The Computer Chronicles - Mainframes to Minis to Micros (1983)

[@glottis5]

this show is so comfy

[@AA-gl1dr]

Agitating Skeleton fr

[@JendralHizuPung]

because they ask & explain what they need to ask & explain, if today they have question like in this CC series, there will be a questions"Why you ask that ?" and then they will think that question will questionable about something related to their product or their rival, too scary to answer and too much thinking 😂 well, we cant blame too because todays too many copas and copycat everywhere

[@bencheshire]

its delightful. Would be welcome to tea.

[@dm0527]

These shows should be in a museum and archived forever. Amazing chronicle of the entire beginning of the information age.

[@raven4k998]

yeah watching these videos makes me want a time machine so I can go back in time and show Gary Kildal my computer something he'd never live to see and let him see the inevitable progression of computers with multiple cores in the cpu

[@theOnly_Gatsby]

dm0527 Well said, agreed.

[@JohnnyZenith]

Did this programme start in 83?

[@yelapa999]

@@JohnnyZenith Yes. by mid-1982 the IBM PC BOIS had been reverse engineered and the market exploded. This show was on our local PBS station and I was in the industry. So it was a big deal for me.

[@timecapsule5604]

There were 2 computer shows that I really enjoyed that was Computer Chronicles and Bits and Bytes

[@RavingNoah]

How on Earth did I grow up without seeing one episode of these precious, precious moments?

[@marekkrakovsky4187]

I grew up in Czechoslovakia.

[@raven4k998]

@@marekkrakovsky4187 you may have lived in Czechoslovakia but I doubt you grew up lol

[@micmac99]

I'm old enough to remember this show but largely ignored it as a teenager. But had I actually took the time to sit and watch an episode, I might have gotten hooked. I was fascinated by computers back then and always wanted our family to buy one, but it was never a priority.

[@Wizardofgosz]

I watched them all. It was my nerd obsession.

[@trevorratliff1403]

easy...keep your cloths on....

[@pwnz0r3d]

It's wild watching this show with some of its foresight 40 years later.

[@Mintcar923]

I’m on New Year’s Eve 2023 and I’m binging the ‘83 volume.. Maybe next year it’ll be ‘84.. Wonder who’s watching centuries from now lol

[@jwglista]

"They're just getting smaller and faster...... logical conclusion is they get so small you lose them like your keys." That finally happened with smart phones.

[@codeoptimizationware2803]

@John Glista: Computer people are geniuses, way smarter than the average bear, although the average bear is just a dumb animal anyway hehehehe

[@calvinsaxon5822]

Yeah. Hey, Gary Kildall, a question from 2019: Why did you guys laugh when you said that?

[@UncleKennysPlace]

@@IUSSHistory Yep. So you can lose the fob, instead, and find out they cost $300.

[@dee5298]

@@calvinsaxon5822 Even though they could envision computers being that small they didn't take it seriously. They had no reason to see it as anything but a distant, scifi future

[@tarstarkusz]

80 years of refinement led to Twitter and mobs ginning up hatred and outrage. What a waste!

[@borisf3171]

Touchscreens in 1983. Fascinating.

[@eugrus]

Touchscreen is not new as a technology they are saying on 15:50

[@RonJohn63]

There were IR detectors around the sides of the monitor.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

Touchscreens are from 60-70th, same as laser video disk 1959 patented

[@DataWaveTaGo]

@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka And, let no one forget: *The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)* _The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3unp2Cwmc2tg7s

[@ultimatehistoryofcgi8897]

interesting but Touch screen its just continuation of TX-0 light pen tech from 50s

[@mrs7195]

The HP guy was on point when he talked about how we would use different input and interaction methods (keyboard/mouse, voice, touch) in different situations and with different devices. That is exactly how we do things today.

[@raven4k998]

5:11 if your computer made that sound would you worry?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SteveLeicht1]

I like the man in the middle of the episode who predicts correctly that audio and video presentation will be the next big challenge for computers.

[@micmac99]

That man is Gordon Bell and apparently himself one of the legends and pioneers of computing.

[@TomiTapio]

1988-1994 arrived the CDROM videogames, bringing video and plenty speech. Myst 1993.

[@SteveLeicht1]

I more meant developments like cheap DVD. (Laserdiscs were actually analog.)@@TomiTapio

[@theserpentes]

@@SteveLeicht1 CD was already digital, but the laserdisk (laservision) as you said was analog. So the technology was already known what will come and happen.

