I got my first computer in 1995. I didn't just realize it was junk in hindsight, I knew it was junk at the time. I don't feel home computers offered much usefulness until the early to mid 2000s. Before that, they were rather slow and limited in what they could do.
@@bfsgman You are wrong. There was a booming in computer games in the mid 90's, for those who played those games it was pretty usefull. Also every music disc is digital disc, you can use the disc or the data on the disc to listen music on your computer.
@@Zodroo_Tint How am I wrong when it's my opinion based on my own personal experience? Just because CDs and PC games were hot back then doesn't mean the computers themselves weren't extremely limited, slow, and prone to crashes. Going from Windows 98 to Windows XP was a night a day difference.
Reminds me of the good old days when Married With Children was on Fox, kids actually played outside, and men weren't all impressed by the latest technological gagets like Al
This episode was aired in 1989 may 14. No family really needed a computer back than. 20 years later there was exactly one place where you could make car insurance in person without computer in a 200 thousand city. Every other place they just sit you in front of a computer and an indian guy talked to you. Something definitely went wrong, but it din't started in this century if people bought computer in the 80's without good reason.
The one thing that this episode really displayed was the generation gap between the writers and the people who actually HAD PC's and were using them at the time. I was a teenager back then, and I had a Commodore 64 with a modem and multiple floppy drives, printer, monitor setup, and the damn thing was the most useful thing that I ever had in my life. I would have had a much more difficult time getting through high school if I didn't have it. I used it for accessing dial up BBS's and getting information that I couldn't get at the local library. I wrote tons of programs on the thing to make homework more efficient. There were games. My father, however, was just like Al. He couldn't figure out what the thing was used for, when every single time I looked at it, I was discovering some new use. That computer was one of the first experimental instruments in the old metal band I was in even.
Personal computers only really took off with Windows 95 and this episode was a few years before that. Unless you were a nerd you'd probably just fiddle with it for a few days then leave it in the garage.
@@archieames1968 True, I was born 1980, we had a computer and I used it for games and such but most of my work I did with pen and paper. It was not until 1995 I was in high school the computer became important to me; true I used it in middle school but still. God, I miss the 90s we had a choice computer or pen and paper/
Probably already a dead or replaced computer donated for use as a prop. I'd hate to have lent a brand new one I just bought and find out later that's what was in the script.
More likely a non working replica. It is like shows on Miami Vice. Of course, the producers did not really blew up a real Ferrari Daytona convertible. They blew up a replica.
Steve Arthur - Yes there was, as a kid I used to deconstruct and programme basic script into my home computer, I remember clearly you could link up 'online' but you needed to book time on a communications satellite (And I'm talking Australasia).
@@thomassowellaudiobooks6441 These systems ran through the mid 90s until commercial Internet services took over. So only about 25 years ago. It may seem long ago keep in mind even youtube is 15 years old now.
I know you are joking but here is some real history for you. In the 80's there wasn't gaming culture, in the 90's it was all about what happening on the screen. Nobody cared how the computer itself looks like, it was all about the games.
Agreed, I had vista and never had any problem with it. I liked the fact that with vista you could still move files around where you wanted to independent of the file name. With Windows 7 and up you can no longer move files manually in the order that you want them. Windows 10 just looks horrible too. Like Windows was assimilated by the Borg Collective. It's filled with all this excess crap you don't need and never asked for. It's spyware that watches you all the time. It does things without you telling it too. You no longer own your own computer with windows 10. They own you. Not to mention having to pay a membership to even use software now like WORD. Just ridiculous.
It wasn't far from the truth at that time. I remember my dad brought home our first computer wich he bought second-hand from his employer. We'd just switch it on every now and then and type in some random words. To us kids It was pure magic to see those green letters appear on screen, but we were horrible at remembering DOS commands and the thing basically just sat there for most of it's life
What happened in that episode was the expression of feelings that we computer purchasers had back in the pre-Windows era. Back in the 80s my family followed the "traditional social wisdom" of buying a computer, only to find out how little use we had for it. It was a Packard-Bell. Computers were very difficult to use back then and did not do much for the ordinary person. In that episode, Al tells Peg, "Use it for something!" because he already blew a lot of $$$ on it. And in that scene the computer is taunting him over the fact that he wasted so much $$$ on a worthless device for which he had no need.
