I was too poor to own these as an 80s kid. Now, I want all these old machines. These guys were so happy and excited about technology.

@Chevroletcelebrity

2 ай бұрын

computer not expensive now you can get u one at wall mart for a few hundreds

I think we all would like to have a 20 megabyte hard disk...

@TheLouisXXI

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Meyer look! One 1TB isn't enough anymore

@rmeyer4066

8 жыл бұрын

6TB will do for me

@Landrew0

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Meyer In 1988, I heard the word "terabyte" for the first time, and I knew Moore's Law would get us there by now, but I still couldn't really believe it.

@rmeyer4066

7 жыл бұрын

Landrew0 At CES 2017 seagate revealed a 60 terabyte SSD that will be out by the end of the year.

@ProDigit80

4 жыл бұрын

According to the subs, he said 'nigga byte harddisk'!

R.I.P. Gary Kildall..

5:41 - "Our new product line, the cellular telephone..." (Lifts up 20 pound bowling ball bag from underneath desk) LOL.

@sergheiadrian

7 жыл бұрын

That was kind of unexpected for the "ultimate portability" :)

@jcherrera104

6 жыл бұрын

Still my favorite is when they both agree it would be nice to have 20mb....LOL

@sbkpilot1

5 жыл бұрын

lmfao..

@ElderBard00

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@bikespj22

2 жыл бұрын

I laughed when he said the laptop was no more cumbersome than a few binders. Then talks about having a fax and printer. I was like buuuulllll that thing for sure weighs a freaking ton.

It's amazing how much of a step back/sacrifice portables were back then when compared to desktops of the time and the cost was ridiculous.

At least the Dynamac didn't crash during its demo on the show, unlike Apple's own Macintosh Portable a few years later!

This is a fascinating piece of history. My god how far we've come.

@MrNamegame

9 жыл бұрын

Indeed. We've gone from having 16 to 128 KB computers that rarely had expandable storage options that weren't cumbersome to being able to stuff 1 TB hard drives into Aspire Ones if we really cared to for some reason and having flash drives up to 128 GB instead of KB.

@80sCompaqPC

4 жыл бұрын

MichaelKingsfordGray You seriously need to find something better to do than bash people for not using their real name. What damn difference does it make? It’s just KZread, for crying out loud.

@zizmares

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray who the fuck uses their real name on youtube? Any of your beloved youtubers use their real names? This isn't facebook you good for nothing idiot. Yeah that's right, only an idiot would use their real name here, if I used mine you couldn't even read the god damn thing

@mathiastwp

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray As we say in Norway: "Blew from the right ass"

@interlace84

Жыл бұрын

It's 2023 now and despite not knowing what could have been bothering MichaelKingsfordGray one day so many years ago, why he said what he did or how he's been since.. But those responses were kinda funny ngl😆

The more I watch this channel, it really hits home how far we've come in the IT world. 👍🏼

I have an Toshiba T1100 Plus. Awesome to see it in the Computer Chronicles 1987.

"It's no more cumbersome than a case of binders." Haha, that's enormous!

I love old tech

Kids today have no appreciation of how good their hardware is.

I miss this style of computer journalism. Also, good keyboards on laptops and Gary Kildall.

I am watching this video in bed on my cellular phone.

@idlehour

3 жыл бұрын

A phone with more capability than the first air craft sent into space

@ChristopherGray00

3 ай бұрын

@@idlehour people say that for dramatic effect but it doesn't mean much, back in the apollo 11 days computers were extremely crude and rudementary, a 386 in the 80s is around ~200+ times faster, so that's not impressive at all really. what is more impressive is when you compare early 90s 486 chips to modern phones today, because at that point in the 90s we had a pretty good idea of chip design and it was no longer a brand new concept, yet we have evolved so astoundingly far from even that stage.

@Rickt2445

2 ай бұрын

Hello from 2024

"I think we'd all like a 20MB hard disk! haha". Wow.

@jesuszamora6949

8 жыл бұрын

+Saerek You gotta admit, it seems absolutely quaint now. I don't think I had half of that on my Tandy back then.

