Computer Chronicles: Home PCs (1990)

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After disasters like IBM's PC Jr and the failure of PC companies like Texas Instruments and Atari, the future of home personal computers didn't look so good. But in 1990 a new generation of home PCs brought the business back. This program looks at the products that led to this rebirth, including the IBM PS/1, the Tandy 1000, the Magnavox Headstart, the Macintosh LC and the Mac Classic. Also includes coverage of the Commodore 64 and analysis from Dataquest. Originally broadcast in 1990.
About Computer Chronicles:
The Computer Chronicles was an American television series, broadcast during 1981-2002 on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television, which documented the rise of the personal computer from its infancy to the immense market at the turn of the 21st century. The series was created in the Fall of 1981, by Stewart Cheifet (later co-host), then the station manager of the College of San Mateo's KCSM-TV (which co-produced the show with Harrisburg, PA's WITF-TV), initially broadcast as a local weekly series. Jim Warren was its founding host for its 1981-1982 season. It aired continuously from 1981 to 2002 with Cheifet co-hosting most of its later seasons. Gary Kildall served as co-host for six years (1983 to 1990) providing insights and commentary on products as well as discussions on the future of the ever-expanding personal computer sphere.
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@squaretrianglez 5 лет назад

Old is truly gold in computers. Dos days were interesting

@MrCcd123 11 лет назад

I just love the style of tv from the 80s and 90s

@ACellPhone352 10 лет назад

I must be really old, back in 92, our 1st home pc was a 386DX, 40MHz, 120MB hdd, vesa local bus 1MB ram, 4MB of RAM. i loved that thing, i had LOTS and LOTS of games from BBS under a batch file menu system,

@waynehearst317 4 года назад

dialling up those BBS boards on a 300BAUD Hayes Compatible modem? I was a few years ahead of you on a Commodore 64...but yep. Good time when you can read the text faster than it loaded on your screen.

@hopydaddy 4 года назад

@@waynehearst317 , a few years earlier still in 1982, I played on Commodore Vic-20 with 5K of RAM and cassette tape storage and TV as monitor. I didn't even have a printer back then because I couldn't afford one...

@jackilynpyzocha662 6 месяцев назад

Tandy 1000 RLX 20 meg hard disk drive, 3 1/2" floppy drive, dot matrix printer, Tandy's own monitor, keyboard, mouse. Desk Mate(an early graphical user interface). I loved it!

@maynnemillares 4 года назад

Home computer, that will never catch on. What a waste of money, my typewriter still works.

@criskity 10 лет назад

My first computer was a Commodore PET with a whopping 16K of RAM.

@gregorymalchuk272 4 года назад

@Zion Thomas-Harmon What programming languages did you get started on?

@kerenton5897 7 лет назад

That's a good sounding mic actually 22:00

@mrwonderful2081 4 года назад

@Elias.448 2 года назад

This video is pure gold !

@BollingHolt 5 лет назад

Wow. In 1990, I was using a Color Computer 2, dialing BBSes for the first time at 300 baud, getting ready to receive my grandfather's Amstrad PC1512DD as a hand-me-down as he was about to GET one of the Tandy 1000 TL series machines. The early 90s were, in my mind, the last "golden ages" of computing, before the market shifted to target the "dumb masses" instead of the computer-savvy audience, but hey, that's just how business works. At least retro-computing and BBSes and such are still around and relatively sheltered from the social media, meme-posting masses!

@JB1994 9 лет назад

Damn. A CD-ROM bumped the price up $500.

@nilecitypatrik 10 лет назад

I love the future!

@CraigsChannel2 10 лет назад

Doesn't surprise me he push the 1999.00 model out there. I love watching these old computer history TV shows

@teltri 7 лет назад

I wonder how will we laugh at our computers in 30 years time :-)

@hopydaddy 4 года назад

The same way we are laughing at the computers of 30 years ago. Hahahahaha....

