Another great 1995 computer store experience - kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3mMpZarfZm7n6g.html

@rareblues78daddy

10 ай бұрын

Wow. Everybody was squashed and widescreen in 1994 / 1995. Don't remember it that way, but... okay.

@casenix

4 ай бұрын

H😅😅😅😅😅

@devynhale1623

4 ай бұрын

Being told in 1995 that apple is the most user-friendly is the biggest lie

@jeremyfield4148

3 ай бұрын

A year later everyone was kicking themselves when Windows 95 came out and they just bought a new computer

This was recorded in 1994 yet has better quality than 99% of UFO sightings.

@jonathanrubino2577

3 жыл бұрын

Legit

@esmeraldagems9487

3 жыл бұрын

So freakishly true 😂

@SuperiorNo1

3 жыл бұрын

Bigfoot you mean 🦍

@alloallo1977

3 жыл бұрын

True :) but this is recorded at a 1-2 metre distance (with max camera zoom), not 100+ metre UFO distance ;)

@karthick4442

3 жыл бұрын

lol

I feel like the old ladies in this understood computers better than old ladies now

@Justin1020304

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@brodycain9613

3 жыл бұрын

Fr tho

@FernandoSanchez-ec1di

3 жыл бұрын

Every new generation losing a couple IQ points. Stay Woke.

@darkbrandon8431

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah like these people in their late 60s or 70s. Nowadays its just rare to find.

@djalilgsf6845

3 жыл бұрын

No fast food at that time thaats why

- 19 hundred dollars for this!? - it comes with a mouse and keyboard oh that cracked me up

@bimapringgo

3 жыл бұрын

2021: it doesn't come with power cable

@eaglevision993

3 жыл бұрын

@@bimapringgo And if you want a stand for it that will be 1k extra.

@Norwegian733

3 жыл бұрын

Thats salesmanship

@ericastier1646

3 жыл бұрын

Why you millenial are all parrots ????

@Haider-Ali76436

3 жыл бұрын

😁... But what a beautiful and simple era that was...

My first job as a teenager in 1994 was repairing and selling computers. Those were the good old days. I remember when the Pentium came out, we were all blown away. We stayed after hours all the time to play DOOM on the demo machines.

@tonymonette486

3 жыл бұрын

Going to find out if Dos Box will work on Win 10 and maybe do Doom again. Still tons of wads out there on the web.

@tigersgedanken1246

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonymonette486 of course it works

@TheCuratorIsHere

3 жыл бұрын

Wolfestein 3D

@sandwichbreath0

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, yeah, owning a Pentium was the dream haha. I was on a 386 when that dropped and I felt like I was third-world.

@mitjed

3 жыл бұрын

I was still a child back then, and would come to my mothers workplace, they even had a very old computers with a very large floppy disks. I would go there and play the prince of persia computer game.

Little did they know apple would sell a monitor stand for 1k$

@knightriderfan1

3 жыл бұрын

And Mac Pro wheels for $699

@ohhellno8759

3 жыл бұрын

Ur mom

@angeloplus4

3 жыл бұрын

@@knightriderfan1 imagine putting those wheels underneath your desk chair

@harsh9558

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@kilmentvoroshilov2827

3 жыл бұрын

Then don’t buy it

The guy sounds like he has travelled back in time and is asking all these questions sarcastically.

@FatalChaz33

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that too!

@user-gq9gm2en4g

3 жыл бұрын

He probably is

@michaelorourke5848

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed out loud at this

@eddenrabin9583

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Like he knows about so many things that he doesnt know

@trojan403

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

The second guy is just trying to help his customers and is so genuine. You’d hope all sales people you encounter were like that.

I love how now, my computer is about the same price or a bit more, and yet, compared to those computers, its a super computer. We get so much more now for so much less.

I love how the cameraman just randomly zooms in everyone's face and hats

@nem._

3 жыл бұрын

First

@Concavelens

3 жыл бұрын

He was legit zooming on someone who was poking their nose-

@andrewgodly5739

3 жыл бұрын

This was a monumental turning point in the great history of man. He was brilliantly capturing the impactful emotion they and their hat's were expressing

@VoiVoiGaming

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@steuk6510

3 жыл бұрын

Can old technology used to make hoax calls to police

“This bad boy right here can store up to 100 megabytes”

@user-km5to9np3r

3 жыл бұрын

+ its had 2 mb of ram edit : Thanks for the likes. This is first time i get more than a hundred likes. edit Thanks for @real cartoon girl for correcting me.

@alacarte_32

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-km5to9np3r 😂

@LightningShiva1

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-km5to9np3r 😂😂

@euugh8877

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-km5to9np3r 😂😂😂

@Kazeon

3 жыл бұрын

And 30-50 years later people will laugh at our current technology today

Nice to see Mario selling computers.

@johnelway76

3 жыл бұрын

this comment is underrated

@rashidhumine

3 жыл бұрын

You mean Luigi as his tall and thin.

@josefish5193

3 жыл бұрын

More like Freddie Mercury LOL!

@aroundtheglobe945

3 жыл бұрын

@@josefish5193 LOL Plot twist Mario is Freddie Mercury

@johnelway76

3 жыл бұрын

@R A R you know hating on a comment won’t get you anywhere

This is actually interesting to see the older generation getting into computers when it was new. Imagine how futuristic it was to them and for them to be able to buy it. I was born in the 80s and it was new to me but it wasn’t a culture shock as it was to them. Cool video

@prospectnyc

2 жыл бұрын

I remember when the iPad first came out and the Apple Stores started to have them on display - most of the people demoing them whenever I visited the stores were older folks.

@1981menso

Жыл бұрын

I was born in '63 and the information age was no culture shock for me or anyone I know. It didn't happen overnight, it just snuck up on all of us.