[@solidaudioTV]

Alot of stuff was predicted in this episode that came true. These guys were pretty keyed in on the cutting edge of technology. Even that PC was pretty impressive for 1983 - touch screen kinda disappeared not long after this and then reappeared when Palm Pilots and Smartphones came on the scene.

[@johnbrooks715]

The TX0 was quite advanced for its time, considering it was built in the early 1950s. I enjoy watching these old Computer Chronicles episodes.

[@raven4k998]

and then the tx1 came out and made it look like dog shit and so the race began muhahahahahahahahaha

[@dragonworldgamer8210]

@@raven4k998 garbaze

[@raven4k998]

@@dragonworldgamer8210 so are you gaming on a commodore 64 or 128?

[@hautedaug]

I've decided to learn about this whole "personal computer" fad. And I'm starting right here.

[@tridexhbr8947]

Meanwhile in Apple land, "What's a computer?"

[@stevebez2767]

its that where you,might I ask,describe hardware with the software,alike central processor unit becxomming keyed Dos from simply spoken word? T&C app lied..

[@JamLeGull]

Preston Newcomb hey, the market can support about ten computers

[@anonUK]

@Preston Newcomb Imagine having a whole 640K! That should be enough for anybody.

[@raven4k998]

@@tridexhbr8947 yeah apple owners are rather stupid and need to be told what to do and how to do it

[@MajorGeneralPanic]

I'm going to show this to my ninth grade computer science students tomorrow. What a trip.

[@marctronixx]

so...how did it go? what about this years 9th grade comp students? :)

[@MajorGeneralPanic]

@@marctronixx The nerdy ones loved it. The episode on Build Your Own PC was a big hit.

[@mrbrent62]

I was 21 in 83. I wanted that HP. Went to a computer store and looked at it. I was making $3.50 an hour so too much for me. Now I have computers all over my house... on shelves in closets.

[@Watercrake]

I was addicted to this show.

[@raven4k998]

I can make you a portable computer just by putting it on wheels to do you want to see?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sams911]

old enough to remember watching this live on Channel 9, KQED back in the day... Excited to go play with my then relatively new IBM PC-XT..

[@teltri]

Very good show. Sweet memories that I cannot have cause I lived behind the iron curtain.

[@TheDave000]

teltri Greetings eastern European Friend! Can I ask where are you from then? What were your earliest technology memories then? Did things suddenly flock in once the wall came down? Im 30 so this is slightly before my time, ] but we had computers in my house as long as I remember. First computer a 386. Our 486dx2 66 was the one I really first got my teeth into though!

[@teltri]

TheDave000 I was born in former Czechoslovakia in a small town in the East - today it´s Slovakia. I remember the beginning of the digital age mainly in TV documentaries. The first computer appeared in our house in spring 1990. It was a borrowed PMD-80 from my mum´s school - a primitive Czechoslovak school computer for kids. Some kids in that time owned the early home computers like Commodore 64, Sinclair, or Didaktik. Mainly used for games. I knew the names only due to my friend in English afternoon class :-) The first PCs that I remember were appearing only gradually in early 1990s. Our first permanent home PC came in 1998, Intel Pentium, Windows 98.

[@gustavogoncalves3083]

This is the second program I watched. I was 2 yo in 83. Every single second of this show is increeible!!!

[@raven4k998]

damn your old I was only 1 at that time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RJARRRPCGP]

Same age here, what a coincidence!

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

3:39 In "Back to the Future Part III" Doc's letter that he wrote in 1885 and gave to Western Union to give to Marty in 1955 said that Doc could not repair the time machine in 1885 "because suitable replacement parts will not be invented until 1947." Here I learn that the transistor was invented in 1947. It is now clear to me that Doc was probably referring to transistors!

[@raven4k998]

funny how computers are not as voice controlled as they first figured we went the route of pretty gui operating systems instead of voice controlled

[@heinstein26]

Great Scott !

[@oldtwins]

amazing how the groundwork was being laid out for the future. that HP 150 would cost nearly $7k in today's dollars. a $30 cheap dual core smartphone has more computational horsepower than supercomputers of those days yet still embraces touchscreen interaction. wow. if you time warped back then with a modern smartphone they would think you had alien technology in your hand.

[@scottslaughter7181]

oldtwins "they would think you had alien technology in your hand." We do, oldtwins. We do.

[@JoshLogan42]

oldtwins Huh.. I don't seem to be getting a signal. Hold on. No, seriously, it will be cool. I just can't get a GPS lock..

