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@supremepartydude3 жыл бұрын
Its been great to see Gary Kildall again who has never gotten as much recognition as he deserves.
@dijoxx7 ай бұрын
Sadly, he had plenty of opportunities but blew them all up.
@inranglhood605 ай бұрын
CP/M is well known and so is Gary. He's a better programmer than Bill Gates, but isn't as salesman nor as cutthroat as Gates. If Gary even got the IBM deal with the XT, he no doubt wouldn't have licensed it and it would have been killed off by OS/2.
@Namburiadityasairam26053 ай бұрын
@@dijoxx He didn't blow em up, he was taken away from the world too early and suspectely by assault.
@johnknight91504 жыл бұрын
I love how Paul Schindler always bets the wrong way on the future of computing!
@HardCase19113 жыл бұрын
Ya he does. Meanwhile Morrow is dead on.
@rjon2a3 жыл бұрын
@@HardCase1911 He was not that off, the "needle" he mentions is now the smartphone, as far I know, there are more active smartphones than laptops/portable computers.
@SnipE_mS2 жыл бұрын
that's funny i was just going to ask if Paul Schindler was ever right on anything.
@trivet19702 жыл бұрын
@@SnipE_mS a blind squirrel.....heeh
@phurrneuss Жыл бұрын
He was completely wrong
@triche27505 жыл бұрын
LoL, I'm old enough now to remember when these shows first aired. I used to wait anxiously every week to get my new tech fix, smh.
@charlesbaldo3 жыл бұрын
I started my career in the 80's these guests look and sound exactly what you would expect from a computer salesman of the time.
@AlyxxTheRat2 жыл бұрын
George Morrow talking about flat panel TVs in 1985 and color LCDs is awesome.
@FabianoMaiaFranco4 ай бұрын
Thank you gentlemen for paving out "the future" we're living in nowadays. We have all the modern technology just because of you all.
@bobdonovan3411 ай бұрын
I ran a small BBS in the mid 80's with maybe a few calls a day and by 1990 had 8 phone lines coming into the house with ST4096's shaking the computers day and night. It was a glorious time discovering hardware and software and making it all work.
@artip77710 ай бұрын
Did it exchanges a software? You guys were a first "pirates" ;)
@yuletide51410 жыл бұрын
9:20 "In this little floppy [disk], you have 720kb of storage, so inside the unit you have the ability to have 1.5mb of storage, which is really enough for most applications."
@givemepizzaorgivemedeath39836 жыл бұрын
...and all for just $4000
@AgentSmith9114 жыл бұрын
9:26 720 kB
@retrogamer334 жыл бұрын
How many disks will I need to store 85GB's worth of GTA V data? EDIT: I've just worked it out and it requires 113333 720KB disks
@steventaylor24844 жыл бұрын
@Historical Icons yes in 50 years this will all be like a bag phone.
@hopydaddy4 жыл бұрын
@@retrogamer33, and 1 TB SD card can do about 12 times the data you have.
@ViorelIanasi9 жыл бұрын
RIP Gary! He was a gorgeous man!
@GeoNeilUK8 жыл бұрын
The Forgotten Pioneer.
@ibazulic5 жыл бұрын
@@GeoNeilUK never forgotten :-)
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
Probably the best possible wingman for this kind of TV show at the time
@EJ160E4 жыл бұрын
Killed by the murderous Microsoft monopolists
@unnamedchannel12373 жыл бұрын
@@EJ160E well according to bill gates he did try to give Garry the heads up, but a while later and he did the dirty by buying the clone os.
@TheDexterFishbourne4 жыл бұрын
Watching this on a 2020 iPad Pro 12.9 and smiling as I remember those days.
@CaptchaNeon3 жыл бұрын
And in 20 years people will go 🥱🥱 to your iPad Pro
@Wattstone8 жыл бұрын
7:35 "You cannot get LCD's in color" mfw I'm currently watching this on a color LCD monitor. I fucking love the Future.
@SRCVintageElectronics8 жыл бұрын
Lol 😂
@marcel9118 жыл бұрын
+Wattstone I love watching these for that reason. They talk about 128kb. wow. If they saw my 64GB thumb drive they'd have heart attacks, especially when they heard the price.
