DAB radio is by the far worst product ever made. It loses signal more than FM!

[@persononinternet7868]

windows phones are horrible

[@TH-hd6ks]

windows xp

[@eddiedevonrex2308]

Rolex daytona

[@soberhippie]

Bloody hell! Windows phone has been dead for ages now, and here Stephen speaks of it as an entirely new thing.

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

soberhippie this is from 2012.

[@25195712]

why is alan sugar so bitter?

[@R33Racer]

What kind of egomaniac makes his staff address him as "Lord". Honestly. . .

[@judaskennedy]

When you’ve been Knighted in England it’s the customary title. He doesn’t make people call him ‘Lord’- they do it because it’s how you address them properly. Calling a Dr. Smith ‘Mr. Smith’ would be just as rude.

[@R33Racer]

@@judaskennedy There's a thing called modesty. You'll find most that are given titles don't insist that you call them by that title. Also a Knighthood is "Sir" not lord. Get your facts right before you comment.

[@katzaunt98]

Boring

[@Jabber-ig3iw]

Amstrad archives? So lots of shit computers nobody bought, a shit phone and some set top boxes. Amstrad are the Poundland of the tech world.