[@acmenipponair]

+Scott Slaughter Not quite "alien technology", but they would ask you, if your name is Captain Kirk ;)

[@ASeventhSign]

Still play with my Altair at least once a month. Growing up in the 80's and 90's was so much fun for an old computer nerd like me!

[@raven4k998]

do they still make all the parts to make an Altair? to this day?

[@toddfromwork8931]

14:08 "Touchscreen Capability" Well that basically proves the idea that top level corporate technology is about 30 years ahead of retail technology. It's 2015 so think ahead 30 years to 2045 and think about the level of technology that likely exists at high level corporate laboratories today. Nanotechnology, bioprocessors, holograms, eye contact HUDs and we can speculate on the list's remainder. If you think back thirty years, 1953 was the age of rocketry. 3D models were likely used along with the processing power of the early 80's deployed in high level NASA usage to predict outcomes for rocket prototypes. Wow, this show is FASCINATING. Thank you for allowing me to hear the discussions of industry insiders of the computer revolution, uploader!

[@user-tx4kd3bj6x]

This is something people need to think about. Compact disc started coming out in the mid 1980s. LCD technology came out in the late 1990s. And that toothbrush you use is still being used today by millions.

[@dmac7128]

A computer back then was considered "portable" because it had wheels. -Stewart Cheifet presenting the the Link minicomputer

[@raven4k998]

it's official I just upgraded my ram to 128 gigabytes now I have more ram then you do haha

[@raven4k998]

he likes his semi ridged micro floppy's does he not?

[@mikeluna2026]

The host asking if computers had reached their peak (in 1983) made me laugh so hard. Makes you think what the future is going to bring.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

Hmm!

[@davidmaiolo]

What a great start to this series!

[@raven4k998]

imagine what would have happened if Gary had a modern ryzen 9 series system with an RTX 3090 ti what he could have accomplished with that kind of system power

[@ScootsMcGirk]

Time-wise, we're further away from this show now than they were from that TX-0 computer. Anybody else feeling really old right now?

[@ultimatehistoryofcgi8897]

no cause time is slowing down now.

[@DominikSobolewski]

@@ultimatehistoryofcgi8897 Probably the opposite is happening.

[@richardfeynman5560]

Now, in 2021, 1983 was 38 years ago and 1983 was 38 years after the end of World War II. A little bit mind boggling.

[@realBaronFletcher]

March 2023 and yes I'm feeling old by this eight year old comment.

[@guymartin6514]

@@realBaronFletcher Good call me too!

[@rabidbigdog]

What a fantastic slice of history. It really shows the competing ideas of the time. Obviously we all sit here knowing that the desktop/mouse user metaphor is near-ideal. Even all those people that thought voice-activation would win, eventually lost out.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

19:10 Print is right next to the Delete button!

[@jamesmontgomery9680]

Been watching these the last couple months, I am surprised I never knew about this show back in the late 80's and throughout the 90's. Would have loved a show like this.

[@warrenchu6319]

Wow! That's so exciting to hear what's coming! I can't wait!

[@ace942]

Used to love this show. It would have been great if the show kept going and had not stopped back in 2002.

[@micmac99]

I think Stewart Cheifet got burned out after so many years of making the show run and lining up sponsorship. By the early 2000s you had people like Leo Laporte, Kim Komando and even the "High Tech Texan" picking up the torch.

[@rtperrett]

I love the title and ending music, it is from Network Music Ensemble and the composition is called Byte by Byte. It can be found online.

[@Landrew0]

When an "Electronic Rolodex" was cutting-edge...

[@Landrew0]

...and when Stewart Cheifet had no problem with having his name, address and phone number displayed on TV.

[@andrewryder3075]

@@Landrew0 "...and when Stewart Cheifet had no problem with having his name, address and phone number displayed on TV." Well, in fairness, it's not his home address and phone number, but rather the address and phone number of the TV station (KCSM) which I assume would be public anyway. Nonetheless, these days it'd be "123 Main St., Anytown USA" and "[phone]" (because "it is the will of Landrew").

[@andrewryder3075]

What blows my mind is the old HP-150 (don't think I've EVER seen a printer built in to a monitor before or since!) and their forward-looking predictions re: the internet.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

7:22 “Personal” because it was a cheap enough purchase (5 figure price tag) to be OK’d by the head of an engineering department.

[@Arcsecant]

I watch this on a pocket computer, scrolling through its interface to download a video and swiping its touch interface to make a comment about how they were right about everything. Everything except how many ads there would be.

[@iwp112Gaming]

Love this show!... So nostalgic... The feels, the feels!

