Features a clock and a calculator. Breathtaking.

@LockeLeon

4 жыл бұрын

You are breathtaking

@lingonberriesofwrath1836

4 жыл бұрын

What about that awesome autoexec.bat file?

@lingonberriesofwrath1836

4 жыл бұрын

@bayj0nes I bet you're that kind of guy who makes people laugh at parties, but you don't understand why, cause you didn't make a joke.

@sideparting6845

4 жыл бұрын

But the iPad doesn't come with a calculator! "Progress"

@DansModelBench

4 жыл бұрын

The Amiga clock was better. ;)

I think it's hilarious that Microsoft and Apple fought over who "owns" the GUI considering they both stole the concept from Xerox PARC.

@mstcrow5429

8 жыл бұрын

+marktrade88 Xerox sued Apple for infringement. And exclusive access does not imply exclusive licensing.

@mstcrow5429

8 жыл бұрын

+marktrade88 Yes, it was, but Xerox didn't seem to think Apple had dibs is what I was pointing out. And a guided tour for Jobs and co isn't a firm basis for much of anything.

@m9078jk3

8 жыл бұрын

+Gavin Snyder Yet Xerox PARC stole the GUI concept from Douglas Englebart at the ARC at SRI whom publicly demonstrated it in the year 1968 (termed the Mother of All Demos)

@kirishima638

8 жыл бұрын

+Gavin Snyder Apple licensed the concept from Xerox exclusively, Microsoft flat out stole it. It's that simple.

@Wizardofgosz

8 жыл бұрын

+Kiyoshi Kirishima would love to see proof of that!

Nothing pings my nostalgia like an old episode of Computer Chronicles. I used to watch on PBS every week as a kid, dreaming about all the computer stuff that I'd never be able to afford.

@royh4305

4 жыл бұрын

F**k yeah!

@mikeysaint4368

4 жыл бұрын

For some people nostalgia can be triggered by a great piece of music, finding a photograph at the bottom of a drawer, a visit to an old haunt, bumping into an old friend, or catching a whiff of a long forgotten scent. For others, it's Computer Chronicles.

@meatpietaster7768

3 жыл бұрын

Never had this program in UK, but had similar, and similarly had no way of affording the featured tech. Oh, for a SGI Onyx2 :-)

@Finallybianca

3 жыл бұрын

Nearly forty years later checks ebay and still cannot afford it.

@jgassman

3 жыл бұрын

IT was the only place where you could see the super expensive Macs - like the Lisa - some $8,000 computer I'd never see in real life

Thirty years later and still nobody wants to hear about powerpoint.

@otto16121970

4 жыл бұрын

Powerpoint make me sleepy...

@dha12oks

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, unfortunately I've got no choice but to use this at work sometimes...

@parishna4882

4 жыл бұрын

@@otto16121970 ur not sposed to stick forks in it.

@halffulltome

4 жыл бұрын

PowerPoint 👉 PowerPoint 👈 PowerPoint 👉

@parishna4882

4 жыл бұрын

@@halffulltome White PowerPoint, wh... Oh dear, I've stepped over the mark... *hides font, hood and flamable keyboard cross emoji* It was a bug, I swear.. Oo

Gary Kildall was an absolute genius who was never fully appreciated nor compensated for his contributions to modern computing.

@NathanChisholm041

5 жыл бұрын

@deckard163 No she's spot on That's what happened!!

@NathanChisholm041

5 жыл бұрын

@deckard163 So you saying that he was never in a bar fight even though there was multiple witnesses kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXh9rY98Zsetm9Y.html

@NathanChisholm041

5 жыл бұрын

@deckard163 Nah sounds like bullshit! And who are you? Where's your irafutable proof? Sounds like some wacko conspiracy theory!! If you spoke with some decency I'd probably look it to it but after you fucking insults like can you read? You sound ignorant ect I've got no time for your ramble....

@tack3132

5 жыл бұрын

@deckard163 Do you have firsthand accounts of these so-called facts? Because they do sound like the drivel from a mad conspiracy believing person...

@tack3132

5 жыл бұрын

Besides, Kelly's accounts are what I have read and heard too...

One one hand its hard to believe that this was all as recent as 1990 and on the other hand even harder to believe that 1990 is nearly 30 years ago!! I'm so old!!

@TheElcentralen

3 жыл бұрын

for me the 2004 is a year i feel like its not long ago. only 16 years, but writing on a z fold its impressive how fast the mobile tech has moved. hand held has evolved to impressive levels. i like to try battery performance on my devices. and it has gone from hours of waiting for the charging to finish. to wait hours for the battery to run out, only to fast charge test it for a short 55min.

@GenOner

3 жыл бұрын

on a third hand (bad joke) we are closer to 2050 than 1990 so let that sink in ...

@theoneand0nly874

3 жыл бұрын

U Old fart

@natetheshocker7547

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same weird feeling. Where did the time go?

