why is this show so fascinating. I can't stop watching and I should be doing work

@nirv

3 жыл бұрын

Because males and females used to behave heterosexually on TV. Like professionals. Now it's blue hair and zildjian lip discs everywhere.

@Nine-Signs

3 жыл бұрын

@@nirv Oh what bollocks, from Quinton Crisp to Julian Clary media history shows you to be speaking out of your rear, yes there is more diversity on TV today than ever before, but that happens to be because they actually make up significant portions of our population that had previously been demonized, marginalized, ignored, and blamed for everything under the bloody sun from hurricanes to virus outbreaks, don't soil this show with your own bleeding heart for a time when straight white men was all any media corporation and news outlet primarily gave a damn about representing fairly.

@Nine-Signs

3 жыл бұрын

@ tehdusto This show is fascinating because it presents a history of computing in a very formal educational way from the days when much of the technologies we take for granted now where new and just being devised and it interviews the the companies and peoples of the time that devised them. The computer chronicles is just that, a fascinating chronicle of computing over the near 30 years it ran, from the beginning of the boom in personal computing to the creation of broadband. It is a show that never should have ended, much like "tomorrows world" here in the UK, as the history of computing is continuing to be made with each new innovation, and Stewart is still alive and well.

@nirv

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nine-Signs I replied to you but youtube deleted it. Great site.

@ed7590

2 жыл бұрын

They're a time capsule, they're great!

Love how every time software is demonstrated, they start it, and everyone instinctively know that they should keep talking for a while, while the software takes its time starting up.

@jeffyp2483

Жыл бұрын

shouldve opted for the dx🤭

@zexzen

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffyp2483 486 or 386?

@jeffyp2483

Жыл бұрын

@@zexzen ive gone back to refresh my memory on specifics of this particular episode. so far i dont see anything that jumps out saying 'im what prompted your comment' so id have to say, wether its a 386 or 486, dx would have been the better choice regardless. but i can say with some certainty that the 386dx was a much better choice than the 386sx. i had a 386sx and badly wished i was slaying demons with the floating point advantage of the dx. the main difference between the 486 and the dx2/4 being the clock multiplier if memory serves. so 386dx=386+387=better, and 486dx2/4=higher internal clock freq.=better. that clock would also affect the L1 speed, so better performance from that also.

@jeremywj

10 ай бұрын

A lot of this had nothing to do with the software itself but the fact that loading data off storage (of basically any kind) was slow back then. Even today many people can greatly speed up their older computers by simply upgrading a HD to a SSD. Some programs go from taking 5-10 seconds to nearly instant when you do so.

Stewart and Gary are legends. I emailed Stewart recently to tell him what a cool guy he is etc and he emailed back. I felt like I'd got an email from John Lennon. What a nice man :) I don't know why this show isn't re-run.

@AlyxxTheRat

10 жыл бұрын

Agreed, this is such a great source of computer history. A document of where computing was at the time with how people talked about it at the time. You don't see shows like this anymore. And shame about Gary, he will be missed...

@yellowblanka6058

4 жыл бұрын

If you mean re-run as in replaying old episodes, all the episodes are available on archive.org or here, everybody has Internet access these days, if you mean new episodes, well, Moore's Law has almost ground to a halt in recent years, all progress is about new display technology, incremental increases in mobile compute power/efficiency.

@keesboterhoofd5638

3 жыл бұрын

Mail him again and tell him he is the Niel-Degrasse from computing technology, what de grasse is for public tv space exploration

I started watching this after watching the 1989 and 1992 shows about this same concept. In those days, six months would see more tech change than we see in a few years now.

That thinkpad has the coolest keyboard I've ever seen.

@IntegerOfDoom

4 жыл бұрын

And in 2020 it's still hot shit.

@elgeneralxx

4 жыл бұрын

STEVE CHEIFET POOPED HIS PANTS

@jimmybuffet4970

3 жыл бұрын

@@elgeneralxx POOPED!!!

@kevinconway6022

2 жыл бұрын

It’s in MOMA to this day. It’s literally art.

