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I recently discovered that RUclips has full episodes of the old TV series "Computer Chronicles." I thought it would be fun to react to their "How to Buy a Computer" episode which originally aired in 1993! Nostalgia incoming!!
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Hey Kyle if you look at the part of the video where they are stress testing the ram with solitaire and everything you can see that they were so cheap that they used a free copy of windows because there is a watermark on the display
Nvm that's the pc that kyle is using my b
sorry Kyle you aint cheap we luv ya
In 2050: reacting to a video from 2020 with a man reacting to a video from 1993
Can't wait to react to your comment in 2070 in the comment section of a video by Kyle's son reacting to this video (and by extension your comment) reacting to a video from 1993. Of course, I'll be filming it.
"Holly shit Chrome still doesn't run properly with 16terabytes of ram, how did they manage back then?"
@@colemin2
Only half right. Your neuroptic eye implant will be filming everything - all the time, and immediately upload it to the cloud via 10G network for processing & review by our Google overlords.
@@pottingsoil723 My bad, forgot about that
In 2050 still no rtx 3080's 🤣
I love how CPUs have more cache now than these systems have memory
hell AMD’s new GPU has more cache now
And that's how cache turns into cash
And for many computers of the time cache was external to the CPU die.
No it’s storage
@@UnrealPerson
Can I get a north bridge in the house
if linus had a show in 1993:
“WE GOT 2 *GIGABYTES* OF RAM!”
Lmao true
linus in the late 2020's "WE GOT 2 *TERABYTES* OF RAM!"
I want to see this! They should have an april fools episode where they are pretending it's 1993, and Linus is like, And WE GOT NOT 5, NOT 10, BUT 500 Megabytes of RAM!! And it cost $15,000 US Dollars!! But the ultimate question is... Can it run Doom??
@@patfree14094 ngl its a really creative idea, but not doom, *half a chrome tab*
@@patfree14094 amazing suggestion
I remember going with my dad in 1990 to get our first "color" computer, and the salesperson telling us that 128 kb of RAM was TOO much for a family computer.
I doubt that since even the entry models of Amiga + Atari ST had 512 kB for years at that point. MS-DOS 3.3 (1987) already had a system requirement of at least 256 kB and many programs were expecting 512 kB
Commador 64 went out of production in 1992. Did the salesman try to sell you old products.
The office suite on a C64 with a word prosessor, a spreadsheet and a database program was not the best experience... The printer was horrible slow, but we also had a box so we could use a typewriter as a printer..
The i8088 was better. And that had 640kB of ram.
So I do not understand what computer you could get with 128kB...
Before your color computer did your family own a TRS-80 Model 1 like my family? Ah the memories.
To be honest, I don’t remember the exact year or specifications...it was a long time ago. But I do remember it was a Gateway box system. And the RAM was really low. But I remember the salesperson telling my dad we didn’t need the upgrade of ram unless we were running photo editing software. I always thought it 128 kb, but again my memory could be failing me there. Before the gateway though, we had a Commodore 64.
must be real hard to play cod on that
In the future:
“8TB of ram is recommended, 16 would be nice”
Thats definitely going to be a thing as computers keep advancing.
nope we hit a limit
I think they're going to try to make apps smaller
Nice, that might be able to run *Crysis* at 56 FPS Lol
"If you want you Hollowdeck to have a smoother frame rate you should totally go 32tb but 16 will soon be the Standard in like 2 years trust me!"
Imagine sending this video to someone in 1993 telling them how people from the future would react
JUSTIN Y ARE U EVERYWHEREEEEEEEEE
do u see wut i did there
well hello there
@@____-nu4tv yes. yes i do
Hi Justin
Hehe. Us "old" guys remember that the correct phrase should be 'Plug and Pray'.
..and NT in Windows NT stood for Not Tested
And later on the Useless Serial Bus 😉
Yeah, pray that a cap or a an IC didn't explode in your face
@@darkfalzx And I remember the first time when my friend installed Vista... "WTF! I have intalled a virus as an OS".
And the good old times when Upgrading the OS wasn't equal to Downgrading, until a new patch will fix what was wrong with the upgrade.