@TNeulaender 10 лет назад

As many of the commenters: I feel old :(. My first computers weren't even C64 or 386dx/486dx. My first was an Amiga 600 :). Additionally an Amiga 500 came a little bit later. It was a nice time full of exploration because it hadn't a manual. Just a bunch of cables, periphery and a shitload of floppies.

@ekimregen3606 11 лет назад

These these "home computers" will never take off or become popular. What a ridiculous idea. Who would want to buy one of these things.

@roossi 11 лет назад

it's funny now that I'v been watching thees old videos, they don't seem to talk much about windows or playstation even those are most used thees days :D:D

@danielsantana540 7 лет назад

Macintosh IISI was released 10 15 1990 it's priced was 2999 us Dollars and was discontinued by march 15 1993

@HerecomestheCalavera 11 лет назад

Think if you spent that much on a PC today, you could have one badass machine!

@JRowe95 11 лет назад

Back in the 90's that was on the low price range for a computer, times where a lot different back then.

@LinuxGalore 11 лет назад

because before microcomputers there was only book shelf sized $20k minicomputers.

@albear972 8 лет назад

Spectacular VGA 640 X 480 photos! lol! ok better than the invisible computer I had in 1990 :|

@m.ahdiatismanto8521 4 года назад

My first computer is pc ibm at 80286 , ram 1MB , HDD 210MB , OS windows 3.1

@whattheheck1000 10 лет назад

My grandfather had an Aptiva around the late 1990s and early 2000s. I played on it sometimes. It was a later model with Windows 98. January 31, 2014 7:23 pm

@videotape2959 8 лет назад

If you still have your IBM Aptivas then imaging the hard drives would be a seriously good idea.

@lastofusclips5291 4 года назад

26:30 i wish these reviews were longer. this segment seemed more like an advertisement than a review. i expect more from an 'expert' paid to make that segment.

@mtsingrenny 11 лет назад

this is vaporwave as fuck

@AlyxxTheRat 11 лет назад

Relative low cost. Computers were much more expensive back in those days.

@cmangy 11 лет назад

Guy from IBM said "hard file" 3 times. Presumably he meant "hard drive?"

@Tristinfate 5 лет назад

OMG that guy in Toys R Us, didn't they shave that middle brow in the 90's?

@DS-pk4eh Год назад

What about Amiga? it was the best one in that time. I think I had Amiga 500+ at that time.

@SteveLeicht1 10 лет назад

Oh yeah, my first computer was in 1984...a Commodore 64...64k, 170kb floppy drive,875khz clock speed. But at the time, it was cooler than shit.

@iron1215 11 лет назад

fit in most car trunks. oh yeah. won't have to rent a truck.

@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes 4 года назад

MEEEEERRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIN

@MaGiKRat420 11 лет назад

back then that kind of money was even more ridiculous than today

@congoballs9725 Год назад

9:35 Clicks 4-5 times no response 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@12me91 10 лет назад

TI is a failure? *looks at my TI nspire cx calculator* okay then...

@RabidWeasel 11 лет назад

You predict wrong...

@harisfarhan 11 лет назад

if i exist at this time i will died, $3,769 dollars, in my currency money it would be is 11721 bucks, oooo WTF??? i was born in 1993

@WoWkiddymage 11 лет назад

dude have you seen the specs on those bad boys i heard one even had up to like 64 mb ram! and like a .5 ghz full core proccesor!

@kimmykun 8 лет назад

With inflation, those Macs are around $1,800, $4,500, and $6,800 in today's cash. Oh, Apple.

@alexdewolf5596 8 лет назад

+kimmykun they certainly still had the best OS at the time though. from the beginning Mac OS made PC software look like shitty photocopier interfaces in comparison

@bobalobalie 8 лет назад

Yet, back then they were the cheapest and best performing.

@thedivinityman 11 лет назад

If I could give you every thumbs up for that comment, I would, you deserve a billion likes for this

@px002 11 лет назад

Thats a damn cheap used car now days.. LOL now days laptops are in the 400 dollar range

@luisgonzalez1637 4 года назад

1990, back when men were men and the women were proud of it.