@allentoyokawa9068

Жыл бұрын

Made in Japan

Crazy how fast technology was moving back then a piece of technology only 10 years old looks like something out of the stone age for the people in the video. These days a 10 year old laptop works just fine. Crazy growing up in those times when I was 6 years old in 1991 the NES was still the dominent system. Only 5 years later full blown 3d graphics

At 16:50 watch the two guys in the background on the left lmfao 🤣😂😂😂😂

@Flying_Acehole

3 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂

My family was too poor to afford any computer related devices. My mom did eventually get a CPA job and the company gave her a laptop. This was 1996 though. Black and white screen and I was able to play frogger on it. I told my mom that when I grow up I will get us a better pc. I fulfilled that dream and got her a very nice laptop. But doesn't use it and was too complicated to use because she retired and she is no longer doing any CPA work and is tired of computers lol

@floydjohnson7888

2 жыл бұрын

Valiant effort

I've been in the IT business now for more than 30 years - it's still amazing how far we have come over the time. Now we have 1 TB on MicroSD cards and smartphones with LTE and 5G. I wonder where we will be in another 20-30 years...

Following the collapse of his computer businesses, Morrow devoted the rest of his life to his hobby of collecting original 78 RPM jazz and dance records from the 1920s and '30s. Until his death, he digitally transcribed and restored thousands of recordings using a computer system he developed, reissuing them under his Old Masters label. He died in May 2003 from aplastic anemia.

@Alex-oz9eh

7 жыл бұрын

what a cool guy

@GeekBoy03

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Keith Yeah he was. He should have done a commission based licensing for his computer design, instead of a flat cost.

@Wizardofgosz

6 жыл бұрын

I always dreaded when he was on the show. And that other old dude on the early shows. They were SO BORING.

@gregorymalchuk272

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if this was the last episode he was on. He stopped making regular appearances sometime in the late 1980s. I wonder if a bone marrow transplant could have saved him.

@GeekBoy03

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregorymalchuk272 Apparently it was. Not even IMDB has all the episodes he was on.

This show was interesting at the time but all these years later it’s now 10x more interesting.

I like the talk of Computer Chronicles, it gives me some feed-back to my computer-passion Kind regards.

love the 90s mobiles products

Some people really paid through their nose for some of this early technology. I send them kind thoughts. They are really the reason why we have such advanced tech today that cost almost nothing.

@richards1708

Жыл бұрын

Excellent point. I noticed this too!

@allentoyokawa9068

2 ай бұрын

and thanks to East Asia

"16 MB of RAM, expandable to 32. A 500MB hard drive built-in"... Replace 'MB' for 'GB' and you have the standard requirements in 2017.

@nicksalvatore5717

6 жыл бұрын

Gregz0r it’s funny in 20 years the standards have multiplied by 2000

@TechWalker

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChristopherGray00 16gb as a standard is a little large, even more so for phones but 500gb is definitely a standard for laptops.

@DrugedBatmanStrikes

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristopherGray00 who's talking about phones?

@iceho6460

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristopherGray00 Still using 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD on my laptop. Its more than adequate to edit videos and watch 1080p movies on.

@Djmaxofficial

4 жыл бұрын

Then en 2027 replace GB with TB and in 2037 TB with PT :)

Those butterfly keyboards are still expensive collector's pieces. The computer is a brick by today's standards, but you have to appreciate that keyboard.

That IBM with the "transforming" keyboard is great. I had one back in 1997. And it's the dare to be different and innovate from the 90's which make me love vintage laptops and electronics in general. Take a look at all the modern laptops, just how many are different? Very few, they all stick to the tried and tested layout. Typical clamshell with a chicklet keyboard. Nothing interesting, just bleh. I use Mac's, and have been using it ever since 1999. Their motto "Think Different" isn't true anymore.

1210 - That is AMAZING the way that keyboard expands!!! I've gotta get one of those!

@medes5597

Жыл бұрын

They're not cheap these days. It's a design classic and in demand because of that. The MOMA in New York retains an example in its collection (not that that's impressive, MOMA has a lot of stuff because they accept almost any donation)

it's fun to watch the show and see how far we've come.

4:30 the driver is using a DOS application to look at the measurements from his car, but he's got a "Designed For Windows" logo embroidered on his jacket, hahaha.