@amigachris8 жыл бұрын
I had a pocket colour lcd tv in 1989. too expensive for anything bigger
@GeoNeilUK8 жыл бұрын
"especially when they heard the price." Oh yeah, while the technology has become more capable, it's come *WAY* down in price. Case in point, The Raspberry Pi Zero, given away on the cover of a magazine... in 1985, you got demos of games on a tape on the cover of a magazine, the Raspberry Pi Zero is a full blown *computer* given away on the cover of a magazine with capabilities that 1985 could only dream of (it knocked even the Amiga into a cocked hat)
@SRCVintageElectronics8 жыл бұрын
You can buy a decent monitor at goodwill for $4.99 XD
@pining4apple9 жыл бұрын
Gary saying I'm glad I'm only in the software business (where missing the boat doesn't accrue)....PRICELESS!
@superslayerguy4 жыл бұрын
"You guys have any intention to add color to these screens?" Texas Instruments: "fuck no"
@GeekTherapyRadio8 жыл бұрын
Ever wish you could travel back in time, whip out your phone, and be like "Lookitthisshit right here..."
@whiptech4 жыл бұрын
All of man's combined knowledge accessible from a device that fits in the palm of your hand. Imagine showing Da Vinci that device..... Fast forward to modern humans and what do we use it for? Gormless social media, cat videos, porn? Sad clown world. *
@dell50cent4 жыл бұрын
now imagine a future guy coming to our time and doing the same thing with a tech we've never seen yet. Mind blowing
@gondeazshadow3494 жыл бұрын
@@whiptech i mean i guarantee the king of that time will use it to do the same. seeing how medieval works.
@vietguy8083 жыл бұрын
U wouldn’t have the service
@imperiumcommentingnetwork46773 жыл бұрын
I would sell my phone to Steve Jobs for a percent of apple. tell him to slowly reverse engineer it over time, and then take my share certificate back to the present and retire at 22.
@algomaone1213 жыл бұрын
Love how the laptops grind and buzz their drives while the three guys are discussing them.
@nickwallette62014 жыл бұрын
“... all of it was lost because Gavilan was a victim of bad timing.” Gary: “Stories like that make me glad I’m in the software business.” * winces *
@Finallybianca3 жыл бұрын
Yeah if only he could have seen the future
@oldtwinsna83474 жыл бұрын
@28:04 California DMV announced they are finally almost done catching up from the 1985 backlog and apologize for the 35 year process. One employee, Fred, mentions, "Yea, I was hired in 1985 to work on this project. Been doing it my whole career and now I'm retiring, glad I almost got it done."
@jeffwads7 жыл бұрын
Yes, taximan, let me take out my luggage laptop which is the size of a conference room table and check my stock reports.
@christopherd3861 Жыл бұрын
These sales guys don't stand a chance with Gary, I love it
@badboy25ro4 жыл бұрын
I feel quite amazed. I remember a time when the computer was a keyboard connected to a TV, a Walkman connected to the keyboard, cassettes with whatever program you wanted to run (in my case, video games) and graphic that had not that much to do with what you are seeing these days, when the concept of an e-mail was Steven Spielberg movies domain, or Star Trek. A time when that brick game, was an actual console, that was running only that game, on lcd screens that later I was going to stare at, at night when I couldn’t sleep, on cell phone, which with the passing of time turned from ginormous bricks to these plastic and metal bits, that I am holding in my hand, typing this comment while waiting the update of GT Sport to finish, so I can race online on a huge Hd Display... in some 20 years.
@zaggnutt2 жыл бұрын
A two color monitor??? Impossible! My mind is blown! I love old tech.
@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын
Black and white. Two colors!
@obsoletegeek8 жыл бұрын
This is better than porn
@maricate7 жыл бұрын
Stewart Cheifet >>>>>>>>>> Sasha Grey
@davidlewis17877 жыл бұрын
Gustavo Maricate surely Sasha Fierce?
@ferrreira4 жыл бұрын
Gary Kildall porn, I could watch some hours of that
@convexitysummit12293 ай бұрын
😂 why is this true 😂
@NoosaHeads9 ай бұрын
I just bought a 16TB thumb drive for $20... Hard to believe that it's 700 million times the storage of those 3.25" floppy disks... at a tiny fraction (and size) of the price of a floppy drive. Makes you wonder what the future holds.
@Arcsecant3 жыл бұрын
"It's a full screen, 25 lines by 80 columns..."
