Texas Tech History - Part 4 - AST, Mouser, Cyrix, Apple.
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Places visited in this episode:
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Cyrix Corporation
2703 North Central Expressway, Richardson, TX
Tandy Center
150 Throckmorton street, Fort Worth, TX.
Mouser Electronics original location:
2363 U.S. 287 Frontage Rd, Mansfield, TX 76063
Mouser Electronics current location:
1000 N Main St, Mansfield, TX 76063
AST Computer/Tandy Tech Support and Service
1001 NE Loop 820, Fort Worth TX.
AST Computer/Tandy Manufacturing
2400 Western Center Blvd, Fort Worth, TX.
Apple Computer Factory
2724 Realty Road, Carrollton, TX 75011
Microsoft
7000 State Highway 161, Building LC1, Irving, TX 75039 (current office)
1321 Greenway Dr, Irving, TX 75038 (canal office, opened 1991)
1212 Corporate Dr Irving TX 75038 (hilltop office, opened 1994)
ID Software Current location
1500 N Greenville Ave, Richardson, TX 75081
The guy from Mouser was super cool!
Totally agree
I agree! I really want that PCB ruler now!
Coby's laugh made me smile... and it's 2020, so that takes some doing.
Folks, let's support Mouser by making parts purchases through them, simply because they are a great cool company! I know I will!
@@minty_Joe - I am in!
I'm sorry to hear that this series wasn't all that popular. At least I enjoyed watching all four episodes that have been made!
same. I learned a lot
I agree. I found this series very interesting. I hope someday the interest is there. I would like to see more of this history I grew up enjoying.
Well, for one, I *very much*enjoyed this series. Thanks for all the work.
I have to agree, I really liked these episodes. I am sorry to hear this is the last one. Still looking forward to seeing more on the new studio.
My thoughts exactly!
I just wanted to say how great it was for Mouser to come out, answer some questions, explain their business and give you some freebies. It’s in stark comparison to some of the other companies you’ve visited in this series, who chased you away from their parking lots.
Indeed. Of the dozens of companies I reached out to, Mouser and Texas Instruments were the only ones to offer any help. One guy at Dell marketing wanted to help me, but corporate shot him down, so nothing happened.
@@The8BitGuy That is a shame, the one thing I was thinking while watching was factory or office tours, or just meeting people who work there now might be interesting. Or just getting photos in the foyers with friendly faces in front of the company logos would be interesting. Kinda like stranger parts did when he was in China. I'm more likely to look at mouser when buying parts now because I could see a little of their human side in this video.
Try ordering from Mouser one time and see how nice they are lol, you have to sign your life away to get anything more complex than a resistor out of the US. Fully controlled by triple letter agencies
@@thomassmith4999 All electronic suppliers have to follow ITAR rules in USA to prevent tech falling into wrong hands.
@@MichaelPontisso-mx1bq I'm not from the US so my knowlededge of American law is limmited, but on a general basis and from observations I've made I think that the sad thing is that such rules/laws probably affects and poses more problems for decent law-abaiding cititens and businesses than the "bad guys" that it's supposed to keep away from tech and other assets.. seems like no matter what we do they manage to work around the rules/laws/restrictions..
Not saying that we should just give up and let bad people or organisations have their way, but still it's a shame that regular people and companies most often are the ones ending up suffering the consequences
Texas Tech History - Part 5 - Propane, and Propane Accessories.
Best comment here, well done.
Was gonna like this comment but then I saw 69 and figured I shouldn’t
@@no_you_cant3210 well you can do it now
@@Vinni-2K yep people have no respect for the number
@@no_you_cant3210 how dare them!
Watched the whole series. I think there should be a season 2...
Or make a trip to California and do the same style video!
I would like to watch more of these series.
Can agree
8 bit guy world tour
not gonna happen without some sponsorship.
The 9 mph speed limit on the Microsoft property is hiding the missing Windows release between 8 and 10. 😉
Bruh
Derp
leftover signs from a cancelled Windows 9 advertising campaign
omg...
kek
It is a real shame this series isn't more popular, it really shows how much time and effort you put into it. And you didn't just do the research, you went to the places yourself. And it is really educational. Thank you for going through all the trouble! People don't have the patience to watch something so well made these days...
Agreed, and apropos of nothing, I like your username!