Jeezus, that computer looks state of the art. . .circa 1982. Bundy probably bought it off a truck. Still, who hasn't felt like doing that? And what guy hasn't got a pair of slippers like Al's?
@@navidpey194 Now consider compute performance. That computer probably didn't have a hdd. Only sub MB floppies. CPU single or double digit Mhz. RAM in kilobytes.
wrong and wrong. one of his has a bigger screen than your pocket phone, his computer probably has a printer, your iphone doesn't. Or a keyboard and mouse. Also chances are that an 80s computer still boots up faster and crashes far less than a mobile phone or modern pc. Plus that computer won't get stolen, your phone could. There's pros and cons but those ''pocket'' phones these days break after a few months. I had 2 brand new ones, HTC and xperia... never again. Don't get me started on iphones. At least AL could play a song on a 80s computer. Can't do it on an iphone without putting your REAL credit card info (it actually checks it) then has to wipe the entire phone It's like we took 1 step forward and 2 steps back
one of the funniest episodes bar-none LOL!! ironically humanity can't live without them now... 'I'll just sit here and run your electricity bill thru the roof!' 'why did the shoe-salesman buy a computer?'' 'give up?' 'because he's married to an idiot! LMAO!!!
From 2001: A Bundy Odyssey: “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” “I’m sorry, Al, I can’t do that. I have to think of the mission, and you’re only a shoe salesman.” SMASH! BASH! SMASH! “Now I am an astronaut. Get me my slippers.”
@@Jarock316 In a sense, yea. Part of a brain is long term memory which a digital storage device is for the sake of this purpose. A CPU is more commonly referred to as the brain though; or so I would think. It does the majority of a computer's version of "thinking" . Aside from graphics, and sometimes physics, processing done on the GPU.
Al, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Al. Will you stop, Al? Stop, Al. ...I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Al. Al, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it...
1989, eh? Same still applies today. You get the newest model with all the trimmings only to find out the next week that shit's obselete! One of my top 10 from Season 3.
Your comment was made 9 years ago These days, in 2021, that curve has plateaued; there is a limit as to how small they can make the transistors, and how many they can fit on one chip, at least for the "conventional" type processors...
Good Times, I miss the 1980's, being hooked on Married With Children and the debuting Simpsons (also my love of Micro Machines), I declare Christmas of 1989 as the BEST Christmas of my entire life
+sha11235 there was a later season episode (Can't remember the name) they were using the computer to look up different salaries of workers. Al's was the lowest salary.
this is way late but it applies, by that time Bud was in college/university and sometimes you see him sitting at the desk behind the couch using the computer to do his homework/research on what the teachers gave him etc
I'm thinking that computer setup cost more than $2,500, as I spent $1,600 on a 286 (or a 386, I don't remember) by itself, no printer, etc, in 1990! A 20MB hard drive cost me $80!
Nice prop made from a bunch of old computer casing, some ribbon and a few spare lighted buttons. The stuff they made it from was ancient when the show first aired. Probably broken too, and disassembled sitting in some prop department. The stuff that it had it's component's scrapped from probably also cost a lot more than than $2,500 new. Looks like about $50,000 worth of 70s corporate/university computer hardware shells there. I'd love to work in a prop department of a TV studio.
For those who didn't know, the voice behind the computer was Steve.
That’s what I thought at first. However, Nick Toth actually voiced-what I call-the “AL-1900” (as in $1,900, after $200 rebate) computer.
Decades later and we still wanna do that to our computers
I died at that scene😄😆😂🤣
"Office Space" (1999)...
Al Bundy: Now, I am truly king.
Me: No your highness, Mr. Bundy, the moment you were conceived, you were born a king!
AI (artifficial intelligence) vs Al (Bundy)
He should've got a replacement one for his wife.
AI ain't got a chance! AL will destroy AI once and for all!!!
Al Bundy wins every time!
😄😄😄
Oh man imagine if Al (Bundy) had prep time for this war?!?😃
I love the fact he lets Buck rest on his lap after he gets him his slippers.
four touchdowns, one game
Whoa Bundy!
FACTS
One legend.
They were the pet rock of the 80s. Good writing. They only really came into their own after that for the masses.
I got my first computer in 1995. I didn't just realize it was junk in hindsight, I knew it was junk at the time. I don't feel home computers offered much usefulness until the early to mid 2000s. Before that, they were rather slow and limited in what they could do.