Ha
Actually the support was a huge thing back then. Customer service like that just doesn't exist anymore. Sears would actually send a repair guy out to your house.
I’m Australia so if no service, no money for the company. (Australian consumer law)
Kyle: "It's been a good, almost 30 years, since this thing has been filmed..."
Me, who was born in 1993: *Don't.*
@Digby Dooright Lol, no they're not!
@Digby Dooright Lmao what
@Digby Dooright Nun of them would be old enough to die of old age yet or be famous enough that there death would be public knowledge. So is this a confession of some nefarious plot? Are you an unemployed postal worker blaming them for email taking your job? Turn yourself in and plead insanity. They will be easier on you that way. This was a joke! Don't put me on your list!!!
@@gueto70 iGuess the main host probably is not longuer alive, he could but... he was by far the oldes in the vis, probably followed by the MAC guy with glases
Justin Bone
Yup...
30 years from now, 16 terabytes of RAM will be a sweet spot.
chrome at that time will use atleast 100tb for one time
more like Petabytes LOL with the way things are moving along
Nah. Back in 06/07 when "dual cores" started coming out, I figured we would be on 32 cores for consumer PCs by now.
Im looking for that 16 megabytes
@@bepbep7418 there are... amd epyc
Fun fact: 5000 dollars in 1993 is equivalent in spending power to about 9000 dollars today. Imagine spending 9k on a laptop.
alienware and apple are laughing at the 9k
acer predator 21 x
In 1993, does that laptop drive you to work?
Seriously, you encapsulated our generation in one sentence "The internet doesn't exist yet, so there's still a reason to see the sun" I am considering getting that as a tattoo.
Except it did.....
“Just saying the words “Google Chrome” would make the computer explode...”
Yeah, while the World Wide Web did already exist back in 1993 the web protocol stack was much more simple back then. There was no CSS or JS.
The advancement of technology, particularly computer technology, has been amazing to watch over the last 30 years that I've been in the hobby. For example, my first hard drive was 20MB and cost me roughly $700 in 1988 ($1500 in 2020 dollars). Today, that hard drive could store six or maybe seven jpegs from my relatively ancient smartphone before running out of space. To put that another way, a full 1GB of storage in 1988 would cost you approximately $75,000 in 2020 dollars.
Google Chrome
I literally read this comment the moment he said that!
@@jesep3663 hehe
"We'll all be using windows whether we want to or not" lmao
As a primarily mac user that’s the story of my life
@Aaron Speedy yeah thats why no one uses it... I like Linux but sadly it's not superior. There are things you just can't do on Linux yet. Hopefully it changes.
@Aaron Speedy Yes but you can do all the things you said plus more in Windows. That's why it's considered better. Even though I like Linux more it's just not as supported as Windows is. Simple as that.
@Aaron Speedy You can customize windows. You can even remove the start menu if you want and run a different shell. You can install different terminals too and there's also WSL to run a linux temrinal. You can install any third party app store you want. However you really don't use app stores that much on Windows. Windows doesn't cost $120, you can get it much cheaper and you can run it for free now. If you can handle a waterstamp.
The only real reasons to use windows are if you want to play all games, or if you have to use CAD/Adobe. Otherwise Linux really just does a better job.
10:20 "it really depends on what you are buying the computer for" its like she could be Linus's mom with those answers
The guy literally asked "how could we know which-" and she keeps saying "it depens on what you.." WE KNOW THATS WHY WERE ASKIMG YOU. AAAAAAAA
I always tell ppl the same thing when it comes to buying a PC....it all boils down to what you need it for and that is universal....
Bitwit all the comfort that you experience today is cuz of that 90s computer .
"not everyone can afford to shop at sears"
THAT one didn't age well.
This video is fairly new. Is he aware?
I don't understand. Please tell what happened
@@GauravSharma-dy8xv Sears went bankrupt in 2018
@@evm7368 ohh
I think he meant sears backthen was expensive
What we really need is a "Don't copy that floppy" merch.
hell yea
@@Abldishabsmaj26193 You can get shirts, I just googled it ^^
@@TwinPeaksIndustries omg tysm
20 to 40 floppy depending on what games.
