Are Computers The Next Big Thing? Ireland 1983

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  • Опубликовано: 10 дек 2022
  • Every home in Ireland will have a computer in the next five years a demonstrator tells the Late Late Toy Show.
    The Late Late Toy Show has all the latest toys and technology and this year according to Gay Byrne, all the kids are bananas for computers.
    Nine-year-old Oric whizz kid Mark Feldman from Rathfarnham who has been playing computer games since the age of six. Mark has plans to learn how to programme.
    Thirteen-year-old Johnson McEvoy uses computers for programming and games and to create graphics. Johnson has his own Oric computer and can find his way around the keyboard pretty well.
    Computers are the big thing this year.
    Maurice Cohen of computer sales company ‘Tomorrow’s World’ says,
    We’re going the greatest social, cultural and technological revolution that mankind has ever gone through.
    Maurice Cohen believes that it is important not to be left behind by technology. He believes that within five years, every single home in Ireland will probably have a home computer, which can be used for games like Space Invaders, business applications such as word processing and financial modelling, and for educational purposes.
    There are already around a thousand Commodore 64 computers in Irish schools. Maurice Cohen demonstrates an application that helps people to learn how to use a keyboard and type. In the game, a letter or a number comes floating down the screen and the player simply has to find the key on the keyboard. As the player progresses through the game and becomes more familiar with the keyboard, the letters and numbers appear faster and faster.
    This episode of The Late Late Toy Show was broadcast on 10 December 1983. The host is Gay Byrne.
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  • @johnoconnor6962
    @johnoconnor6962 Год назад +21

    Gay Byrne admits he knows nothing about computers, but he certainly knows about fashion.

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      pink tie coen and johnson christian name hand on shoulder ... ah now dead it bee arm your gideon of to the don bas for thee... ruclips.net/video/c7ITkhv8DR0/видео.html

    • @edmundpower1250
      @edmundpower1250 Год назад

      Knew

    • @josephfisher6745
      @josephfisher6745 Год назад +2

      Didn't know much about accountants

  • @lindahughes4409
    @lindahughes4409 Год назад +15

    Good ole days when they show the toys

  • @rgearr1808
    @rgearr1808 Год назад +13

    40 years ago.. if only they knew how big it would be...

    • @Dr-Stu
      @Dr-Stu Год назад +3

      Maurice wasn't too far off in his prediction.

  • @Glynnwilliamson
    @Glynnwilliamson Год назад +5

    that poor kid probably thought he was going to get a free computer

  • @ciaran5588
    @ciaran5588 Год назад +8

    Gaybo 2022 "so, virtual reality. What do you do on it?"
    13 year old "mostly hard core porn & ultra gorey games. I ripped a baby apart with my teeth while playing as a werewolf earlier today. Blood is good Gay"

  • @johnmcgahern3946
    @johnmcgahern3946 Год назад +12

    I didn't know of anyone with a computer in their house until 1989.

    • @aljomc6444
      @aljomc6444 Год назад +1

      '83 for us

    • @shane6115
      @shane6115 Год назад +1

      Everybody I knew in the 80,s didn’t have a computer because everybody I knew hadn’t got shilling…😢

  • @hugostiglitz6914
    @hugostiglitz6914 Год назад +5

    Because of the speed technology is evolving the distance we can reasonably predict into the future is getting shorter and shorter. We are also fast losing our ability to be amazed!

  • @benmacdui9328
    @benmacdui9328 Год назад +3

    Now everybody is glued to a screen 24 hrs a day and nobody talks anymore. Progress ?

  • @dac8939
    @dac8939 Год назад +3

    I had spectrum 48k then gameboy, then nintendo, the super nintendo, then Atari ST then amiga.

  • @DennisMoore664
    @DennisMoore664 Год назад +5

    My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. I had a friend with a Commodore 64 and learned Basic on an Apple II+ at school, but my best friend had an Atari 800. Thinking Atari would be the gaming system I eventually upgraded to an 800XL - black and silver wih128K. Good times.

  • @italianbirdvideos6190
    @italianbirdvideos6190 Год назад +6

    Nah, I don't think that will take off. My bet is computers will be dead in six months...