@Jurgh909

3 жыл бұрын

5:50 At least it runs under Windows 95! 😆

@felipe367

3 жыл бұрын

Well Bill Gates did buy DOS

$4800 is no joke ! Wow owning a computer nowadays feels so normal - I work around computers everyday priced usually around $500-$700.

@BoothTheGrey

Жыл бұрын

You still can buy PCs for 5.000 $ ... and you could back than buy computers (without monitor) for 500-1000$. But of course the whole technology was in early stage. Now the systems are really developed on a good level for... well.. about 10 years. If you take a 10 year old standard machine it works still quite good. This was impossible in 95. Machines from 85 were completely different technology - the operating systems, too. And mobile devices just were in very early development.

The birth of the trackpad and built-in CD 😃

That thinkpad subnotebook with the keyboard expansion was pretty cool, even in 2020.

Every year Stewart had to make a new version of that "i am travelling/on a car/outside" intro :D

Surprised that the driver himself was so up on computing. I figured it would be more in the hands of an engineer or crew member.

Some great portables featured in this episode - PB 540c and Thinkpad 701C (butterfly keyboard).

The Thinkpad 701 C is pretty innovative. Why couldn't laptops today follow that butterfly subnotebook's example?

@Alex-oz9eh

7 жыл бұрын

tablets and smartphones

@jamesvalentine925

6 жыл бұрын

I've owned a 701c and 701cs in the past. They were an amazing design, although I did have to hoover the 701cs keyboard occasionally as it was prone to keys sticking on if any dust buildup occurred in the keyboard mechanism.

@oldtwinsna8347

3 жыл бұрын

Apple has recently filed a patent on it, claiming they invented the technology so we might see it on their products. Or, it could be they just will wait and see which competitor uses it and sue heavily, burying such companies in hundreds of millions in litigation.

Was still using the mighty A1200 as my computer back in 95.

It's so fun to watch these today.

Wow, iPhones for Cavemen! You can beat your woolly mammoth over the head with it and then send a fax to the tribe chief telling him all about it. "Me bash mammoth. Eat good now. TTFN." Awesome!

I’m most surprised by the ashtray and matches on the table at the Marriott. In San Francisco no less. I’d imagine getting caught smoking indoors in SF today is a felony.

Laptops are desktop replacements and smartphones are laptop replacements.

The 701C Thinkpad is the most crazy laptop i have ever seen! I love it! I have to have one!

It's amazing how this was the pinnacle of high tech. I wish I could go back in time and show them an iPhone or 6S OR Galaxy S7 and blow their minds!!!

@metafis2490

7 жыл бұрын

Yes..I was thinking that. By the same measure, imagine if we could go 20 years into the future?....I wonder what we would see?

@AnthonyMcMan007

7 жыл бұрын

iphone 13s plus, Fifa 37

@CaptchaNeon

7 жыл бұрын

Julio César Perdomo No one is blown away by an IPhone 6. After all they're last year's Android and the tiny screen that makes it very difficult for people to see much on it will further prove the point that Apple hasn't gotten better.

@jcp012000

7 жыл бұрын

Captcha C They don't know that yet back in 95!!!

@domxem5551

6 жыл бұрын

You would blow their minds even more if you tell them who’s the president in 2017

That IBM keyboard is impressive 25 years later

command&conquer was released that year

I am not a fan of Apple products today, but the fact they were on the trackpad idea back then was pretty cool.

@looneyburgmusic

4 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray Apollo Computers

@MF175mp

3 жыл бұрын

I have an Asus laptop from 2019 and the trackpad doesn't work reliably. Needs to be cleaned with rubbing alcohol daily for it to work. I wish it had trackpoint

@eccremocarpusscaber5159

3 жыл бұрын

I’m amazed that anyone can be arsed bitching about Operating Systems and hardware. Who gives a shit? Just do what you like. As long as you’re happy.

@sternkrieger1950

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray There is a difference between invention and pioneering. Sure, Apple rarely ever invent anything, but they pioneered most things you take for granted today on computers, tablets and phones, trackpad included. You can hate Apple and Mac, but you gotta respect them for what they contributed to the industry.