The funny thing is, the "Don't copy that floppy" infomercial makes a pretty good point a minute into it (don't steal IP when you want to earn a living as an IP creator), but then it just continues and continues and continues.....
“We can’t all afford to buy our clothes from Sears!” Awesome🤣
"Step aside Crysis, colored rectangles are being rendered" hahahahahahah I'm dead
"I've got $400 bucks, what can you sell me?" "Come back in 7 years and we might have something 100 times better."
...and over which all the contemporary resource hungry applications won't run without hiccups: you'll be at the same state of dilemma, sorry to blow that balloon xD
$400 will never buy you a good computer that you can rely on.
Chrome book
@@evolicious but 400 dollars in 2000 will get you something miles ahead of what $400 in 1993 would get you. you'd be outclassed by your peers, sure, but you'd be seriously outclassing 1993
@@evolicious It depends on what relying means to you, there are some builds that work really well for starter gamers, just at 400 dollars
RUclips recommended this series to me as well this year. Have been having a hell of a ride down memory lane. I miss the Screensavers too.
Screensavers were the coolest thing. 3d pipes were my favorite.
I still run 3planesoft screensaver, much cheaper too consider how good modern graphics are...
Memory lane is only 2-8mb, be careful
You can still put screensavers on in today why miss just get one
Guys he's talking about the TV show called The Screensavers XD
“As long as you are persistent, you can achieve satisfaction.”
-Marty Jerome, 1993
Title of a sex tape.
It's crazy how fast technology advanced back then. Their computers became obsolete after a couple years, meanwhile our PCs last longer I would say, because computer technology isn't improving at an as rapid rate as before.
Going from 2mb of ram to a 500mb to a GB+ in a couple years. Improvement that is hundreds of times better, meanwhile 4GB to 8GB to 16GB is only a couple times more.
"Step aside Crysis, colored rectangles are being rendered here." LOL
Hey Tommy my mom just bought a new windows compatible pc, it's so neat.
Yeh Billy, but can it run solitaire?
Dude even rtx 3080 cant render solitaire in real time
@@frankcap2505 no😢 my 3dfx VooDoo3 3000 AGP cant run it
@@olibusto3025 agp, man you take me back. I had an all in wonder radeon, so I could play solitaire on my TV.
Lol
"Just wait till Clippy shows up. He's going to take you to the cleaners."
I lost it
Just Amazing
Me too!
So... what this expression means?
Can somebody explain to me please '-'
PS: English is not my first/mother language.
@@FVBGaming "Taking someone to the cleaners" is slang for taking/bullying someone's money. The inference is from shady laundromats having been popular bullying places for high school / college bullies back in the 80s-90s because of the need to pay the machines with coins and cash. Literally, "cleaning" your pockets. In this case here, it's more about computer resources, he's saying that Clippy is gonna take all the RAM.
@@fenrirwulf9266 Oh, now I get it xD. Thanks for the clear up. \o.
@@fenrirwulf9266 Geesh, I would not have ever got that.
The lady in green is still staring off into space to this day! :P
I found that exact book by Lisa Biow in my basement today, and now this video has been recommended to me.
"Can it run Solitaire?" :D Yes, yes it can. Even back then, Solitaire didn't require any substantial amount of resources.
Solitaire RTX when?
All those benchmark videos are garbage unles they have solitare
Tbh I just brought a 3090 to play solitaire in 4K 140fps
@@wr7ght467 only 140fps
@@hexados7479 solitaire is really harsh man, he's lucky he even got to 140
"This guy *hates* video games. That's why he's on a Mac."
back in the day, macs were good at gaming too
@@RandallStevenson Macs? No. Some of the early Apples were on par with PCs for while, but anything Apple was left far behind in gaming very early in the home computing market.
@@fcsuper yeah not great but I'd it was ok. The mac game prices were super high atleast in North Europe, but had a somewhat decent selection. Spent quite much time playing Warcraft, LucasArts games and Wolfenstein. Stopped following the mac gaming when the Pentium processor was introduced - I believe the mac gaming downhill was quite steep from there onwards.
