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I bought my first Wintel machine 5 years later in 1992 - and it still had a 386sx! CompuAdd notebook. (Right about $2000 with 4 mb RAM and 40 MB HDD.). One day the battery erupted in fire as I was using it! Got a replacement lol.
200 Megabytes was huge back then and now I'm outta storage with my 2 Terabyte hard drive cuz of Huge games like Call of Duty, God of war Raganrok and FF16 at 200GB each 😂
Oh, hilarious. "This is the AST Six-Pack Plus ramcard giving you about 384k of ram storage space" at 1:38min. First job out of college was AST Research - OEM Sales, Irvine. I recall, trying to pack as many of those cards into my office PC to the limit of addressable space and it was still painfull to watch Excel attempting to save large files or compute using the six-pack as a cache space"
I’ve watched enough Computer Chronicles episodes to know that when ol’ George Morrow and his triple eyebags were making an appearance, it was going to be a yap session about absolutely nothing correct
My video game era started when i was 8 when I got the Atari vcs original heavy sixer for Christmas 1977 but the best days for me was in my early teens when I had my C64 which I got for Christmas 83 and hot the Colecovision which I bought working with my uncle during the summer
And now a small rectangular device that fits in your pocket has way more processing power than a supercomputer back then that was the size of an entire large room. Technology evolves fast, I can only imagine what we might have 20-30 years from now.
Instant.. take. When she said there database would soon reach a trillion bytes of data. Literally 1Tb. We have thumb-drives now with upwards of 4tb capacity. Just amazing to think about. Finished this video. I had both an Amiga 500 and a 3000 before moving onto IBM based PCs. Could never forgive Commodore for how they mis-managed this machine. If this computer was the Microsoft of the day and won it would have changed everything. Image a commercial Amiga in 2024 (not the homebrew stuff, I mean if Amiga had replaced Microsoft and was commercial)...just wow.
Imagine if a time traveler secretly put a 2024 HW inside one of those PC cases. I would love to see the look on their faces after they completed a benchmark :-)
I think consumers have really missed out on some great technology because of the consolidation of the PC industry into mostly Windows with some Mac sprinkled in.
I love that a palmrest is a new idea, couldn’t afford any portable back then, had just made the leap from my Atari computer to a brand new 486, was the king for a bit as all my friends had 386s
