The Computer Chronicles - Comdex Fall 1992 (1992)

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[@yurib3265]

Those were the days... It was 1992 when my company rewarded me with tickets for me and my wife to visit Las Vegas for a couple of days, as a special gift, to have fun and spend a day in casinos. When we flew in from SFO to LV early in the morning, we immediately realized something big is going on in the center of the city, and it was ... ComDex 1992! Being a programmer... well, you know... we wound up spending our whole visit in the halls of ComDex )) Thanx to Lucy for her patience! ) Still remember many details. And the MAG InnoVision T-shirt personally signed by glorious football player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is still on display in our family Hall of Fame, brand new ))

[@JaredConnell]

You must be a programmer if you think Kareem abdul jabbar is a football player 🤣

[@GregzVR]

I love watching these shows. Great memories. To understand where we are today, it's good to remember where we were yesterday, when all this was the cutting edge.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Yep. I remember watching the Weezer music video included on the Windows 95 CD-ROM on our brand new Pentium 166 Mhz machine fullscreen and being amazed.

[@TheTruthIsFiction]

I am surprised that nothing much has changed since 1992. All the technology was there. Anything that is original must have happened before that.

[@johndeere4300]

It must have been an unreal futuristic experience for those who were lucky enough to go to any of these events!! I wish I could time travel just to see Comdex!!!!

[@quatz1981]

Seeing Windows 3.1 brings back some memories. I remember my first PC back in 93 was a 486 66mhz and when i first saw a video playing on it it blew me away even though the resolution was very low. Wish i kept that PC, still have all of my old big box PC games for DOS.

[@superzombiefan89]

god i miss the 90s... best decade ever...

[@Sgt_Glory]

I grew up in the 90's, born in 80's though. It was a great time to be alive. My grandfather owned a small business machines company so I was immersed in this stuff all through my grade school days.

[@kevaninthe4135]

I definitely had too much fun in the 90's. Bring it back.

[@ShellieandBabyGirl]

Me too!

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

I don't miss seeing Bill Gates smug face everywhere

[@edwang8975]

Yes

[@AgoraphobicLocust]

Somehow i can’t stop watching those!

[@marks.gregory460]

It all started from them and people today upgraded them. The people back then really made the future for us.

[@medes5597]

So at about 7:00 you see Adobe using an internally made comedy skit, "Jurassic Aspen", to show off the features of the new Adobe Premiere for Windows. "Jurassic Aspen" briefly caused a huge rift between Apple and Adobe. You see Apple viewed Adobe as part of their main macintosh developers group. And they had collaborated closely with Adobe in order to get various Adobe products working better on Macintosh. Premiere for Windows was not only bringing multimedia products to Apples rival, and was actually a more fully featured editor than Macintosh had yet, but "Jurassic Aspen" also showed Adobe and Windows 3.1 staff together in the film. Adobe had been working with Microsoft, much in the same way they had with Apple, in order to get it working better on windows. Apple were furious and claimed to have been betrayed by this move. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed and everyone calmed down, and the Adobe/Apple relationship was repaired. But there was a point where a Jurassic Park fan film nearly cost apple of the future or graphics and art software and Adobe their main supporter.

[@samdenker1813]

Dinosaur Adventure was the coolest game ever

[@karlimo4034]

Host wears the most 90´s tie ever.

[@10p6]

in 1992 I was Flying high on my Atari Falcon.

[@iscariotproject]

when computer was fun...the future bright and exciting

[@AstroParticle0]

Wow, John Entwistle and Lee Sklar, two bass legends, on the same stage 2:26

[@HikikomoriDev]

I always use the pen. On my laptop via a Wacom, or on my LG Stylo.

[@qqquuu1000]

Thank you by upload videos

[@joeygomez584]

I was there with my dad! got a free version of 3D home Architect and Amazon: guardians of Eden and a ton of Swag great memory

[@Fastwinstondoom]

That Dauphin rep is basically describing a modern day chromebook... really, nothing is new under the sun :)

[@mhmrules]

What a way to end a show. An Elvis impersonator. Well that's Vegas for you.

[@whattheheck1000]

Comdex Fall 1992 was Nov. 16-20, 1992. I was born December 25, 1992. This probably aired the same month, as it takes time to get the footage together, etc. And Elvis during the outro? Wow! January 20, 2014 12:45 am

[@jcp012000]

Amazing!!!! So you're saying things happened around the time you were born???? I thought everything was put on hold for your impending birth

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@jcp012000 His profile claims he has Asperger's, his strange comments make sense in light of that.

