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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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
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!!
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.
+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.
+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)
@@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!
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.
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.
@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....
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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 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!
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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 :).
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.
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.
What a blast from the past! You gotta love that 640x480 desktop resolution!
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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...
+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.
+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!
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.
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...
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
+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.
+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).
+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.
+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.
+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
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)
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
I remember this so well! I was traveling in health care with an enormous, suitcase-sized Olympia laptop with 2mb RAM and using DOS and Lotus 123. We got new corporate computers when the company went with Windows 3.0 and then later 3.1. I was using Word Perfect for wp.
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.
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
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.
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.
I remember viewing Windows 3.0 as a curiosity. I continued to use the DOS front end until Windows 95 came out. I was impressed with the Windows version of Wordperfect (I miss that program). Geez, seeing Procomm Plus mentioned is a real nostalgia trip!
i'm 27. in junior high, I used Mac OS 8 and Windows 3.1 (the latter because the school didn't upgrade very early), and at home I had a windows 95 PC. even though the stuff in this video predates my experience, for some reason I love watching it. i wonder if it's because, when I see all of the leaps we've made over the last few decades, I can only imagine where we'll be as the 21st century goes on
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..
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.
Gary Kildall is the unsung hero who never got to indulge in the riches he should have had for his colossal contributions that gave Microsoft its big break in the pc marketplace.
well that's life dude you never know when your time will be up you may live another 30 years or you may die tomorrow so live life to the fullest and enjoy it now cause you don't know what tomorrow has in store for you like cancer and such
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.
F**k yeah!
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.
Never had this program in UK, but had similar, and similarly had no way of affording the featured tech. Oh, for a SGI Onyx2 :-)
Nearly forty years later checks ebay and still cannot afford it.
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
Features a clock and a calculator. Breathtaking.
You are breathtaking
What about that awesome autoexec.bat file?
@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.
But the iPad doesn't come with a calculator! "Progress"
The Amiga clock was better. ;)
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!
It's a shame that a magazine such as Byte is no more.
🎉 0:45 ACK
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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.
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
Thirty years later and still nobody wants to hear about powerpoint.
Powerpoint make me sleepy...
Yeah, unfortunately I've got no choice but to use this at work sometimes...
@@otto16121970 ur not sposed to stick forks in it.
PowerPoint 👉 PowerPoint 👈 PowerPoint 👉
@@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
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!!
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.
on a third hand (bad joke) we are closer to 2050 than 1990 so let that sink in ...
U Old fart
I had the same weird feeling. Where did the time go?
Coming to you from 2024
I think it's hilarious that Microsoft and Apple fought over who "owns" the GUI considering they both stole the concept from Xerox PARC.
+marktrade88 Xerox sued Apple for infringement. And exclusive access does not imply exclusive licensing.
+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.
+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)
+Gavin Snyder Apple licensed the concept from Xerox exclusively, Microsoft flat out stole it. It's that simple.
+Kiyoshi Kirishima would love to see proof of that!
I remember Windows 3.0 and 3.1. My God, I am old...
@@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!
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.
My first OS with with a GUI was Amiga Workbench 😎
I JUST used Windows 3.11 (on a real 486) to play Stunts with my kid and show him the magic of MSPAINT.
I hear you mate, damn has it been that long?!
The days when as a young boy I drooled over this stuff.
The excitement of fast advancements in computing is gone now.
yea the 90s was definitely the best era for technology. shame i only remember the mid/late 90s being born in 1991
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.
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
Hey, it’s the future, you spoke too soon
Hey, it's 2038, you spoke too late. My 32-Bit CPU burst into flames.
Gary Kildall was an absolute genius who was never fully appreciated nor compensated for his contributions to modern computing.
@deckard163 No she's spot on That's what happened!!
@deckard163 So you saying that he was never in a bar fight even though there was multiple witnesses
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@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....
@deckard163 Do you have firsthand accounts of these so-called facts? Because they do sound like the drivel from a mad conspiracy believing person...
Besides, Kelly's accounts are what I have read and heard too...
I love the presenter's delivery... No "uuuuums", no smacking between sentences, no vocal fry... true professional.
Unlike the software…
???What?
The presenter may be a true professional, unlike the software.
Seriously:D You gonna beat a horse that's been dead for almost 30 years?:D
Wow. It was already "professional" that long ago?
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."
"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.
That sounds really cool! If that was a show I’d watch it
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.
@@JTMarlin8you have to use a 14" CRT monitor, then 640x480 looks about right
Thank you for the recommendation CZcams.
WYSIWYG, damn long time since I heard that term. Means "what you see is what you get" for all you young folks.