@Rickt2445

3 ай бұрын

Coming to you from 2024

I was born in 1973 and I feel blessed to have been alive during this era of computing. Knowing a world before computers and the internet hit the consumer market and seeing how pervasive the technology has become is just mind boggling. Starting with my Commodore 64 in the 80s using dialup modems to connect to BBSs and upgrading to my first PC in 1994 with my gateway 486 dx2-66v tower - wow what a ride! I spent so much time reading magazines like Byte, Compute!, PC World… we were all just trying to keep pace and figure it all out!

@thomasanderson1416

7 ай бұрын

It's a shame that a magazine such as Byte is no more.

@vicheakeng4884

2 ай бұрын

🎉 0:45 ACK

@vicheakeng4884

2 ай бұрын

0:12

@TheShepp63

2 ай бұрын

I was born in 1963 and remember when the 1st pocket sized transistor radio was introduced. In 1982 I graduated from high school and home computers were just getting started with the Apple 2C and the Radio Shack TRS-80. No such thing as windows quite yet, everything was DOS. Wow! what a ride.

@KDubb-ws9zc

Ай бұрын

I was in born in ‘95 so the computer has always been in the home in my lifetime. Granted early on the reason I used it was to play CD rom games

who else feel the urge to degauss that monitor and re-adjust the skews while watching this?

@peterfireflylund

3 жыл бұрын

The monitor is fine. The problem is the special camera they had for shooting close ups of the monitor -- its optics adjusted for the normal rounded screens of the time, but it adjusted too much. You can easily see the monitor in cuts with people next to it. It looks perfectly normal in those shots. (It gets even better: they used the same "roundness-compensating" camera to shoot close ups of flat LCD screens in some episodes and they had the same "squeezed sides" look.) TLDR: Shoddy camera work, the monitor was fine.

@mjspitz

3 жыл бұрын

booOONNNNNG click!

@incumbentvinyl9291

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterfireflylund LCD? Good joke. These are CRT monitors, LCD became mainstream far, far later in the 2000s. In fact they weren't even that common 20 years ago but slowly caught on that decade.

@AshBashVids

2 жыл бұрын

@@incumbentvinyl9291 They obviously meant the later episodes. The show went on until 2002.

@Texaca

2 жыл бұрын

... 🤣🤣🤣 you have to be a tech.

I love the presenter's delivery... No "uuuuums", no smacking between sentences, no vocal fry... true professional.

@someonesomebody5287

7 жыл бұрын

Unlike the software…

@jakubsedlak2173

7 жыл бұрын

???What?

@mrrafalb1776

7 жыл бұрын

The presenter may be a true professional, unlike the software.

@jakubsedlak2173

7 жыл бұрын

Seriously:D You gonna beat a horse that's been dead for almost 30 years?:D

@mrrafalb1776

7 жыл бұрын

Wow. It was already "professional" that long ago?

I remember Windows 3.0 and 3.1. My God, I am old...

@angusmeigh5141

3 жыл бұрын

@@pabloherrera7210 So what I can remember all the way back to the late 1970s when the first personal computers came out which had no hard drive and when programmes had to loaded by a tape cassette on a tape recorded plugged into the computer. And when floppy disk drives were considered an expensive luxury! And when computer monitors could only display green or white text on a black background! Personal computers have come a very long way since then! I am almost 54!

@YagiChanDan

3 жыл бұрын

I remember as a grade 10 student in the UK, setting up 19 386SX 25MHz desktops that my school had just bought, but had no staff to set them up. They shipped with DOS 6, and I was fucked if I was teaching the IT teacher how that worked. Got my dad to copy a set of Windows 3.11 disks from work (Digital Computers). Christ, imagine if he lumbered me with a moody copy of VMS? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Still, once the routine was in place, I managed it all in a lunch break and free study period.

@juliusfucik4011

3 жыл бұрын

My first OS with with a GUI was Amiga Workbench 😎

@the_kombinator

3 жыл бұрын

I JUST used Windows 3.11 (on a real 486) to play Stunts with my kid and show him the magic of MSPAINT.

@jcramond73

3 жыл бұрын

I hear you mate, damn has it been that long?!

Whatever it is its all memories now 33 years back ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

The days when as a young boy I drooled over this stuff. The excitement of fast advancements in computing is gone now.

@JustinK0

Жыл бұрын

yea the 90s was definitely the best era for technology. shame i only remember the mid/late 90s being born in 1991

@ForTheOmnissiah

11 ай бұрын

Now we get to look forward to the insane advancements in software, where AI is getting smarter every day and we don't fully understand what we're creating.

@BryonLetterman

11 ай бұрын

I think it's still exciting. It's just that computers today are already fast so the advancements aren't always so easy to immediately notice

@Iceman12388888888

2 ай бұрын

Hey, it’s the future, you spoke too soon

@blackneos940

2 ай бұрын

Hey, it's 2038, you spoke too late. My 32-Bit CPU burst into flames.

Thank you for the recommendation KZread.

As someone born in 1970, it’s amazing how much tech advancement has happened in my lifetime. Kids today can’t begin to appreciate what we have as I see them freak out when the wifi has issues for 10 mins.

@arokh72

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1972, so I'm with you here. I remember being excited at moving off DOS onto Win 3.1, having my first HDD, etc.

@fogartym77

3 жыл бұрын

10 mins? More like 10 seconds in my house. Ahh, to be back in my old bedroom long ago with my Texas TI-99/4a....

