The Sony MAVICA released in 1981 was a PROTOTYPE back then. Using proprietary 2 inch disk storage, only for playback on TV's - not computers. Certainly not the ones in the early 80ies. It wasn't until the late 90ies until the model with 3.5inch disk appeared with the digital options showed in this video.
I am a 80s kid (born 1978) and I never heard of the Sony Watchman. Guess they weren't sold where I grew up, in Germany. I'm not sure whether it is because I just grew up poor (didn't think so at the time, because my parents both had decent middle class jobs) or whether stuff really was just crazy expensive back then, but what I remember most about "tech" and gadgets from the 80s is that everything always was prohibitively expensive. TV sets, VHS recorders and stuff like that were always huge investments you could only do on a family level, like buying a new car. Me getting a portable TV or something like that for myself would have been unthinkable. Buying stuff like that was always one of those: "OK, but if we buy this thing, we won't have a family vacation this year."-kind of deals. I spend a lot of time back then just longingly staring at mail order catalogs and stuff like that, dreaming of how I one day would perhaps become rich and be able to afford something like a car telephone, or a fancy stereo tower, or my own computer.
@@ThadMiller1 Sicher dass der Papa das Ding nicht im Ausland gekauft hat? Meine halbe Kindheit bestand damals daraus schmachtend Versandkataloge (vorallem die Elektronikabteilungen) anzustarren und davon zu träumen das teure Zeug zu besitzen. An tragbare Fernseher kann ich mich erinnern, aber nicht an dieses Modell. Kann natürlich sein dass mich meine Erinnerung täuscht.
@@TrangleC Er hat das Ding in einer Stadt bei uns selbst gekauft. War die BE Version. Das Ami Gerät das er testweise hatte (US Übungsplatz in der Nähe), hat glaube ich bei uns nicht funktioniert.
In 1987, I got a Nintendo NES. The games that you bought for it had an amazing technology called Spitblow. After about 10-12 months, this technology would kick in. Normally the simple task of inserting the cartridge into the game console and gently pushing down and pressing the power button would take seconds to do. When the Spitblow interaction tech kicked in, you and the game were one. You turned the game around and blew on the back of the game cartridge and then didn't insert the game all the way into the console. Just snapped it on the lip of the game entry point of the console. Then you would repeat this 150 times or when you eventually pass out from respiratory failure when you were blowing the Ricketts germs you had dehydration from the spit that flew from your cakehole for 2 hrs. A small price to pay to enter cheat codes to fight Mike Tyson without fighting 29 other fighters to get to him or get 30 lives and unlimited weapons on Contra. Oh the good ole days.
I remember all of these gadgets but I couldn't afford any of them and now most of them are no longer around and I'm 59 now but Thanks for the awesome Memories.🇺🇲🖥️💻🖥️🇺🇲
I'm not sure whether it is because I just grew up poor (didn't think so at the time, because my parents both had decent middle class jobs) or whether stuff really was just crazy expensive back then, but what I remember most about "tech" and gadgets from the 80s is that everything always was prohibitively expensive. TV sets, VHS recorders and stuff like that were always huge investments you could only do on a family level, like buying a new car. Me getting a portable TV or something like that for myself would have been unthinkable. Buying stuff like that was always one of those: "OK, but if we buy this thing, we won't have a family vacation this year."-kind of deals. I spent a lot of time back then just longingly staring at mail order catalogs and stuff like that, dreaming of how I one day would perhaps become rich and be able to afford something like a car phone, or a fancy stereo tower, or my own computer.
I had a calculator watch, and am not ashamed to admit it. I loved that thing, and kept it until it simply broke. They're collectible today, especially the more-expensive Hewlett-Packard ones.
Very nice summary of 80's tech ! I still have my Vectrex video game system and it works fine. And the arcade game Amour Attack as seen here was a very good copy of the one you could play in arcades of the day. I don't recall many of these computers in Canada, I don't think they were widely available. I have an old Atari Lynx I got my nephew; have to see if it still works. In the early 80's the Seiko TV watch was sold in Canada but it was $800 !!! Crazy. Looks cool but with weak TV signals who wants a fuzzy 1 inch TV screen ?
There are some Enthusiast Clubs for the ancient Computers!! I do know of a Club for enthusiasts of the HP 3000/ MPE Business Computers that began in the late 1960s and remained in service until around 2003. In 2001, I was assigned with removing and disposing of HP 3000 systems that had become obsolete. Several of the systems were the very large HP 3000 Series 70s that had been in service for close to 15 years!!