@@BlameThande thanks! :)
@@TeaAndTankControls D:/ We really need to talk about your load times in games you gotta pull it together or I'm gonna need to invest into an SSD I really don't wanna do this because it's expensive but I'm thinkin we're gonna need to let you go...
@@theninjamaster67 Huh? Sir/Ma'am, are you ok? You are not making much sense. I am not a real folder, you know... do you perhaps think the 8bit guy is only running on 8 bits?
@@TeaAndTankControls twas a joke
Too bad this is the last one. This was a truly fascinating series.
i'm sorry to hear that this series wasn't popular enough to allow you to do as much as you hoped/planned for. That said, you did expose us to quite a bit so it was still mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
This surprises me. I would think the subject would be right up his viewers alley. I've enjoyed it.
Yeah, I enjoyed it and hope to see you do something similar in the future so much cool history
Yeah, I've really enjoyed this series and I'm sad it's ending. I could watch days-worth of tech history and not get bored.
@@iwaspaidtoflywithyoubatman Specially when, after years of watching pieces of plastic get retrobrited, this is a nice change of pace.
But nope, I was wrong. And I'm sad, too. Really enjoyed this series.
Agree. Such history trips are core retro.
That makes me sad to hear that these weren't popular enough, you put a lot of work into them, and it was evident by how much information there was!
Being in the Dallas area, it was a super cool series
Yes, it's very disappointing. As a foreigner really enjoyed seeking the big cities of Texas which tells a story of it being more just cowboys and guns.
Yeah....it was sad that this didn’t end up as popular as he hoped.
"If you call Microsoft, you'll talk to someone here."
How did you drive to India so fast?
Its actually a lot of automation companies that specialise in tech support automation like directly.com aimed at providing you with information before seeing a human if they can help it, from there its millions of tier 0 tech support workers who are gig economy with little training and are paid piece rate.
There are levels of tech support offered to you through an internal tool called microsoft rave that allow tech support workers to handle the questions and re-route you up the chain to higher powers or better knowledge or access.
- Used to work gig economy for directly for a year or so.
Our localised Support here in Aus are such bad paying jobs only Indians from overseas that come here to become permanent residents score these roles as a stepping stone. So you call the local number and think you are getting overseas support but it really is all onshore here still.
@@azzajohnson2123 I have no problems with "foreigners" having jobs, but when your one job is to talk to people, you probably should be able to be clear in your audible language. Maybe I'm just HOH.
I’m a DFW resident (not far from Kennedale), and my whole family enjoyed this series. I understand your decision to wrap this up ahead of the original schedule, but I wanted to know this was extremely enjoyable. The production quality is top notch, and it’s clear your spent a lot of time making this excellent series. Thank you!
I’m sorry to hear that the series didn’t perform as well as you would have liked but I hope it brings you a slight bit of comfort to know that I really enjoyed it and appreciated all the effort behind it. You have contributed to the history of personal computing and that is something only a very small amount of people can say. Congrats Dave! I can’t wait to see what you put out next!
It's a real shame that this series didn't take off, it's very interesting!
the videos has hundreds of thousands of views..
If he planned better with a good upload schedule, these videos would take off. Six months is way too long.
@@ridass.7137 Josh is referring to the part at the end about the series costing more than he made from it, and how COVID ruined a lot of possible content for this particular series.
No it's not it sucks!
@@MasterArrow exactly, id love to see more, and who knows, perhaps he could do some sort of fundraising and make it a full on TV miniseries (but I highly doubt it D:)
Mouser: Tries to hire the 8-bit guy. 8-bit guy: Gives out evil laugh!!!
1:40 The "high five" David mentions is the 140 feet high, five level interchange between I-635 and US-75 in Dallas.
Me: "Let's look for some good videos to watch while preping meal."
The8BitGuy: "Uploaded 17 seconds ago"
Man I found this while cookin eggs, thats nuts lol
I peeled 60 potatoes during this. I loved this series so much!!!
@@Gamewar5OOO Eggs are kind of like nuts that come from a bird. Good point!
Same here... I really like The 8Bit Guy!
I really enjoyed this series. Lots of little details that I haven't seen/heard elsewhere!
Well as someone who has never been to Texas, I found the series very interesting. 👍🏻 Thank you from the UK. 😀
This series was actually extremely interesting. I would like more!
As a Texan this was a really fascinating series that had a lot of interesting history I had no idea about.
