HP-150 touchscreen computer with Bob Vila 1985 

I'm watching on screen that fits in the palm of my hand.

Bob: "I'm not a technologically minded" Also Bob: Immediately understands how the inferred touch screen works on a technological level

I'm impressed with the fact they had a touchscreen that far back

This computer looks amazing. I can't wait to pick one up soon at Circuit City!!

"On the typewriter here"

Lady: turn the machine on Bob: and start writing in this? Woah, slow down there buckaroo.

“But how can this help me become a more efficient contractor?” “Well Bob, that’s a pretty tall order!” Shots fired 🤣

"And then you have your numeric keypad and that allows you to enter a lot of numbers."

Just think what computers look like in 2020. It will blow your mind Bob.

I used to own one. There was actually a slot in the top of the monitor for a thermal printer. Mine had a 30 megabyte hard drive. It had MS-DOS 2.1. It worked pretty well.

"Ingenuous! But how is this going to help me? To become an efficient streamer?" "Well Bob, that's a pretty tall order."

This makes me excited for the future of of computers

2071, watching this via mind-stream directly to my cerebral cortex.

I love it. Can't believe how much everything has changed.

She seemed like a good sport.

"Well Baawb, that's a pretty tall ordaah!"

I love their ergonomic office chairs!

Oh wow, that woman has a hell of an accent.

Fun fact: Infrared (IR) touch screens are still used today in public spaces for self checkouts and information kiosks. They're used over other technologies because of their low cost, higher durability and ability to work with gloves or styluses.

Was I the only one who for a moment forgot that this was shot in 1984 and thought that when he asked how they can mail the letter to the flooring contractors, she would just “email” it to them? Hehe I spaced out :p

Its amazing that the only thing that hasnt changed much is the keyboard

Wow, tech has definitely come a long way...cant imagine what the next 35yrs will bring us.

That's the quietest Dot Matrix printer I have ever seen. I almost want one now.

I very much enjoyed this trip down memory lane :-)

That was a hilarious to see the old computer technology, which really wasn’t all that long ago. Hope Bob is doing well today.

I love her accent, it just makes the information video more fun

Wonderful seeing these old TOH video clips.

My Product Manager had one of these. All he did with it was read emails on it (HPDesk). I was stuck with a dumb HP terminal trying to do spreadsheets from the mainframe. At least my Product Manager used the PC to read them. The Plant Manager had the same PC and his secretary printed out the emails so he could read them.

"All we have to do is put the operating system in..." Wait...you lost me...is that on the funny little record thing?

I’ve been looking for that disc for years!

Cool! We all know Bob liked to touch things on set!

Thankyou 🙏 for uploading.

Sears had a touch screen in the men's shoe department in 1993.

Trying to imagine Bob with a southern accent talking to this woman.

He called the keyboard “Typewriter”..

Did you know within 20 years or so you’d be able to budget, select your trades, have colorful 3D graphs, all these being able to be printed in a few seconds anywhere in the World plus watch all your old episodes of TOH... all on a machine the size of your packet of cigarettes?

Wait, we didn’t get to see the part where she shows Bob how to watch old episodes of TOH on it!

I used to use these to play Commander Keen

How does one person not like this video? For those of us old enough to remember, this was commonplace back in the day.

Personal Computers Have Come a Long Way Since the 80's

Just imagine how good she is at cooking and cleaning.

Imagine if someone went back in time to the year 1985 and showed them our current technology at its highest peak, how blown away would they be

Oh boy, I worked on Lotus 1-2-3 back in 1985 at Zenith and it doesn't seem that long ago.

3/2/83 on the upper right hand of the computer screen.

35 years later, watching this on my smartphone🤗

Letter is dated January 15, 1984. Awesome video.

so, all this functions in just a whole desk? awesome

Amazing and beautiful

Love her "New Joisey" dialect.

Wow a touchsceeen computer in 1985 ??? Wow amazing i didn't knew 😳 😍

"So there's a little record inside there" Oh bob bob bob...

So much computer power in just 256 KB of RAM!

Still a better build video than the Verge

How things have changed.

This person had Busta Rhymes in their contacts in 1985 @ 2:35

If technology never advanced past this point I'd still be happy

The numeric keypad helps you enter alot of........numbers.

"Mmmmf! Look at the speed of the thing!" when the printer starts printing one line at the time 😂

Before computers had the mouse..

*"And then you have the numeric keypad, and that lets you enter a lot of numbers"* That's a very advance technological piece of information right there.

Who knows what future may bring.

My phone has way more computing power than this did in 1984 lol

Wild

Love the Bahstin accent.

when computers where COMPUTERS

Bob Villa: Woah, you mean we are going to be able to touch the screen? 80’s girl: Looks at him awkwardly, “Yeeess”

I used a touch screen and Video disk unit in Mobil Oil circa 87'. From memory the touchscreen had something like a plastic membrane of bubbles on it... It was a while ago... Funniest thing.. same time, watched the PC guru (picture a leather vest and tie...) take a brand new IBM PS2 out of its box and put it on the floor, then a brand new IBM (P70?) monitor out of its box... the sharp corner of the monitor caught on the box, rotated out of his hands and landed corner down on in the middle of the PS2, pushing the daughterboards into the motherboard... Result.. Toast for both monitor and base. We also had a PS2 80 that was about 16kNZD back then... It was a beast... 16MHz 80386 32-bit! I think my old palm pilot I was given was more powerful...

Me: Bob seems to understand a lot pretty quickly for a guy who’s not very technologically minded... Also Me: *Did he just call the keyboard a typewriter?*

this is cool.. yeah just cool

Step 1: Insert the operating system...

"all we gotta do is put the operating system in"

He referred to the keyboard as a "typewriter"

Just think how much that computer weighed

The date was 03-02-1983...

If it wasn't for the voice I wouldn't have recognized him.

It’s much like a TV TOOB

January 15 1984

Honestly I still wouldn't know how to do this on a modern computer.

Touch the screen!!!

What are these numbers you speak of?

This machine was amazing considering the next best thing was DOS

Good ole Lotus 1-2-3

Would they like some screen with that computer?

My iPhone 📲 touch screen 📺 this some old technology

January 1984

Anyone know for sure where exactly her accent is from? I’m getting some Boston, but also some Queens.

“loading the intelligence into the machine”

Yeah, but does it play Crysis?

And today our computers are fast af, can do tons more, and we're all fatter

I have my lotus 123 on line.

Lol the type writer.

Wow. Bob doesn't even do his own typing.

This was so far back, you had to insert the OS into a floppy drive!!

DOS 2.11.

But can it run crysis?

Wewll bawb th@ts a pretty tawl ordar

I used to have one, until it disappeared from my house some years ago. Wish I still had it, just so I could make some money these days.

35 years from now will be laughing at the iPhones and computers we have now

0:53 She hesitated there a bit..

forget about it villa! Where are my kakeys?