I remember selling quite a few of the Tandy 100 and TRS-80 COlor computer back in the mid-80s. And talking about the Polaroid, my father owned a SX-70 in the early '70s.
I had a Fuji digital camera from about 1997 and it had a resolution of 640x480. The Mavica prototype from 1981, and all subsequent Mavicas into the 90s, were not digital. Even though they used a disk that could normally be used for computers it actually stored it in an analog format. The disk worked more like an analog tape, like a cassette or reel-to-reel tape. It basically was like a camcorder that captured one still frame rather than a series of them, and used the same CCD sensor that analog video cameras of the era used, which is why the photos were stored in an analog format. And the photos could only be played back using the camera on a TV and not printed like later digital photos.
I had a SONY Mavica, a Lynx, a Casio calculator watch and a TRS-80 Model 3!!! It had TWO floppy disk drives, a 3 1/2 and a 5 1/4 inch. I also had an external 8" disk drive that I mostly used for work. I couldn't afford the Sony Watchman!. I only saw the Seiko TV Watch. Now, Commodore computers were way ahead of their time. I had the original Polaroid as well. I had a Speak and Spell as well, I loved it. Lastly, I had an Apple IIe! I donated most of these to museums along the years.
I remember the 80s well!! My career during that time was in Computer Operations! Mainframe & Mini Computers, Batch Job Processing, 1600 and 6250 bpi Reel Tapes, Large Printers & Fan-Fold Forms. etc!! Having been born in 1958, I have witnessed Technological developments that were the stuff of Science fiction in the 60s & 70s!! In1979 (age 21) if you had told me that someday everyone would have tiny moble phones, I would have scoffed!! In 1976, I was part of the CB Radio craze!! Base Stations and Mobile Units seemed almost like Star Trek to those of us who lived in those times!!
I seen a Seiko TV watch .. at Sears but it had a liquid Crystal screen so every time you move your wrist the picture the video would get all jumbled up you'd have to keep your arm still lol still cool back then
There is no way on planet earth that the first calculator watch was released in 1980. I was going to guess mid 70's so I even googled it. And it came up 1975. Ooh I just got to the Polaroid bit now. And I do accept that you might just be pointing out that particular fancy model shown was introduced in the 1980's. Polaroid cameras were around for over 30 years before the 1980's.
From what I remember the Atari Lynx was a failure and even though vastly superior the greatly reduced battery life from the color display and more powerful hardware made people still prefer the inferior gameboy. SEGA gamegear also shared that same flaw and failed in the same way.
not sure why we only hear about the speak n spell while there were other that looked like it but did other things, i had one but cant remember what it did.
Sinclair?? That was an Oil Company!! I remember Sinclair and Scot Gas Stations!! 😊😊 In 1983, I paid $80 for a little 5" B&W portable that could run on 8 C-cells, 12v in a car and, of course, 120 in the home. A Color version was available for $200!
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The Sony MAVICA released in 1981 was a PROTOTYPE back then. Using proprietary 2 inch disk storage, only for playback on TV's - not computers. Certainly not the ones in the early 80ies. It wasn't until the late 90ies until the model with 3.5inch disk appeared with the digital options showed in this video.
I thought that was a bit off. Those types of discs didn’t exist until the late 80s,, 88, 89. Those compression codex sure didn’t exist either.
I am a 80s kid (born 1978) and I never heard of the Sony Watchman. Guess they weren't sold where I grew up, in Germany.
I'm not sure whether it is because I just grew up poor (didn't think so at the time, because my parents both had decent middle class jobs) or whether stuff really was just crazy expensive back then, but what I remember most about "tech" and gadgets from the 80s is that everything always was prohibitively expensive.
TV sets, VHS recorders and stuff like that were always huge investments you could only do on a family level, like buying a new car. Me getting a portable TV or something like that for myself would have been unthinkable.
Buying stuff like that was always one of those: "OK, but if we buy this thing, we won't have a family vacation this year."-kind of deals.
I spend a lot of time back then just longingly staring at mail order catalogs and stuff like that, dreaming of how I one day would perhaps become rich and be able to afford something like a car telephone, or a fancy stereo tower, or my own computer.
Doch, ein Freund hatte den Sony Mini TV. Sein Papa hatte ne Firma... 😅
@@ThadMiller1 Sicher dass der Papa das Ding nicht im Ausland gekauft hat?
Meine halbe Kindheit bestand damals daraus schmachtend Versandkataloge (vorallem die Elektronikabteilungen) anzustarren und davon zu träumen das teure Zeug zu besitzen.
