Those 80's micro's were sheer beauty. We're living the dream of computing, right now. But the times when we were dreaming of today was a far more magical experience. And what times they were, to have been alive. Possibly the greatest time in history. And some of us were lucky enough to have been there, right at the start of the computer revolution.
In case you were wondering who won the Eureka game and 25K GBP! - When the game was originally published, Domark promised a prize of £25,000 to the first player to solve the entire game before December 31, 1985. The prize was eventually won by Matthew Woodley, a teenager from the UK.Woodley would eventually go on to work for Domark.
I was at the show in 1984 , came all the way from Norway, my job paid for the flight. I was only 18 at the time. Amazing to watch this in 2024! I even took some pictures
I was just over 20 years old back then and I remembered that it would take me at least a year to save up for an Apple computer. I don't think much has changed! 🤨
@@AM2K2 I enjoyed it, think I came across it after enjoying Lee Pace’s performance in Foundation and looking up other stuff he had been in. I’d never thought about the Mad Men description but yeah it’s a pretty good analogy.
The home computer scene was unbelievably exciting back in the eighties, new hardware developments & original game releases almost every week from maverick producers...kids today will never know such thrills now its all corporate big business pulling the strings to suit themselves.
I still remember when Ant Attack came out, never seen anything like it, and almost forgotten 6 months later because they released so many games in a year.
@@bardo0007 The Oliver Twins could churn out six games a year on the Speccy, I always thought they were just behind the Dizzy games but it seems like they also released just about any game with Simulator in the title, BMX Simulator, Jet Ski Simulator, Skiing Simulator, etc.
The infrared wireless keyboard was a rarity in the 80's. It never really catched on until much later. But that keyboard looks almost identical to the one's sold today.
Apricot were very innovative in many ways and built some great machines... built in UPS in some servers, smart card based security system built into servers and desktops etc
I remember going to the nova hotel London for one of there shows , Showing my age it may have been before than 1981 ?, I remember at that time it was full of apple 1s and PETs , But one thing I do remember is going for a coffee and see the price going out side and getting a 3 course meal cheaper .
I used to work for the London Borough of Greenwich Computer Unit in the early 1980s. Me and some other newbie were shown the huge underground main computer complex beneath the town hall in Woolwich. It was fairly impressive. Then I went back to my nearly one metre wide word processing unit that had futuristic looking green text on it because there was a thin film of green plastic stuck on the front of the screen that you could peel off with your fingernail. Even then I thought it seemed a bit crap.
If you look up Computer & Video Games magazine issue 66 then Matthew explains the full story. I'd admit I still don't understand his explaination of the solution. 🤔
Does anyone remember 'Future Computers' ? I knew someone that worked for them, they produced their own personal computer back in the 80's but I had never heard of them or their products before.
Apricot - "The portable part is what you see here" - ruclips.net/video/DehtUql0bUM/видео.html - proceeds to touch that portable part as if it's really small and light 😆 - it's 5.8 kg Having said that, my work issues macBook Pro M1 (16") is just over 2 kg - and I consider that a beast in this day and age. It's probably 1000x more powerful than the Apricot portable. In 40 years the pace of advancement is staggering - a BBC micro:bit is more powerful in terms of compute power than the 1984 Apricot portable. To be fair, a Raspberry Pi is more comparable in terms of hooking up to a keyboard and monitor. We take it fore-granted that a single smartphone that we put in our pockets could probably smash the performance of every computer in that 1984 PC World Show combined - as in, the total compute power of everything at that show combined. What is the next 40 years going to bring?
This stuff is fascinating 😮 even these early computers as simple as they seem by modern standards it's still pretty difficult to understand how it all works inside. I've had a difficult time learning how computers do mathematical calculations in binary 😅 & attempting to develop an 8bit game in assembly language & learning how the graphics work 🤓😵💫😵💫👨🏾💻
I went to a computer show at Olympia in London, in I think 1985. The thing I remember most was that someone had hired a group of topless models to walk through the crowd while someone took photos until they were stopped.
1984: Cutting-Edge PERSONAL COMPUTER Tech | Micro Live | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 1502pm 24.10.24 indeed.... she was a very intelligent and interesting lady...
You guys have lot more of 1984 than just personal computers if you know what I mean... I mean the fact that you don't have freedom of speech any more, as in you guys are living a real dystopian... dystopia.
Those 80's micro's were sheer beauty. We're living the dream of computing, right now. But the times when we were dreaming of today was a far more magical experience. And what times they were, to have been alive. Possibly the greatest time in history. And some of us were lucky enough to have been there, right at the start of the computer revolution.
The days when being on the spectrum meant something else.
As did having a 5-inch floppy.
@@AtheistOrphan 5 and a quarter, if you don't mind.
@@octaviussludberry9016 Some were on the Commodore 64 or the Amstrad though innit
@@videogamebookreviews The one I had at work had an 8 incher!
Probably not.
I was at that show, with my dad and sister. We went each year. In the 1985 show I bought Skyfox for the 64, on disc.
ruclips.net/video/0KKMu7ilix4/видео.htmlfeature=shared
“And we hope in 40 years time we will have handheld computers where strangers can interact and argue with each others opinions” 😂
While looking at pictures of cats.