@purple.9919

Жыл бұрын

I think at this point, late 2022, our technology is so different than the computers in this video. Some aspects are easier, but many times there's so much customization and so many different ways to do the same task. If I were an older person, I probably wouldn't be too I interested in messing with it all because it isn't as simple as what I would be accustomed to.

@aodinaz11

Жыл бұрын

@@1981menso I was born in '58. Same here. I bought a tiny Sinclair in 1981 and never looked back. ; )

@PhilMoskowitz

Жыл бұрын

People were becoming familiar with home computers since the early 1980s. It didn't seem "futuristic" because the idea of computers had already been around for nearly 20 years.

"The kids, they adapt." When you realize you are one of the kids he was talking about.

@NaturalManifestation

3 жыл бұрын

Literally thought "hell yea we do" when he said that, lol.

@lanceobe6801

3 жыл бұрын

I remember having to adapt from being a long time dos user to the new confusing windows.

@isla2416

3 жыл бұрын

Changing from windowsxp to windows 10 is hella confusing, for a few days

@vintageshed965

3 жыл бұрын

'97 kid right here, grew up on 433MHz Pentium. As a 9 year old I completely disassembled, cleaned, reassembled and reinstalled that bad boy. Kids these days doesn't even know what command prompt is, I can't even remember how many times "diskpart" saved my ass.

@shubhankardasgupta4777

3 жыл бұрын

@@vintageshed965 print('Our LORD')

Customer: "$1,900 just for this?" Salesman: "It comes with a mouse and a keyboard."

@siriusgd4753

3 жыл бұрын

"It's an Apple Sir. The PC's are $699.99"

@owndapwn

3 жыл бұрын

About $3400 in today's money.

@agentsmidt3209

3 жыл бұрын

Legit question. Apple has been ripping people off for a while now.

@gj8683

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, 139 likes and I didn't even create anything. It's true: Good artists copy, and great artists steal.

@TheTruthlady

3 жыл бұрын

😀

Wow, this was almost 30 years ago, and those ladies at the end are asking him the same question old ladies ask me at my job. That's crazy.

@Stargazzer811

3 жыл бұрын

Proof that some things never change.

@JollyBotox

3 жыл бұрын

-War... War- Old lady... old lady never changes

The second seller is the type of a person I wish I could buy things from wherever I go. He's just so relaxed, knows his products and wants to know his customers, and no pressure at all

I'm guessing the camera guy just got the ability to use zoom when he decided to film this.

@jvon3885

3 жыл бұрын

He was going to school for dermatology and moonlighting as a cameraman.

@Schnids1655

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA!!! No kidding! he was all over that dudes beak at 1:40!

@Somethingdiffe

3 жыл бұрын

Such an office vibe

@Xorberax

3 жыл бұрын

Camcorders had amazing zoom capabilities back then. Everybody was zooming lol!

@frmacleod

3 жыл бұрын

It looks like this was being recorded for a news piece or documentary which means the camera operator isn't shooting in a style meant to be consumed as one continuous shot. They are just shooting what's called "b-roll" to cover the narrator's voiceover in the finished product. So when they're shooting all those tight shots they aren't expecting someone to ever see the raw un-edited footage. It's just something that would've been used for a few seconds before they cut to the next shot in the story.

"Computers are a passing trend, they won't be around long" - My Neighbor 1989

@theNotoriousBFM

3 жыл бұрын

"Internet startups aren't a thing" -- My classmate to zuckerberg when he flew out to personally recruit the guy to be employee no. 9

@NextScamdemic

3 жыл бұрын

“We have all the technology that can ever be invented right now- we have the CD, we have video tapes, what else is there to invent?”- Scott, a guy I knew in 1989

@Lucidleo-li8yu

3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I wanted a computer in the worst way and my parents were like "why would anyone need a computer at home???" I saved up my lawn mowing / leaf raking / snow shoveling money and bought a Commodore 128 from a guy my dad worked with. It came with two 1571 drives, an 80 column color monitor, a color printer and two huge boxes of hundreds of software disks and cartridges. I taught myself how to program on that thing in numerous languages and used it all the way through high school before upgrading to an Amiga 500+ in college. Commodores were the best computers on the market and the most advanced machines available at the time. I had been saving my money for a shiny new Amiga 4000 with advanced AGA graphics and a 486 bridge card before Commodore disappeared from the market. If Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt, I bet Macs would be a long ago memory by now.

@hughey22

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lucidleo-li8yu I had the Amiga 1000 loved it so much.

@wmtrader

3 жыл бұрын

You sure that was 1989? The first mass produced home computers came out in 1977 (Apple II, TRS-80, Commodore PET 2001), the first computer to take over the business market came out in 1981 (IBM 5150), by 1983 a line of home computers for kids where on the market (TRS-80 Color Computer, Commodore 64, Atari 800XL), and by 1986 computers had made inroads with music and graphic arts (Amiga, SGI). I think maybe this event with your neighbor happened earlier than 1989 or it didn't happen at all?

I remember well, a bunch of Dads standing around looking confused or trying to haggle on things when they had no idea what they even were. Good times.

nobody: Cameraman : Let's zoom a little into their nose.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

The cameraman was me. I was using a Betacam SP camera which did not have a lowlight capability. The store was badly lit. I had to zoom in all the time to focus. Normally of course, I would cut that stuff out. But for this video post, I left all of it in. That is the reason for the zooms. David Hoffman filmmaker

@trojanhorse2003

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Nothing against it sir, but I've seen in most of the old videos they always zoom into the face.