@alb12345672

3 жыл бұрын

@@arokh72 71 here, the storage on modern PCs still amazes me, and I develop complex software. I don't take it for granted. I always think of my Timex computer with 1k ram!

@incyphe

3 жыл бұрын

@@arokh72 I don't miss paying $4000 (in 80s money) for a personal computer though. lol

@johnwilson3918

3 жыл бұрын

Awww, you're just a wee baby, zalllon. I remember our computers had Hex keyboards made from broken glass. We had to type in commands with our tongues for 20 hours just to calculate the sum of two binary bits (and without a carry overflow). You try telling the young people of today that, and they won't believe you. No!

So weird, Xerox came up with the whole idea of the GUI and already had it realized and functioning and Steve Jobs went there and they just gave it to him. The software and computer people at Xerox told the management "Do not give them this" but management saw no value in the early 70's for 'personal computer' anything and they gave it all away.

No starting sentences off with "So." No "Uptalking." No statements that sound like questions.

WYSIWYG, damn long time since I heard that term. Means "what you see is what you get" for all you young folks.

@shotgunmouse2161

4 жыл бұрын

This is still a fairly common term in web design, mainly in terms of content editors such as TinyMCE.

@thefonzkiss

4 жыл бұрын

It’s in use for modern web design constantly.

@parishna4882

4 жыл бұрын

remember when there was such a thing as a wysiwyg web designer. now you need to know how to code css and all manner of pompous shite.. I still use notepad.

@jestewart2009

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that term back in the day of using lotus...

@flybeep1661

4 жыл бұрын

@@thefonzkiss Yeah, but only in a niche sense.

It's fun hearing Gary Kildall try to say "MS-DOS" without vomiting.

Gary's question about development was so on point. It was right around this point (1990) that everything shifted from "Wow! I can write my own programs?" to "We'll do it for you."

@TomiTapio

8 ай бұрын

"we have the database component and GUI stuff already programmed; you'll have to code the rest, the business logic"

I have this fantasy of going back to the 80s and living that era all over again. I have even considered using a virtual machine as my daily PC, install DOS 3.0 and Windows 1 and start advancing into the future all over again at a 1:1 pace.

@magesalmanac6424

11 ай бұрын

That sounds really cool! If that was a show I’d watch it

@JTMarlin8

10 ай бұрын

It's pretty painful. Nostalgia isn't just about things that existed/happened back then, but also about the way you felt. The latter can't be recreated. It's pretty hard to stare at a 640x480 screen these days. Back then it was the best of the best. Color? Hell yea.

@melbar

9 ай бұрын

​@@JTMarlin8you have to use a 14" CRT monitor, then 640x480 looks about right

I feel super old now that I remember watching this on PBS as a kid.

@megabojan1993

8 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Whyte I feel young. I was just 3 years old when this show was broadcasted :)

@Baka_Oppai

4 жыл бұрын

I was 2nd year highschool when this aired

@NWO41508

4 жыл бұрын

Feel glad, some people don’t make it far

@1911Savage

4 жыл бұрын

I remember watching it when I was in my thirties.

@BigDogCountry

4 жыл бұрын

try watching this at 26.

What really strikes me watching this, is that we are still pretty much using the same innovations and concepts made back then

@wb6162

4 жыл бұрын

I watched the roll out of the first Iphone and was shocked at how many features it had in 2007, pretty much all we have today.

The Intel 386 processor was the key to making Windows actual functional. The 8086/8 had limited memory and no protected mode. The 80286 could not (easily) switch between real and protected mode. The 386 and later brought about virtual 86 mode, seamless transitions from real to protected mode, virtual memory management, all essential to making Windows work the way it was envisioned.

@OpenGL4ever

Жыл бұрын

To some extend this is true. But the major trick that came with Windows 3.0 was the capability to switch the CPU into Protected Mode and when exiting back to DOS it switched the CPU back to Real mode on a 286 CPU. Windows 3.0 ran in protected mode on a 286 CPU and you didn't have to reset the computer, when exiting back to DOS. This was a big thing at that time.

@steeviebops

6 ай бұрын

@@OpenGL4ever Windows 3.0 exploited a triple fault glitch to reset the 286 CPU into real mode. But since the 286 CPU lacked the V86 mode, DOS applications couldn't run alongside Windows ones and vice versa. You could Alt+Tab out of a DOS application in Windows but it would be effectively frozen in the background until you went back to it.

@OpenGL4ever

6 ай бұрын

@@steeviebops I know that.

Wow. At 1:50 Gary mentioned DR-DOS, which was way ahead of MS-dos at the time. I can remember working with it - it was so powerful. It should have won the race in the desktop PC market. Unfortunately, not always the best product gets the largest market share.

@OpenGL4ever

Жыл бұрын

Gary didn't loose the race because of DOS. He lost it because of Windows 3.0 and later. DR-DOS could replace MS-DOS, but it couldn't replace the Windows GUI. And when Windows 95 came out, no one needed another DOS version anymore. Even MS-DOS 6.0 was already good enough to replace DR-DOS.

