HP-150 touchscreen computer with Bob Vila 1985
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Bob Vila demos a cutting edge HP-150 touchscreen computer in this clip from "This Old House" Season 6 "In and Around Boston" Episode 26 "An Artful Apartment Part 4". Originally aired March 29th, 1985.
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I'm watching on screen that fits in the palm of my hand.
I feel like most people wouldn’t believe you if you told them back then. Technology is amazing!
In 50 years, technology will be sky high.
& I know you're reading this after 2060.
Congratulations.
craig federighi from apple said if he was giving one apple device ti take back in time, it'd be the iphone, juat to show how much power in one hand
@@vampirethespiderbatgod9740 if youtube exist in that time
Bob: "I'm not a technologically minded"
Also Bob: Immediately understands how the inferred touch screen works on a technological level
😂😂right
@@moesif Then he refers to the keyboard as a typewriter.
@@ralphshoop8822 NES games were called "game tapes" for a long time by people. It's just how it worked back then when you had a new technology, people understand it easier by relating it to what they already know - like a VHS tape or in this case a typewriter.
I'm impressed with the fact they had a touchscreen that far back
now imagine the price tag for that setup.
@@3rdFloorblog over $2700, or over $6700 adjusted for inflation
@@anti_honey
A full custom build with 2 rtx 3090, with the lastest hardware.
Touch screens with a light pen go even further back.
They had a touch screen this year in the Buick Riviera looked similar to this computer.
This computer looks amazing.
I can't wait to pick one up soon at Circuit City!!
The wiz
Circuitcity.com Goodluck!
No problem! You can pick it up at location #0645 Tuttle Mall Dublin Ohio,
oh and please pick up some new clothing
items from Structure as well, they have
this fancy Freddy Krueger Inspired sweater that’s to die for a moss green
sweater with a wide red ring that loops around the chest.
More like Radio Shack
You mean Silos.
There was no Circuit City back then!
Lady: turn the machine on
Bob: and start writing in this?
Woah, slow down there buckaroo.
"On the typewriter here"
“But how can this help me become a more efficient contractor?” “Well Bob, that’s a pretty tall order!” Shots fired 🤣
R u a comedian or something🤣🤣🤣?
Yeah that made me laugh.
I don't think she realized what she said.
😂
"And then you have your numeric keypad and that allows you to enter a lot of numbers."
please hurry up and enter a lot of number cuase in the future they will take out numeric pad from personal computers jajajaja
@@eduardocruces3030 thank god they did! This thing is useless
Well, she’s not wrong
@@Mugris It's very useful for people who actually work on computers, for example: 3D artists use them all the time
@@fabianvelander you can always have a separate numpad or remap the keys. I just don’t think it’s smart to rave 25% of the keyboard size dedicated to redundant keys.
Just think what computers look like in 2020. It will blow your mind Bob.
Yeah, now they come with Corona sprayed on them.
@@GrinFlash007 that's funny
Bob died from diabetes in 2008.
@@CarrotConsumer Bob isn't dead. Someone told you some fake news. Robert Joseph vila is alive today. Believe it or not he's President Donald Trump age.
"Ingenuous! But how is this going to help me? To become an efficient streamer?"
"Well Bob, that's a pretty tall order."
I used to own one. There was actually a slot in the top of the monitor for a thermal printer. Mine had a 30 megabyte hard drive. It had MS-DOS 2.1. It worked pretty well.
This makes me excited for the future of of computers
Not excited for the future of humanity though
Was I the only one who for a moment forgot that this was shot in 1984 and thought that when he asked how they can mail the letter to the flooring contractors, she would just “email” it to them? Hehe I spaced out :p
My dad was emailing in 84.
I love it. Can't believe how much everything has changed.
Oh wow, that woman has a hell of an accent.
Bahstin
“Well Bwob....”
Where is she from?
@@70h4nn35 bahstin
Revere girl, did you see her hair?
2071, watching this via mind-stream directly to my cerebral cortex.
Fun fact: Infrared (IR) touch screens are still used today in public spaces for self checkouts and information kiosks. They're used over other technologies because of their low cost, higher durability and ability to work with gloves or styluses.
They are used in the new Volvo cars as well, so you can use the infotainmentsystem while wearing gloves in the winter before the car heats up
So you're telling me those kiosks at McDonalds have IR touchscreens? Sometimes they're pretty laggy and I don't know if they just are slow or if it's touch screen (so I start hitting hard until the entire thing wobbles lol). Also the QR code reader for the coupons, I can never get it to scan coupons on my phone! Maybe it's just their strategy to make you pay the full price
Truth in Advertising: That actually _was_ a fun fact!