@kenyonhuppe

3 жыл бұрын

1:42

@Eric-xh9ee

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker that's really interesting thanks for the insight

@Eric-xh9ee

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker so did you film all of the videos on your channel? I love your channel. It's really interesting. Did you recently find old film and decided to upload it to the internet? It seems like it could be a very time consuming process. I'm just curious. Good work! I think we all appreciate your videos. It's nice to reminisce about our childhood and gives us something to show our children in the future. It's really cool so thank you!

Men: Knows zero about computers Seller: Proceed talking about megahertz frequency and ram megabytes

@sebastianzx6r

3 жыл бұрын

That was the best part,when the seller was describing the specs and the buyer was just smiling and nodding like he knew what it meant.

@Lancer2004

3 жыл бұрын

@arcanesage except when you don't know what a megahertz was XD

@sethreign8103

3 жыл бұрын

Loved that haha

@jordanmatthews8351

3 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooooooo

@GyoubuMasataka

3 жыл бұрын

He just read the brochure all right 😹

That salesman at the end was really engaged. Since its 94, I can only imagine how hard it must have been to explain computing to a generation that lived during WW2.

@athayphom3551

3 жыл бұрын

Nah he was quite calm and intelligent, but never enraged

@supercooled

3 жыл бұрын

@@castles990 Don't feel bad, I don't even know 99% of celebrities nowadays.

@Erraticfox

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly those older ladies acted a lot more intelligent and less ignorant to try and learn it than the current older generation. Now when you explain it to old people, I feel they a lot of time, just simply don't want to.

@dumplinglover8042

3 жыл бұрын

@@athayphom3551 i read enraged at first but yea its ENGAGED

@dumplinglover8042

3 жыл бұрын

@@Erraticfox Because they cant keep up with the current generation they've learned enough and theyre old

Crazy to think I was born around this time you filmed this and now I'm commenting on your video using my phone 27ish years later.

More than anything I miss how average people could be so fascinated by things they now take for granted.

Salesman: "It comes with 160 meg hard drive and 4 megabytes of memory." Dad: "hmm" slight smile. Dad internally: "I have no idea what that means."

@jcasetnl

3 жыл бұрын

I bought my first computer in '94 and it had a 540 MB hard drive, which was pretty middle-of-the-road at the time. I wonder if this was '93.

@tinhinnh

3 жыл бұрын

jcasetnl you got a good memory

@daver9643

3 жыл бұрын

Our smart watches have 10 times more power

@sergiootero5904

3 жыл бұрын

"Son, do you speak English? I don't speak Chinese or Japanese, a little Korean because I was in the war but I use a fork to eat"

@crashpal

3 жыл бұрын

@@jcasetnl even 540 was a huge deal for 1994.

Those two older ladies at the end seemed surprisingly open to cutting edge tech for their age

@mizark2029

3 жыл бұрын

They are dead now

@bobo42024

3 жыл бұрын

Its most likely for their children / grand children.

@Javierriveraab

3 жыл бұрын

They are dead now ... The guy is also dead . The laser printer is alive

@Erraticfox

3 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say the same. They didn't seem the least confused when he explained something. And that's saying something because even people in their 20-30s get confused if I was to explain something like that to them. Let alone, back then, when everything was brand new to society

@abadazadytgaming7200

3 жыл бұрын

@@mizark2029 what does them being dead got to do with the initial post??

Betacam SP has aged like fine wine. This footage is incredible.

the last sales rep is weirdly comforting, he just sounds like a likeable guy

@rashidhumine

3 жыл бұрын

Yh, I hope he's doing well today :)

@jordanhedlund

3 ай бұрын

Nah f the guy pushing the IBM

when he says "32 Megahertz" he should also say: "32 MILLION operations per second" now that sounds more impressive

@festerkarlsson

3 жыл бұрын

@Al Castill that's bad ass!

@FerDeAlmeida

3 жыл бұрын

@Al Castill whoa! 2Gb was a lot!!!

@vinapocalypse

3 жыл бұрын

32 million operations per second would be inaccurate though. It's the clock signal that goes 32 million times a second. Lowendmac says the Performa 600 ran at 6.5 MIPS (million instructions per second)

@shNECful

3 жыл бұрын

This would sound more impressive only for you, compared to today's almost 5ghz. Then? it was twice as much as 16mhz. Its' goddamn impressive

@adisharr

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinapocalypse Yeah like the farmer is going to call him out for that :)

"you can take a movie, put it on the hard drive and watch it again?" And so it begins.

@erdemcelik9260

3 жыл бұрын

1:23

@pranoychow3808

3 жыл бұрын

We all know what he watched on his computer afterwards

@cesarcueto1995

3 жыл бұрын

@@pranoychow3808 cat videos

@cattysplat

3 жыл бұрын

Postage sized video clips that lasted like 12 seconds. Was still enough to download fail vids and girls doing "stuff" on a dialup at about an hour a video. The struggle was real back then.

@lga7758

3 жыл бұрын

yeah they are laughing that it is even a thing, now im laughing at the crap quality

"You're gonna hate yourself, you really will." "That's a true statement." LMAOOOOOOOOOO WHAT

@samdenham5991

3 жыл бұрын

You couldn't say that now, they would be crying for the manager lmao

@kenyonhuppe

3 жыл бұрын

3:51

@gauravjha8938

3 жыл бұрын

When you buy Apple...🙆🏻‍♂️

I was a consultant selling many people and families their first computers, building them to their specifications. The most important part of the sale was the two or three hours you spent with them after setting it up answering their questions during and afterward. Being able to display short video files was like performing magic and once Windows 95 came out you could show them the demo videos that came on the install disk and it was pretty fun to watch their faces. - Good times. A lot of hard work, but good times and good money.

I'm actually surprised by how well the two elderly ladies are keeping up with all of the salesman's computer talk. My grandma would be totally lost.