As a European, I agree :)
As a brazillian, I agree as well.
I lived in Austin TX for 10 years and didn't know much of this history, so it puts various things into context. If you did want to do more digging, I'd be curious about 3D graphics companies in particular and the origins of the Nvidia office in Austin.
As a non-Texan, I very much appreciated it as a whole. I knew that there were some activities centered around computers in that state since I was a kid, but not that much. Make America produce PCs again! And bring back DOS lol.
Same here! I am in the D/FW area!
I thought the series was great, history needs recording, the whole start up of the industry is fascinating to me, thanks.
I watched and enjoyed every episode of this series.
Same with me. I really did enjoy the look back on Texas' computer history. This was a great educational series for me! Fred
My Mouser order arrived today, just as I was watching this episode.
This was a good series. Definitely sheds light on what Texas is really like. Most young city people think Texas is just farmland and cowboys. I'm a Floridian and I have to constantly tell people its not all beaches and palms.
I'm a Floridian living in New York and I constantly have to tell people it's not all crazy people on drugs!
@@nyc90 That too. exactly.
7:13 It used to be 8 mph, but they added an extra mile for parity.
I heard it was because 10MPH is the industry standard and they needed a way of ensuring vendor loyalty.
Ba-dum-tss!
Presumably cause 10 is slow enough buuuut drivers might just look at the first digit, to avoid that, 9 works.
Maybe the decision was in metric and just "translated" to mile. 15 km/h =~ 9mph
@@rtg5881 that actually makes a lot of sense
Seems like microsoft had some leftover 9s that they used for their parking lot
Lmao
Maybe that's why they skipped Windows 9.
You know, LGR had a similar dilemma with his tech-tales series. He loved doing them, and the people watching them loved them, but they just didn't bring the views like his other content. Well, just rest assured that if I ever win the lottery, I'll finance the remaining entries in both series.
You did great work, and even though I'm a Fort Worth native that spent most of his life embedded in the tech of Texas, I still learned quite a bit and enjoyed it thoroughly.
I agree, if I ever get lucky and hit it big I'll for sure drop some of that on funding 8bitguy content lol. I LOVE the road trip stuff
Sweet! I'd like to hear more though, but understandable about the cost vs response. Just a little bit bummed that you didn't get to have a skype chat with John Romero though, would have been great. He told me he was ready for a call from you earlier this summer. :)
Me Too! :)
Anders Enger Jensin
"the man who wishes you a happy synth giving"
NOOOOOOO - At least cover ID via a Skype call with John!
I was the most excited for this. :(
I would have liked to have seen John Romero and what Id software looks like now.
Hey who knows!
8:22 - Last person out forgot to turn off the lights.
I'm disappointed that people did not enjoy this series more. I have absolutely loved this series, the names I knew and the locations and buildings. And seeing some of the original people tell their stories. Too bad, but for what I am worth, Dave, I learned and enjoyed a lot.
I am also sorry this series was not so popular, I personally have found them awesome! Please keep up this great channel as I have been binge watching the videos and love them, they make me feel nostalgic for the way things use too be and lord knows I miss the old days lol.
This has been a great well researched series. I've really enjoyed watching it.
+1 for a season 2. I found this interesting and refreshing.
Honestly 8-Bit Guy, your content just has a charm that's hard to find elsewhere on the platform. It's got a genuine air to it and is highly enjoyable to watch--has made doing tedious college assignments a good bit more bearable!
The final message almost sounded like leading into a dedicated Kickstarter campaign :)
Either way, thank you for this series!
One easy way to find addresses for the old factories is to look up their addresses in their data book/catalogs. Before internet/email era people had to write to them.
Also tax records and various newsoapers of the era, with jobs listings
Ooh, I can send you one of my old computer shopper catalogs! (You'll have to reimburse me on the shipping though :)
@@calvinthedestroyer You can also find quite of few of the Computer Shopper and MicroTimes on archive.org.
Re: the 9 MPH speed limit, I read somewhere many years back that someone did a study and found that using weird speed values on signage instead of nice round numbers tended to make drivers more focused on watching their speed more closely. I've never seen it on any city roads but I once lived near a gated subdivision where their signs were 18 MPH instead of the usual 20 you find in residential areas.