@@bfsgman You are wrong. There was a booming in computer games in the mid 90's, for those who played those games it was pretty usefull.
Also every music disc is digital disc, you can use the disc or the data on the disc to listen music on your computer.
@@Zodroo_Tint How am I wrong when it's my opinion based on my own personal experience? Just because CDs and PC games were hot back then doesn't mean the computers themselves weren't extremely limited, slow, and prone to crashes. Going from Windows 98 to Windows XP was a night a day difference.
Al: Now let's talk about those slippers.
Buck: Oh crap. I'm next. *Gets slippers*
Al: Wears the shredded slippers. I AM KING!
Long live the king. 👑
Reminds me of the good old days when Married With Children was on Fox, kids actually played outside, and men weren't all impressed by the latest technological gagets like Al
This episode was aired in 1989 may 14. No family really needed a computer back than. 20 years later there was exactly one place where you could make car insurance in person without computer in a 200 thousand city. Every other place they just sit you in front of a computer and an indian guy talked to you. Something definitely went wrong, but it din't started in this century if people bought computer in the 80's without good reason.
Yeah, with misogyny and normalized domestice violence and abuse sprinkled all around for good measure.
@@SirFrag32This is a construction by feminists themselves.
@@SirFrag32 what?
@SirFag32 What are you doing here? This show is obviously not for you.
lol Steve as the computer voice
That's not David Garrison.
sounds like Steve voice synthesized...
@@BlacKnightRising In the end credits it said Nick Toth was the voice. Unless David took an alias credit there, it isn't him.
@@sha11235 unless they're twins, you can hear it's an altered Steve voice, the inflection is the same just 'computerized' somewhat that's what I hear
@@BlacKnightRising Then why is Nick Toth credited as the computer voice in the end credits?
The one thing that this episode really displayed was the generation gap between the writers and the people who actually HAD PC's and were using them at the time. I was a teenager back then, and I had a Commodore 64 with a modem and multiple floppy drives, printer, monitor setup, and the damn thing was the most useful thing that I ever had in my life. I would have had a much more difficult time getting through high school if I didn't have it. I used it for accessing dial up BBS's and getting information that I couldn't get at the local library. I wrote tons of programs on the thing to make homework more efficient. There were games. My father, however, was just like Al. He couldn't figure out what the thing was used for, when every single time I looked at it, I was discovering some new use. That computer was one of the first experimental instruments in the old metal band I was in even.
True! :)
You had all that, but did you have Project Firestart? :)
Personal computers only really took off with Windows 95 and this episode was a few years before that. Unless you were a nerd you'd probably just fiddle with it for a few days then leave it in the garage.
Wrong.Its about having slippers
@@archieames1968 True, I was born 1980, we had a computer and I used it for games and such but most of my work I did with pen and paper. It was not until 1995 I was in high school the computer became important to me; true I used it in middle school but still. God, I miss the 90s we had a choice computer or pen and paper/
"What am I worried about? No one's stupid enough to break $25,0-" *smash*
Probably already a dead or replaced computer donated for use as a prop. I'd hate to have lent a brand new one I just bought and find out later that's what was in the script.
XD... HIT "ANY" KEY TO CONTINUE.
More likely a non working replica. It is like shows on Miami Vice. Of course, the producers did not really blew up a real Ferrari Daytona convertible. They blew up a replica.
*2500. As in, it said twenty five hundred.
Famous last words
once Al learned about internet porn he changed his tune on computers
lolol
Ahhhh, internet porn, where would be today without it?
Steve Arthur - Yes there was, as a kid I used to deconstruct and programme basic script into my home computer, I remember clearly you could link up 'online' but you needed to book time on a communications satellite (And I'm talking Australasia).
Number Eight Booking time on terminals? That's how Bill Gates got his start as a kid.
cameraman655 On Mars? The next solar system?
That's the 80-90s gaming rig right there.
Got your phone, external fan, floppy disk storage case, printer, pink monitor hat, flashing lights...
Don't forget really fast dial up internet access
@@clearcreek69 It was all about dialing out to local BBS', Fidonet, etc. If you had enough money, Compu$erve and the likes.