@prezidenttrump5171

11 ай бұрын

You sound like one of the retards who uses linux and thinks it's better for the general user over Windows.

@Lofote

11 ай бұрын

Can you explain where the DR DOS version was better than MS DOS? I always wondered that.

@Thisandthat8908

11 ай бұрын

@@Lofote or if that is maybe a VHS vs. Beta thign where Beta was only better in some rose tinted rear mirrors but it became kind of a famous myth.. Also what i see of it's gui here looks like a ripped off Amiga OS from 3 years earlier.

@Lofote

11 ай бұрын

@@Thisandthat8908 Possibly. But in the example Beta vs VHS there were technical facts, if I remember correctly Beta had 20% more tape space to physically add more information to it. Whether you saw the difference then of course is step 2, which is subjective. I would be interested, are there also technical reasons (step 1) where DR DOS was technically better than MS DOS, regardless whether many noticed it in practise :).

10:41 - ".. You're not really running MS-DOS underneath it then, huh?" Gary's question, his correction to the question and then Margret's stunned face and the evasive answer that follows - this moment is priceless. I still can't figure out if he knew what he was doing or if it was truly an innocent question. Either way this is hilarious. Probably the best moment of this show ever.

@mvl71

8 жыл бұрын

Omer Agmon Of course he knew. First; you have to start Windows 3.0 from the DOS prompt. Second; he is (or was) Gary Kildall. He knew his stuff. Why MS always had shady answers, or downright lies, to the question if Windows is an OS or an advanced kind of shell for DOS is a mystery to me, though...

@OmerAgmon

8 жыл бұрын

At some stage they (MS) probably thought that hiding this could translate to money. I remember huge buzz around this issue at the time.

@Psychlist1972

8 жыл бұрын

Omer Agmon She actually answered the question correctly if you listen to it, and she didn't look so much stunned as leaning in to understand the question. DOS wasn't "underneath" the 386 enhanced mode applications as I recall. Granted, it's been a number of decades since I ran Windows 3. That's quite different from how Windows 1 and 2 worked. In context, there was nothing evasive here IMO.

@metafis2490

7 жыл бұрын

Her Sean Murray moment. ;)

@richardsequeirateixeira

6 ай бұрын

@@mvl71Microsoft was very transparent with telling people that Windows 1.x to Windows 3.x was an Operating Environment. At this time Microsoft had two OSes for the IBM PC, MS-DOS and MS OS/2

My God I used to watch this show as a kid.

I remember this computer environment like it was yesterday. Man, have we come a long way baby!

@drewsata

3 жыл бұрын

*idk man things were more simple back then*

I am just rolling in the nostalgia right now. 3.0 was my first Windows. I remember upgrading to 3.1 and thinking, "I don't know what workgroups are, but I got a free upgrade, so..." 😂 Surf Wisely.

Interesting how they laughed when she changed to the 9ers desktop background and they said: "..and you'd use that in work". Perceptions completely changed today.

Gary Kildall presenting a Microsoft product without getting furious ? Woah, that's professionalism and self control ! RIP Gary. BTW, watching this on Windows 10 and Edge. a video about the first Windows I used...

@megabojan1993

8 жыл бұрын

+Yassine Saïdi Yeah, and he's even smiling and looking happy while doing that. He was truly a remarkable person. Too bad he left us so early, and he didn't get the credit he deserved.

@doalwa

8 жыл бұрын

+MegaBojan1993 Gary Kildall always came across as an awesome human being. To be honest, I watch these old clips mainly because of him, a truly inspiring person!

@megabojan1993

8 жыл бұрын

doalwa People like him are very rare nowadays :( We need more people like him.

@JeffDeWitt

8 жыл бұрын

+MegaBojan1993 Agreed. He was one of the geniuses who helped make the computer world what it is today.

@LukeBarroso

8 жыл бұрын

sure he did corduroy @10:50 when he was discussing the modes for Windows 3.0 the virutial86 virtualisation was first with cp/m mp/m and digital dos

Now 33 years ago, I still come back from time to time to rewatch these Computer Chronicles. So glad they are available to do so.

I can't consider it nostalgia (because I wasn't born yet) but I love the aesthetic of old tech.

What a blast from the past! You gotta love that 640x480 desktop resolution!

what is most incredible that after 30 years the basic UI Elements still are the same. the directory, the file hierachy, the dragging via top of a window. everything is literally the same in windows 11/macOC/Ubuntu

Maria Gabriel with the Random Access File had me at "However the scripting - or programming - mode of Hypercard II will have to be turned on by the user by removing an opaque button over the scripting choices on the home stack." I'm in love.

I was born in almost 1980. I miss 5.25 diskettes . I love Ms-dos , love old graphic style.

2:20 c: drive still with us after all these years.

@dvamateur

9 жыл бұрын

That's only in Microsoft systems.

@syn010110

9 жыл бұрын

What c: drive? I only see /dev/sda!

@UmVtCg

9 жыл бұрын

Andrew Piatek yeah, most of them still are

@dvamateur

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's precisely why I lost interest in computers since Window 95 came about. The interface aesthetics are annoying, to say the least. Ruined computers as a hobby for me. Recently I got Atari ST system, so I am slowly getting interest back. But Microsoft product? Total cheeseball.