@@Larry cats and porn, the two main drivers of the internet
Ha! That will never happen.
@@GIChow I don’t agree 😉
In case you were wondering who won the Eureka game and 25K GBP! - When the game was originally published, Domark promised a prize of £25,000 to the first player to solve the entire game before December 31, 1985. The prize was eventually won by Matthew Woodley, a teenager from the UK.Woodley would eventually go on to work for Domark.
Ah! I remember that from back in the day. Think I played one of the text-adventures, but Jetpac, Ant Attack and The Hobbit were more my thing ...
Sounds almost as iffy as the Hareraiser competition
Yes. I just heard that story told by Dominic Wheatley on the Retro Hour Podcast. They also helped him through University.
"and what is the folder called Boring Work Stuff?"
"no...don't open that file"
I was at the show in 1984 , came all the way from Norway, my job paid for the flight. I was only 18 at the time. Amazing to watch this in 2024! I even took some pictures
@bardo0007 what job was that?
@@cryptocsguy9282 I worked for a dealer, we always looked for new products to sell
Amazing to see a wireless keyboard from that time.
Do we still have exhibitions like this? I used to love going to these things.
I was 7 years old in 1984. It’s jaw-dropping how technology has changed. And how it has been integrated to our lives.
I was 10. Jaw-dropping indeed, and frightening.
yes and no.... great leaps in technology but to see kids and adults now with faces stuck in phoines 24/7 is sad to see
You could argue the difference between 1944 and 1984 was even more jaw dropping tho !
Ahhh the 1990s "information superhighway" which was going to liberate us all ....
Chris fancies his chances with Lesley😀
Visa versa more like!
I was just over 20 years old back then and I remembered that it would take me at least a year to save up for an Apple computer. I don't think much has changed! 🤨
You was just over 20 I had 7 years left to be born
@@swaneknoctic9555what
Apple 🍎 is always the pricey option but one of the few from back then that's still around in the consumer space
512 k Macintosh!!! The memory capability is mind blowing. Thats OVER half a megabyte. That’s serious capacity😂
Actually it's exactly half a megabyte, and it was hardly enough to run anything even back then. 😂
Nobody will ever need more than 640k.
This is actually the upgraded Mac. The first one had only 128k!
@@MacXpert74 If it was exactly half a megabyte would it not be 512K rather than 512k?
I was 13 and at home programming my ZX Spectrum while this was all going on lol.
First Mac I ever used was a 512k. After the Vax2000 it was a revelation!
Shout out to any fans of Halt and Catch Fire
Is that worth watching? I have it on my list but I've never got around to it. I read it is like Mad Men but for tech?
@@AM2K2 I enjoyed it, think I came across it after enjoying Lee Pace’s performance in Foundation and looking up other stuff he had been in. I’d never thought about the Mad Men description but yeah it’s a pretty good analogy.
@@AM2K2 Its superb. Season 1 is excellent
@@AchtungEnglanderI agree, a very tight season. Season 2 slows down, then 3 and 4 turn into a soap, still watchable though.
I need to watch that show
The home computer scene was unbelievably exciting back in the eighties, new hardware developments & original game releases almost every week from maverick producers...kids today will never know such thrills now its all corporate big business pulling the strings to suit themselves.
I still remember when Ant Attack came out, never seen anything like it, and almost forgotten 6 months later because they released so many games in a year.
@@bardo0007 The Oliver Twins could churn out six games a year on the Speccy, I always thought they were just behind the Dizzy games but it seems like they also released just about any game with Simulator in the title, BMX Simulator, Jet Ski Simulator, Skiing Simulator, etc.
Chris Palmer is a great salesman.
I had the Commodore 64 Music Maker. Good fun.
The infrared wireless keyboard was a rarity in the 80's. It never really catched on until much later. But that keyboard looks almost identical to the one's sold today.
Apricot were very innovative in many ways and built some great machines... built in UPS in some servers, smart card based security system built into servers and desktops etc
I so lusted for that Commodore Music Maker, but it was never offered in my country.
I remember going to the nova hotel London for one of there shows , Showing my age it may have been before than 1981 ?, I remember at that time it was full of apple 1s and PETs , But one thing I do remember is going for a coffee and see the price going out side and getting a 3 course meal cheaper .
I used to work for the London Borough of Greenwich Computer Unit in the early 1980s. Me and some other newbie were shown the huge underground main computer complex beneath the town hall in Woolwich. It was fairly impressive. Then I went back to my nearly one metre wide word processing unit that had futuristic looking green text on it because there was a thin film of green plastic stuck on the front of the screen that you could peel off with your fingernail. Even then I thought it seemed a bit crap.
Anyone know who the person was who solved Eureka text adventure and claimed the prize?
In 1985 it was 15 year old mathew woodley
If you look up Computer & Video Games magazine issue 66 then Matthew explains the full story. I'd admit I still don't understand his explaination of the solution. 🤔
So I wonder who claimed that £25,000, or is it still up for grabs 😄
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks! 4:01
Does anyone remember 'Future Computers' ? I knew someone that worked for them, they produced their own personal computer back in the 80's but I had never heard of them or their products before.