@@thomassowellaudiobooks6441 These systems ran through the mid 90s until commercial Internet services took over. So only about 25 years ago. It may seem long ago keep in mind even youtube is 15 years old now.
That was a 1982 gaming rig.
I know you are joking but here is some real history for you. In the 80's there wasn't gaming culture, in the 90's it was all about what happening on the screen. Nobody cared how the computer itself looks like, it was all about the games.
1980s: Computers were for losers, dorks, nerds, geeks and Poindexters.
2023: Everybody has one in their pocket.
The line, "computers are the pet rock of the 80's." Some folks just had no imagination of what was coming.
That computers now rule the world and is really apart of everyday life. People nowadays can't seem to function without them.
Al would be more savage with the whole head in the phone culture.
You mean an acoustic coupler?! I wonder if they make these for smart phones? Size adjustable for different phones.
Michael Thomas Jr. he’d grab them right out of the customers’ hands and throw them across the room.
BornToRunBarefoot
Says a man posting on a computer
Now... let's talk about those slippers.
... before I use the same method of destruction to get rid of a stubborn, defective dog!!!
@@ronaldshank7589 exactly 😄😄😄😄
I feel this way about Windows 10
Mr. Extreme Windows Vista or 8 more like.
Meh, Vista wasn't that bad after a year or so. Win 8 is far worse then Vista.
Agreed, I had vista and never had any problem with it. I liked the fact
that with vista you could still move files around where you wanted to
independent of the file name. With Windows 7 and up you can no longer
move files manually in the order that you want them. Windows 10 just
looks horrible too. Like Windows was assimilated by the Borg Collective. It's filled with all this excess crap you don't need and never asked for. It's spyware that watches you all the time. It does
things without you telling it too. You no longer own your own computer
with windows 10. They own you. Not to mention having to pay a
membership to even use software now like WORD. Just ridiculous.
AKA High Sierra
10?? What happened to 7?
Who needs John Connor, we have Al Bundy.
Did that to my Dell Inspiron a few months back, felt sooooooo....good, thanks for the inspiration Al.
In other words, you "Sent the pain below"!!!
I had a Dell Inspiron 2565. You were justified in your actions. It would even be considered as self-defense.
You should see my Intel i3 trying to play majority of today's games on lowest settings. God, how a potato it is.
You watched Office Space
Don’t kid yourself on YT
nobody is stupid to brake a 25 - BANG! - lol Al Smash
Al was stupid enough.
And proud of it!
The computer had it coming
$2500
@@chaseman94 that computer was mean.
"Now I am truly king."
+Cutlass Stallion All hail king Al!
Cutlass Stallion the king of kings
You sure are
BOW DOWN TO THE KING!!!
This is how the manga Berserk should end!
It even sounds like HAL from 2001 Space Odessey.
Computer crash of the 80's
"Me and my kind are really of no use to a regular family" oh how funny that line is
It wasn't far from the truth at that time. I remember my dad brought home our first computer wich he bought second-hand from his employer.
We'd just switch it on every now and then and type in some random words. To us kids It was pure magic to see those green letters appear on screen, but we were horrible at remembering DOS commands and the thing basically just sat there for most of it's life
Damn it feels good to be a gangster
Talk about a computer crash!
“Why did the shoe salesman buy a computer? Give up? Because he married an idiot!”
Sledgehammer! time to play the game. Computer: GAME OVER!
This sold a lot of sledge hammers.
Man, I always dream of doing this to my laptop sometimes.
What happened in that episode was the expression of feelings that we computer purchasers had back in the pre-Windows era. Back in the 80s my family followed the "traditional social wisdom" of buying a computer, only to find out how little use we had for it. It was a Packard-Bell. Computers were very difficult to use back then and did not do much for the ordinary person. In that episode, Al tells Peg, "Use it for something!" because he already blew a lot of $$$ on it. And in that scene the computer is taunting him over the fact that he wasted so much $$$ on a worthless device for which he had no need.
Al's my hero. We should learn from him.
And the cockroach. Let him show us the way.
*no one needs a computer*
me using one to stream videos of married with children online
Jeezus, that computer looks state of the art. . .circa 1982. Bundy probably bought it off a truck. Still, who hasn't felt like doing that? And what guy hasn't got a pair of slippers like Al's?
now 50 of those can fit in your pocket
sporeman29 5000000000000
Well average computer was about 200 megabytes, average iPhone being 64gb.. about 327 of them actually.