@ElderBard00

4 жыл бұрын

32MB of RAM was the bomb at some point 😅

@yovtobe

3 жыл бұрын

@@ElderBard00 Oh it certainly was. Like back when starcraft came out -it needed 16mb of ram (and our pc had only a 486/66 with 8mb - which was excellent in 1992 - but not so much by the win95 era ).

@ElderBard00

3 жыл бұрын

@@yovtobe ohh man. The good old days. Gonna nostalgic for bit now. StarCraft was a huge deal for me back then.

@Chevroletcelebrity

2 ай бұрын

when I had my old 286 deskpro with dual 360k disk drives any sized hard drive would've been nice.

And as we laugh now on our grandpas' 30 year old technology, same way our grandkids will laugh on our iMac 5K after 30 years...

Portable Computers in the 1980s were designed to be a supplement to the use of an office computer, but now in the 2020s a Portable Computer is now an alternative to an office computer instead. However I still enjoy watching these The Computer Chronicles episodes.

It's amazing how far technology went, I am watching this video with the latest i7 processor 16 GB ram etc etc. and 40 years from now my comp will be obsolete and kids will laugh at me for being low tech.

@raven4k998

3 жыл бұрын

this guy said he found a way to run his old computers 10 times faster using a usb stick odds are he just wants your money

@bikespj22

2 жыл бұрын

"You mean you have to use your hands, that's like a babys toy"

@marckferrari

Жыл бұрын

@@raven4k998 correct if he's got the right Linux distro on it

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

@@marckferrari oh he's got the right one he looks like a pro who knows what he wants and needs

@davidt8087

10 ай бұрын

I don't think today's computers will be low tech 20 years from now. Unless ppl move to having star trek holpdecks in their rooms, we will still be watching youtube except everyone will be watching in 4k. 8k Will still only have 10-20% support even 20 years from now. And increasing speeds won't make a difference either way. We are already peaking hard. Higher resolution screens or videos for example are pointless as the difference between 4k and 8k to our eyes won't really be much anyway. So things will remain static. Everything in life is like this. Eventually a peak is reached and it remains that way for a long time

they would shit bricks if you went back in time and gave them a ipad

"...our new product 'grunt' our cellular telephone." 5:24

Please Stewart bring back the Computer Chronicles again, if only for one last episode 😢

Damn remember as a kid salivating over that Tandy at the radio shack at the Mall of the Bluffs in Council Bluffs IA back in the good ol days

Love the 3:30 mark when the guy sits down at the customer's desk and busts out the computer... and disk drive... and printer... :-) These shows are amazing - thanks so much for keeping them available!

@arnolduk123

9 ай бұрын

LOL...they don't show the floppy read errors either. That guy is really sitting down trying to convince his client that it should read the disk on the 10th attempt..LOL...his client is begging him to turn off his portable office! cause his electric bill last week had doubled..LOL..This guy is smart, using his client's offices as his own office to save on rent and utility bills..LOL

I wonder how things will change in the next 30 years from now. Pretty incredible. I love watching these videos every now and then.

@interlace84

Жыл бұрын

25 more to go! Its 2023, the PSVR2 just launched and youtube has some new emoji

@ChatGPT1111

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, this didn't age well. Only 20% in and we're fully across the dystopia threshold.

@arnolduk123

9 ай бұрын

I guess everyone will be poking tablet screens and won't have a clue what a keyboard and mouse is.

@DanzRdy

9 ай бұрын

I don’t think you’ll like what’s coming in 30 years, ie. Complete AI takeover of 80% of jobs, AI bots everywhere with inability to distinguish humans vs bots at least on the surface, programmable matter (6/7G), pre-crime curves based off of AI brain interface via devices we carry or other medium, need I go further?

@arnolduk123

8 ай бұрын

@@DanzRdy Don't forget more youtube cat videos. AI will always be dumb so don't worry too much :)

I used to record this show on my VCR and then watch it when I got home from work. Great times!

@interlace84

Жыл бұрын

Raise your hand if you ever tried and: A) The channel's schedule you had at home in hardcopy and marked with highlighters got changed B) There was a power failure while you were at work, resetting your VCR with its clock blinking 00:00 C) The VCR ate the tape D) You forgot to rewind

5:41 What are you gonna do with that thing? Call in an airstrike?