@dougrogan379

3 жыл бұрын

They are dead now

@rdross80

3 жыл бұрын

@G G you saying my grandma is lazy?!

@rdross80

3 жыл бұрын

@G G I'm just messin with ya. 😛

@user-vi4xy1jw7e

3 жыл бұрын

@@dougrogan379 They could still be alive if they're like 70 years old in this video.

@ersia87

3 жыл бұрын

@G G You actually managed to complain about elderly people and do a "It was better in the good ol' days" in the same sentence. xD

Bro that last dude knows how to talk to people unacquainted with technology.

@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames

3 жыл бұрын

That's because he was raised in an era where people still truly valued human interaction. We've swayed so far far as a society, that we're all just like candles drifting miles apart in an endless ocean.

@celestemoreno4030

3 жыл бұрын

heyimgoingtoplaysomegames lol

@charliestout2815

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe that guy is probably in his 50s+ and those women are long since passed. I wonder what that guy does today

@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames

3 жыл бұрын

@@celestemoreno4030 And social media is supposed to make us feel like we're close. Stupid. Social media is pure poison.

@hallermytimbits

3 жыл бұрын

25 years later and the explained advice is still 100% true to date.

It feels like the cameraman comes from the future and knows exactly what all of this is going to be in 25 years and he's recording people reaction

@christopheroliver148

3 жыл бұрын

Well, at Xerox PARC, they knew what is was going to be like back in the late 70s.

@gauravjha8938

3 жыл бұрын

A Reaction Video of times way before KZread existed...🙆🏻‍♂️

Never knew that Freddie Mercury would be a computer salesman.

@Zucksz

3 жыл бұрын

Eeeeeooo

@unknownwolf4046

3 жыл бұрын

I was 4 years old when Computer 💻 came out thats how i lost my friends 😭

@pete9369

3 жыл бұрын

I came to the comments to see how long it would be til someone brought up Freddie Mercury. It was the third comment.

@MrAledro84

3 жыл бұрын

Another one bytes the dust I'll see myself out

@user-pf4zb6bv9e

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to write exactly the same comment...i guess I don t have to. Like from me!

Didn't realize Freddie Mercury sold computers.

@pascalotto5790

3 жыл бұрын

i searched for this comment 😅

@darwinfromjupiter5817

3 жыл бұрын

@@pascalotto5790 lmao

@soybalmory

3 жыл бұрын

:V

@natecw4164

3 жыл бұрын

Pressure. Pressing down on me, by this new PC right now. No pressure but this is soon to be outdated technology by Fall. It's the terror of buying something you know nothing about, and watching your good friend say "Check that out!" My wallet will be emmmmpttyyyy (cause we know jack squat about PCs) (Falsetto) Browsing around on the web, these are the days of trucker caps on men. Dedodilo, dedadedahdee, de do dah, dialup. (Ok I'll stop)

@logannosleep5

3 жыл бұрын

@@pascalotto5790 same

Back in the day...when people knew why they bought a certain brand...it was not about what was trending but about utility.

Who knew that almost everything in that store would someday fit in your back pocket

@Dfpijgyt564s65sgt

3 жыл бұрын

Let me know what printer and desktop computer fits in your pocket.

@OfficialTrashPanda

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dfpijgyt564s65sgt almost everything

@masterofpuppets5072

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dfpijgyt564s65sgt it's in your cell phone

@brucewayne3141

3 жыл бұрын

and the funny thing is that the thing that fits in your back pocket has more computing power than everything in that store combined.

@gauravjha8938

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucewayne3141 yaa..like how many PC's & MAC's would be required to get the combined specifications of a smartphone today is just amazing..🙆🏻‍♂️

“You can watch a movie!?”

@wxste8248

3 жыл бұрын

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@Dooshanche

3 жыл бұрын

get outa here!

@armandguillen6149

3 жыл бұрын

No wayy

@robloxtipshelper

3 жыл бұрын

@@wxste8248 I agree in a way, but the fact is, yeah no, shove off with your bad opinion

@Stefan-

3 жыл бұрын

@@timhornswaggle1243 He wasnt talking about DVDs at least since it wasnt availble yet....

Imagine a time traveller walking there with a smartphone in his hands.

@BulkyHealthyCat

3 жыл бұрын

I'd walk and say don't buy it will be for 5 dollars in future

@joemama8403

3 жыл бұрын

those macintoshes are worth a lot now

@mrlion9404

3 жыл бұрын

The time when someone could really time travel smartphone will be a vintage antique for him.

@tonyv1796

3 жыл бұрын

it would be little more than the value of a calculator back then without any cell reception.

@thriquinox

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyv1796 depends on who you sell it to.

This type of raw footage with no voice overs is great. It's hard to find real life stuff that isn't 2 seconds and heavily edited with music and commentary. Btw I really think 4:3 aspect should be posted as is. Maybe KZread did the stretching?

@DoctorWhom

3 жыл бұрын

KZread only does square pixels. If you've got a video file on your hard drive you can have it be a resolution of 1280x720 and then just tell the player to display that at 4:3. If the video doesn't specify a proper aspect ratio, software like vlc (video lan client) can be used to view videos at a user specified aspect ratio. basically the analog lines of video don't really have a pixel count, so why not sample more pixels on each line?

Buying a PC really felt like buying something important back then. It was a big thing and you were proud of it - even though the processing power and memory was a tiny fraction of what you carry on your phone today.

Little did they know 2m people watching this in a hand-sized computer.

@eagle25311

3 жыл бұрын

Yea when I was a kid I never thought a phone would turn into a computer. I'm glad it did though very convenient.