  • @ganlyb
    @ganlyb Год назад +11

    I was given a zx80 for Christmas 1979, about £140. I learnt from the manual how to program, in school no teachers had any skills to teach. As a result I now have millions of pounds in the bank

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 Год назад +8

      Any chance of a loan

    • @hanzobi1926
      @hanzobi1926 Год назад

      More chance of dick waggling and wallet flexing tbh mate.

    • @cliveo3
      @cliveo3 Год назад +1

      Are you a scammer ?

    • @conorcousins27
      @conorcousins27 Год назад +2

      Your due a blue Peter badge so

    • @ganlyb
      @ganlyb Год назад +1

      @@conorcousins27 erm you're

  • @max__pain
    @max__pain Год назад +4

    My first computer was a micro. Learned some BASIC and wrote some programmes and music with it.

  • @RazorMouth
    @RazorMouth Год назад +4

    We had a zx spectrum from the early 80s, then a more modern commodore from 1990 and then a Gateway2000 with Win 95 from 1996 with a massive 2GB storage, it was so much that it needed 2 hard drives of 1GB each 🤣🤣🤣

  • @elstow
    @elstow Год назад +3

    ha watching this on RUclips app on smartphone in 2022

  • @francispower1418
    @francispower1418 Год назад +1

    Watching this it comes as no surprise, reminding myself that subsequently Ireland became on of the great tech hubs of the world.

  • @grahamluna6935
    @grahamluna6935 Год назад +4

    I'll take the bike, thanks

  • @animallover19581
    @animallover19581 Год назад +1

    Imagine 1983 and they talking about learning computers skills.
    2023 nearly and I still know feic all about computers. 😢😢😢
    Good thing though in 1983 I married the best girl in the world, still together happy out. 👍🌹🌹🌹🌹😂😃😀😇😇👏👏

  • @GerryScullion
    @GerryScullion Год назад +2

    What a great video!

  • @jimmymcjimmyvich9052
    @jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Год назад +10

    The young lads probabably got great careers. (And could spell)

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      feldman , cohen pink tie , johnson christian name hand on shoulder .. cre ears , spellinseses dildio daggins frow d'ho ... deefer ... xsaxonx ...xreverttrevrex .. facebook miszion mountloaded be da goorhs .. no blasphemy by referndum - no hate speech legislation ...red hand day lawd un um discrticus ..the family of naoise templar not to be fooled by trinitus ...silly childish and not impressive yo much beyond arc*h*bi shoppee ye the ode ... dowdalldecoderrubbish trash .... yawn the gan delf ..the coocoo knobbingworths tax dodge hill ,,, red team eejit to name hawsy in bog in awfullt offally ...weeja ,, eejit ,,..egypt ... the birds have flown freely ..goal den goo is faber gayed ... .. childish ..here - Goose ta po lice ffl ssg ... flutes for loosing should stop gallivanting .." Thou shalt not touch without consent ... putin not satlin no more .... gawk squak hawk ..gree maisons cum promeyesesseded ...white book whiye horse the ivy dreegs are loosing power .. halt uffington stop junk shun ... loco men are loco loco again ..golden butter from aines tombs brought the tails of the greasesons eradicated by the haran sfartans ... purple heart of men u the poop of room has two heads for in fall i bill i ty tee teeech ... ti house book library ...trump to buyden camp 1 what on the island has it dune dun fremen fade in and out ,,the fear trap set ..tomb 69 denied for what in esker did to child !!!!

    • @1989Chrisc
      @1989Chrisc Год назад

      I think the johnson lad became a physiotherapist. Certainly looks like him if you google him.

  • @veronicadredd22
    @veronicadredd22 Год назад +4

    so the Toy show had steve jobs in a grey suit back in 1983 the man is te spitting image of him

