I love how this video clearly shows how, back in the day, it was assumed that the increased productivity from PCs would result in more free time, as opposed to just more work.
Haha, they knew that it would mean more work. It's just the advertising sales pitch. But they "admit" the truth, with a wink, when they promise that it will make your workers "more productive" rather than work fewer hours or be less overworked.
@@IsaacKuo Ah! I see you caught the underlying meaning of "more productive." As I experienced in my working career, that term of _more productive_ equates to employers piling-on the work and increasing the the workload for projects and task to the employees.
"What happens if we increase quotas for the Minneapolis region?" 0:20 Sounds like just more work to me. I know what you're getting at and I agree, and I'll bet the team in the Minneapolis region will be glad to know the home office needs to work the unintended overtime.
the advent of the computer did result in more free time for the rich. at the time, national corporations like walmart would employ workers by the hundreds to provide written inventory of thousands of warehouse shipments no longer required such services. with the computer, you can manage all of the items you sold from your stock on one screen.
Alright I'm sold. I went ahead and just ordered 20 of these on my company credit card. The VP will be thrilled by the productivity these will bring to the office. Looking forward to my raise! Thanks IBM!
My God. Just the feeling watching video of this kind and quality; ascetic and the people etc. I was just a little kid for the 80s but this is distinctly how I recall my earliest TV related memories.
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Me, too. Also, I love to watch The Computer Chronicles and Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). As an avid typist like keyboard specialist, a [micro]computer user, and computer technology fan, I enjoy watching people use microcomputers and typewriters, right from the privacy of my home, at where I type.
So many things bring back memories. The 8 inch floppy's. The lovely well dressed women at work, and the monochrome displays, Those systems have been replaced by PCs and cell phones
PCs already existed, In fact there's one seen at 6:17 of this very video. And I'm not sure how much word processing is done on a phone! Short txts suck enough on a small touch screen, let alone a multi page document, LOL.
@@jamesslick4790 I recall the 1980s era of office tech quite well. Up until the mid-1980s, DOS PCs for word-processing was tedious, as _Word Star_ was one of the first widely-used DOS PC word-processing apps introduced in the early 1980s; and when melded with the noisy dot-matrix printers of that same era, was hard-pressed to be capable of doing presentation-style word-processing as what the IBM unit could do at that time. By the mid-1980s with IBM's feature-rich (well, at least for that era of DOS word-processing) _DisplayWrite III_ word processing; and the IBM Quiet-Writer printer; for DOS PCs, made for an affordable combination to have PC word processing at one's personal desk. In fact, I had such a setup in my home by 1987 with a 286 PC; which amounted to nearly $3,500 in 1987 dollars.
@@bloqk16 I remember Word Star very well. I had it and Visi Calc for the TRS-80 before the likes of Word Perfect and Lotus 1,2,3 "took over the world". Those last two I did get when I upgraded to a PC-XT and joined the MS DOS world. As to the MS DOS version of Word Star, I have it installed on one of my DOS virtual machines (along with other glorious 80s software!) for nostalgic comfort. 👍😊👍
Ah, the green screen days. When mainframe, mini and the inking of the desktop brought LAN's and WAN's to fruition. The 8086/8080 into the 80286 and beyond. Where 3k+ would eventually get you into an IBM PS/2 and launched my career into the world of IBM OS/2 and network systems engineering. Woo-hoo!
@Scudderville NY . . . I recall that era very well. You were a pioneer being a network systems engineer; where I can imagine you had sleepless nights when dealing with a crashed network; in addition to the complaints you may have received when you had to shutdown the network for maintenance and upgrades.
Ah! Yes! The early 1980s with the three-piece men's suits, the upscale wardrobe for women, and the _Day Planner_ as seen in the early part of the video of the guy at the payphone; where Franklin had cornered the market for _Day Planners_ back then. I recall in 1983 the high-tech startup Silicon Valley company I worked for had one of those IBM units that was shared between the marketing and sales departments. It was a time when the mentality of many adults were still in the _low-tech_ mindset, including me; so imagine when the marketing secretary was showing-off the features of that IBM unit, complete with printing . . . we were *all in awe* of what it did, comparable to someone doing *magic* in front of our eyes.
5:16 Thank God for "business casual" and "dress for your day." My first jobs were at the very beginning of the business casual trend, and as my career moved along, my office attire got more and more comfortable. Today I work from home in a polo shirt and shorts. I still have to put SOME effort in my "work" attire.