@cpufreak101

9 жыл бұрын

yea i dont see c drive dying out until "self storage" is 100% removed, so everything would be network boot ndall files will be stored on cloud servers, this really wont happen until global internet speeds are at least 10 times what they are now plus SSD's reaching our current HDD prices, but its already happening with the chromebook with a tiny hard drive just to hold the OS and small programs, other than that it is all in the cloud, but its used mainly for documents, but the start is already here...

@9:32 remember the Hot Dog Stand color scheme?

Discovering this channel and Motorweek's Retro Reviews has put me in nostalgia heaven.

This is great all the way through. History right here folks. And, I get historical sticker shock listening to the pricing on that new printer! It's only $1200. And, if you want more than the base 4 fonts, buy the 6 font upgrade pack for an extra $400. We thought this was NORMAL back in the day.

This program is pretty entertaining to watch if you know the cast of characters involved and their history. Gary Kildall, the blond dude raking the MS guys over the coals is a case in point. He is the creator of CP/M, the system that MS-DOS is essentially a copy of. 6:25 begins the fun.

@peterkatsoulotos7709

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info, it's like a real life Halt and Catch fire series. I would watch that if they'd make one based on real events.

@parishna4882

4 жыл бұрын

He'll KILL DEM ALL... I bet... i don't trust him. he's not happy with the precursor to visual basic. He wants to know too many things.

@user-lk7cv8vg7r

4 жыл бұрын

Gary Kildall also was apparently ridiculously difficult to work with. Constantly no showing with meetings, with his wife constantly having to pick up his slack. Being exceptionally difficult and unprofessional with IBM employees. Refused a licensing deal with them, wanting IBM to pay almost retail for each copy of CP/M, which was the main reason why they went with MS-DOS, a far weaker and less powerful piece of software. CP/M was almost a predecessor for NT, ten years before NT was released. Proving once again, good ideas don't beat market economics and a bad attitude.

@h.a.6790

3 жыл бұрын

Невада большевик Gary is a tech person far ahead of his peers. People like him tend to be anti social, its not a weird behavior.

@JaredConnell

3 жыл бұрын

I think Gary was actually pretty professional in this episode. While I'm sure he wanted to let loose and talk some shit he was pretty reserved and let them do their presentation.

That's hilarious that even in this 1990 segment, they end with a cautionary look at what the FBI is actually doing online and whether it is snooping too much. A Trojan Horse bulletin board! The FBI and NSA have come a long way, baby. Maria Gabriel sure has that ultra-low "serious computer woman" voice, doesn't she.

@Eidelmania

4 жыл бұрын

@Kaneki Ken No

@Blackadder75

4 жыл бұрын

I was always amazed how many women in the USA would work in IT, including in executive positions. In that area they really were a decade or more ahead of europe.

@0raffie0

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eidelmania Yes

@midnightshade32

3 жыл бұрын

@@Blackadder75 but all woman were oppressed and sex slaves to their husband's in that decade., they weren't allowed to work.. Reeeeeeeee. So screatches feminists and cnn. Meanwhile reality is far different. Then again, these women are way more classy and respectable back then. No selfies, no tattoos or Instagram narcissism.

@puppylove3781

11 ай бұрын

"Hack the planet!" LOL! That was about 5 years before it's time with BBSes. More like Robocop/OCP era of computing...

Computer Chronicles was and is still AWESOME!!!

Watching it in 2023. Not only seeing the tech of the golden ages (1990 to 2003 for me) was nostalgic, the 90s fashion was also so cool to see!

Paul Schindler should combine all of his presentations into a list. I'd love to see Schindler's list

@lucius1976

2 жыл бұрын

List of being wrong

@puppylove3781

11 ай бұрын

oY VEY! lol

@straightpipediesel

10 ай бұрын

@@lucius1976 He wasn't wrong here. HP inkjet printers weren't exactly a flop.

And I'm watching this on my tablet. I never used Windows 3.0 but watching this bring nostalgia to my Windows 95 & XP days. Computer tech have come so far!

I actually remember watching this when I was a kid. I was amazed at the time.

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

I have 80 gb of system ram is that enough or do I need more?

The fact that they had machines with

@canalRetro269

8 ай бұрын

And with

@TheJuggtron

3 ай бұрын

The original XT had a 64k option :)

I used to run Geos on my Commodore 128. I later ran Geoworks Ensemble on my 286. It was fast as hell on the 286. But it used file formats that nothing else could read. If it it kept the disk formats open, I bet it would have done better.

@Psychlist1972

8 жыл бұрын

+shomolya Windows 3.0 did multi tasking. I did like GEOS though. I even used their PC version on a 286 I had. Windows 3.x ran like complete crap on that, but GEOS flew. It's too bad their disk and file formats weren't compatible with anything else out there.

@Psychlist1972

8 жыл бұрын

+shomolya We're splitting hairs, but it's a different multi-tasking, not "true" multi-tasking. Cooperative vs. preemptive. But preemptive, for a non-realtime system, is greatly preferred, and what's used by pretty much every consumer US now. So well-written Windows 3 applications *could* run cooperatively, but likely didn't. (I honestly don't recall -- it's been some time).