@LarryRobinsonintothefog10 ай бұрын
It's amazing how less clunky laptops have gotten, color, speed, smaller and see some old faces from computing history.
@brdane4 жыл бұрын
Stewart: "With a portable computer, I can check my appointments, work on my script, ship it via modem, even agonize over the show's budget." Stewart was the best, to the day the show ended I know he would always remember the little budget they had.
@floydjohnson78883 жыл бұрын
These days, someone in his position would have been using a 4G-celluar tablet to beam in script edits and fiscal matters.
@DanaTheInsane4 жыл бұрын
I remember in 1985 saying how great it would be to have all my comics on a portable computer, and people said I was crazy, that much storage would be impossible.
@nickwallette62014 жыл бұрын
In the early 90s, I had a 3.5” disk that I labeled “Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3” for when computers got good enough to store movies on a disk. I was kind of right, I guess. ;-) Except now it’s a whole catalog of films in full HD on a micro SD card. Haha. Little me would have been floored.
@disrxt10 жыл бұрын
Never missed this cutting edge tech show back in the day!
@PiitaaDerbez11 ай бұрын
what channel was it on??
@syferdet2 жыл бұрын
Morrow defending the 5 1/4" floppy with an absolute passion is hilarious. Had the foresight to say that flat panel screens with color were going to be the future, but still defended the floppy.
@Nightweaver12 жыл бұрын
Don't copy that floppy!
@syferdet2 жыл бұрын
@@Nightweaver1 The Software Publishers Association would be a *little* disappointed with me.
@matt7777uk9 жыл бұрын
I never heard of the show growing up in the 19080's in the UK. I would have enjoyed it immensely. The coverage of computers on British TV seemed to be limited to BBC Micros and the occasional Commodore, Spectrum or Atari. I heard about many big these developments via the printed press and was up to the minute (well month) from Byte and PCW magazines amongst others.
@meanmole32124 жыл бұрын
So did the SkyNet take over in the future?
@ibazulic3 жыл бұрын
It's great to hear we still like the vintage shows in the 191st century
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
@@meanmole3212with AI, it sure looks like it!
@isthattrue108310 ай бұрын
It was on PBS in the United States
@georgeedward16912 жыл бұрын
OMG! The size of that laptop at the beginning was huge! I laughed when the cab driver asked where to. The guy pulls out this monster of a laptop just to check..lol
@Nightweaver12 жыл бұрын
"And it only weighs 10 pounds!"
@randywatson834710 жыл бұрын
love this episode. Huge milestones.
@threadripper979 Жыл бұрын
This look back into the "early days" of computing is very interesting, especially the myopic view of what the average user needs. I felt sorry for George Morrow. He was talking up his portable computers, but his company went belly up later the same year.
@homelessrobot3 жыл бұрын
"What if" analysis. Amazing. Our modern programming language's don't even have "What if" instructions anymore. Just regular old "if". The ancients really knew what they were doing.
@_orko3 жыл бұрын
George Morrow was quite correct when he said he felt the price for the high end enthusiast laptop should settle down to about 2k, while good quality workhorse laptops would be around 1k. That still holds pretty true.
@floydjohnson78883 жыл бұрын
I imagine that what's on the inside, though changed well over time, per a loose paraphrase of Gordon Moore's law of transistor density.
@RBMK15002 жыл бұрын
you didnt factor in inflation. add 159% and you see things got way cheaper..
@calif1mc9 жыл бұрын
State of the art when I was in 8th grade at Traweek Junior High School (SoCal), good memories!
@brentwheeler53714 жыл бұрын
In 85 I worked at Computerland and they let me take home a Data General 1. Not even backlit. I went to Steak n shake and had people coming over to see it.
@UmVtCg3 жыл бұрын
I had people come over to show them an Oculus Rift
@bubbajones69074 жыл бұрын
They almost had me sold on those laptops until I heard the price.
@lenniegodber780510 жыл бұрын
It's easy to be smug when judging this stuff by current technological standards. Remembering of course that in 25 years people will look back on the technology we currently use and laugh just as hard.
@cubematrixstudio76055 жыл бұрын
LOL Heck, it's only been 4 years and we're *already* laughing at you! _HAHAHA_
@PiggyWiggyO5 жыл бұрын
@@cubematrixstudio7605 Heck,a lot has happened in the last week and laughing at you! HA HA
@SteveLeicht15 жыл бұрын
All in good fun. Helps appreciate what we have.
