The Computer Chronicles - Christmas Buyer's Guide (1985)

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  • čas přidán 8. 11. 2012
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Komentáře • 85

  • @dsouth7754
    @dsouth7754 Před 3 lety +25

    Santa hat Gary Kildall is too wholesome for this world.

  • @dreviscerator
    @dreviscerator Před 3 lety +19

    RIP Gary Kildall and George Morrow

  • @peterboil4064
    @peterboil4064 Před 3 lety +29

    All the people in this show are just sooo lovely.

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 Před 10 měsíci

      Unlike the psychotic fkn rude, unprofessional, talentless fake insecure copycat microbrained people of today, and 100% of social media users and 100% of gen z

    • @mabaker
      @mabaker Před 9 měsíci

      They don‘t make them like that anymore. It‘s staggering how society went down.

  • @a.z.b.1916
    @a.z.b.1916 Před 3 lety +22

    I still remember going to these kind of shops with my parents to buy a few good games for my C-64. Those were magical times indeed

  •  Před 3 lety +6

    Well, that's my Christmas shopping sorted then.

  • @2721milesoneoneman
    @2721milesoneoneman Před 8 lety +14

    I had an AG bear. he was my best friend and still is.

  • @nyccollin
    @nyccollin Před 2 lety +5

    Imagine, if you will, a guest on the show that Stewart doesn’t feel the overwhelming urge to cut short, and talk over, time and time again. That guest, simply does not exist.

  • @oldtwins
    @oldtwins Před 8 lety +16

    @24:50 Woz's $5 million purchase of stock yields about 1.6 billion today...

  • @2721milesoneoneman
    @2721milesoneoneman Před 8 lety +13

    AG bear was an amazing bear! He was one of America's first "talking bears" and anytime you picked him up he said hello in "bear talk"😊However, he required a nine volt batery, not a C cell. The original voice boxes were built with a standard wire nine volt conector but after three years of kids pulling out the bateries like they are pulling on taffy and many box replacements later, Alcelon finaly swapped out the wire box for a two point conector box.

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 Před rokem +1

      You may have identified the finishing touch to a pediatric version of the "medical tricorder" people are trying hard to invent. This hypothetical "Assistant Nurse Bair" (a teddy bear in scrubs), while taking vital signs and relaying them to the nurses' station, might engage little patients in "conversation".

  • @OnionMad
    @OnionMad Před rokem +7

    Garry is as giggly as a little girl. So innocent ...

  • @PSYCLOWN185
    @PSYCLOWN185 Před 5 lety +9

    I would kill to go back in time and get to browse around in an old computer store.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 Před 5 lety +3

      make sure to bring back cash printed in that era's currency as you'll need it to pick up anything good

    • @mudsliemuddy2338
      @mudsliemuddy2338 Před 4 lety

      Don’t you mean take back? Dam time travel paradox

  • @CaptchaNeon
    @CaptchaNeon Před 7 lety +8

    I was a toddler when this came out and so I have no idea what my parents might've gotten me for Christmas but, I do know that there's no way they could've afforded a computer for me. As a matter of fact, we didn't get a computer until 1997 and it was a Gateway. The first time I can ever remember using a computer is in 1990 when I was extremely young and that was at school. I can remember it was an Apple 2 but not much else. I love watching these old shows to see what all I might've missed when I was too young to remember. I still don't think I would want a floppy Christmas card lol

    • @CMDRScotty
      @CMDRScotty Před 6 lety

      Captcha Neon God bless you! I got a computer when I turned four.

    • @mudsliemuddy2338
      @mudsliemuddy2338 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah I did not get a computer until 97 . I was 14 and collected scrap metal for two years to buy one

    • @MattExzy
      @MattExzy Před rokem +1

      I remember being a little kid at school and being utterly bewildered at how moving the mouse moved the arrow on the screen. It was black magic to me. I remember the teacher taking the mouse ball out and showing me how it moved the rollers. That must've been around 1991.

  • @RebusForever
    @RebusForever Před 6 lety +12

    If someone had invented those cats after memes became a thing they would be prolific household items by now.

  • @RYAN799
    @RYAN799 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Can you imagine all of your friends getting a Nintendo for Christmas and you get software for the family pc thats plays Christmas music lol!

  • @matthewreynolds2384
    @matthewreynolds2384 Před 7 lety +5

    5,000 views? More like 5,000,000 - its a floppy disk with a digital christmas card on it! The only gift for the person who already has everything

  • @wallacelang1374
    @wallacelang1374 Před 7 měsíci

    I received the Jungle Disk for Christmas of 1985 which fortunately was made in various formats for the most popular computers of the time. 🎁

  • @AutumnGracy
    @AutumnGracy Před 4 měsíci

    I grew up in the mid to late 90's but my parents had old tech in the basement so I played that Reader Rabbit game on one of those computers and we had a dot matrix printer just like the one they show here. Just before the millennium we got a more modern (read: several years old type of) computer than ran Windows 95. I remember using it to play "Barbie: Pet Rescue" and "I Can Be A Dinosaur Finder" and "Learning to Read with Pooh". I also remember having been home sick on 9/11 and having the PBS station I was watching abruptly switch to live news coverage of the towers getting hit, and wandering over to the computer room to tell my mom about it (I literally had not ever heard of these buildings before, but knew it was a major event), only to find her already on AOL or whatever other news site on our dial-up connection, reading updates about it.

