They got two semi pro football teams to play each other and the fans called the plays via QUBE. The game took over 7 and half hours. So much for fan controlled football.
It's hard to fathom when this system introduced, there was no ESPN, CNN, MTV, and to a lesser extent, because of Pinwheel, Nickelodeon. All you really had if you were a cable subscriber was maybe HBO, WGN, and Superstation WTBS. And thanks to this system, several of the channels I previously mentioned came to be.
The computer that polled and controlled this system was classified for its time. It was capable of polling thousands of Qube terminals in a matter of seconds. Only a few techs had access to the room it was kept in. It was a system that wAs at least 40 years before it’s time. Yes I was one of the few test customers for it test rollout. Fun times!
@@ChristopherSobieniak Cable TV started out as the Mercedes of television, before becoming affordable like a Toyota. These days, cord cutters/cord nevers avoid it like it's that rusted-up 1979 Ford pick-up truck with a missing headlight, now that broadcast TV improved with new technology while still being compatible with old TV antennas, and there's other options are available, like IPTV, streaming video, etc...
"Do you approve of physical force to discipline your child?" Only in self defense...because knowing my child, this will come up at some point. He will attack you.
They got two semi pro football teams to play each other and the fans called the plays via QUBE. The game took over 7 and half hours. So much for fan controlled football.
Happy 40th Birthday QUBE! :)
It's hard to fathom when this system introduced, there was no ESPN, CNN, MTV, and to a lesser extent, because of Pinwheel, Nickelodeon. All you really had if you were a cable subscriber was maybe HBO, WGN, and Superstation WTBS. And thanks to this system, several of the channels I previously mentioned came to be.
Yea for the longest time it was just the big 3. Cable helped usher in our current era of cultural fragmenation
The computer that polled and controlled this system was classified for its time. It was capable of polling thousands of Qube terminals in a matter of seconds. Only a few techs had access to the room it was kept in.
It was a system that wAs at least 40 years before it’s time. Yes I was one of the few test customers for it test rollout. Fun times!
The QUBE was inspired by a similar device used in a Japanese hotel...
Incorporate this idea into ATSC 3.0 and it will be popular.
this is actually futuristic for 2018
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That cartoon that shows up at 4:30 is an episode of Poland's famous "Bolek & Lolek" series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolek_and_Lolek
It was quite popular in Latin America.
If we still only had 30 channels, we might have better stuff ;-)
@@ChristopherSobieniak Cable TV started out as the Mercedes of television, before becoming affordable like a Toyota. These days, cord cutters/cord nevers avoid it like it's that rusted-up 1979 Ford pick-up truck with a missing headlight, now that broadcast TV improved with new technology while still being compatible with old TV antennas, and there's other options are available, like IPTV, streaming video, etc...
@@Justin-Hill-1987
Shh, don't present nostalgic people with facts
This was ahead of its time
no kidding, Pinwheel eventually became Nickelodeon
Oh it did.
It's on Channel C-2, watch 4:20
Classic!
C-2, the prototype version of Pinwheel! (C-3)
@@SadKris.... what are you talking about?
Ok why does nobody do this anymore
oh yeah, phones
So, the trivia game...couldn't I play that without pressing a button, too?
I though QUBE was an indie VR puzzle game. lol
"Do you approve of physical force to discipline your child?" Only in self defense...because knowing my child, this will come up at some point. He will attack you.
Grew up in Charleston WV, we received WXIX from Cincinnati until the mid 1980s when it became an original FOX affiliate.
Is pat alive or dead
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4:29 he's dabbing