Guys, evoking the current contemporary war Mac PC vs normal PC, is utterly ridiculous, as you can't see, appreciate nor give justice to History: in that era, the Amiga was the top notch PC machine for gaming as well as for anything else; also the NeXTstation or NeXTcube from NeXT Computer Inc., running on BSD UNIX along a magnificent object oriented GUI (and fully customizable, as its graphical objects could easily be connected or referenced in program codes via an open IDE interface - via "Display PostScript"), but at a higher price - Steve Job's baby... If comparing with an Intel PC or a Mac PC, then both were way ahead of their time: much more user friendly, and much more "multimedia-capable".
Utterly ridiculous is to give a lecture on some obscure workstation and its object oriented GUI on a thread about mac gaming.
I never saw this episodes with sense of humour, they actually impress me and think everything is so cool
Ahh good old days before plug and play where you had to be an engineer to even add a sound card for a midi port or just any damn thing
Well, unless you had an Amiga, which had auto-configuring expansion cards already in 1984. The Amiga was so ahead of its time that it was ridiculous. The owners - Commodore - treated the Amiga as the weird stepchild because Commodore was trying to be IBM or something, but IBM used Amigas themselves.
@@gunnar6674 I haven't heard of this... Considering how IBM had all kinds of crazy architectures for various uses, it sounds a bit startling! Now I'm not saying it didn't happen, don't get me wrong, but I'm interested - what did they use those Amigas for and was it something where they had not made hardware that could do the same thing as well? I just haven't heard of this before :)
@@robsku1 IBM did not sell Amigas - they used Amigas internally to run information displays and company education graphics. At that time, Amigas had video graphics which rivalled professional work stations at a tiny fraction of the cost.
"mechanical keyboards where around a lot longer than you expect" they actually started as mechanical ONLY it was in the late 80's to early 90's the membranes came to market
Sinclair ZX Spectrum "dead flesh" keyboard from 1982 joins the chat...
@@outtheredude hall effect keyboards from the 60's join the chat
Yeah, and VGA was 640x480 w/16+ colors, SVGA was 800x600 w/256+ colors (I put the + because that was a limit of the card not the tube, most VGA monitors hung around and were used in 16-bit graphics as they got swapped to increasingly more capable graphics cards/systems). Kind of wish this guy had a clue about the hardware he was talking about. Laughing at how graphics intensive the applications were (or lack there of), he's forgetting that most word processing was still done in text mode back then and printed on black and white dot-matrix printers, if not by type writers or for mass production type setting. It might be funny to him but being able to put an image in a document was pretty high speed.
An IBM XT was my first computer (8088 w/2x360KB DS/DD 5.25 Floppies, later upgraded with a ST225 20MB HDD). My next computer was a 386SX/16 w/4MB ram and the 20MB HDD carried over from my XT, and then a 486SX/33 with probably 16MB of ram and VGA Graphics w/256 Colors that I loaded Win95 on. I miss the days when they did crazy stuff like build printers into the bottom of laptops and have full diagnostics suites in the motherboard bios. Are all my ports working, or do I have an issue with a drive? Maybe it's time for the obligatory 6mo low level format due to bit erosion. Luckily all that can be checked/done in the BIOS.
@@outtheredude You can actually buy replacements for the Spectrum keyboard, made by enthusiasts.
"as long as you're persistent, you can usually get satisfaction"
That’s what she said....
Still relevant
somebody google that man to find out which prison he resides in.
@@twigwick a satisfying one
still relevant today though
The good old days when you actually HAD to learn a few things before messing with computers.
The good old days where if you knew how to make graphics or slide presentation or (gasp), 3d or video, you made more than doctors and lawyers.
@@StuBotNYC Haha yeah. And when even as a kid you could make an easy 10 to 50 bucks just be re-installing Windows or re-attaching a harddrive cable.
@@PaddyFullyRandom I used to do IT work and networking around 1990-94 at $120.00 an hour independently for graphic designer, textile silkscreen and ad producing agencies in the suburbs of NYC.