@ritsukasa5 жыл бұрын
oh I come from 30 years from now from another planet and I laugh of your current existence.
@KilgoreTrout112354 жыл бұрын
One of those guys was Gary Kildall... founder of Digital Research and creator of CPM... Laughing at that guy is llaughing at oen of the people that created your world.
@dmitrilebedev86353 жыл бұрын
19:00 George Morrow was trying to pitch an 5" disk drive, that most portable manufacturers already did not include in their portables, it was being phased out just as 8" disks earlier. This strategy didn't work, as Morrow Designs filed for bankrupcy the same year, and George Morrow retired after that and, according to Wikipedia, spent time digitizing and restoring jazz records. Trials and mostly errors were what led to such progress in the industry.
@McVaio Жыл бұрын
The 5.25" disk drives were a smart move and actually worked making the model a good seller. What went wrong is that Morrow practically gave the design away to Zenith, who then won a very large government contract to sell their version of it. For the record, in 1985 the 5.25" disk drives weren't on their way out yet. The IBM PS/2, introduced in 1987, moved to the 3.5" format. That would've given Morrow's design plenty of life.
@LM-jj5lt9 ай бұрын
My working career started in 1980 and saw the transition from paperwork to digital. I used to watch this on PBS each week and thought it was so advanced.
@Darth0013 жыл бұрын
Right at the start a smart watch before smart watches were even thought of
@NekoMouser9 жыл бұрын
The future of portable computers is not clear... Oh, if only they'd known.
@andrewahern3730 Жыл бұрын
If only they could tell the future, they’d know the future?
@davidt808711 ай бұрын
Literally no one calls it portable. It's just "my phoneI or toplap"
@NekoMouser9 жыл бұрын
In 2015 dollars, those machines in the 10-12 minute segment would be between $6300 and $10,500. For 128k, a 300 baud modem, and a "double capacity" 3.5" floppy drive. Sweet.
@afridgetoofar18182 жыл бұрын
That's why their target market were business men who could afford such things. These computers were not being bought by your average person.
@SendLead10 жыл бұрын
I loved this show! Wow i'm getting old
@ericn9vjg8 жыл бұрын
Fun to watch the two guests debate the utility of their floppy drives and processors.
@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын
5.2 inch floppy disk is still the absolute standard in 2023. Everything runs on them.
@Losttouchjs9 жыл бұрын
Wow, flat-panel televisions were mentioned on this show and it was only 1985.
@sologals3619 жыл бұрын
Losttouchjs These people have technology that they wont allow public till 2045./
@skeaneable8 жыл бұрын
+Losttouchjs courtesy of the aliens
@sdfefde8 жыл бұрын
+Solo Gals LMFAO
@retrosimon98438 жыл бұрын
+Losttouchjs Back to the future 2 is from 1989 and had a actual flat screen tv in it.
@EdgeO4197 жыл бұрын
the idea of an lcd screen dates back to the 70's actually
@bottwaandcalover10 жыл бұрын
Just now realized that i watched the segment on LCD's on a 23 inch 1920x1080 IPS LCD.
@ibazulic3 жыл бұрын
Watching it 7 years later on a Galaxy S20 tra that has a diagonal of 6.7 inches and a resolution of 3200x1440 xD
@courtlaw13 жыл бұрын
I love watching these historical technology videos. This lets me know I made it to the future.....Sort of.
@falaicha7 жыл бұрын
I was one year old then...had just got a bump on my forehead, mark of which still shine up there.. :)
@falaicha7 жыл бұрын
While Japanese and Indians from east were forecasting technology under radar of western money. Long story short, very few of us forego the political and ideological ego while focussing on true human passion of karma.. and rest of us slobs while enjoying the fruits from trees laid by seeds of such few ones karma..talks and talks about religion and trump and shit and do nothing....to be honest..if one as human can think he is being slob to society..he/she should change right now or kill themselves in the hope of best for next reincarnation
@falaicha7 жыл бұрын
On second thought, those guys who showed today's kids like laptop..if only had adopted DOS OS at the time..I wonder there brand name would have been known today too...
@daughterofsekhmet813 жыл бұрын
I honestly miss the 'old days' of computing. Back in the 80s & 90s they were making breakthrough after breakthrough and there was healthy competition between manufacturers. Things just feel different now, like oh look the new version of my laptop has marginal improvements over last year's model and so-and-so is suing their competitor again.