This
at my work they have a speed limit of 14 1/2mph. i think it has something to do with all the golf carts but still
Sammy Hagar -i i cant drive 55./
Great video, I remember having a mouser catalog back in the late 80's that was about 1/8 inch thick and pink on newspaper stock. great company
I hear you saying that this wasn’t as popular a series as you had hoped. As a former patreon supporter and major 8bitguy channel enthusiast, I really really really liked this video. I grew up in the shadow of the Boston areas tech area ,in the 1990s and now a I thought hearing about a different area’s tech industry was so SO super interesting. Thanks for this series David!
damn, this was the best thing on this channel in years...i feel like it could have kept going for a year at least. Road trip documentaries are fantastic content in general.
...i guess people just want yet another retrobriteing video...
And be safe
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I mean... I'd be totally happy for either one tbh
9 miles an hour uses less digits ,than 10 miles an hour , Cost cutting I reckon.
They have a similar speed limit at the National Instruments campus. The explanation I heard when I was there was that the unusual speed limit gets people's attention on the signs as they're driving through.
Blasted Bean Counters!
@@Jose_Pointero You are correct.
It's one less digit so they saved one byte of Cosmic Memory.
I’d imagine that 9 mph signs are relatively rare and would cost more due to the lower supply than a 10 mph sign.
I am sorry to hear that this series was not as popular as you had hoped. I watched all four episodes and enjoyed them tremendously. Considering the amount of work you put in, you deserved to get many more views.
He is truly a great asset to this website
Same here
David, I really enjoyed this series on Texas semiconductor/computer history. I'm from California and in my 50s and I definitely relate with the companies you mentioned and visited because I'm a computer nerd/technology enthusiast, bought and used some of those products. Thanks for the effort and time you made. It really took me down memory-lane in terms of the 80s and 90s when I was younger :)
It’s sad that there wasn’t a lot more interest in these videos. I really did enjoy them and in the process I learned more about technology in the great state of Texas where I’m from. Keep up the good work. 👍
Man, you should crowdfund the sequel to this series, I'm all in for it. Let's make it happen!
Texas instruments was a great company too, I built a audio digitizer from a schematic in commodore magazine back in 89 when I was 12. I lived in Alabama and could not find the 4 bit Analog to Digital converter chip the schematic called for at any local electronics stores. This was pre internet, so much calling around and getting my mom to drive me to every electronics store. I finally wrote Texas Instruments a letter and told them my problem. They were very kind and sent me 3 of the chips I was looking for free. I remember thinking those are the kinds of people you want to do business with.
I'm sure this series will age like fine wine.
10:01 I was always curious about Mouser Electronics. I lived in the nearby town of Midlothian and even applied for a position there once. Didn't get the job, but oh well.
They also make great firearms. I have a K-98 that I love dearly 🙂
I’ve watched the entire series from the UK and looked forwards to this episode for some time now. Season 2 would be great please!
Wow, the Mouser guy was really outstanding. I work for a HW company in Slovakia and we order 99% of all components from Mouser. As far as component suppliers go, they are the best. And of all those tens of thousands of components we ordered from them, they never made a single mistake. Thanks 8-bit Guy for showing their offices in you video.
How disappointing to hear this series wasn’t more popular. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
As a native Texan who no longer resides there, I appreciated feeling like I was back home for short trips! Thanks very much for making what you did of this series!
Really enjoyed this series, especially this last one as I live close to the areas you showed. I actually have a similar ruler from mouser after a presentation they did at my university freshman year.
It's a shame that they weren't as popular as they should be. They have so much valuable information! I really enjoyed them and will definitely rewatch these. I do hope there will be a second season :)
Sorry the series is coming to an end, was very interesting and fun to see as I've lived in Dallas since 99 so recognizing a number of the buildings and companies. Appreciate the effort in putting this together!
May be worth doing more just with less focused scheduling more as you are out and about in passing.
Sad to hear these videos haven't been successful, I've enjoyed them greatly. Keep on trucking David :)
I'll never understand people.... This was some of your best stuff IMHO
Agreed 100%, I wish the episodes would have been longer or with a gag reel at the end, too :)
I think so too
I'm one of those people that didn't watch this series beyond the second episode, but at the same time enjoy almost all of the other 8-bit guy content to the extent that I've watched most of it at least three times, ask me anything! :)
The main issue I've got with the first and second episode is that they don't really go into any interesting tech like the rest of the channel. I'm subscribed to the 8-bit guy because I wanna see restorations and technical details about obscure micro chips and stuff like that. The layout of a circuit board is way more exiting to me than the layout of an office complex that's now been paved over with a big parking lot. The first episode spends a couple of minutes on "this elevator was used when we shipped games" type stuff, and that's just... boring.