[@raven4k998]

7:30 you need one of those portable computers they are the future I can feel it

[@vakash]

I'm glad these are being preserved

[@DarkHorseSki]

Nice to see the 3.5" floppies were in use as early as they were. 3 years after this show my computer at GM still had 8" floppies (dual).

[@MrHurricaneFloyd]

I have a $60 budget level smartphone that is more powerful than the worlds fastest supercomputer in the 90s. I lost it along with my keys last week.

[@thomasanderson1416]

Amazing episode. So glad this TX-0 gem was caught live. I wonder if it still runs to this day.

[@SkySim]

I love revisiting this show.

[@MrNoahTall]

Nice to see Kildall, creator of CP/M. I used a Sanyo MBC 1000 for a few years running his OS, mostly for word processing. I also did a fair bit of spelunking in the directories and files just to get the lay of the land.

[@aldude999]

It's funny to hear him talking about losing your computer like you lose your keys, because that's what happens with phones all the fucking time.

[@marcel911]

Nice to see a bit of skeuomorphism in use during the "Rolodex" demo :)

[@DN-dz8pw]

and now i am watching this epic on a smartphone...😮

[@drwhoeric]

I remember watching these episodes during the mid 1980's thru the mid 1990's on PBS.

[@JohnnnyJohn]

Herb seemed like such a likable fellow.

[@mrbrent62]

He he really did.

[@philp3512]

A touch screen in 1983? wow!

[@bwzes03]

8:10 The next step will ve integrating video, television into the computer. Well, only 2 years after the airing of this episode, Commodore launched the Amiga 1000 which was capable of full broadcast quality NTSC video, realtime animated graphics and 4 channel audio in 1985, backed by a multitasking windowing graphical operating system, which was finally surpassed by pc in 1995....

[@0raffie0]

The Amiga 1000 could only overlay graphics on top of a video signal.

[@keithd2284]

I know this comment was years ago, but I'd say PC and Mac didn't really catch up to Amiga OS until Windows 2000 and OSX.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

@@keithd2284 disagree. win95 had a full tcp/ip stack ready to go to get you online. 99% of people needing a consumer OS that was extremely important as win 3.1's winsock sucked. But Workbench 3.1 never had that implementation to begin with. I know, as I bailed on my Amiga once I realized it was uncool not to be online using a full, real , web browser, with true cheap hardware specs to do what was needed to view everything fast.

[@RRSYSinfo]

Wish we could go back in time

[@nohozana]

Thank you very much for posting these videos,

[@Char99]

"Are we at the end of the line in the evolution of computer hardware?" Haha! The die size of processors were 1500nm back then, now they're 22nm.

[@ModelZ]

***** I'm from the future and We have computers that minimize space and we have gone into iX2 Tri Intel Processors

[@cptmiche]

funny, just seeing you post this nearly a year ago. We are even smaller now.

[@thomase13]

I'm pretty sure they were referring to form factor, in which case the end of the line in evolution didn't come until the PDAs of the '90s.

[@stevebez2767]

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[@thomasirwin6239]

And here Intel still doesn't have a good 7nm solution.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

As a keyboard specialist, a computer end-user, and a fan of microcomputer technology, this show was made for me. I relish this kind of electronic technology, no matter how old it becomes. My [Dell] microcomputer, Canon color laser printer with scanner, and Brother P-touch label tape printer, are sufficient to keep me content and on the job without the need to settle for the "second" best thing.

[@RuruFIN]

And here I am watching this on my modern Ryzen gaming rig. It's just insane how far we've come.

[@raul-at]

Those were such amazing times!

[@meesy76]

semi rigid micro floppy?, touch screen monitor..? a printer on top of the monitor?... omg.. where're they going with these stuff! i have seen it all.. i can die in peace now... founders of our new technology... love 'COMPUTER CHRONICLES'

[@jannevaatainen]

Cyril was at it in 1983! Microfloppies, definitely! He and others really knew what was going to happen in the future of technology. It was just a matter of implementing it correctly.

[@raven4k998]

somethings wrong with that computer at 5:15 it's making a noise that no computer every makes that's a bad noise it means it's going to explode so run for it

[@etiennemarais3750]

The Wiki page for tx-0 says: " Significant pieces of the TX-0 are held by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In 1983, the TX-0 was still running and is shown running a maze application in the first episode of Computer Chronicles. ". But not when it went out of service or was powered off. Anybody knows ?

[@rnb250]

If I had the choice between working for Gary or Bill, I know who I’d choose!