@briantaylor3031

8 жыл бұрын

+Pete Brown I'm a few months late but it really is interesting how much closed standards in the late 80s and early 90s lead to a lot of software being lost/forgotten and hard to preserve. It's amazing how IBM Compatibles and the modern PC platform evolved from the home computer market in the 80s. I wonder how much Geoworks related code and files are just gone forever, similar to how many legacy systems and programs just can't run forward.

@Psychlist1972

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Taylor so true. It didn't stop there, either. I have 3d graphics/models I designed in a program that's no longer made. I also have 2d graphics in another program that wasn't popular enough to have importers/converters out there. Plus, I have CAD stuff in an early Autodesk product that also has no other converters. So many hours of work that you just can't reasonably get back.

@ChrissehCat

8 жыл бұрын

+Pete Brown My grandpa had a computer running Geos, it's where I got hooked on solitaire! Rather, not saying people who used GEOS are old, he was already considered "old" when he had it... he owned a jewelry store back then, and retired a few years later, which is why I was playing on the computer. :D

I wish I could do the 80's over again. I didn't realize how far ahead I was of most people my age at that time. I took apart and built my own computer and new in the internal architecture very well. If I had gone into Computer Engineering instead of Electrical Technology, I could have worked for Jobs or Gates. So many lost opportunities but hindsight is 20/20. Today I'm a technician with 8 years to retire and still at medium wage. ugh

@puppylove3781

11 ай бұрын

Same.

@simetric6551

7 ай бұрын

Or you could have been an entrepreneur like Michael Dell and have your own business and being a billionaire

I totally take computers for granted these days and use it for my job but it's shocking when I'm reminded that I lived without the PC for the first 20 years of my life. I used to use AutoCad in Windows 3.1 in a previous job in the 90's. It wasn't that stunning graphically but it worked pretty well.

Watching this video made me feel old haha. My father was an early adopter and I remember moving from straight DOS to Windows, it was exciting!

@jdsguam

4 жыл бұрын

Yep - That's how I raised my three sons (80's babies).

33 years later and the terminal is still king.

13:14 - St. Paulie Girl cases holding a shelf holding the monitor....

@AshtonCoolman

7 жыл бұрын

Small-business AF! hahaha

@echopathy

3 жыл бұрын

ftw

I'm glad I started on Windows 95

Would love to see a continuation of this show from 2002 to present day.

@_PatrickO

Жыл бұрын

It would be nothing but subscription business services that milk businesses for high fees or disappear when support is needed. All you need in a business machine is a motherboard with onboard graphics or a cellphone. The software realm is nothing but overpriced subscriptions that businesses use until they realize they should make something in house and get rid of those external costs, like tesla or spacex did with their issue tracking, employee review, email, messaging, public websites, etc. They do it in house to get what they want without perpetual fees.

@ultimatemagic2125

Жыл бұрын

@@_PatrickO You seem fun to be around.

@_PatrickO

Жыл бұрын

@@ultimatemagic2125 Or I am not an idiot who doesn't understand why these shows no longer exist. There are plenty of alternatives on youtube right now that work with the changing times with tech, go watch any of them.

@ultimatemagic2125

Жыл бұрын

@@_PatrickO or, just shut the fuck up and let the other guy wish this show was still around in a modern sense for him to enjoy....it's not hard.

@Imedge6

10 ай бұрын

We do. It's called Linus Tech Tip and Jayz two cent.

This is nuts, this episode came out the day I was born and now I work with computers and it's so different now

Yeah Apple seemed to forget that the Amiga had been using the GUI since 1985. Also, I remember GEOS being out many years before for the C64 as well as many other systems. There's also the Atari ST... many platforms used a GUI, Apple didn't have a hope in hell in winning that lawsuit.

@0raffie0

4 жыл бұрын

As stated in the program, Xerox invented the GUI back in the seventies.

@alb12345672

4 жыл бұрын

@@0raffie0 Imagine the manager that said, ok, dumb idea, this will never catch on :lol:

@infiltr80r

4 жыл бұрын

Apple was a corporate assclown then and same goes for now. They never changed.

@ArtisticallyEligible

4 жыл бұрын

@@infiltr80r it's true.. they're constantly trying to get rid of 3rd party repair and people generally trying to learn about it for their devices. this has been going on for a long time, hence the birth of ifixit (lol). pathetic, really

@infiltr80r

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisticallyEligible Well, it works for them. Average Apple user is a dumbshit and will keep buying their products no matter what they do. So Apple is making the right decision.

These videos make me so happy because I watched this all as a child 4-5-6 years old etc. In the early 90s. Learned a lot that I still use today!

I learned to use 3.0 back in 4th grade. Now as an adult I appreciate how good this was for technology and how lucky I was to experience it back in school!

Gold! It's so good to see this preserved as the computer chronicles is an important part in history. Gary Kildall, deserve more recognition.