The good old days. Cranking Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
I remember those days well. Owning a PC back then was way more exciting than it is now as not many people had one. Simply playing back a video full screen was mind blowing, sounds crazy but true.
Same here playing games on my Brothers Packard Bell 486 like Return To Zork(CD-ROM version) and Myst and Kings Quest 5(CD) were and are my favorite games to this day and seeing the Full Motion Video was a awesome site to see for the first time. Good days of computers.
It's actually "entertaining" to see a RUclips tech influencer in 2020 watching, and often mocking, what we slightly more seasoned users were actually going through back then. It was fun to watch.
I'm really enjoying modern day computers, having been in my 20's throughout the 90's. Was a broke computer enthusiast back then arguing with my friends ... Matrox Millenium vs. Trio64 ...etc. Everyone running DX4 100/133s or AMD X586 because no one could afford a Pentium.
@@a351must2 Cyrix!
Hi grandpa! (jk)
@@davepastern Quake
@@a351must2 Doom! lol. Damn I am an old fucker lol.
My father was just speechless. Like "son don't remind me I forgot the 80's for a reason"
Actually, surprisingly little has changed aside from adding zeros to capacities.
Back in the early 90s my father and I would go to huge computer shows down in Ventura. Cash talked and we got some good hardware for cheap.
I got a 486 for $485 in Oxnard! Loved those shows!
@@daviddevillers6790 shiiit I lived in Oxnard and went to Pomona with my dad to get parts at the computer shows there! lol
“As long as you’re persistent you can usually get satisfaction” - blue shirt guy 17:36
That's what she said.
Thank you kind stranger for pointing it out.
imagine in 40 years someone reacting to nowadays hardware and getting a kick like this.
It won't take 40 years. In 10 years our current computers will seem like a joke.
@@domg7359 A core i7 980x from march 2010 is similar in speed to a ryzen 5 3600 and can be paired with a 2070 super without bottlenecking.
@@agrisimfarming But nowhere near a Ryzen 9... Gotta compare high end with high end at the time. If you look at cost for performance it's even worse. And that's on silicon. We're basically near the end of silicon limits, it's highly likely in 10 years we will be on to new tech.
maybe the kids will say "what is a computer?"
@@domg7359 That's only if they solve the Moore's law problem.
Video: "Don't copy that floppy!"
Me: *sweats profusely*
🤣🤣🤣
Napster: hold my beer
@@jasonwomack4064
Napster: Yo! I heard you like viruses, so I put a virus in your virus.
@@Dakarn bravo on the equally dated response. Lol
“The internet doesn’t exist yet... so there’s still a reason to see the sun.” 😂
except all of the computers in the video had modems, so.
@@Bangpath247 Back them modems would be used to connect to the new BBS.....Bulletin Board System. That is actually how I got the new Doom 1 when it 1st came out. lol
Nah, you had to buy them modem apart
I mean on one of the first eps they first introduce LAN and most people in the room dont have any idea how they would use it. Kindall is a legend, so sad about his life...
@@GreenCrusher1968 You can still log into BBS sites, too. There are a bunch online still. Windows 10 still has Telnet protocol compatibility. All you need to do is download a Telnet client and you're free to join whichever BBS you fancy.
"As long as you are persistent, you can get SATISFACTION" - 17:37
hehehe ;)
Hahahaha
so funny and sad
Life advice right there
Phone them,
and then just grill them,
till you can get your,
satisfaction.
In all aspects of life, nothing more true has ever been spoken
"What kind of computer did you need to render that?"
"An Amiga. And Amiga with Video Toaster!"
1960: "At least 4KB RAM"
1990: "At least 4MB RAM"
2020: "At least 4GB RAM"
2050: "At least 4TB RAM"
2080: RTX
I don't know what I expected, but darn you, I chuckled. Take your like!
Hotel: Trivago
for 2020 its more like at LEAST 8 gigs of ram.... 4 gigs cant even run windows effectively homie.....
@@wormer66 16 GB for a good time cause how many of us are actually multi tasking our PC
Its actually atleast 16GB ram nowadays with Chrome n etc. Min. quad core cpu if want smooth usage.