@christineayres5339 3 года назад

LOL im transgender female but yeah i agree with you too many men are soft nowadays ha ha

@ArcadeGames 9 лет назад

Overpriced Apple products, nothing has changed...

@ArcadeGames 9 лет назад

+kidonlyle If you say so...

@realgroovy24 9 лет назад

Computers back then costed a damn lot so that isn't that bad of a price.

@ArcadeGames 9 лет назад

+Sony Trinitron Maybe I was being a bit biased, I've just never liked Apple products. I respect the brand though.

@realgroovy24 9 лет назад

ArcadeGames Apple probably from 2004/2005 onwards started going downhill, I lost my respect with them from that point on

@livesimplyandhumbly 8 лет назад

+ArcadeGames But the operating system is free. Free upgrades for life. And besides Solaris, it is the best UNIX system I have used. Upgrading a PC over 5 years (2 OS upgrades at least) is about another $200 to $600. And all OS X is the pro version. None of this home, professional ... nonsense Bill Gates uses to up charge the same kernel. And Apple comes with the software needed for most people to get started right out of the box and free upgrades also for those software. My gripe with Apple. The power of Mac hardware is mediocre. Even the waaaaaaay over priced Mac Pro.

@TazarZero 11 лет назад

$2,499 and $3,769?? How the hell is that 'low cost'?

@alexsandrosschneidinger5215 2 года назад

Intel {Cia}

@GEORGE-jf2vz 3 года назад

Apple low cost? Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!! More, expensive JUNK.

@silver147445 11 лет назад

It seems apple never changed their pricing.

@kinmanyuen 11 лет назад

thank god they had pc clones, much cheaper.

@samantakmitra98 11 лет назад

'low cost computers from apple' meanwhile in 2013...

@thedivinityman 11 лет назад

Apple the only computer company to raise their prices since 1985

@TheSisko1 9 лет назад

lol low cost macintosh, now apple charge the earth for their computers, and when the woman near the end talks about the macintosh the price almost doubles with each machine she talks about.

@AshtonCoolman 8 лет назад

I miss the exhilarating feeling I got when my parents would take me to a store that had computers on display. I had an 8Mhz XT and begged my father for an upgrade. Those were the good 'ole days.

@JanuszKrysztofiak 2 года назад

It depends on how to look at that. Computers got obsolete very quickly in those days. I remember reading minimum and recommended specs of games with dread only a year or two after buying a new machine.

@jackilynpyzocha662 8 месяцев назад

Radio Shack, Sears and Service Merchandise!

@maxxdahl6062 6 месяцев назад

@@JanuszKrysztofiak Obsolete very quick? The c64 lasted 10+ years.

@jackilynpyzocha662 6 месяцев назад

Radio Shack was my "Technology Store"(their tagline!)

@NortelGeek 10 лет назад

I got my first system in 1994, it had a 540MB hard drive, 4MB of ram, and a 77MHz Cyrix 486 DX processor. Came with Windows 3.1, a SoundBlaster 16 card, and a 9600 baud modem for jumping on bulletin boards and eventually AOL 2.5 for Windows.

@CanuckGod 6 лет назад

Got mine the same year at age 16, but it wasn't quite as nice, storage-wise. Same RAM, but 200 MB HD, powered by an IBM SLC/2 66MHz. It did come with a CD-ROM drive, though, which was nice, and I believe had a 14.4K modem, though living out in the country at the time, I didn't have the chance to test that out much - did come in handy though a couple years later when I moved to Winnipeg for university, as the Internet was just getting rolling at the time.

@Daehawk 4 года назад

My wife got me my first system in 1994 also. A AST Advantage 486sx33 with 4 megs ram, 2400 baud modem, 512k onboard video, 210 meg hdd. By Christmas that year she'd gotten me 4 more megs ram at $250, a 28.8 modem at $250, a Sound Blaster 16 , and games. In a few months more I had a 4 meg video card and a 4 meg monster 3dfx video card, 850 meg hdd. And a year later upgraded to a 486dx4-100. Times for upgrades never stopped. I miss you honey. See you again one day my love.