Omg imagine 2050 as we watch documentaries from 2020 in our minds, optical fiber cables directly plugged into our brains from quantum computers interacting with our AI assistants.

this is such a fascinating thing to look at. the presentation is so 80s-90s, and them exploring Windows 3.0 is so interesting to listen to. i didn't even know the thing at 11:23 existed, and i was super impressed when i saw that.

I can't wait for this windows 3 to come out. This will finally give me a reason to buy a computer! 😁👍👍

@bach730

3 жыл бұрын

Hold out for 3.11 where the bugs are worked out and networking is available (or so I hear).

@WatDaMattaForYou

3 жыл бұрын

@@bach730 Awww yeah! 😁

My god, I just experienced about 15 minutes of nonstop belly laughs at how straight faced that dude was when he causally suggests to buy 6 fonts for $400 to use on a $1200 printer

@KWatson1984

4 жыл бұрын

Adjust for inflation and laugh some more.

@nickwallette6201

4 жыл бұрын

I always got the feeling that that condescending smile was his way of saying “eat it up you schmucks.” He always recommends everything he reviews, regardless how big the rip-off.

@derekdowns6275

3 жыл бұрын

Marketing pukes. Never could stand the schmucks.

@incumbentvinyl9291

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickwallette6201 He has to.

@therealavolpe

11 ай бұрын

Lol I had to rewind that bit, I was like W,T.F, 400 bucks for 6 additional fonts..?!

You can tell Gary’s started his downward spiral here. He’s a shadow of his former self. This episode must have been tough for him to record. Seeing Microsoft be so successful after they screwed him over twice. I’m not sure if this was before or after the second screw-over. He brought so much to the home computer industry. It’s a shame what happened to him. He deserved better.

@andyhall7032

3 жыл бұрын

yeah the confidence has just gone from his demeanour...it's pretty clear he wants to show DR DOS and wishes to highlight window's lack of built in dev tools but by this stage it was totally over and we all know that from 3.0 onwards ( in particular with 3.11 ) ms just ruled for many many years...

@charlesbaldo

11 ай бұрын

@@andyhall7032 he had sold the company to Novell a year later for $130million. So life wasn’t all that bad. He had the money and clout to keep going.

@JimmyRussle

11 ай бұрын

@@charlesbaldo yeah this talk as if Gary was the 5th Beatle is so dumb. The dude was and is still a legend and he died a very rich man.

@generalshakewell

11 ай бұрын

He screwed himself over by thinking everyone had to wait for him. Not saying its not a shame what happened but he had no one to blame but himself.

@mrkitty777

10 ай бұрын

Bil got tired of Gary and hired hitman 😢

Thanks for posting this. It's great to look back.

Apple would patent the process of breathing if it was allowed to.

@halffulltome

4 жыл бұрын

Zmajcek As if apple is the only corporation that wants to patent stuff and make money...

@TheDa6781

4 жыл бұрын

They wanted to patent a GUI. To this day, they are doing their utmost to milk as much money from their customers as possible.

@halffulltome

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheDa6781 As if every other large corporation doesn't have the exact same goal. Don't be naive.

@TheDa6781

4 жыл бұрын

@@halffulltome most don't go to such extremes

@halffulltome

4 жыл бұрын

Zmajcek Give me an example of what you consider extreme.

At forty seconds in this video Stewart Cheifet states that it's generally acknowledged that it all began here at Xerox Park.While a lot of this may be true,much of the origins took place several years earlier with Douglas Englebart at the Augmentation Researh Center at the Stanford Research Institute with what's called the Mother of All Demos in the year 1968..

@Ctrl-XYZ

7 ай бұрын

Xerox PARC

Gary is a sad story. Lost success of his own OS to Bill Gates, got divorced, and became an alcoholic. Four years after this filmed he died from head trauma after falling in a bar.

@delatroy

9 жыл бұрын

That is sad. Seems like such a straight guy too.

@NathanChisholm041

4 жыл бұрын

I heard he got into a bar fight that how he died!

@cygil1

4 жыл бұрын

​@@NathanChisholm041 I heard that version too. He went into a biker bar dressed like a biker, but real bikers tumbled him and called him out as a phony. He got into a scuffle, fell down, and died. As far as his sad fate goes, Kildall might not have been as rich as Bill Gates, but he still had enough money to never need to work again. His alchoholism, prostitute addiction and compulsive hoarding clearly had something to do with deeply rooted mental health issues, not simply missing out on business opporutnities.

@WodkaEclair

4 жыл бұрын

:(

@z00h

4 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray lukachu kaubwoay!

It's amazing to see how far we've come with comb-over technology.

Love the computer chronicles used to watch every week!

I had never heard of Gary Kildall before seeing these videos. Judging from the comments on this and other videos.. they guy was brilliant. I am gonna read more about him.

@davidbainbridge1738

3 жыл бұрын

The more you read the more you find out how much of a badass he was

As someone born on the 1920s, this was like magic when it first came out. Still never used a computer.

@PS-Straya_M8

11 ай бұрын

I often wonder how older people view the current world. It must be mind blowing! 😁

@bbbf09

11 ай бұрын

"Still never used a computer." ....and how exactly are you communicating this wisdom to us beantown_billy - a clockwork mangle? 😄

@beantown_billy2405

11 ай бұрын

​@@bbbf09 It is possible to use the Internet without a computer

@LonesomeTroubadour

11 ай бұрын

@@beantown_billy2405 I guess you use a smart phone? Basically a portable computer.