1993 - "Just swap out the battery"
2020 - "Just plug in a powerbank"
2050 - "Just recalculate the power-consumption"
ROTFLMAO
@@Zenikai_ best reply
Consumer Laptops batteries are now built in.. it's funny no one talks about graphics cards on pc
@@parsabbaluca21 hahaha, you got the whole squad laughing.
Imagine spending 5 grand on a computer in the 90's to "future proof" it.
Would be unusable like a year later. Even in 2000 you could buy a new beefy PC that would be useless by 2002. Stuff holds up better today you can play most games at Full HD with a High End PC from 2013.
@@99Ctube That's not completely true, a good PC in 93 would easily have been usable until about 98, pretty much the standard life for all computers was about 5 years before they were too obsolete to run the newest software, it's like games now a days, where they have a min spec and recommended spec, as long as you hit at least the min spec requirements, you were fine to use that PC. We had a Win 3.1 system in our house that we used until 1997 when we finally got a new one with Win 95 on it and we had that one until 2001 when we finally upgraded to a Win XP machine...after that, we started building our own PC rather than buying pre-builts, but they all lasted a minimum of 5 years each.
@@xPRODIGYxGAMER Cheaper, perform better, yes...last longer? In what means? An SSD has a finite life and will very likely fail within 15 years of date of purchase, I still have some old x386 machines that boot up on original hardware from the 90's that have yet to fail. If by last longer you mean, be relevant for longer, ok, but that's actually due to diminishing returns in cpu and gpu advancements more than it is due to quality.
I remember going to computer shows with my father and I can tell you you could have the fastest processor and enough ram for a lot less than that. You had to be pretty decked out with unnecessary stuff and probably through an oem to pay that much for a 486. When pentium chips came out I could see $3500 but a lot of people in the know kept their over clocked 486 boxes because of a bug in the pentium so with the exception of some software with pentium requirements to try to artificially move technology the 486dx4 machines actually had some longevity compared to a lot of previous machines. But today we have the luxury of using 8 yo computers without much difficulty.
@@matilija that SSD myth is dogshit. Stop spreading nonsense.
Honestly I want to send a overclocked, water-cooled ultra gaming pc to this time. It'd be funny to see their reactions.
The RAM Chronicles:
1993: 4MB vs 8 vs 16
2020: 4GB vs 8 vs 16.
2047: 4TB vs 8 vs 16
Even tho this is funny moores law doesn't apply anymore sadly. :(
@Gareth Tucker Not for the common man. Enthusiasts yes
@@roobaba5415 8GB vs 16GB vs 32GB 2021
@Gareth Tucker 32 vs 64 vs 128 lol
"Don't copy that floppy"
Me: ah yes... When the sea was so vast as long as I had a floppy everything was in grasp. Now I hoist my flag on the Torrent sea, grabbing things that interests me.
Don't Torrent! It's Abhorrent!
You skipped cd-rom/DVD and kazaa/limewire/...
Apple should of showed *a clip* of this before they announce the price of the *2019 Mac Pro for $5,000* 🤣🤣🤣
my 2019 macbook pro cost me 3000$ (with taxes) in canada
shhhh, we dont want them to raise the price even higher
should have*
terrible grammar
@@atlantroppus if you're talking about me i understand, i'm french
Yes I remember this back in the day when I used to do tech-support for these. That was a long time ago. God I’m old…
And Wendy Taylor is still busy. She still looks cute after 27 years later. She has a LinkedIn profile
Don't judge the past by today's standards - goes for almost everything.
zoomers gonna zoomer.
He's just doing a funny little reaction
"Not everybody can afford to shop at SEARS, lady..."
Slayed me Bro, still chuckling.
Now Sears can't afford for you to stop there... society took them to the cleaners
“Don’t Torrent. It’s Abhorrent.”
_Unless_ the thing you’re trying to download provides a torrent link on their website. Then it’s okay. This mainly happens with open source software though, like if you’re downloading a linux iso.
It's both amazing and sad how many people don't know the difference between using a torrent and illegaly downloading something, or worse the difference between stealing and copying.