@hughverespinoza3926

3 жыл бұрын

Damn

@EthanH1

3 жыл бұрын

Probably more like 1.5m. Some people are probably watching on a regular computer.

@DonAle_97

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine, the PC processor velocity was 33MHz, nowadays an iPhone has more power than the most powerful pc of that era

@LightningShiva1

3 жыл бұрын

And a much much powerful device

This camera quality is actually amazing and the voices were so clearly heard

@DoubleAAce

3 жыл бұрын

And there is probable some editing.

@psychepancake

3 жыл бұрын

yea

@chrisposhy9322

3 жыл бұрын

Yeahn it came from Hollywood big camera lens

@jetercanda9661

3 жыл бұрын

Of course pathetic

@SuperSalvaJor

3 жыл бұрын

thats analog footage baby

In 1994, my business partner & I, opened a computer shop. I knew NOTHING (but had the gift of the gab); he knew all the technical stuff. That was the quickest and most concise training exercise I ever underwent!!!! We did extremely well!!!

I remember getting my first computer in 1998. Windows 98SE. Pentium III. Fantastic memories.

the video that was recorded 27 years ago, yet still better than bank security cameras.

@fakehoneypictures

3 жыл бұрын

That camera was probably sony betacam sp. around $150k with lens lol

@Barakeh

3 жыл бұрын

@@fakehoneypictures a camera that costs more than a house and furniture

@fakehoneypictures

3 жыл бұрын

@@Barakeh That's how it used to be:) Good times now!

@ThaFuzzwood

3 жыл бұрын

The banks don't actually want thieves to be caught.

@hypn0298

3 жыл бұрын

It was a decent film camera. Films with better than 8K quality has existed since way before this video!

I love how thrilled he is with playing back the video file!

@EpicKate

3 жыл бұрын

I seriously just left the video to check the comment section to see who else enjoyed this part!

@BTin416

3 жыл бұрын

And the excitement of watching a low resolution 200x180 moving set of pictures felt in that time and day. LOL I do remember those days, and later in the 90's with the excitement of RealPlayer videos online, often moving at 1 frame per second max, over a 33.6-56k modem connection? It was the dawn of a new era.

@coolspot18

3 жыл бұрын

@TrashPanda Raccoon The bouncing ball was Amigas claim to fame. The Amiga team was fixing the bouncing ball demo minutes before it was showcased to the world ...

@mikeha

3 жыл бұрын

it was a revelation back then to see postage stamp video playing on a computer screen. a modern day miracle

@TheGreatSatan_

3 жыл бұрын

@140p

this footage is ridiculously high quality for the time...

This is so cool. Thanks for shooting this, thanks for having the foresight to back it all up, and thanks for sharing it now, more than 25 years later!

Imagine if housing prices changed similarly to computers.

@shaggymason8415

3 жыл бұрын

Ha I wish

@gj8683

3 жыл бұрын

The houses wouldn't be any faster, but the rate of refinancing would. Whew!

@lucidarik

3 жыл бұрын

They soon will. Have you seen this economy?

@mattirwin463

3 жыл бұрын

@@billb.7346 highly debatable

@trevorlafave

3 жыл бұрын

Bill B. Have you never used a computer for work or school?

Woman: "Apple its the easiest, most user friendly" Cameraman: *HARD FOCUS ON HER FACE*

@thelucylucifer

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@HRFCTS

3 жыл бұрын

Look how smug she is. Gold.

I remember these computer shows back in Los Angeles. The tech was developing so fast, every month the systems would be faster. Stuff was obsolete in weeks.

I just love how everyone is so humane and friendly about everything. People in '94 were so cool and awesome no matter who it was - everyone looks so happy. I wish we could learn from these videos.

@hypn0298

3 жыл бұрын

It’s still like this in canada (well it was before covid anyway)

@jacobmorris7532

3 жыл бұрын

You know the old saying technology destroys and creates lazy

@1Buttonmasher

3 жыл бұрын

First of all, they're on camera. Secondly, this is a very very small sample of people. I highly doubt every interaction was this cordial. Idealising the past is a mistake.

@makearunat

3 жыл бұрын

This is such a naive take on society at the time from a video that's barely 4 minutes long.

@cbodall

3 жыл бұрын

The 90s were the best

I feel like old people buying computers hasn't changed in 25 years.

@sl-br4rm

3 жыл бұрын

They still call it the Apple. Hasn’t changed a bit.

@MF175mp

3 жыл бұрын

They buy apples only from the grocery store, just like everyone should

@moistgirth5625

3 жыл бұрын

They are all dead now

@TestSubjectize

3 жыл бұрын

nothings changed, apple still overpriced, normal people still in awe of the prices, religious idiots still defending apple products while cashing out for 299$ earbuds...

@sl-br4rm

3 жыл бұрын

@@TestSubjectize Compared to other wireless earbuds airpods are pretty fairly priced. AirPods Pro are the best truly wireless earbuds on the market and even though they are 300$ they are better than other brands of that price range. At that point you might as well get some noise canceling headphones though.

Thanks to all the guys, girls and Farmers like him who bought computers back then, gave the market traction and pushed the movement forward that much faster.

@rpospeedwagon

3 жыл бұрын

Having grown up on a farm, people would be shocked at the number of early adopter farmers. Now, it's seriously mind-blowing.

@Tombombadillo999

3 жыл бұрын

“Thanks to the cavemen that created flint points we are we we are today”..what do you mean with ur statement? Do you also think mindless consummerism is a good thing?

@korosensei4384

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tombombadillo999 Fire is a free discovery that just spread because of its usefulness. I know where you are comming from with ur statement, but without "mindless consumerism", we wouldnt be writing these comments. Unfortunately, thats the core of our society and I wish it werent so, as planned obsolescence is something I despise from the bottom of my heart.