An tragbare Fernseher kann ich mich erinnern, aber nicht an dieses Modell.
Kann natürlich sein dass mich meine Erinnerung täuscht.
@@TrangleC Er hat das Ding in einer Stadt bei uns selbst gekauft. War die BE Version. Das Ami Gerät das er testweise hatte (US Übungsplatz in der Nähe), hat glaube ich bei uns nicht funktioniert.
In 1987, I got a Nintendo NES. The games that you bought for it had an amazing technology called Spitblow. After about 10-12 months, this technology would kick in. Normally the simple task of inserting the cartridge into the game console and gently pushing down and pressing the power button would take seconds to do. When the Spitblow interaction tech kicked in, you and the game were one. You turned the game around and blew on the back of the game cartridge and then didn't insert the game all the way into the console. Just snapped it on the lip of the game entry point of the console. Then you would repeat this 150 times or when you eventually pass out from respiratory failure when you were blowing the Ricketts germs you had dehydration from the spit that flew from your cakehole for 2 hrs. A small price to pay to enter cheat codes to fight Mike Tyson without fighting 29 other fighters to get to him or get 30 lives and unlimited weapons on Contra. Oh the good ole days.
Unfortunately, Spit low technology had the side effect of not actually cleaning the pins, it did cause corrosion from moisture though.
I remember all of these gadgets but I couldn't afford any of them
and now most of them are no longer around and I'm 59 now but
Thanks for the awesome Memories.🇺🇲🖥️💻🖥️🇺🇲
I'm not sure whether it is because I just grew up poor (didn't think so at the time, because my parents both had decent middle class jobs) or whether stuff really was just crazy expensive back then, but what I remember most about "tech" and gadgets from the 80s is that everything always was prohibitively expensive.
TV sets, VHS recorders and stuff like that were always huge investments you could only do on a family level, like buying a new car. Me getting a portable TV or something like that for myself would have been unthinkable.
Buying stuff like that was always one of those: "OK, but if we buy this thing, we won't have a family vacation this year."-kind of deals.
I spent a lot of time back then just longingly staring at mail order catalogs and stuff like that, dreaming of how I one day would perhaps become rich and be able to afford something like a car phone, or a fancy stereo tower, or my own computer.
I had a calculator watch, and am not ashamed to admit it. I loved that thing, and kept it until it simply broke. They're collectible today, especially the more-expensive Hewlett-Packard ones.
i had one of those casio calculator watches.
No Fooling? Too bad you don't still have it!! It would be awesome if you did and even moreso if it worked!!
Very nice summary of 80's tech ! I still have my Vectrex video game system and it works fine. And the arcade game Amour Attack as seen here was a very good copy of the one you could play in arcades of the day. I don't recall many of these computers in Canada, I don't think they were widely available. I have an old Atari Lynx I got my nephew; have to see if it still works. In the early 80's the Seiko TV watch was sold in Canada but it was $800 !!! Crazy. Looks cool but with weak TV signals who wants a fuzzy 1 inch TV screen ?
i have some computers, vic 20, coco 2, TI99+4, trs80 model 3, mc10, ibm 5150 and apple IIe enhanced.
There are some Enthusiast Clubs for the ancient Computers!! I do know of a Club for enthusiasts of the HP 3000/ MPE Business Computers that began in the late 1960s and remained in service until around 2003. In 2001, I was assigned with removing and disposing of HP 3000 systems that had become obsolete. Several of the systems were the very large HP 3000 Series 70s that had been in service for close to 15 years!!
All my friends (who were tech heads) called the TRS-80 computer “the TRaSh-80l.
I still have the Commodore 64, Apple ii, Texas Instruments computers and the original ping pong game. 😄
I remember selling quite a few of the Tandy 100 and TRS-80 COlor computer back in the mid-80s. And talking about the Polaroid, my father owned a SX-70 in the early '70s.
The Sony Mavica you showed is from 1997 !
The prototype was very different.
yes mp4 and stuff like that was 90,s not 80,s
hahaha mp4 in 1980 your out of your mind
Right? I had one but it was in the 90's, not 80's
I unsubscribe because of this.
Who knows how many errors like this.
I had a Fuji digital camera from about 1997 and it had a resolution of 640x480. The Mavica prototype from 1981, and all subsequent Mavicas into the 90s, were not digital. Even though they used a disk that could normally be used for computers it actually stored it in an analog format. The disk worked more like an analog tape, like a cassette or reel-to-reel tape. It basically was like a camcorder that captured one still frame rather than a series of them, and used the same CCD sensor that analog video cameras of the era used, which is why the photos were stored in an analog format. And the photos could only be played back using the camera on a TV and not printed like later digital photos.