  • @OhFishyFish
    @OhFishyFish Před 7 lety +15

    Just imagine receiving a $300 word processor for Christmas...

    • @hallerd
      @hallerd Před 6 lety

      lol

    • @bastardtubeuser
      @bastardtubeuser Před 6 lety +9

      haha thats funny ohFIshyFIsh. this is 1985 though before the 386 mass-market dumb user boom, when men and women typed into machines for serious operations not leisure. when computers had class, unlike now where from the sexcam factories of asia to the sweetshop IT factories in india, desktop applications are mundane trivialities between looking at porn or playing a 3d murder simulator lol .

    • @JaredConnell
      @JaredConnell Před rokem +1

      ​@@bastardtubeuser ya because back in the 80s everyone was pure and innocent. There was definitely no drug use or illicit sex happening. It's not like porn has been a major driving force in all technology since the invention of the camera...

    • @snappnasse
      @snappnasse Před 9 měsíci

      Adjusted for inflation that's around $850 in 2023.

  • @jcp012000
    @jcp012000 Před 10 lety +26

    "Do they mate?" Really Stewart? Really?

  • @electricfire7
    @electricfire7 Před 3 lety +6

    I think gary kildall was a little drunk in this episode

  • @sologals361
    @sologals361 Před 9 lety +2

    I love historyt and this is awesome. In 29 years time from now.............wow. i might rememer ryping this when i am 50

    • @calif1mc
      @calif1mc Před 9 lety +1

      In 30 years, I'll be 73, oy :D When this episode came out, I was in 8th Grade at Traweek Junior High School in West Covina in SoCal.

  • @alexkaa
    @alexkaa Před rokem +1

    As the bear kept talking in the background 😅 - adoreable show!

  • @CMDRScotty
    @CMDRScotty Před 6 lety +2

    Oh my God!!!! Its reader Rabbit I loved that game as a kid. I played the late 80's early and mid 90's version but it was fun.

  • @gunmetal2445
    @gunmetal2445 Před 5 lety +3

    This is amazing. Thank you for uploading. Those floppy greeting cards were really neat.

  • @hyrumholyrood4536
    @hyrumholyrood4536 Před 6 lety

    So many memories here!

  • @AstralWolf86
    @AstralWolf86 Před 7 měsíci

    I was -1 years old when this was filmed.

  • @jovmilos
    @jovmilos Před 3 lety +1

    Look at all the shelves filled with commodore godiness. Worth a fortune now

  • @MrBratkenSolov
    @MrBratkenSolov Před 8 lety +11

    get 8000 programs for free if you buy 1600$ cd drive. Nice.

  • @madProgenitorDeity
    @madProgenitorDeity Před 7 měsíci

    quite the preview pic on this one. lol
    15:28 this bear's "voice".. my god

  • @olsencarl
    @olsencarl Před rokem +1

    I love watching these old tech shows on my iPad Pro using a high speed connection and laughing at them.

  • @CMDRScotty
    @CMDRScotty Před 6 lety +1

    The toy bear they missed was Teddy Ruxpen

  • @incumbentvinyl9291
    @incumbentvinyl9291 Před 2 lety +1

    20:26 - AG still trolling the show, haha!

  • @johnsimon8457
    @johnsimon8457 Před rokem +1

    I think AG Bear was overshadowed by Teddy Ruxpin despite being a lot lower tech. It's a more about personality and likeability.

  • @mudsliemuddy2338
    @mudsliemuddy2338 Před 4 lety +1

    Looks like chindler made a list

  • @wohlhabendermanager
    @wohlhabendermanager Před 3 lety +4

    Coloful graphics at the start of the show. What is this witchery? Bring back the dull brown screen!

  • @MrGencyExit64
    @MrGencyExit64 Před 7 lety +1

    I'll be damned if I can barely hear this video

  • @kumd
    @kumd Před 5 lety +1

    The guy smoking at 2:30. What a time.

  • @CaptchaNeon
    @CaptchaNeon Před 4 lety +1

    AG Bear sounds like the teacher on Charlie Brown, basically it's a huge waste of money

  • @johneygd
    @johneygd Před 7 lety +2

    I like those 2 cats,they are almost indistingeble from real cats,absolutely amezing!!!

  • @DaxVJacobson
    @DaxVJacobson Před 2 lety +1

    @25:40 Rocky's Boots was created by Warren Robinett and if you ever used that program you might notice how it looks a lot like Adventure for the 2600 another program he wrote.