From the time when computers were not the enemy...
Computers are not the enemy. Bad ideas are.
Wow, in 1984 I could only dream of hearing American’s opinions on everything, everyday.
And no different in 2024.
@@MTCason We no longer have to dream...
I like how the mobile computer at the beginning has such a terrible monitor They didn’t even demo it.
The commodore music maker keyboard is cool.
Apricot - "The portable part is what you see here" - ruclips.net/video/DehtUql0bUM/видео.html - proceeds to touch that portable part as if it's really small and light 😆 - it's 5.8 kg
Having said that, my work issues macBook Pro M1 (16") is just over 2 kg - and I consider that a beast in this day and age.
It's probably 1000x more powerful than the Apricot portable.
In 40 years the pace of advancement is staggering - a BBC micro:bit is more powerful in terms of compute power than the 1984 Apricot portable.
To be fair, a Raspberry Pi is more comparable in terms of hooking up to a keyboard and monitor.
We take it fore-granted that a single smartphone that we put in our pockets could probably smash the performance of every computer in that 1984 PC World Show combined - as in, the total compute power of everything at that show combined.
What is the next 40 years going to bring?
Incredible how my iPhone probably has more compute power and memory than all of the computers at Micro Live combined.
This stuff is fascinating 😮 even these early computers as simple as they seem by modern standards it's still pretty difficult to understand how it all works inside. I've had a difficult time learning how computers do mathematical calculations in binary 😅 & attempting to develop an 8bit game in assembly language & learning how the graphics work 🤓😵💫😵💫👨🏾💻
0:28 "arse"
Did she just insult the poor boy or did she mean something else?
Perhaps she was saying "ah" and was going to say "so..." and then something else but stopped at the 's'. But I like to think she simply said "arse".
hahahaha 😆
She had the mildest form of tourette's.
What kinda notes 💷 were those to make up £25,000 ?
Lady Godiva’s mate.
@@strontium-D ???
@@cryptocsguy9282 rhyming slang for fiver
That technology back in 1984 was developed to the extent it now serves the powers that be to lead us willingly into 1984...
This is so old, it was before I started to hate Apple😂
who needs more than 640K of memory ?
The £25,000 prize was eventually won by teenager Matthew Woodley, who would go on to work for Domark.
Bah... computers, they're just a fad. I don't see them amounting to much. (hahaha)
1984: Cutting edge
2024: 1000 times more computing power in a wrist watch.
Al Pacino yesterday. Today, a young Cate Blanchet, acting the part of a TV journalist. More thespians, please.
Surely you mention lesbians😂
👍🏾
No xbox are ps5 back then
@scottbotham6161 At least you hate Atari kinda (cos of the NA video hame crash) while sega n Nintendo were out in Japan
I don’t think in modern Britain many young lads dressed in black with sledgehammers would be too worried about that guard next to the money.
40 years on has it been brilliant? In some ways yes.
this stuff all looks very dated and frustrating to use, not like windows xp which we have nowadays!!
Wait until you try Windows 7!
Best. OS. Ever.
Windoze 11 😂😂, xp is outdated too
@@anonUK I'm using Windows 7 right now hahaha
@Cave_Monster
I'd love to be able to use it still, unfortunately I've got software which seems to demand Win 10+
I bough a copy of Eureka and didn't get very far with it.
He's never used a mouse has he?
Back in 1984, very few people had ever used a mouse.
@@IanFoot-sl1lp I know, but he is there as the expert.
good h♥️appy days
Everything was so `square` wasn’t it back then
I went to a computer show at Olympia in London, in I think 1985. The thing I remember most was that someone had hired a group of topless models to walk through the crowd while someone took photos until they were stopped.
The C64 had a bit of a curve. 2:53 I liked my Bread Bin.
Ooh hairy chest!
😅
Leslie,when she was presenting blue peter, showed it off ,once,it was a real shock,i tell thee.
The whole idea of having a computer inside your own home is just a passing fad. Don’t fall for it!
1984: Cutting-Edge PERSONAL COMPUTER Tech | Micro Live | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 1502pm 24.10.24 indeed.... she was a very intelligent and interesting lady...
so early they'd yet to figure out how to actually hold a mouse....fascinating.
You guys have lot more of 1984 than just personal computers if you know what I mean... I mean the fact that you don't have freedom of speech any more, as in you guys are living a real dystopian... dystopia.
You've never read 1984, because if you had then you wouldn't think it's a book about George Orwell thinking, "What if I couldn't say slurs?"
@@joechapman8208 Ignore them, they are trying to get a rise out of you.
A year later I left University and joined the work force ....
Liquid Crystal Display. They should have abbreviated that if they wanted it to catch on.
"Luhsudeh? Luhsudeh on my dooovde."
Leslie Judd comes over as totally disinterested in the show, typical girl!😉
‘Contractually obliged’
She a right misery, but awesome to see this brings back memories I was 17
First! Yay!