  • @tonyhancock3912
    @tonyhancock3912 Год назад +3

    I am afraid of the keyboard

  • @DillaDonuts
    @DillaDonuts Год назад +17

    Kids seemed to be a lot less fidgety back then

  • @philfriel001
    @philfriel001 Год назад +1

    My first computer was an Amstrad PCW8512 in late 1986. It wasn't supposed to be a "proper computer" (but it WAS a proper computer, with CP/M on the other side of the program disc, and the ability to run all the software available for that OS), more of a glorified electronic typewriter running the LocoScript wordprocessor, with a screen and the ability to print files out on it's dot matrix printer and save files to disc. Atari, Amiga and C64 and C128 users dismissed it and looked down on the PCW. Sure, the Z80 processor and CP/M operating system were pretty out of date even when the computer was new, but they did the job.
    And my PCW had 512k of RAM at a time when Commodore 8bit computers only had 64k and 128k. It might not have matched up to the much more powerful and flashy 16bit Ataris and Amigas. But compared to the 8bit Commodore 64 and 128, the various models of Spectrum computers and the various other 8bit machines, it fairly held it's own. The only 8bit computers that I can think of that really outclassed the Amstrad PCW were the Acorn BBC B and BBC Master. They were in a league of their own. But I loved my old Amstrad PCW. It was my first computer and still holds a fond place in my heart, despite the fact that I've been a PC user for over 30 years now.

  • @exerciserelax8719
    @exerciserelax8719 Год назад +1

    Graphics today: Photorealistic landscape with individually rendered blades of grass.
    Graphics then: "Squares"

  • @jinxterx
    @jinxterx Год назад +4

    Triumphant hair flick by the Steve Jobs wannabe at 5:44 😅

  • @psychedelicpython
    @psychedelicpython Год назад

    I’m watching this on my old “12.9” iPad Pro and thinking how far computers and computer devices have come since the 80s. Incredible.

  • @platypusputin8067
    @platypusputin8067 Год назад +1

    Nah, I don't think this computer thingy majig is gonna catch on.

  • @prefeitobear9209
    @prefeitobear9209 11 дней назад

    For Dublin, localisation is money.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Год назад +8

    I think we all know the answer to this question don't we

    • @dirtyunclehubert
      @dirtyunclehubert Год назад +2

      yeah. never amassed to anything much, thankfully.

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/iJ4O8DerXdw/видео.html

  • @Parakinese
    @Parakinese Год назад +4

    Cool clip👍

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/qRsoVK99x4U/видео.html

  • @onthewattle
    @onthewattle Год назад +4

    I want that 64 for chip tune production. Some Lads have made some pretty new drum machines and sequencers for it

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      jtght ... briohnson christian name handicus shoal der sponticus ... arm a gideon to dbt jew know ..wunce up on a thyme ..and glowing no

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      ooh ahhh up Eire ... ruclips.net/video/ecn1tGj2EdQ/видео.html

  • @guitarstorms
    @guitarstorms Год назад +1

    If only we knew how the computer controls us now....

  • @123brownjames
    @123brownjames Год назад

    Gay Byrne saw the future

  • @jakehiller6444
    @jakehiller6444 Год назад +4

    In 5 years every home will have a computer? Lol my family didn't get a PC until the early 2000s.

  • @mccann82
    @mccann82 Год назад

    Going to have to get me one of these things.

  • @patrickryan5570
    @patrickryan5570 Год назад

    Wow back then in 1983 we were on the cusp of a revolution and of course the internet was the ultimate game changer - the smartly presented kids appearing were a credit to their parents as they knew times were a changing - I can only assume they went on to achieve great success in their lives - The best thing in Ireland was a universal appreciation of great education for knowledge is power.

  • @jimmybrad156
    @jimmybrad156 Год назад +2

    Looks like Steve Jobs

  • @mrcherrytits
    @mrcherrytits Год назад +1

    Nah. They'll never take off.

  • @pmacc3557
    @pmacc3557 Год назад +1

    We were taught to type on the good old fashioned typewriters

  • @barrywalsh7926
    @barrywalsh7926 Год назад +1

    Gaybo didn't see the Twitter Files coming!

  • @opencurtin
    @opencurtin Год назад

    Gay wearing his pyjama top how nice !!

  • @davidvincent8929
    @davidvincent8929 Год назад

    SMOOCH. WE HAVE LIVED IN COUNTIES CORK, CLARE, DUBLIN. WE LIVE THIS.