@@demagab No haptic touchscreens are prone to dirt and debris and skin buildup on the frame of the screen that hinders then ability of the screen to flex properly to recognize an input. That's why they don;t respond. Also the systems run 24/7 pretty much so it can be prone to glitches.
I love their ergonomic office chairs!
She seemed like a good sport.
"Well Baawb, that's a pretty tall ordaah!"
That's the quietest Dot Matrix printer I have ever seen. I almost want one now.
It may have been thermal like Circuit City
used. Some places still use thermal but the receipts age very quickly unless taken good care of like being placed in pamphlet.
Because it's not a dot matrix. It's an inkjet. It's an HP ThinkJet that cost $500 ($1200).
@@Muonium1 Ah makes sense now. Thanks..So it was also the first inlet printer too!
@@OmeedNOuhadi It turned out to be an inkjet printer. But yes thermal printers do have that issue and thermal printers are still super common for making receipts and have that nagging issue of fading after some time. That's why you should photocopy them or take a picture with your phone.
@@jackkraken3888 And as an added bonus, you get homone-disrupting BPA rubbing off from the thermal paper on your hands and absorbed directly into the body, according to BPA exposure studies.
My Product Manager had one of these. All he did with it was read emails on it (HPDesk). I was stuck with a dumb HP terminal trying to do spreadsheets from the mainframe. At least my Product Manager used the PC to read them. The Plant Manager had the same PC and his secretary printed out the emails so he could read them.
"All we have to do is put the operating system in..." Wait...you lost me...is that on the funny little record thing?
Wow, tech has definitely come a long way...cant imagine what the next 35yrs will bring us.
Its amazing that the only thing that hasnt changed much is the keyboard
I very much enjoyed this trip down memory lane :-)
I love her accent, it just makes the information video more fun
That was a hilarious to see the old computer technology, which really wasn’t all that long ago. Hope Bob is doing well today.
Did you know within 20 years or so you’d be able to budget, select your trades, have colorful 3D graphs, all these being able to be printed in a few seconds anywhere in the World plus watch all your old episodes of TOH... all on a machine the size of your packet of cigarettes?
Trying to imagine Bob with a southern accent talking to this woman.
Cool! We all know Bob liked to touch things on set!
Wonderful seeing these old TOH video clips.
I’ve been looking for that disc for years!
How does one person not like this video? For those of us old enough to remember, this was commonplace back in the day.
Wait, we didn’t get to see the part where she shows Bob how to watch old episodes of TOH on it!
Sears had a touch screen in the men's shoe department in 1993.
He called the keyboard “Typewriter”..
Ikr
I'm from that area, and her accent still shocks me as a very thick Boston accent. And she's dressed like it's 1880s instead of the 1980s!
Imagine if someone went back in time to the year 1985 and showed them our current technology at its highest peak, how blown away would they be
Just imagine how good she is at cooking and cleaning.
I used to use these to play Commander Keen
lol
Sounds like a plan, Bearded One! 👍🏻
You're everywhere
Personal Computers Have Come a Long Way Since the 80's
Technology has Our society has not.. We all have social media At our finger tips. But we are the most anti social society in history...
Step 1: Insert the operating system...
Me: Bob seems to understand a lot pretty quickly for a guy who’s not very technologically minded...
Also Me: *Did he just call the keyboard a typewriter?*
3/2/83 on the upper right hand of the computer screen.
Good eye!
Her spreadsheet is January 1985
@@TheHappyKamper '84
Still a better build video than the Verge
This person had Busta Rhymes in their contacts in 1985 @ 2:35
I saw "Busta" but where did you see "Rhymes"
@@m.s.9744 I was being sarcastic. The rolodex is usually last names anyway.
so, all this functions in just a whole desk? awesome
Letter is dated January 15, 1984.
Awesome video.
"So there's a little record inside there" Oh bob bob bob...
So much computer power in just 256 KB of RAM!
My phone has way more computing power than this did in 1984 lol
Bob Villa: Woah, you mean we are going to be able to touch the screen?
80’s girl: Looks at him awkwardly, “Yeeess”
"Mmmmf! Look at the speed of the thing!" when the printer starts printing one line at the time 😂
when computers where COMPUTERS
35 years later, watching this on my smartphone🤗
If technology never advanced past this point I'd still be happy
*"And then you have the numeric keypad, and that lets you enter a lot of numbers"*
That's a very advance technological piece of information right there.