I know that the point of this series is to show that Texas is a big and important tech capital where much of the vintage tech was created, but to be honest... that's not a very interesting fact... and even if it was super interesting it doesn't need 4 episodes to convey. One episode condensed would've been enough to make that point. And yes, I would feel exactly the same way about a series about Silicon Valley. Locations of defunct companies are not that interesting.
@@kimkimpa5150 Shut it smooth brain
@@EvertGuzman Triggered?
This series has been my favorite content you’ve produced and the dedication to research and travel is clearly evident. Maybe you can do another round of episodes post pandemic when it’s easier to showcase these locations!
And find myself rewatching this series again, and really wishing you could have continued on with these.
It would be pretty nice if he made a new episode of Commodore History. I actually loved that series and too bad it died a long time ago.
I’m eagerly awaiting the Amiga episode.
I want more 8 Bit Keys videos/restorations/reviews... I think that channel is the thing that's died!
Maybe consider selling the series to Amazon video as like a documentary. Or a series. You may be able to recoup some of the costs. It is interesting.
I can imagine watching it on Netflix or CZcams Premium Originals…
It’s a shame that this series achieved less views than your regular videos; this was some of the most entertaining videos you’ve done and I thoroughly enjoyed them
15-year old me back in 1994 didn’t have a clue that sometime in the future there would be a “TV” show not portraying some historic royalty and their palaces but the historic grounds of companies like 3D Realms, Apple and TI. But if I would have known, it’d all make total sense even back then. This is not just the history of “tech”, it’s OUR history. Thanks for sharing!!
That mini subway is just crazy lol. Straight out of SimTower.
I wonder if it's still there?
@@calvinthedestroyer The subway is long gone but some cars are preserved.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Center_Subway
I appreciate the effort put in, learned a lot from this series.
I loved this series, sad to see them be cut short but I understand the reason, we got 4 great episodes! I'm a Swede but visited Texas a few years ago for 2 months, I've visited a few of the locations you've covered, mainly in Dallas and Fort Worth.
Cheers!
I want to thank you for helping me with motivation. I've been working in IT since 1997. The Neo-IT techs are so cloud oriented and haven't a clue where we really come from. Watching your YT vids brings back that comfortable nostalgia that pushed me into IT to begin with. Once again...Thanks my friend. I appreciate you.
I loved watching this series, thank you for all of the effort!
Quite nice to finally see the end of this series. I had learnt a lot from this series! Thanks 8-Bit Guy!
Ah such a shame, really liked the series! There's really an incredible amount of tech coming from Texas!
Most US states have a tourist dept. This series would be a pretty good idea for funding from the Texas one, if he would be interested in having a sponsor like that.
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I have a particular fondness for AST - we used them for our Netware servers. I was nominally the lead Netware admin, but I spent lots of time speccing and building servers and desktops - including my own workstation, an AST EISA machine that was absolutely maxed out for the early-mid 90s, including an extremely high performance bus-mastering SCSI adapter connected to two 1-gig Micropolis SCSI drives - a true beast that was a joy to use.
I've really enjoyed this series, hopefully it gets discovered more and can warrant further episodes. Also looking forward to update on your new studio space. Keep up the great work!
"If you called MS support this is where they would answer you" Oh but what if MS Support calls me? Huh? Oh wait...
Then you could get your refund of $399.00 :P
As the proud owner of my original C64, TRS-80, and Timex Sinclair, I enjoyed your series on this. Really lets me see my old 'puters in a new light. I'm sorry, monetarily at least, it didn't work out as well as you thought, but still a very enlightening experience for you and us. As a side note, I used to work with one of the designers of the Speak n Spell about 15 years ago. He spoke very highly of living in TX. Sadly passed away last summer. Dude was an absolute genius.
David I am really sad to hear this series didnt do well for you. Living in the UK I found it really interesting hearing about all these places and even some of it became useful when someone I knew was asking about Deloreans.
I appreciated this series, thanks for making it!
This series was AMAZING some of my favorite content on the channel, we really appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into this! Keep up the great work!