[@jason3fc]

The same reason of not holding you arm up in the air is why touchscreen monitors on the desktop still haven't taken off much in 2014

[@iwp112Gaming]

jason3fc agreed!

[@0raffie0]

That's why we use mice.

[@johneygd]

Now that hp 50 pc becomes a piece of history and so it belongs to that museum. That mainframe computer from the 60's with it’s touch screen looks freaking awesome it was really ahead of it’s time.

[@gameboy3800]

what model computer is that at 7:20?

[@GeekBoy03]

ask Tim Link. They don´t even make computers anymore.

[@collegeman1988]

This episode aired the first year I was in high school, and at that time, the state of the art computer was the Apple IIe. When fully equipped, it had 128k RAM memory, 2 five and a quarter inch floppy drives (each magnetic floppy disc held 700k of information) a color monitor, and a dot matrix printer. Only one Apple our school had was hooked up to an external modem, but there was no Internet at the time. In inflation adjusted dollars, a computer like the Apple IIe cost way more than any laptop computer, tablet or smartphone of today. That’s why few people had computers in their homes in the 1980s, and it was regarded mostly as an expensive toy and not the essential tool that all people must have today.

[@SWRadioConcepts]

You think the Apple II was more state-of-the-art than the IBM PC/XT that came out early that year?

[@surefmeurope5766]

We had BBC Micro in 1988

[@earthwolf82]

watching this on my lg v20. Unbelievable to see how far we've come

[@knkjchannel55]

A legend was born

[@megabojan1993]

Gotta love that 80's style computer song 4:01 :)

[@gochem3013]

MegaBojan1993 uh... 0:39 - 1:06

[@lavenderfox2430]

I actually own a vinyl with this track on it! It's "Industrial Volume 26" a library vinyl. I forgot the exact track though

[@КтоТо-д5ч]

love this show!!!

[@raven4k998]

shame they stopped making it sadly though I miss these shows they were unique

[@XY_Dude]

I used to watch these shows religiously. Super inresting. Note the $11K THEN dollar "laptop" system!!

[@God.Almighty]

the 80's were just so damn awesome. even the geeks of that time were cool.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Only if you had money though. Being a tech geek, it was a painful period to be in with limited funds. Even modest hardware devices were so costly. Only could dream to get the best technology for yourself, otherwise you only read or watched a show about it. These days, unless you're doing a server farm or something, all hardware is easily within budget of an average shmoe.

[@SarcasticDragonGaming]

A computer evolution display that ends in 1983... oh boy here we go.

[@Phenom98]

Well at least the way they made computers back then is basically the same as today, the difference is the process sizes.

[@h.a.6790]

That floppy disk doe Probably the ancient tech that still exist today after 35+ years

[@unclej3910]

I still have some floppies somewhere.

[@Tristinfate]

Shows a 3.5" floppy some day it could carry as much as a megabyte of data, that is truly portable mass storage! As I look at my phone in 2023 with the 1 terabyte micro sd card in it....And it's me again from 2053, as I look at my personal carbon nano with its 5 brontobytes of memory!

[@GregzVR]

@17:14 - Gary Kildall highlighting in 1983, the no1 reason why a finger-based touchscreen desktop monitor should never be a thing.

[@dee5298]

He did, basically, say that it wouldn't be used constantly. I wouldn't mind having one just for the rare instances I would use it. It definitely cant replace a mouse tho.

[@zeldaoot23]

I’ve had a touchscreen monitor on a few computers and it was more a nuisance than anything - I’d be pointing something out to someone else and accidentally click on something. Mouse and keyboard are more ergonomic and faster for most applications. Still, it’s hard to imagine modern smartphones and tablets without touchscreens, so they did find an important use in portable computing!

[@PyrosPelagics]

pretty crazy to see their first episode already predicted the future, our phones in our hands with multiple interface inputs

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

keep these backups forever. safe and reupload if needed. amazing evolution history.

[@galaxymaster]

RIP Gary

[@tdcattech]

Learn something new every day. I never knew there was such a word as 'synergism' 10:40

[@hankjohnson2204]

Back in '83 a major american university might have a few mainframe timesharing systems each with ~2M main memory and ~2G disk storage. Those were mainframes.

[@jacobbaranowski]

yes we do have everything you said ...sharing text, phone, data, medea, voce, etc...21:34 he must be a time traveler.

[@ChillingSpartan]

At 19:00 you can really see that this man had vision. It's not about an "Electronic Rolodex", it's a byproduct of his ideas.