@jackilynpyzocha662 8 месяцев назад

A Tandy(Radio Shack) 286 with 20 mb hard drive, a 3 1/2" floppy drive, a mouse, keyboard, monitor, printer, software(additional). DOS, Desk Mate and Windows 3.1!

@NortelGeek 8 месяцев назад

@@Daehawk I'm sorry you lost her. I'm sure she was your world, and I cannot imagine the heartbreak. I believe you will indeed see her again one day. Mine was also an AST, it was the Advantage Adventure 6066D. It came with a JP-1000 printer, which was a RadioShack special. It never worked quite right, either.

@paulgascoigne5343 7 лет назад

Mean streets 2033! Just imagine in the no less than 16 years time we'll be receiving faxes in our cars! Kid today "what's a fax?"

@MrSilverizer 10 лет назад

2:45 "Low cost Macintosh computers from Apple".... hahaha

@MrSilverizer 10 лет назад

Adam M Couldn't agree more

@OldAussieAds 4 года назад

Up until 1990, Macs were almost at workstation pricing (Mac II onwards) and weren't exactly "home computing" prices. The Mac LC (which literally stood for Low Cost) and Classic represented a huge reduction in price. Compared to the Macs before it (not computers from other manufacturers) these were the low cost Macs.

@christineayres5339 3 года назад

Yeah only $4500 lol

@maxxdahl6062 6 месяцев назад

@@OldAussieAds All of Apples pricing was almost at workstation like levels. When you can get much cheaper, and better hardware on commodore, IBM, Atari, etc.

@hakemon 7 лет назад

When she cut out that tiny part of the audio she recorded on that LC Mac, I swear I saw an insufficient memory prompt.

@ian_b 4 года назад

You did.

@ryanpascual9598 3 года назад

You do not have enough memory to make this operation. Would you like to continue anyway?

@mrwonderful2081 4 года назад

You mean I can get a computer that can fit in my trunk and that has all the software preloaded onto the hard file??? Where can I buy this???

@JaredConnell 4 года назад

Only $1999 for the color hard file model!

@billn.1318 4 года назад

Back in 1994 my dad used to take me to an electronics shop to check out the latest gadgets - and computers. I was in awe seeing computers for the first time (I emigrated from Asia to US as a child). I asked my dad if he can get us a computer. He told me we cant afford that right now and that I can just use the computers at school. We finally had one in 1997. It was a hand me down PC. Years later I ended up opening my own successful business. I surprised my dad a computer. He opened it and it was a machine from 1994. He laughed and asked if I stopped at goodwill to get this? I told him “no, this was the same PC I asked in 94 if we can buy this but we didn’t have the money”. He looked at me and he said “well, where we going to put this? Does it even turn on?”. We basically took an hour and used the machine only to realize it was archaic. It brought me and my dad closer as I got to find out what happened back in 1994. He told me that was about the time him and my mom were getting a divorce, his company went bankrupt and he worked as a janitor at a cruise Ship to make ends meet. He told me that mom. Speculated he was cheating on her because he lied about going to “work” at a company for days only to know he was heading for several days out to sea.. as a janitor.

@Daehawk 4 года назад

I remember Sears selling PCs and addons. I bought a mouse and a Epson printer in the mid 1990s. I laughed at the news bit when she said Apple was trying to shake themselves of the image of high priced computers. LOL. And that game..Its BIG. It takes 3 megs of space and 512k memory. I say its huge :)

@theedrstrangelove 9 лет назад

That was the mistake IBM and others made. They stripped out some features and tried to double their market share by selling business class and home computers. Besides, calling it the PCjr did not help. My father bought us a Tandy 1000HX for Christmas of 1987. Neither my mother nor sister used it very much, so I took it back to Patrick AFB and then it came with me to Osan AB, Korea and back to Florida at Tyndall AFB. I used that thing for so many off duty college courses, learned to write code, added the max memory, got a hdd from a third party company, had an acoustical modem to call up bbs and even had someone make a custom cable so I could print letter quality papers on an okidata daisy wheel printer. Plus the games, games, games. Anyone ever use the first Falcon flight simulator?