This is still a fairly common term in web design, mainly in terms of content editors such as TinyMCE.
It’s in use for modern web design constantly.
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.
I remember that term back in the day of using lotus...
@@thefonzkiss Yeah, but only in a niche sense.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@steeviebops I know that.
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.
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.
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....
@@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!
@@arokh72 I don't miss paying $4000 (in 80s money) for a personal computer though. lol
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!
who else feel the urge to degauss that monitor and re-adjust the skews while watching this?
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.
booOONNNNNG click!
@@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.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 They obviously meant the later episodes. The show went on until 2002.
... 🤣🤣🤣 you have to be a tech.
What really strikes me watching this, is that we are still pretty much using the same innovations and concepts made back then
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.
I remember this computer environment like it was yesterday. Man, have we come a long way baby!
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 feel super old now that I remember watching this on PBS as a kid.
+Anthony Whyte I feel young. I was just 3 years old when this show was broadcasted :)
I was 2nd year highschool when this aired
Feel glad, some people don’t make it far
I remember watching it when I was in my thirties.
try watching this at 26.
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.
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.
You sound like one of the retards who uses linux and thinks it's better for the general user over Windows.
Can you explain where the DR DOS version was better than MS DOS? I always wondered that.
@@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.
@@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 :).
I was born in almost 1980. I miss 5.25 diskettes . I love Ms-dos , love old graphic style.
It's fun hearing Gary Kildall try to say "MS-DOS" without vomiting.
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.
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.
My God I used to watch this show as a kid.
What a blast from the past! You gotta love that 640x480 desktop resolution!
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...
+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.
+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!
doalwa People like him are very rare nowadays :(
We need more people like him.
+MegaBojan1993 Agreed. He was one of the geniuses who helped make the computer world what it is today.
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
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.
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...
At some stage they (MS) probably thought that hiding this could translate to money. I remember huge buzz around this issue at the time.
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.
Her Sean Murray moment. ;)
@@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
No starting sentences off with "So." No "Uptalking." No statements that sound like questions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Whatever it is its all memories now 33 years back ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Discovering this channel and Motorweek's Retro Reviews has put me in nostalgia heaven.
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!
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
I actually remember watching this when I was a kid. I was amazed at the time.
I have 80 gb of system ram is that enough or do I need more?
The fact that they had machines with
And with
The original XT had a 64k option :)
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
Same.
Or you could have been an entrepreneur like Michael Dell and have your own business and being a billionaire
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.
That is sad. Seems like such a straight guy too.
I heard he got into a bar fight that how he died!
@@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.
:(
@MichaelKingsfordGray lukachu kaubwoay!
I can't consider it nostalgia (because I wasn't born yet) but I love the aesthetic of old tech.
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!
Yep - That's how I raised my three sons (80's babies).
2:20 c: drive still with us after all these years.
That's only in Microsoft systems.
What c: drive? I only see /dev/sda!
Andrew Piatek yeah, most of them still are
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.
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...
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.
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.
@@iplyrunescape305It’s mostly been in security and stability (maybe not so much the applications but at least OSes are way more stable).
Computer Chronicles was and is still AWESOME!!!
This is nuts, this episode came out the day I was born and now I work with computers and it's so different now
Paul Schindler should combine all of his presentations into a list. I'd love to see Schindler's list
List of being wrong
oY VEY! lol
@@lucius1976 He wasn't wrong here. HP inkjet printers weren't exactly a flop.
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.
@Kaneki Ken No
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.
@@Eidelmania Yes
@@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.
"Hack the planet!" LOL! That was about 5 years before it's time with BBSes. More like Robocop/OCP era of computing...
Apple would patent the process of breathing if it was allowed to.
Zmajcek As if apple is the only corporation that wants to patent stuff and make money...
They wanted to patent a GUI. To this day, they are doing their utmost to milk as much money from their customers as possible.
@@TheDa6781 As if every other large corporation doesn't have the exact same goal. Don't be naive.
@@halffulltome most don't go to such extremes
Zmajcek Give me an example of what you consider extreme.
I can't wait for this windows 3 to come out. This will finally give me a reason to buy a computer! 😁👍👍
Hold out for 3.11 where the bugs are worked out and networking is available (or so I hear).
@@bach730 Awww yeah! 😁
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.
+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.
+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).
+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.
+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.
+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
13:14 - St. Paulie Girl cases holding a shelf holding the monitor....
Small-business AF! hahaha
ftw
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)
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.
The more you read the more you find out how much of a badass he was
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.
I used to use Windows 3. I remember a lot of these features.
I used Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1 in the school in the 90s
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.