@jcp012000

6 жыл бұрын

Man that was great haha!!

My first computer did not even have a HDD, all the data was stored on a cassette tape, a floppy for smaller files, it had a 1.023 MHz processor, and a whopping 64 Kb of RAM a 20 kb ROM that stored the Operating System. Second computer had no HDD 2 floppy drives, cassette reader, 512 kb RAM, don't know the ROM size for the Operating System, and still a 1.023 MHz Processor it is just amazing how far we have come BTW both those computers are more powerful than the computers used to go to the moon

No wonder why 80s people were so in shape. Those laptops were as heavy as barbell plates.

@looneyburgmusic

2 жыл бұрын

For LAN parties I used to have a desktop computer/monitor that I "converted" to be "portable" - drilled some holes into the top of the cases and mounted handles ;-)

Back in the days when computers were such specialty business tools.... so bizarre where we are now by comparison XD

Amazing how technology has progressed the past 26 years.

@ChatGPT1111

10 ай бұрын

Amazing how everything else has REGRESSED in the past 9 years.

I really like the main host. It's also interesting to see this tech talked about as cutting edge, it helps show the ideas behind our current tech and philosophy's of the company's that make them.

@HappyBeezerStudios

5 ай бұрын

Stewart Cheifet has a degree in mathematics and psychology and Gary Kildall programmed CP/M (which was copied to make MS-DOS) and GEM (a graphical interface for DOS years before Windows)

I have one of those Tandy laptops. Still works perfectly.

@MrNamegame

9 жыл бұрын

Cool! Hoping it stays healthy for many more years past it's current age.

That last Toshiba guy sunk like the titanic, poor lad. Basically sold them on the zenith.

OMG!, I cracked myself up at 5:36 when he was talking about connection to a Cell phone, so I picture a regular cellphone and then he brings this humongous brick.. I was like "WTF!! is thaT! " haha Gosh! Cell Phones were bigger than actual computers!

@loafofbread-theoriginal8369

9 жыл бұрын

i think that cellphone was bigger than their portable computers ALREADY haha

@LordHorst

2 жыл бұрын

Right now, we are on the way back to those clunky cell phones. For years they have gotten smaller and smaller, and now it's the other direction. Smartphone, Tablet, "Phablet" (which apparently "fills the gap between smartphone and tablet"?).

@marckferrari

Жыл бұрын

Often they were bound to a car and usually called "car phones." My dad has one in the early 90s

@JanuszKrysztofiak

Жыл бұрын

Not only were they bulky, they were analog, not digital.

I like this old recordings, according to this today actual Aps. This was a lot of ground-digging for today soft, never forgot this :)

RIP Gary Kildall

Oh man I laughed when he pulled out the cell phone at 5:38

winchester disks, a common name used for the old magnetic storage disks on old IBM mainframes. the disk was basically one sealed unit which allowed for greater speeds.

Amazing how far we have come!

I remember these days everyone was so giddy at this new personal computer thing, then 1990 boom! the Internet and then about three or four years later boom! the Web browser. The closest thing today seems to be 3D printers.

@Kashaku3

9 жыл бұрын

and now virtual reality

@hallerd

9 жыл бұрын

Kashaku3 and now bitcoin - $1 *****

@dg-hughes

9 жыл бұрын

***** Geez you're giving out money? I'll take whatever you are giving out Bitcoin Dogecoin Litecoin lol

@hallerd

9 жыл бұрын

David Hughes $1 *****

@Kashaku3

9 жыл бұрын

ungratefulmetalpansy yeah but it was shit. now its actually promising.

The look on the Apple guys face when he thought he'd just busted the prototype :)

That laptop is bigger then my desk top.

@ens8502

Жыл бұрын

Dont be so smart mouth, you had to wait for it 25 years

8 Hour off batery life..most new laptops in 2016 can only dream about it

It's just amazing that this wasn't all that long ago . . .