@mojifilmovi1 8 лет назад

There's no more floppy to copy. :)

@christineayres5339 3 года назад

I love how Skip looks like Clark Kent lmao

@FurbyGender 9 лет назад

The first computer I ever used was an Apple II but, the first computer I ever owned was a Gateway Desktop that had Intel 266MHz Pentium II Processor with 512k cache, 128MB SDRAM and an 8MB video card. Now, I have a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop with Intel Pentium Dual Core processor 1.9 GHz (2 MB Cache), 4 GB DDR3 RAM and 500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive. Sure there are other laptops that are more expensive and have much more ram but, this is all I need and it does everything I want it to. It has 2, 2.0 USB ports and 2, 3.0 USB ports, a built in CD/DVD drive and an HDMI port. I'm sure that years down the road I will look back at what I have and laugh. I know that computers are going to continue to get faster and better and possibly more expensive.

@cubematrixstudio7605 5 лет назад

I lived the entire computer birth era, built my first home computer in 1979. I've never once noticed nor experienced any "dead home computer market" era... Quite to the contrary.

@mrwonderful2081 4 года назад

CubeMatrix Studio Thank you.

@MasterKoala777 4 года назад

Exactly. I found that odd, too. Almost like clickbait. Home computers went from strength to strength in the 1980s.

@christineayres5339 3 года назад

Online banking lol i only first used online banking in 2006 thats how long in the UK it took for the Banks to roll it out ha ha

@spacemonkey9257 6 лет назад

I have a phone with an octo-core processor. Access to pretty much the entirety of recorded human knowledge, I watch youtube and porn. Yay the future!

@michaeld4090 3 года назад

Can you put windows 10 on this computer ? If so, how much does this PC cost so I can buy it?

@avihooves1801 7 лет назад

Why would you need a PC? We have a powerful mainframe at the office.

@robertnussberger2028 6 лет назад

oh the horrors of screaming spoiled children... 12:00

@RRaccoon99 10 лет назад

My first PC was a 2005 Compaq. ATI Athlon X2 with a Nvidia SE 6150. 2GB and 250 GB Hard drive. It has withstood the test of time and it's still working great today.

@Karma20XX 6 лет назад

Is there a Seymour Butz here? Seymour Butz?

@jkb81 11 лет назад

"Preinstalled?" "No it's not." Magnavox. It's very smart.

@678Gopi 11 лет назад

Wow that display spectacular.......

@michaeld4090 3 года назад

2 MB RAM was considered a luxury. Now 62 GB is budget.

@christineayres5339 3 года назад

And if you have an Mac Pro you can have like 100 TB of memory lol

@layzer80 6 лет назад

that apple chick acts/behaves like a typical weird mac user lol

@danielsantana540 7 лет назад

This is all Great Stuff. this Show computer Chronicles may be one of the Greatest Tv shows in the history of Television

@godbluffvdgg 3 года назад

:)...I was one of the early suckers...386-486K ..When they broke 1Gig (win 98 by then); they really took off after that...But; the internet still sucked...It wasn't until 2005 that the internet became somewhat usable...It was great back in those days, You could say or do whatever you wanted...Ads sucked but; at least you could surf in real time...Now; everyone went backwards with these piece of shit "smart phones" That interface, if you normally use a rig to interface; SUCKS! ...

@AshtonCoolman 8 лет назад

The PS/1 had a 286 processor in 1990? The 286 originally came out in 1982 and the 486 showed up in '89. I would have imagined IBM would have started users off with a 386 at least but damn...

@CanuckGod 6 лет назад

There were more expensive PS/1s a year or two later that did start with a base 386, then 486, but my dad got the first model which was indeed a 286, though it did come with 1 MB RAM and a 30 MB HD, which to 12-year-old me seemed fast at the time. Fast forward 28 years later, my main PC has 32,000 times the RAM, and over 660,000 times the storage (about 20 TB)...