@lawrencemanning2 жыл бұрын
I agree, but this is the nature of engineering. You can say the same about airliners, cars, etc. Software is the same. It's sad, but there. Just be glad you were around then!
@OhFishyFish2 жыл бұрын
Your laptop today costs a weekly wage, not five monthly salaries, and has enough power to work perfectly fine for the next few years, unlike those 80s machines which often were obsolete as soon as you left the store.
@davidt808711 ай бұрын
@@lawrencemanningwoh there nerd. Your a computer guy. I'm a pilot. Don't throw in "airliners" arbitrarily. By airliners you mean planes with jet engines, and they've been essentially the same improving slightly in efficiency since the 60s. They've barely changed. Not to mention we still fly turbo props also which have been the same since their inception pretty much as well.
@davidt808711 ай бұрын
@@OhFishyFishback in the 80s, people got computers mostly for having a word processor and they had printers. The cpu was slow, ram and storage were small, but you only used word basically (for most people) to print stuff. Fast forward today, most people don't use word processors (unless they're in school or writing for a business), and most people especially don't have printers either. No one buys a printer anymore to print out something every once in a while when everything is electronic. Heck the fact we get so much paper Mail still should be considered unusual.
@OhFishyFish11 ай бұрын
@@davidt8087 IBM clones sure, but C64, Atari 600/800, Amstrads, Spectrums, those were popular home computers used mostly for gaming and fun, and those were gateways for life-long careers in IT for many people. I learned Basic programming from a German manual that came with my C64. I couldn't speak a word in German, so I would just copy the code, run it, and see what happens. Those home computers lasted for years, but business machines were outdated within months and some costed more than a car. There's nothing to miss about those days, other than nostalgia for the long gone youth.
@p.stroker89203 жыл бұрын
I wanna go back in time and sell my 2008 Sony Vaio to these guys for 30 grand.
@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын
Umm, if you had a time machine, you could sell that to the gov't for 20 billion. 😂😂😂
@gheffz3 жыл бұрын
Love this old tech stuff, just love it!!!
@tongzhouwarrior2 жыл бұрын
I love the intro of this program. : D
@maboroshi19866 жыл бұрын
i find that george morrow tended to be really hit and miss with his predictions, but his predictions on LCD screens was really quite spot on.
@nuruddinpeters94913 жыл бұрын
The music... is so catchy!
@omegaman14093 жыл бұрын
These guys were way ahead of the game. I was still stuck playing games in my atari.
@CMDRScotty6 жыл бұрын
Watching show starting with 1983 going from 84 to 85 its like night and day in what tech can do. Some 85 shows were on the 84 list I saw a real difference in capability.
@paulmichaelfreedman83343 жыл бұрын
16:40 "The whole development of LCD displays in Japan as far as I am concerned is aimed towards Plat panel televisions." This man was quite well informed of the state of the art in tech development. That means Japanese tech companies started aiming for FP tvs in the late 1970's. Which are now commonplace, 40+ years later, even transitioning to fourth generation Flat panel displays(Microled, Oled). First three being Plasma, TFT-LCD, IPS-LCD. There is of course the failed SED (Surface conduction Electron-emitter Display) from the Canon/Toshiba cooperation (started in 1986). Unfortunately it suffered from lawsuits making further development practivally impossible. It was definitively axed in 2010. But it would have been far superior to plasma, LCD, or any other plat panel technology at the time. Advanced prototypes demonstrated a true contrast ratio of at the very least 100.000 : 1 . A long exposure photo of a full black LCD, plasma, and SED revealed that SED had way way higher contrast than Plasma. LCD was washed out white. Plasma light grey, SED: Pitch black. You could hardly see there was a tv hanging there. They were all set for production when the litigations began. Production had to be delayed, delayed again, and ultimately they gave up.
@lucatoni4509 Жыл бұрын
so sad
@EdgeO4197 жыл бұрын
The 'new' 3.5 floppy.. lol I cant! seriously tho we need tech shows like this on TV again!
@floydjohnson78884 жыл бұрын
That reminds me of the rise and fall of TechTV.