@new_filler

3 жыл бұрын

gianni arnoldons >making up a bullshit analogy to suit your baseless argument

@WarpedPerception

3 жыл бұрын

@@rpospeedwagon makes perfect sense that farmers would be early adopters, when your trying to streamline workflow, increase productivity and yield and reduce losses your always looking for creative ways to innovate.

25 years ago a guy at Circuit City told me a 2gig hard drive was the most I would ever need.

@ralphw7950

3 жыл бұрын

25 years ago a 2gig hard drive was huge and pretty much unheard of. 100MB was large

@matthewadams3438

3 жыл бұрын

@Sherry Anderson absolutely he was. I coulda loaded every title

@mr.mysteriousyt6118

3 жыл бұрын

@@ralphw7950 now my phone has 128gb

@Hastur876

3 жыл бұрын

He had no way of knowing how much porn we would have today. Back then all we had were Marina Sirtis gifs. Anna Kournikova hadn't even been invented yet.

@jayvalentin7179

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hastur876 SIMP LOSER

I was so lucky getting to play with early PCs at high school..spending a life watching all of this development through to today....each time something groundbreaking happens, you think, that has to be it, what else can they possibly come up with....then they do.... great nostalgic video..thank you

Customer: "So you can buy speakers for it too??" Clerk: "Uh huh" Customer: SHOCK AND AWE

@christianmendoza7085

3 жыл бұрын

He looked out in the distance “What else will they come up next” 😂

@Kshea44ify

3 жыл бұрын

We have it very easy these days. We take for granted the amount of information and media we have at our hands instantly.

@unwantedpeople368

3 жыл бұрын

The good old days....before computers

@alvarez321

3 жыл бұрын

@Skylar Martin i would say 25 actually. I've talked to plenty of people under 25 and most of them didn't even know about floppy disks.

@myles432

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kshea44ify lol

I love how the cameraman was playing with the zoom lmao

I needed that camera man at my wedding. Instead we got an hour video of the chocolate fountain.

@iceho6460

3 жыл бұрын

You like how the camera crash zoom up close on guest's pimples and hair follicles?

@spaghettimonster6808

3 жыл бұрын

I need him at my funeral

@yambo000

3 жыл бұрын

If you didn't want an hour video of a chocolate fountain you wouldn't have a chocolate fountain at your wedding.

This was before 1995 which was the year when the revolutionary standard operating system for the industry Windows 95 was released. What a huge difference.

I didn’t know Freddy Mercury started selling computers in the 90’s.

@basedjay4351

3 жыл бұрын

Bro I came to the comments to say this lol

@freddieh5539

3 жыл бұрын

The very first person to have a computer was Eve, in the Garden of Eden. She had an apple in one hand and a wang in the other.

@TheFrenchPug

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@ltkenbo

3 жыл бұрын

I was about the write the same, or Borat haha

@larryroyovitz7829

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to say John Oates.

The cameraman was just fascinated by the technology he was holding in his hand

@trapgod95xxx63

3 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@luigi55125

3 жыл бұрын

Love how he kept zooming in on their faces lol

@gmcubed

3 жыл бұрын

Back then you didn't use a camcorder without abusing the zoom. It was physically impossible to resist.

@Flight737

3 жыл бұрын

Yes he was very interested in zooming in on people’s faces

Wow, this is pretty cool and neat to see! Thanks for sharing! Born in 87 but my first computer was a IBM PS/2 from my uncle. Very impressed with that last salesman in the video too. Extremely knowledgable and relates well.

I like to imagine the grandkids of both of the grandma to be a successful software engineer

If I were a time traveler I would have told that farmer “instead of spending 2K on the computer, buy 2K of Apple stock”. It would be worth about 12 Million today.

@Sahadi420

3 жыл бұрын

Look into this company called "Amazon River" or something like that.

@WizzRacing

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sahadi420 Amazon did not make a profit for 20 years...As you needed high speed bandwidth. In Consumers hands.. At an affordable price. Which has only been around for the last 10 years. Yet the United States is behind most 3rd world countries. As most are stuck with cable. So forget about dividends checks every year... Why Varus is right. Had you invested $2,000.00 In Apple in 1994... Today you would have $12 Million in return...As Apple was floundering till Steve Jobs come back and saved it. You could have bought Apple stock so cheap. It was stupid crazy... This is a time when people were spending $20,000.00 on car.

@bensondentalassociates8690

3 жыл бұрын

He’s dead...

@azoutdoors2344

3 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to travel back to 1994 and meet up with my 18 year old self and say "stop spending all of your money on weed and beer and buy Apple stock" lol.

@WizzRacing

3 жыл бұрын

@@bensondentalassociates8690 Apple is not.. The kids raised in schools on Apple Products. Will be the next consumers. And they will be buying Apple Products... Why Apple was the first $1 trillion dollar company. And with their new custom built chip. It will be first to $2 Trillion market cap..So I would still be buying Apple Stock. If I was 20 again...As you can roll over your dividends payments for more stock or take the payout. Which is 5% as letting your money sit n a bank doing nothing. That charges you too bank there are long gone...Either your money works for you or your work to send every dime you earn. To someone else. That doesn't give a shit about you... Thomas Sowell, Basic Economies...

1994: "What 1900 for just this?" 2020: "What 1900 for just this?"

@pavanmanglore4495

3 жыл бұрын

It comes with a mouse and a keyboard!

@netkosent1620

3 жыл бұрын

But iPhone's got what humans crave. It's got electrolytes.