As a Texas tech nerd myself I very much so appreciate you taking the time put forth this history to the world. Compaq was a part of my life growing up and it was really cool to see the old building on your video. It’s a place I have driven by many many times over the years. Thank you.
What?! This is the final episode?! NO!!!!! Please produce more!!!! I love this series!! I love Texas!!!
Dang so that is where I got all those Microsoft tech support phone calls from, I thought the place would be in India
I used to work at one of the older buildings for corporate support about 1996.
What if it were indians on work visa
That’s why there’s so many empty buildings now. Much of it has moved to India and China. 80s/90s might have been peak manufacturing and support for USA. ?
I've called MS tech support for their enterprise products (SQL, Exchange, Windows Server) a few times and I've always gotten an Indian on the phone.
You're so enthusiastic it's amazing. I can't believe how interested I was about the discovery of a separate factory entrance to the Apple factory I was
I've loved this series and am sorry to see an end to it. Looking forward to the new studio.
Nice views of Texas and a reminder of just how friendly the people are!
I absolutely love this series, and have enjoyed watching it. Hope to see more if you have a change of heart.
Darn, I was getting excited whenever I saw these get uploaded
Thank you for putting this series together, David! As a fellow techy Texan, this series has made me appreciate my older Compaq, Dell, and Cyrix based PCs that I've held on to for years!
Bringing back suppressed childhood memories of the Tandy center. Riding the train into it was the best freaking part
teared down, replaced, closed, teared down, replaced, closed.
Somewhat depressing series.
Yup we don't have any manufacturing anymore all we are now is office workers and massive warehouses.
Was waiting for part 4 and the moment I got the notification I literally stopped what I was doing to enjoy it.
So sad to hear there was low interest in that series.
As someone who's been to Texas a few times for business, including one time to the BNSF railway building showed earlier in the video, I'm sad to see this series come to an end. I've been really enjoying this series and learning about the tech history of that region that doesn't get enough attention in the wider scheme of things. Thank you for producing the four episode you did!
I lived in Dallas (Deep Ellum, Oak Cliff) between 1994 and 2004 and remember much of this history. Once I worked on the trade show booth for Cyrix. Sadly those were their last days. I used to read articles about the creators of Doom in the Dallas observer. As part of one of my first jobs in the city I drove all over town and clearly remember passing by some of the places you visited. I have no regrets about move back up north, but this Texas "silicon prairie" remembrance has brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for doing it.
Ive really enjoyed the series, thanks for trying out new things and educating, as a fellow educator I salute you! ;)
I am so glad he hit 1 million subs, I’ve been watching for about 5 years and I love his content, he is such an underrated CZcamsr
Edit: Spelling
I really enjoyed the bit about tandy center. i worked as a contract programmer writing software for the radio shack point of sales system. 1995 timeframe. i parked in their remote lot and rode the subway in every day for almost 18 months. i would walk the tandy mall and ate lunch there almost every day. Sad to hear the mall was torn down. super interesting. i have watched all your texas tech episodes and appreciate the time you have put into them. Native Texan who has been a DFWite since 1993. Cheers
One of the things I really love about your videos that really shines through in this series is the process of making the videos. I love your way of interspersing bits of the process right in the middle of the videos. It makes the whole thing feel so much more relatable, and makes it feel like something anyone could do (just not as well!). Sorry this series had to conclude early, but looking forward to everything still to come!
hell yeah finally ! a new episode of this series,
posting this 2 minutes after this was uploaded
I've seen that rooftop Mouser logo without knowing what the company was due to flying into DFW for a layover a couple of times.
I've really enjoyed this history. Something that has driven me crazy actually is finding history, be it motorcycles, ham radios, or cars! History is something most companies never think about--even if that company may have brought something "game changing" to market. So I AM enjoying this look at tech of past.
Tnx om, 73
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Just found your channel and thoroughly enjoyed this series. It brought back a lot of memories. I was born in the 70’s and grew up in Terrell, just east of Dallas. My aunt and uncle worked at NASA and you passed their house on your astronaut tour! My uncle was part of the White Shirt team and my aunt was an attorney for them throughout the 60’, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
This was so fun to watch. I live in San Antonio and plan on driving by the old datapoint building this week.
I hate that it wasn’t that profitable for you but I’m sure glad you produced it. You have a new subscriber!