My first game system was the 2600
I had a SONY Mavica, a Lynx, a Casio calculator watch and a TRS-80 Model 3!!! It had TWO floppy disk drives, a 3 1/2 and a 5 1/4 inch. I also had an external 8" disk drive that I mostly used for work. I couldn't afford the Sony Watchman!. I only saw the Seiko TV Watch. Now, Commodore computers were way ahead of their time. I had the original Polaroid as well. I had a Speak and Spell as well, I loved it. Lastly, I had an Apple IIe! I donated most of these to museums along the years.
had an Odyssey 2 and alot of it's games ... still have it , sitting in garage...
I remember the 80s well!! My career during that time was in Computer Operations!
Mainframe & Mini Computers, Batch Job Processing, 1600 and 6250 bpi Reel Tapes,
Large Printers & Fan-Fold Forms. etc!!
Having been born in 1958, I have witnessed Technological developments that were the stuff of Science fiction in the 60s & 70s!! In1979 (age 21) if you had told me that someday everyone would have tiny moble phones, I would have scoffed!! In 1976, I was part of the CB Radio craze!! Base Stations and Mobile Units seemed almost like Star Trek to those of us who lived in those times!!
Before the Kaypro 2, Toshiba T1100, Commodore SX-64, and Atari Portfolio...there was the Osborne 1 laptop from 1981.
I seen a Seiko TV watch .. at Sears but it had a liquid Crystal screen so every time you move your wrist the picture the video would get all jumbled up you'd have to keep your arm still lol still cool back then
My dad had a Vectrex. I think my brother and I played it more than he did
Lots of cool memories here! (A suggestion: minimize (or eliminate) the repeated use of the phrase, “captured the imagination…”.
I would like to see soney Start Up making the pocket TV and have a SD card slot for the VCR, DVD
The Tandy Grid was used in a scene (that was edit out in theater version) in movie 'Aliens'....
Not including the Amiga was a major oversight.
16:00 I didn't know Kyocera exist in 1983. I only know about this company because they tried to make a name for themselves manufacturing smartphones.
i use to play zaxxon on my TRS 80 like a mutha.. my brother worked at Radio Shack we had a nice deal on it 😎
Are you sure your informations on the Sony Mavica are correct? How could it use JPEG and MP4 formats when those appeared in the 1990's
Looks to me the info is wrong The earliest mention I could find was MPEG-4 Part 1: Systems specification published in 1999 (ISO/IEC 14496-1:1999)
@@Bart0815-k8r I thought so. Other gadgets presented here seem to ba also described incorrectly. Fun reminiscing anyway.
They should have the speak and Spell On the Market in Australia and would sell well as most of the children can't spell and read
There is no way on planet earth that the first calculator watch was released in 1980. I was going to guess mid 70's so I even googled it. And it came up 1975.
Ooh I just got to the Polaroid bit now. And I do accept that you might just be pointing out that particular fancy model shown was introduced in the 1980's. Polaroid cameras were around for over 30 years before the 1980's.
The lady in the GRID ad looks alot like Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Sony Mavica was released in 1997, not 1981. That’s a big miss on your otherwise great video.
Errors are a fact of life on YT! But then there are Folks like you & myself who catch these errors and point them out!!!
9:39 Aliens special edition anyone?
Had a mc 10!!!
From what I remember the Atari Lynx was a failure and even though vastly superior the greatly reduced battery life from the color display and more powerful hardware made people still prefer the inferior gameboy. SEGA gamegear also shared that same flaw and failed in the same way.
Need to fix the title in introduction...
Can't "fix" it, it'll have to be re-edited and re-upload it to a different URL
@@CrosscutFilmsSaskGood idea. That would "fix" it.
20 Cigarette Brands from the 1970s we want back lol ??
The dates are so wrong!!!
not sure why we only hear about the speak n spell while there were other that looked like it but did other things, i had one but cant remember what it did.
You should re-upload this video. You accidentally left in a previous video title in the intro.
Your Can get the casino calculator in the shops today
I disagree I really don't want any of those things back
Cybiko
Sinclair had the pocket tv 5 years before Sony had one
Sinclair?? That was an Oil Company!! I remember Sinclair and Scot Gas Stations!! 😊😊
In 1983, I paid $80 for a little 5" B&W portable that could run on 8 C-cells, 12v in a car and, of course, 120 in the home. A Color version was available for $200!
I feel old☠️