@trapsarentgay4195

3 жыл бұрын

@Johnny Irenchi no, you’re wrong

@harshavardhanirugu3594

3 жыл бұрын

Lol that's true

@MA-qz1sd

3 жыл бұрын

Value of 1900 dropped too

As someone born in 2003, this is super interesting and something I don't even think about very often. Very cool to see how people reacted to such a huge shift in technology, I can't even imagine what it must of been like to live through.

I love this. the last guy is such a good salesman

Times when sellers knows what they are talking about Edit: thanks for the likes

@Bluecolty

3 жыл бұрын

And consumers too. The seller actually threw down ram capacity and the speed of the processor

@HumanShield88

3 жыл бұрын

You gotta go to Micro Center

@briendownie

3 жыл бұрын

I was just going to say... I used to sell computers at CompUSA, and nobody knew a darned thing. We would read the card and that was about the extent of our knowledge.

@classiquecg5253

3 жыл бұрын

All they want these days is for sales employees to sell, selling requires knowledge of, you know, what you’re selling! Speaking of which, sales associates are possibly replaced every other week, they go through people like underwear.

@josemontes715

3 жыл бұрын

*times when salespeople knew what they were talking about

The guy in PC world told my parents it was "future proof" because we could upgrade from 4MB ram to 16MB!

@patmacrotch5611

3 жыл бұрын

and only for like $800 too!

@Josh101

3 жыл бұрын

never obsolete

@moonboy5851

3 жыл бұрын

How’s that going for them?

@d.ferrell9978

3 жыл бұрын

In 1994, if you had 16 MB you were a king! :) My first PC in 95 - Packard Bell 486 only had 4 MG. When I went up to 8 I was ecstatic!

@username19237

3 жыл бұрын

Future proof. The near future.

There's a certain nostalgia about 90s computers that I can't really put my finger on.

It's funny the way kids nowadays think old timers have never seen a computer, except they forget that these are the ones who pioneered it

farmer wants to buy the computer but don't trust the computer, classic

"$1,900 for this thing?!?!?!" "Sir, I just work here."

@imluvinyourmum

3 жыл бұрын

You work here?

@Aakash.Singh1

3 жыл бұрын

And now $1500 for a Phone

@frosty4513

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aakash.Singh1 lol their max starts at 1099 and samsungs ultra starts at 1399 who is a bitch now

@dav1208

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aakash.Singh1 Value of $1900 in 1994 is nearly $3500 nowadays.

@Aakash.Singh1

3 жыл бұрын

@@frosty4513 Not everyone lives in the USA mate. The prices you quoted are for USA. In Canada, iPhone 12 Pro max starts at $1300. In India at $1650

Computers evolved into different species while the audio guy still uses equipment trapped in 90s.

@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305

3 жыл бұрын

How old are you... lemme tell ya something... audio back then is superior to things now.. This is the reason why lets say creative with it audio for computers was so superior. Hardware acceleration was very dominant over software.. and even to this day a DAC and dedicated audio card is still way better then software

@cherimd6657

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 Half of modern audio software (the good stuff) is just emulating old audio hardware !

@iamagi

3 жыл бұрын

But you have to since they stopped making SID chips at that time.

This looks like it was just recorded. It's amazing how pristine this video is. Outstanding job!

That was back in the days when people used to socialize with the sales person.

@Joey-dl6nm

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Thank goodness for online shopping :DDDDD

@bigfirepop

3 жыл бұрын

That was back in the days when the sales person spoke English to an understandable degree, was competent and knowledgeable in their field, and had a respectable, approachable demeanor.

@twinlurker270

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigfirepop Lmao. Racist much? The main difference for me now, is that I know more than any associate. Now they just want to make a sale, they don't care about your needs at all.

@bigfirepop

3 жыл бұрын

​ @twinlurker Really.. Racist? Because I mentioned English speaking?... You don't know my background well enough to assume I'm a racist in any way. My comment has nothing to do with racism either, shows where your mind is, and how experienced you are in life in general, if that's the first thing you jump to. If you can't have a conversation without resorting to labels and name calling, please don't @ me again. But also, to clarify my comment's context: the op was stating a generalization and I was just replying with an equally egregious [within context] remark.

@omarrodriguez4237

3 жыл бұрын

@@twinlurker270 Way to jump to conclusions, pretty sure he meant the employees were more eloquent, educated on what they were selling and could explian the specs of the product in simple terms. Nowadays you get some dickhead teenager with an attitude who knows even less than you about the product and cant finish a sentence without "like". Last time I had to speak to some idiot at Best Buy about electronics he had an attitude right off the bat and didnt help at all.

Can't believe he actually thoroughly explained why to buy an IBM

@taylalola9220

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, btw those old ladies look tough

@666Makkura666

3 жыл бұрын

Instead of just blabbing Mhz and stuff to people completely unknown to the tech world. That was just cringy.

@Stoynov666

3 жыл бұрын

yes Hypocrisy wasn't on trend back in the days

1:14 random close ups of the guy's farming hat

@kevin15776

3 жыл бұрын

"Even farmers are buying computers in 1994! It's amazing!"

@sethhopkins2698

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevin15776 Farmers were early adopters. My first experience with a computer in school was in my vocational ag classes in the early 1980s.

@kevin15776

3 жыл бұрын

@@sethhopkins2698 Interesting. Why's that?

@robertnussberger2028

3 жыл бұрын

He's wearing such a big green hat. Maybe he'll find Mario at the nintendo shop and ask to jump on top of gumbas.

I remember this was me 94. Seeing that the salesman had no clue what they were selling just speaking the jargon. So I ordered my PC system through a catalog. Basically just play games especially Doom

camera guy must be like: - oh I wonder what this button does

@lovely_muse89

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Everybody back then wanted a printer because it was the only device they understood the purpose of. The rest was intangible. Also the monitor would be taken for the computer, as the actual computer felt like some additional thingy of unknown purpose.