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Год назад

    I got a 2nd hand Sinclair ZX81 in about 1983, my friends all had Spectrums. Back then we had magazines with dozens lines to input to make a dot cross the screen or something equally unbelievable at the time. We called it programming, at some point it became “coding” 🙄 really and truly you knew then that they were here. The advent of the games on the Spectrum meant you knew it was forever

    • @speakertreatz
      @speakertreatz 3 месяца назад

      one $ in the wrong place and you got 'error'

    • @OlafProt
      @OlafProt 3 месяца назад +1

      @@speakertreatz right 😂 🤦‍♂️

  • @paulclarke7571
    @paulclarke7571 Год назад

    Didn't get my first computer till 1995. $2200 for a whopping 4 gigs in Canada!

  • @gazurtoids1
    @gazurtoids1 Год назад

    A NORACK WHIZZKID

  • @wiicow
    @wiicow Год назад

    I’ll never understood how anyone wasn’t scared of a computer making sounds like that

    • @solo1y
      @solo1y Год назад +1

      I'm not too fond of it even now.

  • @punchy1325
    @punchy1325 Год назад

    Awh my first computer

  • @laoch5658
    @laoch5658 Год назад

    they will never take off

  • @dermotspollen
    @dermotspollen Год назад

    I still only know how to turn a computer on

  • @DaraM73
    @DaraM73 Год назад

    I’m pretty sure half BMX’s weren’t a thing.

  • @anthonywhite6530
    @anthonywhite6530 Год назад +3

    Gay Byrne a national hero

  • @thecarpetman7687
    @thecarpetman7687 Год назад

    It’ll never catch on

  • @davidowen6977
    @davidowen6977 Год назад

    Late developer 😐 There was a home device ( Tatung?) called an ' Einstein '.......passed me by completely

  • @markforresttv
    @markforresttv Год назад +3

    Now we're watching this from are phones 📱 I wonder what comes next for the future

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Год назад

    Who knew

  • @Matchewfitz
    @Matchewfitz Год назад +1

    Gay! Bubby! I'm your white knight.

  • @untitled6981
    @untitled6981 Год назад

    Mark my words, they won't take off

  • @dontbeshady411
    @dontbeshady411 Год назад +1

    Larry David says no.

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/5x7e7IRnoI8/видео.html

  • @Parakinese
    @Parakinese Год назад

    Pretty low audio level though....

  • @pozzee2809
    @pozzee2809 Год назад +6

    Sadly they we didn’t see all the bad things it would bring

    • @jimmymcjimmyvich9052
      @jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Год назад +1

      @@brianmelcarr Brill))))

    • @ColmGibney
      @ColmGibney Год назад +3

      @@brianmelcarr You're missing a comma, using an ampersand, and double-spacing. No word processor either? 😄 Happy Christmas.

    • @fieldagentryan
      @fieldagentryan Год назад

      @@brianmelcarr ruclips.net/video/to7gIYx9npU/видео.html

    • @CAVALIERKNIGHT33
      @CAVALIERKNIGHT33 Год назад

      Q.E.D. Yeu lerne tu spele en skule. Or get a word processor etc.😂🤣😅

    • @edmundpower1250
      @edmundpower1250 Год назад

      @@brianmelcarr grammatical

  • @roymunson1
    @roymunson1 Год назад +8

    2:20(Morris) putting on the best damn Irish accent by an Indian i ever heard!!

    • @conchronic
      @conchronic Год назад +1

      Maurice Cohen, more likely he is irish of Jewish descent .

    • @roymunson1
      @roymunson1 Год назад +5

      @@conchronic well, I won't say anything about him being a jew, even he really is. Ann frankly I won't stand for anti semitic jokes!

    • @vincentmccready
      @vincentmccready Год назад +2

      @@roymunson1 ha!

    • @WakaWaka2468
      @WakaWaka2468 Год назад +2

      @@conchronic No such thing as an Irish or European Jew. The Jew is his own small ethnic group.

    • @GhastlyCretin
      @GhastlyCretin Год назад +3

      @@WakaWaka2468 Nonsense. So there's no American Jews by that logic.

  • @noelmaher4633
    @noelmaher4633 Год назад

    This was before Solicitors came up with ADHD Defence,92 ,Kids gonna be kids....no ringing up the Radio and Press having just received celebrity diagnosis in late forties...Just the attention bit)

  • @bonzodog6872
    @bonzodog6872 Год назад

    You don't need a computer to calculate that it took Gaybo until 1983 to finally unwrap his 1974 Christmas present of a shirt

  • @MSTL144
    @MSTL144 Год назад

    I do, an oric!