I remember a while back
VisualBoyAdvance was downloaded via torrent and also technically roms are illegal to download so i got scared and didn't do it.
Kids today don't know the joy of buying a computer game and running it only to find you don't have enough conventional memory and having to get that right first. Ahh the good ol days
I hated that shit. Or the sound blaster doesnt work
I love how you say "Let's jump right in." and instead of you clicking play you give us a sponsor.
"As long as you're persistent, you can usually get satisfaction."
Said one sex offender to the next.
i like how much kyle enjoyed taking himself to the cleaners
Imagine travelling back to '93 just to tell someone you watched this on a phone
"Don't be abhorrent, share your torrent"
I went down a "Computer Chronicles" rabbit hole several months ago. Their content is great.
They have a video titled PC Gaming-2001 where they feature the mighty GeForce 3. I was a junior in high school when it came out. Its crazy how old that makes me feel.
I remember my 286 had a 40 MB HD and I thought there would be no way I would ever fill it up.
My first 17" CRT was $900 dollars back in the day and I got a descent deal on it.
How times have changed and I have to laugh when people complain about prices now days.
I upgraded from a 14" CRT to a 19" one, and thought it was gigantic. I mean it was, just front-to-back.
I was asked in high school how I'd ever fill a 170MB hard drive I was already 10 years into computers... Started with a 64KB Tandy.
The Year: 1989; My PC: 286, two floppies, no HD. Tough times. VGA screen with 16 shades of gray.
@@ewitte12 Haha. My first PC was a Tandy and was my Mom's old PC in the 90's. Thanks for reminding me! 😆
@swarfega Mine ran at 16 with the turbo on! It was otherwise the same as yours.
It had 1MB of ram. Ran Sensible soccer pretty well. :-)
The Computer Chronicles is actually a super entertaining show. I discovered it a month or so ago, and make it a nightly “ritual” to watch an episode a night.
An American named Joel for tech support...now that is old.
"I'm from Punjab and my name is Bob"
"Self-parking heads" Haven't heard that in about 30 years.
"its been a good 30 years" me born in 1993 OMG I'm almost 30
88’ here it’s not too bad 👌🏻
I'm 32 and grew up listing to my dad swear at his slow computer. lol
@@lindah6954 lmao
@@lindah6954 LOL!
@@therevanchist1123 1988 here too. I didn't get into computer gaming until the early 2000s. My first personal pc I had, I custom built it when I was 16 so I was able to run Doom 3 on lol.
"If you want to add speakers that sound nice, its an extra mere 500USD" provides sound quality equal to hooking up the debug-speaker from the motherboard to an amp.
I want to hear the sicc midi beats blasting from my Altec Lansings.
When she said 500 I assume she was talking about with the midi amp.
Thanks for the video, Bitwit. Watching this for nostalgia rush. 😀 At that time i only had an XT, black and green screen, toying with DOS and the text editor Einstein. 486 was like a dream performance and graphic wise. :)
Omg i started learning PC on a 486 i still Remember playing Prince of Persia as a reward for behaving good in class.
"Don't torrent, it's abhorrent" - Kyle 2020
"before Google, they had books" 🤣
I don't know why I got so triggered when Kyle said "Not everybody can afford to shop at Sears". Maybe its because I'm old enough to remember when Sears was actually worth a damn. LOL
Same. I remember feeling giddiness waiting for the next month's Sears catalog like how I feel nowadays waiting for a new top-of-the-line hardware component to come in.
Probably so does he, which is why he said not everyone can afford it.
Sears catalogue,
Mom - furniture.
Sis - Brand name clothes.
Me - gals in underware! 😏
Montgomery ward!
@@hrayz tmi
My mom actually had that How To Use Your Computer book, it was pretty handy back in the day for someone just learning.
I miss CompUSA! There used to be one right next to mu house. I would go there to check out the parts, just for fun and I got my first PC there as well. Oh man I enjoyed this video more than I thought I would hahaha!
Thanks for reminding me how old I am. Feels like yesterday, my cousin said to me: "WTF you're gonna do with your 512mb hard disk?". I need a drink.