I miss Tandy. The days I used to actually go to radio shack. But then again I like the convenience of shopping online and getting huge deals on cables and accessories. 8 dollars for a USB to micro USB cable on Amazon, vs 35 dollars at radio shack. Yeah...

@HappyBeezerStudios

5 ай бұрын

Think I bought three of these cables for 4.99 in a local grocery stores a couple years back

Portable computing: it'll never take off.

Little did they know that one's phone would have more power than what they were holding :P

@yellowblanka6058

4 жыл бұрын

Nor that people would use all that computing power to post insipid photos of every aspect of their day/every thought that pops into their head on Instagram/Facebook etc.

@oldtwinsna8347

3 жыл бұрын

Heck, this was 1987 and so the Cray Y-MP supercomputer was still a year away, to be the fastest in the world, and now your typical low-end phone surpasses that.

i like when he's talking and it just says "chronic" behind him

I have that zenith!!! Its sitting only 10 feet from me right now! Still works too.

Just imagine you're watching this on your phone 🤳

Great upload. We've come so far.

He's so right. We would all love to have a 20mb hard disk. Ah, someday...

We have a laptop like the one he had on his lap at the start, in the safe at work. Its an old Amstrad and still works.

people!! Every time you turn on your phone, laptop, PC... is these guys to thank them

As late as 1996 I was still using a dial-up connection. I later got a shotgun modem that needed 2 telephone lines to work. I would then get a combined connection of around 1mb or thereabouts using both modems. I think I was using a Micron 386 computer at the time.

@davidt8087

10 ай бұрын

1megabjt or 1 megabyte per second in 1996? 1 megabyte/s in 1996 is like fkn 10gigaBYTE per second today. What kind of modem was this? Surely it didn't use ethernet? In 2004 or so we had like 320kbytes per second. And that was fast. How did you get 1 megabytes per second in 96? I don't believe you? Most people had 56k even in 2005

@HappyBeezerStudios

5 ай бұрын

@@davidt8087 I remember some people linking their ISDN lines to get blistering 128 kbit at the cost of not being able to recieve calls simultaneously.

@oldtwinsna8347

2 ай бұрын

@@davidt8087 Dual bonded modems only got you 56kbps*2 theoretical. 1996 cable modems were available and got about 1-3 mbps normally.

That popup floppy disk got me, I want one

Thank you

I have that Zenith 181 :) QC

This is one of the episodes I wish they could go back and do a follow-up TCC for, just to see how the things being said so long ago held up against what we have today...

5:45. That cell phone had me laughing out loud.

@Ridley369

5 жыл бұрын

Why?

that first potable computer they shown is like the first ever tablet computer even if it wasnt touch screen and had real keys.

"i think we'd all like to have a 20MB hard disk." wow times have changed XDXD

@KAILOONE

9 жыл бұрын

right now we all would like 2 tb hard disk but 15 years from now people will want 100000tb hard disks xd

@TheChrimboEffect

9 жыл бұрын

***** brontobytes is where its at bro

@wizzardoo6228

9 жыл бұрын

***** How do you know?

@ens8502

Жыл бұрын

Its still ok for most people on this planet

i love these computers they are super fast i am currently using one right now

@bendixey961

8 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right these computers are fantastic

@mkzsdfjgf

8 жыл бұрын

+Ben Dixey who needs a battery when you have a mains lead

@bendixey961

8 жыл бұрын

+chris ingram exactly mate you can even use a cigarette charger in your car my mind has been blown away

@mkzsdfjgf

8 жыл бұрын

+Ben Dixey and don't forget that crystal clear display

@bendixey961

8 жыл бұрын

+chris ingram how could I ever forget that I'm predicting a major step forward in technology soon everyone will be using 3.5 inch floppy disks

too bad we can't go back in time. I'll luv to see their faces when they see our latest laptops. Although, back then, it seems such exciting time for laptop and pc lovers. i luv this shows!

" I think we'd all love to have a 20 Megabyte Hard Disc"... Oh if they could only see where we are now. My retina macbook pro, thin as can be with 16 Gigabytes of RAM, 4 cores, a dedicated video card, and a 1 Terabyte SSD. I can only imagine what it will be like 20 years from now!