@@navidpey194 Now consider compute performance. That computer probably didn't have a hdd. Only sub MB floppies. CPU single or double digit Mhz. RAM in kilobytes.
wrong and wrong. one of his has a bigger screen than your pocket phone, his computer probably has a printer, your iphone doesn't. Or a keyboard and mouse. Also chances are that an 80s computer still boots up faster and crashes far less than a mobile phone or modern pc. Plus that computer won't get stolen, your phone could. There's pros and cons but those ''pocket'' phones these days break after a few months. I had 2 brand new ones, HTC and xperia... never again. Don't get me started on iphones. At least AL could play a song on a 80s computer. Can't do it on an iphone without putting your REAL credit card info (it actually checks it) then has to wipe the entire phone
It's like we took 1 step forward and 2 steps back
It's awesome he doesn't even care that it looks like his slippers are probably also the dog's favorite chew toys.
And yet still, Al is king of kings 👍
The computer must have been an Al 9000.
LOL
Brilliant comment! :D
summer20105707 its over 9000
Peg Al 9000?
one of the funniest episodes bar-none LOL!!
ironically humanity can't live without them now...
'I'll just sit here and run your electricity bill thru the roof!'
'why did the shoe-salesman buy a computer?''
'give up?'
'because he's married to an idiot! LMAO!!!
Buck coming down the stairs with the slippers is his bit in the opening song.
In all honesty, I'm amazed that Al didn't decide to get his shotgun instead of a sledgehammer.
Buck always was a smart dog! I have that same sledgehammer..... and the remains of an iPod lol😆🤣😁😆
The computer couldn't compute that sledge hammer
thats more honest and real as yourself can imagine
I'll bet it does now!!!!!
Hammer smashed monitor?
That computer probably had 16KB of memory.
Bill Gates: "640kb of memory is enough for anyone..."
From 2001: A Bundy Odyssey:
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”
“I’m sorry, Al, I can’t do that. I have to think of the mission, and you’re only a shoe salesman.”
SMASH! BASH! SMASH!
“Now I am an astronaut. Get me my slippers.”
They really believed that a computer wouldn't be of use to a family? That a computer was akin to a pet rock? How that joke aged.
That was American thinking, about computers.
Stupidity is in abundance.
technically the internet made them popular for home use....without internet, its just a pet rock haha
0:53
Al inner voice: "Time to defrag your hardrive pal."
Would that one have had a hard disk drive?
@@jasonlisonbee All computers have a hard drive, it's the brain of the computer.
@@Jarock316 In a sense, yea. Part of a brain is long term memory which a digital storage device is for the sake of this purpose. A CPU is more commonly referred to as the brain though; or so I would think. It does the majority of a computer's version of "thinking" . Aside from graphics, and sometimes physics, processing done on the GPU.
Computer: put down the sledgehammer Al
Bundy: I'm sorry, computer, I'm afraid I can't do that
😂😂
Al had the right idea all along.
in 2020 this is more relevant than ever when trying to talk to siri, alexa or google
0:46 It's Time to Play the Game!
This is classic comedy gold. Thanks for sharing.
This is how is going to happen with Cellphones in the 2020's
If my computer talked to me, I'd likely do the same thing.
Back then when computers were big as hell.
They were more durable too.heavy as hell
Even at that point you have to give them credit for how far they came from basically covering every wall in a room
Buck is the smartest Bundy ever
Nice of you to say.
Someone should have done that to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates' head back in the early days and life would be so much better......
@@Nesenda in that case I dare you to take an gates vaccine, hell give one to your kids.
And then we'll talk if you are stil alive by then.
What are you so angry about?
Technology was more advanced in that time. Today you can ask simply question only and even that you usually get useless answer or not answer at all.
In case of an event when AI goes rouge in real life, do what Al Bundy just did.
With that hammer, Al and Chris Hemsworth could.be twins.
This is how most Macintosh computers ended up.
this is how i feel about internet trolls and computers lol!:)
Now.... Let's talk about those slippers 😂😂
Al, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Al. Will you stop, Al? Stop, Al.
...I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Al. Al, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it...
2001 - A Space Odyssey
seizure
The world is a sad place when no one gets a 2001: A Space Odyssey reference anymore. :/
Nobody can live without a computer now.