512mb they were right jeez kappa
“Excuse me, mr computer salesperson. Does your SSD come with self parking heads?” 😂
I love this show, some of their 80s episodes talked about computer hardware and software development in great depth, something most "tech" RUclipsrs never understand. Memorizing PC part brands and models or running benchmark software won't make you a computer expert, also something most "tech" RUclipsrs never understand.
People in 30 years time will be laughing their arses off at the tech we rave about today. (probably internally, in their AI-mind-melded personal entertainment orbs)
The last part feels like a dystopia.
I'm going to come back to this video in 25 years to laugh at Bitwit on my 9000ghz quantum computer.
I was drinking then he said "wait until clippy shows up. He's going to take you to the cleaners" I'm still coughing as I type this.
Had me laugh hard. This guy is hilarious
yeah, that one got me too; fortunately, wasn't drinking anything lol. I do remember turning clippy off in those days, though... was a significant drain on computing power!
Yep, that was the moment I subscribed.
@@siteml And annoying as all hell!
same! lol
As bonkers as it sounds, I miss those prehistoric days. 🦕
We're gonna be laughing off our specs in 20 years time.
30 years in the future: WTF: how the hell does that work without quantum teleportation computing?
In 30 years, everyone is trapped in a matrixy buffer. Sleep well tonight.
in 30 years we are in another dimension
"how to buy a computer in 1993"
*Well it's a good replacement for my mac that runs 3 fps for every single game*
XD
same
Haha lol
3fps? That will cost you $3000
1080p? That’d be amazing back then super realistic and can run!!!!!! That’s super high end
Amazing, lol. Also it's kind of nice how some good advice seems to be timeless.
Regarding that laptop colorspace... the cube root of 32,768 colors = 32 colors per channel (assuming there's no alpha channel). So it only had a 5-bit color depth. XD
Another fun fact: its processor was 33 MHz.
"The onus is on you to get satisfaction" - Well there you go.
Dude: "As long as you are persistent, you can usually get satisfaction."
Kyle: ...... :1
21:53 “Just wait till clippy shows up. He’s gonna take you to the cleaners.” 😂😂
1993: Don't let them sell you a 2 MB RAM
2021: Don't let them sell you a 2 GB RAM
2041: Don't let them sell you a 2 TB RAM
They want to take me to the cleaners, those goodfellars.
Watching this takes me back to a wild time in computer progress, when buying the "Cadillac" of systems cost as much as an actual nice used Cadillac.
"As long as you are persistent you can usually get satisfaction"
Yeah my wife keeps telling me that too.
sound like she get it from this tv show... no worry why old people are so terrible.. they expect people to telling them not study it online like today...
what??
what happened to Lyle? i thought he'd be the one who cover this
Rumor has it the Verge has him locked up in the basement.
He’s getting tortured in the verges basement
Loved it! I watched every episode the years they aired... Thanks for making me feel old as sh*t! lol I also remember using a application to put my PC to sleep.
I'm old enough to have watched The Computer Chronicles when it aired, and when I found it here on RUclips (and more recently Odysee), I've been re-watching some of these vintage episodes! Cool that you are reacting to it, and introducing a new audience to this cool old show.
Could you imaging paying 2k for a pc today and not even getting color
I could imagine paying 2k for a laptop and not gettin AMD
@@jazmineash8450 because Intel would make your pc a wee more expensive
@@weesnaorc1203 no, because Intel will make my pc a wee more useless and overpriced
@@jazmineash8450 ohh, just like apple does
I feel like you're asking those of us that don't remember the 80's. lol 🙃
"before Google, they had books" 🤣
How many pages would Google be if it were a book
@@weesnaorc1203 I’d say hundreds and thousands of pages
@@albertthomas6741 with how many websites, social media, reddit, youtube content that can be found on google it would be more like several Quadrillion pages, if not more...my guess anyways.
we still have books :P
Bro this was insane. So many memories. thanks for this dude.
I love it! I remember playing Sid Meiers Civilization 3 in 1994, using Windows 3.1. When Windows 1995 came out, there was 25 discs to install. And took about 4-5 hours to finish.
Windows *95*