3:12 ... I think the dude finally bought an M2 Macbook Air ... 😹

Toshiba Laptops were beast. At least from 2007 to 2010. And it seems still back in 95 as well. I never had enough money for a laptop back then.

Computer back then looked sexy especially i loved the white chocolate bar block looking keyboards. I am typing this comment with a vintage Apple extended keyboard. Can be disasembled and cleaned, unlike what they make now which accumulates dirt that seaps into the keys, so filthy, and wonderful mechanical tactile feel, and looks 1 milion times better.

@16:50 - One of the two guys walking in the left side background. LOL!

Apple Newton!!! Loved mine!!!

While I like that butterfly keyboard the introduction of the track pad was probably more important. Funny that Apple introduced the track pad and Microsoft introduced the scroll wheel on a mouse!

The wonderful lady said a 500 Megabyte hard drive was huge 😆. How things have changed 😀

12:20 Woah! The keyboard we need!

@sarwagyaraj

3 жыл бұрын

Somewhere during the last decade, the manufacturers lost faith in mechanical engineering. Sml

@BlownMacTruck

2 жыл бұрын

No we don't. Even the smallest laptops we have today can fit a relatively normal sized keyboard. Butterfly keyboards disappeared because of that, not for any mechanical reasons.

A sign of the times: the ashtray on the table in the hotel at the beginning. So glad that’s behind us

Had I buzzed WETA (DC/Northern VA's PBS affiliate) at the time, I would probably have been aware of the trackpad well before a colleague from LA showed off hers.

Oh, The Smartphone 0:46

@scragglewaggle4109

3 жыл бұрын

Atari 2600 Edition

That is a Sweet little Toshiba , 16 MB of RAM, expandable to 32. A 500MB hard drive built-in" Not too bad in 1995 :) QC

@elgeneralxx

4 жыл бұрын

GO POOP YO PANTS BIG MOMMA

@shadesofmist9214

3 жыл бұрын

and 65Mhz ^^

How “ancient” will today’s technology look about 20 years from now in 2040?

“Look at my eyes! Even my bags have bags!!” - George Morrow

4:30 and now days my cell phone can reprogram my car what would people of back then thought if they knew this was where tech was going for cars in the future back then

Wow in USA they had smartphones in 1995, in my country we didn't even had mobile network nor we knew what mobile phones were until 1997 :)

@lkrnpk

8 жыл бұрын

MegaBojan1993 yeah but like 2 people in the whole US had ''smartphones'' back then...

@oldtwins

6 жыл бұрын

What we consider smartphone didn't really take off to the mass market until about 2000/2001. But the real push came with 3G availability around 2006-2007 for most of the US that finally allowed data communication to be something more useful than just pushing text emails around.

@infiltr80r

4 жыл бұрын

US was actually lagging in mobile tech. It proliferated in Scandinavia and Japan.

@febo48

4 жыл бұрын

NMT standard taht is G1 allready ended by then. G2 that is GSM started in 1991. My friends dad had NMT mobile phone in his car in 1988 in Slovenia.

@infiltr80r

4 жыл бұрын

@@febo48 NMT was introduced in 1986 and it stood for Nordic Mobile Telephone as it was created in scandinavia.

7:30 That guy is now VP of devices at Amazon

Wish the show could had made it to the first iphone

10 years later, the PDAs are in their popularity. Then, 20 years later, PDAs are replaced totally with smartphones Techs are just moving faster and faster Perhaps no one in 1995 wonder that anyone will hold micro, even nano computers in handpalm while watching this video 20 years later

@elgeneralxx

3 жыл бұрын

Go poop yo pants big momma

also appears to chronicle advances in spray tan technology

19:02 Holy (expletive), I remember those Megahertz modems.

IBM laptops seemed so ahead of their time

IF you can find a Simon, be prepared to shell out $10,000+

Best show ever

7:38 - Apple taking stuff away isn't a new thing. I really wished Apple gave a trackball option on the MacBooks today because who still needs a larger than life trackpad? You could literally put a trackball in that same space that used'a fit a PB100 in a MacBook today, and I'd use it!

$200-400 for a modem! My how times have changed.

@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka

4 жыл бұрын

400 bucks for 4 fonts.....