[@ruisantos4520]

What about Leo ? The british computer ? Wasn´t it the first one ?

[@derekkeeping9761]

1mb is a mass storage medium.

[@maxwillson]

I've been playing around with A.I. all year and it's jarring to see how it all started. This is like stone age stuff LOL

[@KabelkowyJoe]

8:00 Prophetic! Video, audio, photo in computers

[@jkadoodle]

I was less than a year old when this was filmed. I wish I was right in the thick of it at this time. Now everything is all about mobile, wearable and app store garbage.

[@nerd2544]

7 years later, this still hold true unfortunately the focus on computing has shifted completely from hardware to algorithms, AI and Internet so it's even more ironic how garbage and bloated modern software is

[@lindaoffenbach]

Very intesting times then. Literature recently shown to me from around 1980 covering the Intel 8080 already very much published about the future to come. It covers VLSI and all the way to 128 bit computing, although it reads that the switch from 64 (where we are now) to 128 would be an extremely hesitant one since they questioned its effective gain vs cost. However, apparently, the top geniuses at the very front knew very well what the potential future would entail through ongoing miniaturisation, and that it was a matter of time who would get there first through mega-investments needed. Development of internet of things is of course a different matter but dense wireless telecommunication and hyperconnectivity was already something some of them wanted, e.g. by Chuck Peddle. The path of microcomputing towards today wasn't that much of a mistery for people like Gary and all the top notch from that industry at the time.

[@dragonworldgamer8210]

I agree

[@comp20B]

The comments by Cyril towards the end are actually prophetic.

[@eldontyrellcorp]

"i think the next revolution will be the integration of video, television and sound". And here we are with our mobile phones.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

@@eldontyrellcorp What he said happened more like in the mid 90s, about ten years later from this episode, when desktop computing hardware became powerful enough. It would take another generation or two to get that down to viable mobile products.

[@christineayres5339]

Guy at 14 min mark is a Genius he literally came up with the touchscreen idea which we all use on Smartphones and tablets today, why on Earth have i only just heard of this man but we have all known of Steve Jobs for years?

[@rabidbigdog]

Steve Jobs invented touchscreens.

[@andrewahern3730]

@@rabidbigdog Steve Jobs invented putting a fresh coat of paint and 300% mark up on already existing technology

[@rzober89biologia]

I guess youll be suprised that 1986 Buick Riviera had a touch screen as well

[@calvinsaxon5822]

I have a real nostalgia for the 1980's nostalgia for 1950's computers. I don't have much nostalgia for the 90's nostalgia for 1960's or 1970's computers. But I really wax nostalgic for the 2000's nostalgia for 1980's computers.

[@spaceseed9250]

Now we are going into the realm of quantum computing!!

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

6:05; So that was basically the same concept as all GPU's have been using for something like the last decade or so. Interesting. Also @8:24 "I can't predict wether the video disk will come in or not" He basically predicted Video CD's and it's successors DVD and Bluray video disks... O.O

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

Here we are, 40 years later, and everything's touchscreen. I Have a touch screen TV. Running android it's awesome it's a huge tablet

[@johto]

19:17, aaah, the "Micro Floppy". We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete.

[@neptunemorales5292]

Wow Interesting and fascinating to know that touch screen was out and was featured year 1983. I'm 41 now, I was in my first grade when this happened.

[@NeblogaiLT]

Yea, were were doomed from the start.

[@plateshutoverlock]

So the monitor of the TX-0 used a crosshatch raster? (horizontal and vertical) The scan rate is very slow and the screen is using high presistence phosphors, so I am thinking the crosshatch scan was used to be able to display reasonably high-res graphics even with the speed/processing limitations of the machine. It looks like the monitor had different video modes as well, because when it displayed the "What?", the picture was not flickering and it might have been using a conventional horizontal raster.

[@kurtmuroki8763]

Cyril is 100% right in his opinions. He predicted everything correctly.

[@MirceaD28]

what is that machine at 0:37?

[@TimoNoko]

That is an adding machine. The moving part was the register. By moving the register sideways you could do multiplication and division by 10.

[@MirceaD28]

Thank you

[@collegeman1988]

Are we at the end of computer evolution? Hahaha rofl! 🤣

[@TalynWuff]

This must've been done in Cali. I grew up in Philly between 80-93 and I don't recall such an informative computer-based program even in passing channel surfing.

[@realBaronFletcher]

Filmed and broadcast in San Mateo.

[@bretts4544]

In an alternate universe, 1983 was indeed the end of the line in computer evolution.