  • @hyun-shik7327
    @hyun-shik7327 Před 8 měsíci

    I so badly wanted them to recommend the NES.

  • @DataWaveTaGo
    @DataWaveTaGo Před rokem +2

    At 16:47 Epson PC compatible for $1,000.00, would have been like $2,700.00 then. Average cost of a car then was $5,100.00, so two Epson PCs could set you back a new family car.

  • @PhoenixNL72-DEGA-
    @PhoenixNL72-DEGA- Před 4 lety

    The start of the parents bane that is talking and noise producing stuffed animals..... :)

  • @I_stand_with_Israel.
    @I_stand_with_Israel. Před 3 lety

    5:11 It‘s a Chanukkia, not a Menora… 🤓😉

  • @Spacelux007
    @Spacelux007 Před 4 měsíci

    An Atari 520 st at 1000 dollars and an Apple macintosh II at 4000 dolllars in 1984 were to keep for life at these prices as an good car. Shade some companies closed their door to be used at home family as other new computers. we should be some concrets co working people on web with youtube with these computers today if our parents bought one. It was easy to let them working. They lied, they said an progress need an new machine to develop but only new programs should appear with some hardware options. .An new hard disk, more ram memmory and graphical memory as an new monitor were enough to use internet an powerfull softwares but they didn't made this choice and new heavier softwares. This emission is courageous and is showing that americans in science gain not their liberty in front of law education people...and machines they created are hang on by lawers without really an authorization about diplomas levels, respect of creators as well an ethical way.

  • @smilingskull7827
    @smilingskull7827 Před rokem

    @7:10 is he advocating inside trading??

    • @romanr.4287
      @romanr.4287 Před rokem +1

      No not at all. George Morrow only describes one feature that is common with competent online brokers nowadays (stop loss). Paul Schindler adds that three years earlier (1982) this capability was only available on software costing $8000. We've come a long way since then.

  • @CaptchaNeon
    @CaptchaNeon Před 4 lety +3

    Paul Schindler was really snide to George on almost every episode where this particular group was around the same table. He reveled in George's failure with his own business and I simply think it's disgusting.

    • @doganb34
      @doganb34 Před 3 lety +1

      "SCHINDLER".... there's the reason.

  • @TurboRonin83
    @TurboRonin83 Před 2 lety

    Byte Me - The International Standard

  • @GeekBoy03
    @GeekBoy03 Před 8 lety

    What, no Furby?

    • @Jakek200
      @Jakek200 Před 3 lety

      You're almost 15 years too early
      And I'm about 4 years too late :/

    • @ens8502
      @ens8502 Před rokem

      Where tamagotchi :/

  • @PyromancerRift
    @PyromancerRift Před 10 měsíci

    Ah, 1985, i bet the Xbox live gold was really cheap at that time, like 10 bucks a month !

  • @unpronouncable2442
    @unpronouncable2442 Před 9 lety +2

    hey uploader! Can this audio be any lower?
    I think I can press my head against the speaker harder and listen to atoms vibrate but theres too much audio comming from this video.

    • @mudsliemuddy2338
      @mudsliemuddy2338 Před 4 lety +6

      I have been investigating you issue for the last four years. I have one last suggestion, turn the sound up on your computer .

    • @sgtcreasegrease
      @sgtcreasegrease Před 4 lety

      @@mudsliemuddy2338 My dude, it's just that the audio is low in the video. If there was a way where you could turn up the audio track and re-export the video, that would solve the problem.

    • @ens8502
      @ens8502 Před rokem

      Audio here is ok, wash your ears y'all!

    • @JohnnyinMN
      @JohnnyinMN Před 11 měsíci

      Gawd. Apparently computer nerds have attitude. Quit bitching and do it yourself. Get out of your mother’s basement.

  • @CaptchaNeon
    @CaptchaNeon Před 7 lety +1

    All I really want to know is what the hell is wrong with the bear and why did that piece of junk cost $30?

  • @hattrick6701
    @hattrick6701 Před 3 lety

    300.00 for just 1 Word Processor.

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 Před 10 měsíci

      Back then people who had computers could afford it and we're so excited to have it even without internet. They would go out and buy software and just enjoy playing with it even if it was a boring word processor. At the time. If they bought a spreadsheet software, they ACTUALLY learned it to the point of mastery and would learn to code to make better spreadsheet software or axtually get jobs that required spreadsheet use and easily be hired due to skill. Nothings like that anymore. Kids today are born in a world of tech but rather than being excited and intelligent due to learning everything there is to learn online, they are insecure sad little childlike apes, with no talent, self respect, professionalsn, and are desperate for likes and attention from strangers and make stuoid ugly faces on tik tok all day for a few likes

  • @GimmeMyGold
    @GimmeMyGold Před 9 lety

    lol @floppydisks

  • @undefinedname1398
    @undefinedname1398 Před 5 lety +3

    Oh no Reader Rabbit used the word "gun". Good thing Twitter wasn't around then. And to bad it's around today, it's worse than the word gun.