@beantown_billy2405

11 ай бұрын

@@LonesomeTroubadour Not a computer in the context of what we're talking about.

I remember watching this series first run. . Thanks for posting!

Thank you, Time Machine, this documentary is still not outdated today

"It comes with 4 fonts. If you really want it to sing get the add-on pack of another 6 fonts for $400." Wow. I hope history doesn't repeat itself.

@JS-wp4gs

3 жыл бұрын

twist ending: 3 of those fonts are variations of windings and the other is comic sans

@FlyboyHelosim

3 жыл бұрын

If Apple sold fonts...

I was so addicted to this show back in the day.

@thebeststooge

4 жыл бұрын

Every single week for me as well. Sunday mornings where I lived.

@KowboyUSA

4 жыл бұрын

Watching this show resulted in me buying a computer for my business. Good times.

@thebeststooge

4 жыл бұрын

I was on the Amiga at the time of this show and spitting on IBM but in 1996 I finally purchased my first Intel based system and within six months my lifetime of upgrading began and all of this due to this show.

As programmer I can say - what a great way we have come form 1990) Its really impress. But meanwhile, when I watch on this old times I really miss them) Old movies, tv series, games, cars and many other things) I remember my first computer with Windows 98 and what a miracle it was for me that time)

Playing game and watching this at same time look from future

Before Emojis and picture Memes, there was Ascii and Ascii art. Before stock there was clipart. Before Neo "the one" there was Bill and Ted and Dot Matrix.

Many people argue that Windoze 3 was their best OS. It was intuitive and it just worked for years as the backbone to so many businesses. It was also a commercial success.

@EDcase1

10 ай бұрын

I'd say XP was the best version. Last one to have control of all functions before they were buried to dumb it down for Vista

@asicdathens

10 ай бұрын

@@EDcase1 Vista was better because it supported high resolution monitors. Everything looked stretched in XP

@peng9179

10 ай бұрын

@@asicdathens No, just no.

@themaritimegirl

10 ай бұрын

​@@asicdathensI assume whatever you used XP on had improper drivers installed? XP works perfectly fine with 1080p monitors and beyond.

@asicdathens

10 ай бұрын

@@themaritimegirl Have you used applications with bitmap graphics like solitaire on XP? It is awful. The drivers worked but the content was not there.

I had Geos on my first computer, which I acquired in 1989. It was a PAL 286 with 2Mb of memory and a 40Mb HD, running DOS 3.5, which I later upgraded to DOS 4.0. :)

My first PC had Windows 3.1 and I still love that OS. It was capable of pretty much everything, easy-to-use, clean design.

Watching videos like this is facisnating because a lot us tend to think old OSs like Windows 3.0 are just some old things that some pre-human cavemen used or something. But they were used by regular people like you and I today, who are not really any different from us (1990 was really barely any time ago). I mean just watching them go on about how changing the background colors and stuff are some of the coolest features of Windows 3.0 makes this feel so relatable.

@alexmckee4683

11 ай бұрын

I used to use Windows 3. I remember a lot of these features.

@nichderjeniche

11 ай бұрын

I used Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1 in the school in the 90s

"I know you wanna tell us more and more about PowerPoint but we've had it, so..."

Many innovative features are still used today!

Wait, is she using a case of St. Pauly Girl beer to hold up her monitor stand @13:49? Outstanding. GEOS was awesome, too.

@erniemiller1953

4 жыл бұрын

Back when Berkeley was hip instead of woke.

I remember watching this show when I was a kid and was like WOW, now the stuff on this show is so laughable today. This is still a nice walk down memory lane.

Glad they archived these shows.

The amount of progress and market change that happened in just a brief time is astounding.

It's amazing how quickly computers have advanced in the past three decades. At this pace it's hard to even imagine what they might be like in 30 more years.

@drewsata

3 жыл бұрын

*windows 30 probably*

@iplyrunescape305

11 ай бұрын

Not really as much as you'd think tbh minus corporate bloatware and spyware. I struggle to find much advancements in the past 15 years as opposed to the 15 years before that.

@JollyGiant19

8 ай бұрын

@@iplyrunescape305It’s mostly been in security and stability (maybe not so much the applications but at least OSes are way more stable).

When he spoke his first words, I expected to hear "and this is Motorweek"

Fascinating! Man - we've come so far!

A could binge watch these things all day for weeks on end.

My favorite part is how little windows has changed at it's core. A lot of those menu's she was showing off, could very well be menus in windows 10 on simple view.

@OpenGL4ever

Жыл бұрын

What are you talking? The difference between Windows 3.0 and Windows NT which Windows 10 is based on, is extremely large. Especially at its core.

Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way..

Hahaha. As it IT guy - it's obviously hilarious to watch in retrospect. But what's more hilarious is that this is the level at which I still have to explain stuff to clients.

Damn. Even in 1990 at 23:50 we still couldn’t get away from corona.

All of that in just 4 MB of RAM. Programmers were awesome back in the days.