@DeusGladiorum

9 жыл бұрын

It's been closer to 30 years since this aired.

@cybernaab

9 жыл бұрын

I hope that Apple will finally be gone over 20 years. May sound harsh or however you magically spell bind that, but i think that they might get to much power and we all know what happens next, things like exclusive content , maybe even mp6000 audio file that have a key with it that only you can use on your mediaplayer/computer/phone/account once or twice before your license needs a upgrade that maybe cost$ so you can still listen to the music after to much copys to different devices that are not apple ;) Ah dont listen to me that will never happen. Just like we dont have dlc that cost $ while most of it should be free. All humans are fair beings full with love and wil never do such bad things! TUM TUUM TUUUUUUUUUUMMMM! (XD)

@cybernaab

9 жыл бұрын

***** Kodak,Steam,and for computer hardware i hope Trust will be gone

Man I would love to get a hold of one of those cellular telephones briefcases. I’d be set with my business needs.

That electronic mail seems like a nifty idea!

Best comb over ever.

"As Easy As 123..." word processing. I remember that!

And here I am complaining about my i3.

"The cellular telephone" .

Loving the mobile phone. Amazing to think how incredibly powerful my HTC One is compared to that.

Watching this particular episode on my iPhone is hilarious.

@michaelcorcoran8768

Жыл бұрын

The iPhone wouldn't exist if it wasn't for these companies and their innovation.

I like how they aren't called laptops yet.

Amazing how the smartphone you may be using to watch this video has a better display than any portable back then.

@marckferrari

Жыл бұрын

Better than .. anything back then!

We want the show back

Count (male) or countess (female) is a title in European countries for a noble of varying status, but historically deemed to convey an approximate rank intermediate between the highest and lowest titles of nobility.[1] The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes-in its accusative comitem-meaning “companion”, and later “companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor”.

Best part is when he hauls out the cell phone the size of a car battery.

@HappyBeezerStudios

5 ай бұрын

A lot of that is indeed battery.

I got a white CB3-111 chromebook. I am thinking of one day plucking off all of my black chicklet keys and paint the letter keys white or white with a very very soft tint of grey and the other keys such as the enter, back space, shift, ctrl, home, volume keys darker grey but not too dark grey.

@robertnussberger2028

6 жыл бұрын

I had my chromebook for a while. I think I will customize it.

720k floppy disc lol that's less than MOST EMAILS! =D of today amazing :)

But how advanced! I wonder how the computers of the future will be like.

@arnolduk123

9 ай бұрын

You've just seen them, that was the future.

Holy crap a 40mb hard drive damn would take me decade to fill that.

If we went back in time, most of us won't be able to buy this sh**! LOL

that was state of the art at that time.

When he whips out the cell phone 🤣🤣🤣

“Laptop portables” Glad we dropped the long name on these :p

Excuse me can I come over 4 hours early to setup for our meeting 😂😂 hey I’m old and remember these

Replace desktop machines. That has happen for a lot of us now. My main computer is a gaming laptop.

7.30 - "I think we would all like to have a 20mb hard disk"- wow, how times have changed.

Imagine walking onto that set with a Mac Book! Or handing Garry a smartphone!

@Blackadder75

4 жыл бұрын

or a $35 raspberry pi that can do about the same as that $1000 macbook

"... he told me about a concept called 'jerk and run' ..."

i enjoy the series!

728MB floppy disks? His mind would be blown of he knew we would use double sided floppy disks that fit 1.44MB

Watching this on a macbook air is hillarious. These laptops are as thin as a desktop.

That's one hell of a "cellular-telephone" even for 1987 that's big.

It was running weekly from 1981 to 2002

3.5 inch will never replace the tried and trusted GODLY 5 in drives

True. Although online usually meant connecting to a very VERY SMALL network of computers (Usually a BBS, or maybe even just someone else's single computer), and not the World Wide Web network we have today.

"Using a pen to compute, what is this wizardry?" I speculate as I watch this on an iPad...

out of the three "eras" this program covered, I prefer the 80's. It is simply fascinating to see how far we've come and what was regarded as "high tech" back then. I wish it had never ended :(