@joojoojeejee6058 4 года назад

Even 8086-based PCs were still being sold in 1990. As a matter of fact my first PC was a cheap 8086 clone in 1990. 286s were more expensive. 386 and 486 way more expensive. A 486 could cost as much as a car back in those days.

@JeSsSe66 8 лет назад

16:43 It's great that they offered the option of being able to rice your system. The others didn't even mention anything about ricing. What's the point in buying a computer if it doesn't even offer ricing capabilities? Plebs

@rededwards3479 Месяц назад

Database Software Q&A....made HuGE money with that guy....wow....still have some in the bank.

@toddfromwork8931 9 лет назад

I think all this home computer stuff is hype. It'll never catch on. I'll stick to SNES thank you very much.

@garyoptica 7 лет назад

The lesson for the early PC market was until it discovered why people were attracted to Macs, Atari's & Amiga's and port this under the pseudo brand name "multi-media" then operation home PC was put on hold.

@mikeysaint4368 7 лет назад

You'll have to wait till next year for your SNES, unless you import one.

@whattheheck1000 6 лет назад

Even if you import one you still have to wait until next month. Comment posted January 19, 2018 2:00 am

@nitramluap 4 года назад

Don't worry, in a few years this thing called the World Wide Web will save you...

@xmodsgaming 8 лет назад

Ok I'll copy that floppy😏

@jomunoz 7 лет назад

you sloppy jalopy!

@jackilynpyzocha662 8 месяцев назад

I started with a TI 99 4A, 16K Color, computer software: games, educational and home and business use. It could be expanded. And it's own monitor, if you don't want to use a color tv, instead.

@judewestburner Год назад

In this time period I had an Amiga 500 with a 52mb hard drive which was amazing, even with business apps, but have to say I became awaken to the academic and business side of computers when I got a 486DX2/80 in 1995

@captainkeyboard1007 3 месяца назад

Hooray! As a microcomputer fan and lover, as well as keyboard specialist, this show was made right up my niche just for me!🖥💻

@richardsequeirateixeira 4 года назад

Windows and the Macintosh dramatically changed the home market. Home PC users obviously want a computer that is compatible with the same software that they use at work. Imagine doing work today only to find that your computer at home is largely incompatible with what you have at work.

@alexman128 11 лет назад

What? you didn't know in 1990 when the SNES was about to come up to market, that Sony would release a PSX? come on you didn't have a magic crystal ball like the rest of us?

@11679MRT Год назад

Imagine going back in time and telling these guys that in 30 years people will be watching this program on a computer that fits in your hand.

@mrhellotherehowareu1384 5 лет назад

I think the home computer market really took off due to games not because of software like word processing or spreadsheets. When I got my computer I was like what games can I play on it? Then after that it was like oh I can write my school report on it or whatnot.

@drivecfl 2 года назад

You can get this beautiful Mac for $3,799 or this beautiful Yugp vehicle. Both very powerful machines.

@jackilynpyzocha662 8 месяцев назад

I used a (for a brief period) laptop as a student at Elms College in the 1990s; as a commuter.

@mcswabin207 4 года назад

So cringy. IBM guy said "preloaded on the hard file." I am amazed the PC didn't die and I can still use a computer right now

@prototype21 11 лет назад

Back in those days people could afford homes w. a HS diploma, cars, and $3,000 computers, also jobs existed.

@elgeneralxx 4 года назад

i have a mac lc its really not what they make it out to be

@l27tester 4 года назад

Alexa, there is a COVID-19 pandemic and I must stay at home, boot my PS-1

@glitchysoup6322 5 лет назад

1:20 "It is federal offence to copy software" Šūre. *Looks at free and open source GNU/Linux distro, from which I am watching this video*

@ryanpascual9598 3 года назад

*Looks at pop'n music Fantasia machine* "Warning: THIS GAME IS FOR USE IN JAPAN ONLY. THE COPYRIGHTED MUSIC/CHARACTERS/ARTWORK ARE SEPARATELY OWNED BY THE AUTHORS. VIOLATORS ARE SUBJECT TO SEVERE PROSECUTION UNLESS SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY KONAMI GROUP."