@simonemastroianni19854 жыл бұрын
"you cannot make LCDs in color" *in the meanwhile 25 years later*
@isuzuhombre-lx7jr4 жыл бұрын
And even then, AMOLED and it's derivatives are slowly pushing out LCD
@johnknight91504 жыл бұрын
It didn't take long after that. I remember using a colour LCD in the early '90s on a friend's laptop.... Sega's Game Gear had colour LCD, as did Atari's handheld, so it had to have been around by at least the late '80s.
@tarstarkusz4 жыл бұрын
@@isuzuhombre-lx7jr They are still only a small marginal improvement over high quality LCD screens. Screen quality is unlikely to improve that much in the next 35 years (as compared to the improvements since 35 years ago). There really isn't much more to do with video other than changing it completely to a new novel type, like holographic screens or something. Screens already exceed 300ppi. The best screens look as good as print. Getting bigger isn't much of an issue, especially for handhelds. That limitation is being imposed by pockets, not technology. I don't see TVs getting that much bigger. 60" is already pushing the limits of the comfort of viewing a screen.
@UmVtCg3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile cannot be 25 years later
@shrimpy108isawesome8 жыл бұрын
1:28 and then the smartwatch was born.
@nickwallette62014 жыл бұрын
And we’re still asking the same questions. Is this useful, or a solution in search of a problem? But, for only a few hundred bucks, you can save the time of taking your phone out of your pocket to see who’s texting you. And it reminds you to breathe!
@jakebradminster7093 жыл бұрын
That 128k memory looks sweet, hope it's upgradable to 256k?
@secondbittchannel61663 жыл бұрын
omg i love watching these here in the future
@allenwaddell5565 жыл бұрын
Data General One? I used one of those things for 2 years back in the late '80's. I thought (hoped) I'd never see one again!
@chrisellis4400 Жыл бұрын
So much to comment on in this but one thing that really got me was when one of the sales guys tried assuring us that the response times on LCD displays were comparable to CRTs.. In 1985.. 20ish years before LCD displays truly started to catch up to CRT response times.
@AgeofReason4 жыл бұрын
16:45 - Japan was already moving away from CRT as early as 85 by this mans account which means even longer than he knew.
@drewproductions13582 жыл бұрын
The Morrow guy was right, no one works in airports and airplanes using those luggables.
@nightowl35822 жыл бұрын
It's crazy to hear these guys speaking in terms of kilobytes. Wow, how far things have come.
@Nightweaver12 жыл бұрын
Now if you scale up far enough, enterprise computing talks about petabytes, even exabytes (if you're Google).
@thirdimpacted10 ай бұрын
Exchange Rate: $2,895 in 1985 is worth $8,260.60 today. With all the additional software we're talking nearly $10k!
@zalllon7 жыл бұрын
So nice to watch something where very little "umms", "uhhss" and no sentences ending in "... so."
@hakemon7 жыл бұрын
The guy from Morrow Designs really wasn't liking that HP machine, even though in my opinion, it was the clear winner. Unix, has data stored on memory chips (not an SSD, but pretty damn fast battery backed RAM), and lit up screen. I loved these shows for the competition between companies and hearing their sales pitches.
@furripupau4 жыл бұрын
It's probably because he knew Morrow was about to go bankrupt.
@samirayis58304 жыл бұрын
He was rude interrupting the hp guy.
@djhaloeight3 жыл бұрын
@@samirayis5830 agreed
@DavePoo2 Жыл бұрын
When the 5.25" floppy drive is your big selling point, you are off to a bad start.
@OkayyTV188 Жыл бұрын
more shows should have dueling sales pitches
@wallacelang13743 ай бұрын
I was interested in portable computers during the 1980s and the 1990s, but they were either too bulky or too expensive at the time for me. I did enjoy watching this episode of The Computer Chronicles in 1985 and I still enjoy watching it again nowadays as well.
@andrewahern3730 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think Paul Schindler was wrong, just very ahead. It’s rare to carry a laptop around but very common to carry a computer the same size as a pocket sewing kit.
@george787793 жыл бұрын
I love computer/ technology and repair of everything great knowledge history.
@davidfreesefan23 Жыл бұрын
I’m watching this on a portable computer - one that can also make phone calls - in 2023.
@roberto8650 Жыл бұрын
A full 1.5 MB?? No one will ever need that.
@richardnorris9256 Жыл бұрын
23:45 Lol, "there's still going to be a raging argument about what's portable when we're all 6 feet under ground", I just looked this guy up, and he's still alive (not even all that old), and I'm pretty sure I've never heard that argument raging.