Debbie I need those changes... Jerry, you sit here, and wiggle your fingers, and the numbers change on the screen...Why isn't this terminal in YOUR office!
@@pietjansen8596 it's a big problem. Rn everything, from car to household items, - contains chips. And there's even legislative push from car and electronic manufacturers to stop allowing ANY third party repair. There are no third party service for Tesla, for example. We are at crossroads and no one talks about it, not as much as they should. If it's something you care about, I suggest you watch Louis Rossmann's videos about it
I miss the optimism and focused purpose of technology in the office. And those keyboards were awesome! Cool tech from when the world wasn't so plastic.
After watching this IBM promo, no wonder Apple Computers went in a different direction. The Lisa and Macintosh products used slogans such as: "Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples." "Macintosh - The computer for the rest of us." "Hello" & of course the famous "1984" Super Bowl TV spot that used an unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh (indicated by the picture of the computer on her white tank top) as a means of saving humanity from the "conformity" of IBM's attempts to dominate the computer industry. The ad alludes to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which described a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother." - thus eluding to "Big Blue" (IBM).
@Ken Cosi . . . it's amusing, and ironic, to see in the 21st century how Apple has come to dominate the smartphone industry; with a following that could be going down the dystopian path with wireless telecommunications.
@Cypher . . . when I worked in the high-tech sector in Silicon Valley (California) back in the 1980s, employment candidates with high-output skills of keyboarding were very desirable. The words-per-minute typing speed was a prominent feature written in résumés and in job applications for administrative support positions in the high-tech fields. I recall seeing employment position postings where high-tech companies were looking for candidates to do data-entry work at a minimum speed of 10K keystrokes per hour.
In the video @2:32, notice in the background the touch-tone phone; that black object it sits on was a dial-up modem; as back then, digital communications required the use of phone lines. I recall back in the mid-1980s when the company I worked for had one in the accounting department. I saw it put to use one day when it was activated and it dialed the phone number of the financial firm the company was contracted with. What was really strange about that modem was the mode of dialing it used: Pulse dialing. The same type of dialing that rotary telephones used prior to the touch-tone keypad era. The modem had a speaker so the user could hear the dial-tone, then with a click on the DOS-PC, the number would dial; where instead of "beeps;" you'd hear "tit - tit - tit- tit - tit" for the number "5" of the phone number. It was very strange to see/hear the latest in digital communications (mid-1980s) using a modem with the dialing technology dating back to the 1920s.
@@piatpotatopeon8305 ¿Someone still remember what a tie is? I´m 35 and till 2016 all men had to wear a shirt and a tie in the office... not so long ago....
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Will i hope she didn’t drop her delicious lunch on her display writer by accident once in a while since there was barelly any space left on her desktop to eat her lunch,hahaaa😁
I love how this video clearly shows how, back in the day, it was assumed that the increased productivity from PCs would result in more free time, as opposed to just more work.
@Issan Cali Reject i play runescape 6 hours a day at my job
Haha, they knew that it would mean more work. It's just the advertising sales pitch. But they "admit" the truth, with a wink, when they promise that it will make your workers "more productive" rather than work fewer hours or be less overworked.
@@IsaacKuo Ah! I see you caught the underlying meaning of "more productive." As I experienced in my working career, that term of _more productive_ equates to employers piling-on the work and increasing the the workload for projects and task to the employees.
"What happens if we increase quotas for the Minneapolis region?" 0:20 Sounds like just more work to me. I know what you're getting at and I agree, and I'll bet the team in the Minneapolis region will be glad to know the home office needs to work the unintended overtime.
the advent of the computer did result in more free time for the rich. at the time, national corporations like walmart would employ workers by the hundreds to provide written inventory of thousands of warehouse shipments no longer required such services. with the computer, you can manage all of the items you sold from your stock on one screen.
Alright I'm sold. I went ahead and just ordered 20 of these on my company credit card. The VP will be thrilled by the productivity these will bring to the office. Looking forward to my raise! Thanks IBM!
Boy, that's the same mentality as "The latest iPhone will make my life better, will make me more productive!" isn't it
I actually used this in the military in the 1980s. They were a huge leap over typewriters.
My God. Just the feeling watching video of this kind and quality; ascetic and the people etc. I was just a little kid for the 80s but this is distinctly how I recall my earliest TV related memories.
The IBM Display Writer: For people in three piece suits doing businessy stuff.
Pretty advanced. The 80s office decor is great too.
Amazing what 40 years gets you.