Before computers had the mouse..
Actually the first commercially sold computer with a mouse came out a year before this. The 1984 Macintosh
FWIW, I still code in the text editor "vi" which also preceded the mouse.
Even I, at age 27 (in the mid '80s) was shown vi when I was first learning unix, and I said "really?" ... now, after 10 hours a day for 30 years, I can't imagine anything _easier_ than vi.
(Yes, I know, that's kind of OT)
Love her "New Joisey" dialect.
Oh boy, I worked on Lotus 1-2-3 back in 1985 at Zenith and it doesn't seem that long ago.
Wow a touchsceeen computer in 1985 ??? Wow amazing i didn't knew 😳 😍
Thankyou 🙏 for uploading.
The numeric keypad helps you enter alot of........numbers.
He referred to the keyboard as a "typewriter"
We heard.
So what?
How things have changed.
"all we gotta do is put the operating system in"
Love the Bahstin accent.
Just think how much that computer weighed
... or how much that computer cost!
9.82 kilograms and $2795. ;) Compare that to the Galaxy S20, which costs $1399 and weighs 220 grams.
If it wasn't for the voice I wouldn't have recognized him.
I used a touch screen and Video disk unit in Mobil Oil circa 87'.
From memory the touchscreen had something like a plastic membrane of bubbles on it... It was a while ago...
Funniest thing.. same time, watched the PC guru (picture a leather vest and tie...) take a brand new IBM PS2 out of its box and put it on the floor, then a brand new IBM (P70?) monitor out of its box... the sharp corner of the monitor caught on the box, rotated out of his hands and landed corner down on in the middle of the PS2, pushing the daughterboards into the motherboard...
Result.. Toast for both monitor and base. We also had a PS2 80 that was about 16kNZD back then... It was a beast... 16MHz 80386 32-bit! I think my old palm pilot I was given was more powerful...
This machine was amazing considering the next best thing was DOS
And today our computers are fast af, can do tons more, and we're all fatter
Amazing and beautiful
January 15 1984
Wow. Bob doesn't even do his own typing.
😂
Who knows what future may bring.
35 years from now will be laughing at the iPhones and computers we have now
Honestly I still wouldn't know how to do this on a modern computer.
Nowadays touch screens have a net of electricity that our fingers disrupt when touched so the device can tell where is disrupted and get the command. It's not that big of a deal when you think about it, we could have made that way before this but it would have been useless
The date was 03-02-1983...
In 19s
People : this is the future high tech computer
Only $18K for a "Dream Kitchen"?!
Yup, that's 1985.
These days, a dream Kitchen starts at $80K.
all the girls had the princess di haircut back then.
Hey Bob, what if I was to tell you I'm watching this on my "handheld" computer/phone 35 years later? Its hundreds of times more powerful than that PC you're using.
More than hundreds
@@TheHappyKamper Exactly. If we look at processor frequency and bit depth alone it is tens of thousands times faster. The HP-150 has a 16 bit 8 Mhz processor. Take the Galaxy S10 for example, which has eight, 64 bit cores, at multiple frequencies. The lowest speed core is 1.9 Ghz = 1900 Mhz. It has 8 cores and the bit depth is 4 times bigger, so 1900 x 8 x 4 = 60.800 times faster. But there is more of course. Faster RAM, more complex instruction sets, dedicated GPU, etc. It is probably hunderds of thousands times faster.
What are these numbers you speak of?
“loading the intelligence into the machine”
Good ole Lotus 1-2-3
Yeah, but does it play Crysis?
It's weird to hear a person with a strong NY accent teach computers.
Anyone know for sure where exactly her accent is from?
I’m getting some Boston, but also some Queens.
I’m not interested in what city she’s from. Only coordinates, on a vertical axees and horizontal axees
Bahstin. This Old House is a WGBH production.
@@papadop It's swamp Yankee.
Would they like some screen with that computer?
Anybody else have Marky marks face in their head as she talks. That thick "Bawston" accent.
Weren't 3 1/2 disks really rare in 1985?
this is cool..
yeah just cool
It’s much like a TV TOOB
These things cost atleast 10,000 dollars or more back in the day
Wild
DOS 2.11.
I used to have one, until it disappeared from my house some years ago. Wish I still had it, just so I could make some money these days.