@TheVanillatech

4 жыл бұрын

First modem I bought was a US Robotics 56.6kbs beast from QuayTek. Cost me £70, let me play QuakeWorld with a ping of 80ms. Also I could download a full album from Napster in under 4 hours if nobody called me on the phone during that time! XD

12:09 i thought i hallucinated...

This was during the time when you didn't have to go to an Ivy league school or MIT to work at one of these computer companies. Man...

@elgeneralxx

3 жыл бұрын

Park bathroom from 1990 when they had black toilet seats and smelled really bad

I guess we never know how that CompuServe forum is called :(

✨Apple is still expensive, even today too. Lol😜✨

Back then those things were blazing fast but only when running the software that was built at that time.

Built in power supply. No brick. No dongle!

PCMCIA was the nuts back in the day. Not that I remember - all those dongles....

Why can't I listen to my smart phone voice mail on my Mac? Guess we ain't there yet...something about silos.

Would love to go back and them my smartphone.

@BlownMacTruck

2 жыл бұрын

These comments are so stupid, especially since by this point the show had been on for more than a decade, meaning they clearly knew how tech rapidly advanced year to year.

19:48 Yo dawg. I heard you like laptops? So I made a laptop sized expansion to your laptop. You're going to need 2 laps though.

Woow.. that keyboard!

The Zenith Data Systems Z player looks like one of those portable DVD Players without a screen but I guess it's more of a bulky portable CD Player so what's the point of it?

Now my smart watch has way more power than any of the computers shown

Yesterday's technology was typically a hassle. Virtually every thing was heavy and expensive, most of it required other expensive equipment to run, that includes the pager card you have to put in your computer. Though things are getting better, lighter and cheaper, there will be a point when our grandchildren are laughing at how slow we were.

@dijoxx

9 ай бұрын

Our grandchildren will be lucky to have electricity.

I just realized something. Notice the clothing "style" from 1995? I will dress like that today (in 2020).

2:07 ...J. K. Simmons? Is there anything this guy wasn’t in?

Would have bought one but could not find Amazon back then.

she calmly says yeah it costs about 4900, compare that to today hahaha.

In retrospect, I think George Morrow could have been wildly successful-a true genius and prescient about the future of mobile computing. But his ideas were never timed quite right and he was maybe a little bit irascible, too.

11:26 Just 4800 or 4900 dollars, for most working class people TOO EXPENSIVE back then.

16:51 guy on the left just stepped on shit

Its got a huge 500mb hard drive! 10 Years from now, they will be saying: its got a huge 500 terabyte hard drive!

4800$ - it was "a really good pricing" back then.

That Dell PC put my modern laptops to shame

recently discover that exist this tv prog. greets from Argentina.. i would like that on that time i have the opportunity to see this tv show... eeuu always ahead on everything...

I thought i was the shid going from 2800 baud to 14.4k

16:19 HP 200LX rulez !!!

Computers used to be such a PITA.

@yellowblanka6058

4 жыл бұрын

Compared to 10 years before this show they were a relative breeze.

look ma, no brick 🥰😇😄

Who remembers when 8 Mb, expandable to 32 Mb ram was a big deal? 😏👌

@Innesb

Ай бұрын

I remember the excitement of getting an extended memory board to upgrade my PC from 640kb to 1Mb. There was hardly any software that could use that extra RAM, but it was amazing.

huge 500mb ..huge 😁

@bridgendesar

8 жыл бұрын

+Ni hal You forgot about the 4 megs of ram, woo! hoo!

@shadesofmist9214

3 жыл бұрын

@@bridgendesar and 65Mhz Cpu ;))))

No Call them SenSors like MR Spock

This was the beginning of a boom in repetitive strain injury and pixel porn screen time masturbation ! How better would society be if we didn't have today's technology ? Much Much Better !

@dorlaretz5901

3 жыл бұрын

not really

Smart phone 1:03 lol

Man I forgot that apple just couldn't make a good mobile device ...the Newton what a turn around to iphone

Is it just me or were half the folks they interviewed from the Americas cup team not American by any stretch of the imagination?

Nothing like listening to some CrApple rep lying about CrApple "inventing" something that had already existed for years... The first trackpad was introduced in the early 80s, back when CrApple was still in the Apple II Era.