@JuankQuinteroMejia

3 жыл бұрын

It had to be adverticed as "you can put movies on it and reproduce them in the monitor, and with sound also!"

@Arkandos42

3 жыл бұрын

A large portion of people today don't understand that the monitor is not the computer. The amount of horrorstories of people disconnecting their computer and then complaining that the monitor doesn't work.

@hoppy6437

3 жыл бұрын

It's because the world still ran on paper so a printer was essential. The closest thing most people had to a network was dialing an electronic bulletin board at 2048 baud. About the only places with Internet access in 1994 were the library, university, or the military.

@Muslim11234

3 жыл бұрын

Hoppy ! Damn your old. Like me

@greg_216

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. If you couldn't print it out, it wasn't worth a tinker's dam. On top of that, I'm sure a lot of farmers understood the value of spreadsheets. Even back then, computer bookkeeping wasn't just for Wall Street.

Thanks so much for sharing this with us! So cool to see how it was back then :0

I’m telling you, for those of you that don’t know. This was a much much better world to live in.

*"This bad boy right here has 2mb of ram"*

@crimsoncarp6877

3 жыл бұрын

Laughs in 64 gigabytes of ram

@catwithabat7609

3 жыл бұрын

@@crimsoncarp6877 in ten years i hope someone comments "Laughs In 500 Terabytes Of Ram"

@crimsoncarp6877

3 жыл бұрын

@@catwithabat7609 I don't think anyone would ever need 500 terabytes of 🐏

@cartersanchez7533

3 жыл бұрын

@@crimsoncarp6877 that 700th update to war zone is going to need it

@maiamaya6083

3 жыл бұрын

Jajajajaja

Freddie Mercury sold computers? "Momma, just sold this man..."

@FreezyPop

3 жыл бұрын

Kidnapped his wife and ate his kids 🎵

@judgedredd1399

3 жыл бұрын

Put a pen against his hand Signed this contract Left for farmland. Momma the day just began And now I've got to sale my whole shift through!

@TheFamousRleon

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao so true

@rafaelbuenafe1032

3 жыл бұрын

Tf HAHAHAHAHA

@Dummerbrella987

3 жыл бұрын

Ffff John Mayer at the end too.

One of my first jobs out of HS was building towers for Mouse's Pad Computer store. Most people who worked around or with computers could also code. We were the generation that grew up with computers and not only could use them but also knew how to build, repair and write code.

I really love videos like that, it's like a time machine, thank you.

The second guy sounds so genuine and knowledgeable. Well, the store got lucky to have a great sales man.

@MrMonsi

3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: that man is now Jeff Bezos!

@imnotokay7yago588

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, compared to salesman nowadays, sigh....

@pauldavis5665

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrMonsi That can't be. He doesn't look at all like him.

@hairystyles4212

Жыл бұрын

@@pauldavis5665 lmao woosh

@pauldavis5665

Жыл бұрын

@@hairystyles4212 Hahaha, I know right. I can't believe he thinks he looks like Bezos.

I love the salesman talking to the old ladies...he's just giving them the facts about each brand, at a level they can understand. His voice is also really soothing.

@Harkness78

3 жыл бұрын

Well for "the kids" especially from 1994-1997, PC (he calls it IBM because they had such a stranglehold on the market) had all the games and Apple had... myst? Educational games? was not even close.

@scottyhaines4226

3 жыл бұрын

@@Harkness78 they were all PCs back then. IBM was just the biggest OEM.

@paulgraves1392

3 жыл бұрын

Well a Macintosh and an IBM compatible PC were completely different architectures with different software libraries so its no surprise that he completely makes that warning clear.

@izzard

3 жыл бұрын

CashPrizes and because the Apple machines were also personal computers.

good old days, i remember, what a time to buy a computer.

You know the weird "60's radio voice" people seem to have when you listen to recordings from the era? The 90's are starting to get their own vibe like that. This video could have easily been footage for a 90's news section or documentary.

@sixten8493

3 жыл бұрын

It's the patina of 30 years gone by. Still a strange phenomenom

@nikelinq2899

3 жыл бұрын

It's called the trans-Atlantic accent and it was encouraged to use that voice when speaking publicly

Trainer: if the customer keeps asking questions tell them how many megabytes and ram it has, they should get confused

@denizadagoren2419

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhahaaha

@UnknownUnknown-nd6ho

3 жыл бұрын

This is the best thing I’ve heard all day

@steve00alt70

3 жыл бұрын

They would say your the one thats suppose to kno

@Beryl.Qareem

3 жыл бұрын

And salesman will confused when heard Terabyte

“The kids are very easily manip… err you know, they adapt.”

@Cache_outtt

3 жыл бұрын

😨

@mattsupertramp6506

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha good save

@WilliamKnifeman88

3 жыл бұрын

Hes CIA

@R0MA1

3 жыл бұрын

Suspect 😶

@Lilliz91

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao best part 😂😂

It’s crazy how proud the staff were to talk about these products and you can see how excited they are to be teaching people about this new technology, you go into an entertainment store or apple and theirs no passion at all.

@sovietunion7643

Жыл бұрын

it lost its magic because it became mundane. it went from something new, cutting edge and very intriguing to people of the time to learn, to just something that everyone uses frantically, in fact uses too much to the point of mental sickness in many cases. hell the same happened with cars, and before that trains. the new technology of the era at first is severely intriguing and seems mystical at first but give it a generation its just something new and uninteresting. the first time some caveman used a bow and arrow they were like "holy shit now i can kill things from safety and get way more food" and a week later he found hunting to be a chore.

God I love watching videos like this anything from 80s 90s about technology or whatever it was such a great era before and a great time to be alive