I'll bet in 20-40 years, - the whole world would still hold on VisiCalc like Excel application, like in this video
aaa the wonderful noise of the old and indestructible mechanical keyboards
What happens when we lay off 50% of associates?
Thanks for sharing this, upload more computers stuff !
This channel is what RUclips is all about to me. Excellent
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Me, too. Also, I love to watch The Computer Chronicles and Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). As an avid typist like keyboard specialist, a [micro]computer user, and computer technology fan, I enjoy watching people use microcomputers and typewriters, right from the privacy of my home, at where I type.
So many things bring back memories. The 8 inch floppy's. The lovely well dressed women at work, and the monochrome displays, Those systems have been replaced by PCs and cell phones
PCs already existed, In fact there's one seen at 6:17 of this very video. And I'm not sure how much word processing is done on a phone! Short txts suck enough on a small touch screen, let alone a multi page document, LOL.
And nobody has tattoos or piercings and aren't dressed like they're going clubbing or to the gym.
@@jamesslick4790 I recall the 1980s era of office tech quite well.
Up until the mid-1980s, DOS PCs for word-processing was tedious, as _Word Star_ was one of the first widely-used DOS PC word-processing apps introduced in the early 1980s; and when melded with the noisy dot-matrix printers of that same era, was hard-pressed to be capable of doing presentation-style word-processing as what the IBM unit could do at that time.
By the mid-1980s with IBM's feature-rich (well, at least for that era of DOS word-processing) _DisplayWrite III_ word processing; and the IBM Quiet-Writer printer; for DOS PCs, made for an affordable combination to have PC word processing at one's personal desk.
In fact, I had such a setup in my home by 1987 with a 286 PC; which amounted to nearly $3,500 in 1987 dollars.
@@bloqk16 I remember Word Star very well. I had it and Visi Calc for the TRS-80 before the likes of Word Perfect and Lotus 1,2,3 "took over the world". Those last two I did get when I upgraded to a PC-XT and joined the MS DOS world. As to the MS DOS version of Word Star, I have it installed on one of my DOS virtual machines (along with other glorious 80s software!) for nostalgic comfort. 👍😊👍
@@bloqk16 amazing insight, thank you for it!
The twin towers in the background was another touch of nostalgia
What a poignant reminder!
Ah, the green screen days. When mainframe, mini and the inking of the desktop brought LAN's and WAN's to fruition.
The 8086/8080 into the 80286 and beyond. Where 3k+ would eventually get you into an IBM PS/2 and launched my career into the world of IBM OS/2 and network systems engineering.
Woo-hoo!
@Scudderville NY . . . I recall that era very well. You were a pioneer being a network systems engineer; where I can imagine you had sleepless nights when dealing with a crashed network; in addition to the complaints you may have received when you had to shutdown the network for maintenance and upgrades.
Ah! Yes! The early 1980s with the three-piece men's suits, the upscale wardrobe for women, and the _Day Planner_ as seen in the early part of the video of the guy at the payphone; where Franklin had cornered the market for _Day Planners_ back then.
I recall in 1983 the high-tech startup Silicon Valley company I worked for had one of those IBM units that was shared between the marketing and sales departments. It was a time when the mentality of many adults were still in the _low-tech_ mindset, including me; so imagine when the marketing secretary was showing-off the features of that IBM unit, complete with printing . . . we were *all in awe* of what it did, comparable to someone doing *magic* in front of our eyes.
I reckon tech companies still use "performance" mumbo jumbo to sell tech products today. Just look at "gaming phones", Jesus
Ricki, take the compliment… you really are amazing 👩💼
5:16 Thank God for "business casual" and "dress for your day." My first jobs were at the very beginning of the business casual trend, and as my career moved along, my office attire got more and more comfortable. Today I work from home in a polo shirt and shorts. I still have to put SOME effort in my "work" attire.
You work from home in a POLO? That's darn fancy.
Most people can't even be bothered to put on a clean t-shirt and take a shower to go to work these days. People are lazy bums.
Even if I am working from home I still put on a work polo or shirt for video calls and to get me in the right frame of mind.
Eat lunch at her desk only once a week? I'm lucky to have lunch OUT once a week! And that's current times!
Who has time to eat lunch out?
Debbie I need those changes...
Jerry, you sit here, and wiggle your fingers, and the numbers change on the screen...Why isn't this terminal in YOUR office!
I was a young man......40 years ....oh boy, i.am old....
Hello. Have you heard of Right to Repair? I'm just curious as what are your thoughts on if current tech is repairable or not
@@KOTYAR1 Right to repair, that's New for me.....