@liammay77563 жыл бұрын
That intro and cheesy music gets me everytime
@Nicotinebeige22211 жыл бұрын
It is a sight to behold.
@michaelwright287510 ай бұрын
Imagine showing them a IWatch and Iphone then! Insane at how fast we have advanced over the past 40-50 years! Imagine what we will have in another 50 years!
@MadPlasmatist3 жыл бұрын
23:07 totally rocking a Mr. Rogers 'computer neighborhood' outfit lol
@floydjohnson78883 жыл бұрын
Well, this was a PBS series :)
@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-4 жыл бұрын
@5:50 Looks like this was the basis for the story arc of the drama TV show "Halt and Catch Fire" about getting that Japanese company to provide them with LCD screens for the portable PC they were designing. @6:26 and components mounted on both sides of the circuit board.
@acuraguy866 жыл бұрын
they didn't mention if it will run crysis.
@UmVtCg3 жыл бұрын
You didn't mension if your asshole will run Crysis
@12me919 жыл бұрын
Oh wow in the 80's people didn't think flat panel tvs would be a thing. Man I miss the old days...
@SteveLeicht14 жыл бұрын
Watching movies like Aliens is funny because they have all this tech but not flat screens.
@wohlhabendermanager3 жыл бұрын
@@SteveLeicht1 Watching movies like Back to the Future is a huge disappointment, because we don't have self-fitting and self-drying clothes, and NO HOVERBOARDS!
@SteveLeicht13 жыл бұрын
@@wohlhabendermanager True, but you CAN get a DeLorean "brand new" made from extra parts from 1983. :)
@wohlhabendermanager3 жыл бұрын
@@SteveLeicht1 But where do I get a flux capacitor? :O
@SteveLeicht13 жыл бұрын
@@wohlhabendermanager Walmart.
@baladi92110 ай бұрын
Gary was ahead of his time man.
@yelapa99911 ай бұрын
Wait a minute. I knew of George Morrow for the S-100 buss. Now, I feel like I want to learn more.
@xXNURBSXx2 күн бұрын
Back when Benchmarking involved the rendering of a space shuttle using lines.
@PearComputingDevices3 жыл бұрын
Ironically Paul's prediction was exactly backwards, while being somewhat correct. Briefcase style portable died the way of the dinosaur, we certainly didn't see more past 1985 but portability was improved because of that.
@chrischurch4551 Жыл бұрын
Now you can learn to build a rocket while you're on the porceline throne.
@Scanner_513 жыл бұрын
Man I hope we get those LCD tvs soon
@moamber1Ай бұрын
01:55 "We have had faster processors, more memory and so forth IN THE PAST, now what we're looking for is trying to get ALL THAT SPEED AND POWER into a smaller package". At 3:17 dude was typing his document into powered off computer. Imagine his frustration later.
@mugzee843 жыл бұрын
Just imagine a special edition episode will be shot with latest iOS and Android versions pitted one on one Computer Chronicle Style haha
@MultiPetercool Жыл бұрын
When I saw the DG-1, I knew I was seeing the future of portable computing. Kaypro and Compaq were in the Luggable category. DG was first!
@danroden8303 жыл бұрын
1.44mb floppy. now thats a name ive not heard in a long time...a long time..
@viciousvomit481610 жыл бұрын
When are these "portables" coming out? I want one!
@ens8502 Жыл бұрын
Still waiting?
@SlackersIndustry11 жыл бұрын
"1.2mb of storage , enough for most apps", damn you ps3 120gb and you still want more =p
@zoiuduu4 жыл бұрын
haha...u comment became old...so i will make fun of it.... some games nowadays are more than 120gb
@Overflow023 жыл бұрын
120gb? Ahahah
@vpower76323 жыл бұрын
120gb was old 7 years ago
@mikepilyih65243 жыл бұрын
1985 George Morrow: the whole development of LCD tech is to lead to flat panel televisions
@jamesgrimwood12858 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this on my phone :-)
@u.v.s.5583 Жыл бұрын
Also, the dude who says that all people who ever need a portable will have bought one already in 1985 is completely right. I need a portable. I bought mine in 1984, and I am still using it today and am about to pass it over to my eldest son. Producing new portable computers is completely nonsense!