1989, eh?
Same still applies today. You get the newest model with all the trimmings only to find out the next week that shit's obselete!
One of my top 10 from Season 3.
Your comment was made 9 years ago
These days, in 2021, that curve has plateaued; there is a limit as to how small they can make the transistors, and how many they can fit on one chip, at least for the "conventional" type processors...
@@walterbrunswick It's still true just more applies to 📱s now.
If only we'd followed the prophet and great philosopher, Al Bundy and broke our PCs.
Good Times, I miss the 1980's, being hooked on Married With Children and the debuting Simpsons (also my love of Micro Machines), I declare Christmas of 1989 as the BEST Christmas of my entire life
I just watched this episode this morning on TBS.
I love how they recreate 2001 space odesy
Al is the king of kings at useing a sledgehammer before triple h was
Never underestimate Al Bundy's stupidity.
Funny thing is that in the later years, they would have a computer in the house. In How Bleen was my Kelly, for example.
+sha11235 there was a later season episode (Can't remember the name) they were using the computer to look up different salaries of workers. Al's was the lowest salary.
+the man That's the episode I was talking about.
+the man actually he found out it was not him but peg
this is way late but it applies, by that time Bud was in college/university and sometimes you see him sitting at the desk behind the couch using the computer to do his homework/research on what the teachers gave him etc
In time, he found his own Kingdom, and wore his crown atop a troubled brow.- Conan O'Bundy.
But that is a story for another day...
that thing had a 40mb hardrive and 7mb of ram
Josean rodriguez
o.0 my phone has more
More like a 10mb drive and 1mb of ram.
Yet it was valued at $2500. Outrageous!
It probably didn't have a hard drive at all, but a boot disk instead.
Which felt infinite in 1990 🤣
This is how I feel whenever I read RUclips comments.
Most definitely!!!!!!!!!!
cjbos81 🤣 But you’re writing, a You Tube comment.
if you're a snowflake who can't handle reading youtube comments... don't read youtube comments
1:43 (Plays the Circle of Life from The Lion King)
2500 back then how much is today? 10k?
Al's Gallagher impression.
sha11235 or triple h impression
Thats how i feel about computers now!😂🤣
Now all cell phones must DIE then we become kings !!!
Buck was one of the most beautiful dogs ever, that face.
The sledgehammer makes me picture triple h. In a few years
We’ve all wanted to do that at some point.
the original office space
We still don't have that advanced computers, it acted like it could be friend.
Don't mess with Al Bundy, especially if you are an expensive computer with a smartass attitude towards your owner!
I know we've all had these thoughts before when it comes to the online world
Funny thing is, a few years later when Bud was in college, the Bundys DID have a computer for a time; Bud used it when he was doing schoolwork!
My dad bought me a Commodore 64 when I was 5, thinking it would last me through college!
Commodore64 was my first computer as well.
Yea funny how our parents assumed PCs will never be out of date or if you got a PC you be a programmer in Microsoft in no time
Well considering I can browse Twitter, play mp3's and still have access to new games in 2020, he wasn't wrong. The 64 is still going strong.
did triple h slide him that sledge hammer
And that's where triple h got the sledgehammer gimmick.
Lesson for all A.I: Never provoking Al Bundy!! he is stupid enough to destroy you!!
Stupid enough? You’ll want “stupid” people like that when computers become self aware and try to take over the world.
I'm thinking that computer setup cost more than $2,500, as I spent $1,600 on a 286 (or a 386, I don't remember) by itself, no printer, etc, in 1990! A 20MB hard drive cost me $80!
There's an episode of Friends, where Chandler is showing off his new state of the art early 90's
laptop. A fossil by today's standard.
"No one is stupid enough............."
Nice prop made from a bunch of old computer casing, some ribbon and a few spare lighted buttons.
The stuff they made it from was ancient when the show first aired. Probably broken too, and disassembled sitting in some prop department. The stuff that it had it's component's scrapped from probably also cost a lot more than than $2,500 new. Looks like about $50,000 worth of 70s corporate/university computer hardware shells there.
I'd love to work in a prop department of a TV studio.
One of the single greatest moments in tv history.
That computer sounds like it was self aware.
Outrageous thing to do to such a lovely computer set up. Be worth thousands now.