As stated in the program, Xerox invented the GUI back in the seventies.
@@0raffie0 Imagine the manager that said, ok, dumb idea, this will never catch on :lol:
Apple was a corporate assclown then and same goes for now. They never changed.
@@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
@@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.
Thank you, Time Machine, this documentary is still not outdated today
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.
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.
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...
@@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.
@@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.
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.
Bil got tired of Gary and hired hitman 😢
Would love to see a continuation of this show from 2002 to present day.
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.
@@_PatrickO You seem fun to be around.
@@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.
@@_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.
We do. It's called Linus Tech Tip and Jayz two cent.
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!
"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.
twist ending: 3 of those fonts are variations of windings and the other is comic sans
If Apple sold fonts...
@9:32 remember the Hot Dog Stand color scheme?
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.
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.
I was so addicted to this show back in the day.
Every single week for me as well. Sunday mornings where I lived.
Watching this show resulted in me buying a computer for my business. Good times.
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.
I'm glad I started on Windows 95
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.
As someone born on the 1920s, this was like magic when it first came out. Still never used a computer.
I often wonder how older people view the current world. It must be mind blowing! 😁
"Still never used a computer."
....and how exactly are you communicating this wisdom to us beantown_billy - a clockwork mangle? 😄
@@bbbf09 It is possible to use the Internet without a computer
@@beantown_billy2405 I guess you use a smart phone? Basically a portable computer.
@@LonesomeTroubadour Not a computer in the context of what we're talking about.
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..
Xerox PARC
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.
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.
What a fascinating video to watch in this day. I used Windows 3.0 on my dads PC when I was a teenager. Brilliant stuff.
Wait, is she using a case of St. Pauly Girl beer to hold up her monitor stand @13:49? Outstanding. GEOS was awesome, too.
Back when Berkeley was hip instead of woke.
Damn. Even in 1990 at 23:50 we still couldn’t get away from corona.
I remember this so well! I was traveling in health care with an enormous, suitcase-sized Olympia laptop with 2mb RAM and using DOS and Lotus 123. We got new corporate computers when the company went with Windows 3.0 and then later 3.1. I was using Word Perfect for wp.
It's amazing to see how far we've come with comb-over technology.
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.
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
Adjust for inflation and laugh some more.
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.
Marketing pukes. Never could stand the schmucks.
@@nickwallette6201 He has to.
Lol I had to rewind that bit, I was like W,T.F, 400 bucks for 6 additional fonts..?!
Playing game and watching this at same time look from future
The countdown intro feels like it should lead into an analog horror segment
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.
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.
I remember viewing Windows 3.0 as a curiosity. I continued to use the DOS front end until Windows 95 came out. I was impressed with the Windows version of Wordperfect (I miss that program). Geez, seeing Procomm Plus mentioned is a real nostalgia trip!
I still have Windows 3.1,new in box on floppies
I loved Word Perfect UNTIL they migrated to Windows. Then it would crash left, right and center. Ultimately I moved over to MS word for this reason.
Love the computer chronicles used to watch every week!
Thanks for posting this. It's great to look back.
i'm 27. in junior high, I used Mac OS 8 and Windows 3.1 (the latter because the school didn't upgrade very early), and at home I had a windows 95 PC.
even though the stuff in this video predates my experience, for some reason I love watching it. i wonder if it's because, when I see all of the leaps we've made over the last few decades, I can only imagine where we'll be as the 21st century goes on
A combination of Wall-E and Idiocracy with a spice of Mad Max - The Nightrider... 💥
When he spoke his first words, I expected to hear "and this is Motorweek"
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..
I remember watching this series first run. . Thanks for posting!
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.
"I know you wanna tell us more and more about PowerPoint but we've had it, so..."
Many innovative features are still used today!
Gold! It's so good to see this preserved as the computer chronicles is an important part in history. Gary Kildall, deserve more recognition.
Gary Kildall is the unsung hero who never got to indulge in the riches he should have had for his colossal contributions that gave Microsoft its big break in the pc marketplace.
well that's life dude you never know when your time will be up you may live another 30 years or you may die tomorrow so live life to the fullest and enjoy it now cause you don't know what tomorrow has in store for you like cancer and such
It sounds like he was a multi millionaire so I’m not sure what you mean
@@lawrencescales9864Sold his company for 120 million in 1991 money! That’s 270 million in today’s money, he was loaded
@@JollyGiant19 Yea, this isn't like the guy who invented the blue LED and got a whopping $200 out of it.
A could binge watch these things all day for weeks on end.
Glad they archived these shows.
All of that in just 4 MB of RAM. Programmers were awesome back in the days.