@@pietjansen8596 it's a big problem. Rn everything, from car to household items, - contains chips. And there's even legislative push from car and electronic manufacturers to stop allowing ANY third party repair. There are no third party service for Tesla, for example. We are at crossroads and no one talks about it, not as much as they should. If it's something you care about, I suggest you watch Louis Rossmann's videos about it
I wanna clone Rikki for use in my business. She can keep her 80's style and way of talking too.
I miss the Rikki Lake show quite much.
I had one of these in the 1990's, including the printer...
Great music!
The displaywriter's keyboard is now regarded as a holy grail by mechanical keyboard collectors.
I miss the optimism and focused purpose of technology in the office. And those keyboards were awesome! Cool tech from when the world wasn't so plastic.
In before LGR appears :)
Easly email..I remember useing email in the late 80s at my high school..
Dont get a Virus from those 1980s fax machines. 👁👁
After watching this IBM promo, no wonder Apple Computers went in a different direction. The Lisa and Macintosh products used slogans such as:
"Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples."
"Macintosh - The computer for the rest of us."
"Hello" & of course the famous "1984" Super Bowl TV spot that used an unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh (indicated by the picture of the computer on her white tank top) as a means of saving humanity from the "conformity" of IBM's attempts to dominate the computer industry. The ad alludes to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which described a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother." - thus eluding to "Big Blue" (IBM).
@Ken Cosi . . . it's amusing, and ironic, to see in the 21st century how Apple has come to dominate the smartphone industry; with a following that could be going down the dystopian path with wireless telecommunications.
4:33 No, that's Debbie.
That lady types faster than most adults in 2021.
Young ppl too. With iPhones, - no one cares about how tech works
@Cypher . . . when I worked in the high-tech sector in Silicon Valley (California) back in the 1980s, employment candidates with high-output skills of keyboarding were very desirable. The words-per-minute typing speed was a prominent feature written in résumés and in job applications for administrative support positions in the high-tech fields.
I recall seeing employment position postings where high-tech companies were looking for candidates to do data-entry work at a minimum speed of 10K keystrokes per hour.
My name is Ric and this did funny things to my brain. 🖖
The secretary looks very familiar. I'm sure I've seen her in movies, but I just can't place her.
HUGE & heavy beam spring keyboards......with the huge diskette drives & monitor etc, hardly much space left on the work desk for anything else ?!
Yep and theres no space left to eat your lunch on it,hahaaa😁
In the video @2:32, notice in the background the touch-tone phone; that black object it sits on was a dial-up modem; as back then, digital communications required the use of phone lines.
I recall back in the mid-1980s when the company I worked for had one in the accounting department. I saw it put to use one day when it was activated and it dialed the phone number of the financial firm the company was contracted with. What was really strange about that modem was the mode of dialing it used: Pulse dialing. The same type of dialing that rotary telephones used prior to the touch-tone keypad era. The modem had a speaker so the user could hear the dial-tone, then with a click on the DOS-PC, the number would dial; where instead of "beeps;" you'd hear "tit - tit - tit- tit - tit" for the number "5" of the phone number. It was very strange to see/hear the latest in digital communications (mid-1980s) using a modem with the dialing technology dating back to the 1920s.
Your iPhone or Android phone is at minimum 100 times more powerful than the 1980s IBM Displaywriter 6580.
I want a DisplayWriter....I will look for it on Amazon...
All men using 3 pieces suit... nice.
Yeah, it sure would be nice. I can't even afford a three piece suit these days.
That's what you will never see
In walmart 😁
@@piatpotatopeon8305 ¿Someone still remember what a tie is? I´m 35 and till 2016 all men had to wear a shirt and a tie in the office... not so long ago....
Nothing says "productivity" like inflexible fabrics and decorative neck ropes.
@@cristian_m_ciarlo I used to wear one a decade ago.
The displaywriter to earn information from the outside world ,that was in the precursor age ofthe internet😁
Ricki should have worked for Cuomo she'd get more unwanted hugs
Lol. Truth
4:33 "Thats centralized totalitarian control". (Fact check true)
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That Leigh is a real cutie.
Only downside, you need a desk the size of new york for the display writer. I wonder if he got that snack
Lunch at her desk at least once a week man times used to be alot harder.
Will i hope she didn’t drop her delicious lunch on her display writer by accident once in a while since there was barelly any space left on her desktop to eat her lunch,hahaaa😁
This is how we lost our privacy.
They never imagined that these useful machines would lead to the downfall of society and the silencing of free speech. I know, I lived through this.