[@medes5597]

You were born three days before me, how cool.

[@johndeere4300]

I wish I was there

[@CraigBartels]

amazing T1 lines, they have I think it said 5 of them running the entire Comdex show. Just my 1 gig connection at home is 130x faster than those 5 combined. Amazing how things have changed.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Back then it was huge bragging rights for educational institutions or large corporates to even have one T1 line. Today, the speed of a T1 is considered pathetic and wouldn't stream even 720p video smoothly.

[@joerusso4219]

Wow video for windows. No we can make a movie on our phones

[@ferrreira]

Video For Windows was totally ripped off QuickTime, down to the source code

[@nirv]

@@ferrreira oh whatever. Zoom out from planet earth and humans still get the credit. Humans. All of us.

[@nikola8363]

16:39 that's how the surface pro should look like

[@SpamNapkin]

10:35 WHOA!!! that voice sounds mighty familiar if you aa-sk me.

[@OhFishyFish]

I can't do that, Dave.

[@MrGeigerZ]

Brings back a lot of memories in this era (Atlanta COMDEX - Spring '93). In this one, what stands out as well as the "new" tech is the lack of obese people walking around (fast forward to any show today and it will be the opposite). Great tech back then and glad I was there to be a user/part of it.

[@sjnmhn]

What is that at 12:54??? LOL!!!

[@AerialBadgerRelease]

It's pretty Daddy, alright.

[@NewBrunswickOutdoorLife]

Bill Cosby on the sign over his shoulder.

[@sternkrieger1950]

Bill Gates is so damn cocky he has to randomly shout out his own name during his speech! 24:25

[@edwang8975]

Yes it is

[@toneranimation]

That's possibly the greatest Freudian slip of all time, how do you trip up and say your own name inadvertently.

[@medes5597]

​@@toneranimationit was written for Ballmer, but Gates decided late on that he would be the one to go to Fall Comdex as well (he was originally going to do spring, Ballmer did fall). He didn't rewrite the script, and he was skipping the section that mentioned him by name... And messed up and said his name out loud

[@oldtwins]

Wow I remember how disappointing the A4000 was when announced. That super-cool AAA chipset turned into the turd of the AGA that couldn't even support 800x600 flicker free video. During this time is when 1024x768 72Hz was standard equipment with PCs and 1280x1024 72Hz was for higher end systems, all in 24 bit color. Nail in the coffin that the Amiga would soon go defunct. A once marvelous system was now a POS.

[@branchonequal]

This happens if you combine great engineering with shitty management... :-S

[@FindecanorNotGmail]

@oldtwins That was hardly mainstream. Only high-end graphics cards come with more than 2 MB in 1992

[@curiousottman]

So this. I remember buying an a4000 to upgrade my a3000. I was so disappointed. No flicker fixer. Any resolution with 256 colours was slower than molasses. The 040 had wait states and the hardware felt cheap. Gone was scsi and static column ram. The only saving grace was the continued improvement of amiga OS since it could multitask.

[@lindaoffenbach]

Writing was clearly on the wall in 1991. Our Amiga 2000HD went out the door that same year without much regret. With the 3000 Commodore had shown its own downfall already. In came two DX/2 66 with Tseng labs SVGA and screens for the price of one dissapointing 4000.

[@christineayres5339]

@17 min mark THE FIRST EVER SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE LOL

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

Its days when you wish that you could go back in time and visit these live and get a photo of @UCkJ6eQKpHZgsZBla4JgKj3A crew. I own a 90s film roll camera so it set :)

[@jimmcconville]

People in the 90's really liked printing stuff. I understand why... it's just funny that despite how important computers were becoming, information ultimately meant nothing unless it was on a piece of paper.

[@joerusso4219]

Modem. What's a modem?

[@oldtwins]

+Joe Russo cable modem used by majority of home subscribers today and still called that today.

[@AgeingBoyPsychic]

*AirLAN* Is a way better name than WiFi which means nothing

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

Its days when you wish that you could go back in time and visit these live and get a photo of @UCkJ6eQKpHZgsZBla4JgKj3A crew. I own a 90s film roll camera so it set :)