@C5GalaxyStudios its really just the same technology that was invented or dreamed up in WWI and WWII era. Nothing new since then. They even dreamed up starship shields, which are merely precisely engineered ultra high powered magnetic fields. They actually have created these for military uses but they are still secret.
In 1993: Get a $1999 machine and start from there - You want it to look nice? add another $1000 - You want it to sound nice? add another $1000 In 2020: - You get generic computer device X for $399 to $599 - You got a spare $1000 ??? You're filthy rich. keep in mind $1000 in 2020 is worth much less.
Ha! I remember my first PC in 1992 and how it's 105MB HDD was considered pretty big. I would only need about 1000 of them to hold just one of the games out today.
I remember when a friend got a new hard drive, and it was like 700MB. And we where so amazed that we could copy AN ENTIRE CD-ROM ONTO A HARD DRIVE!!!1111
@@CTimmerman Or, we could have shallower cases! Just put sata ports in the front or adapt it through usb? I mean, we do have USB 10 Gbps, and PD! My current build maxes all 4 sata ports in my motherboard (I realized there was only 4 ports after purchasing it, though it was weird as my previous computer had 6), but lately ssds have been cheaper than ever, so I don't see a problem with someone having just m.2 drives!
@@CTimmerman try 1,000 years (BD-R M-disc)... No other media will last as long. LTO tapes start fading at 30 years (or less if temperature and humidity are not regulated).
@@barbrose4987 That's just how it was I guess. A friend of mine had a Tandy 1000 back in the day, and he had two IBM magazines that were about as thick as phone books. Filled with computers you could buy, parts, you name it those magazines had it. Great times back then.
@@barbrose4987 Small market so low budget for ads. Now companies have enough cheap hardware to send out for free to influencers for cheap advertisement.
Pretty sure we have laptops averaging 10 hours now, a lot up to 15 hours, even the cheap $250 ones. It makes sense since power efficiency on laptops have gone up significantly (thanks to low powered CPU and GPU) and hence a lot longer battery life.
yeah totally not changed. despite being 10x the resolution, 1/8 the thickness, exponentially faster, exponentially larger storage, expoentially more refined materials that they are made of....and the batteries were engineered to hold a standard of 3-6 (now 8-12) hours of battery life. not changed much at all.
Only been there twice, nice place.. In the poor old days :( Now computing is affordable, and easy to put together. Only sucky thing about this generation is the top tier video cards/game console sell out like hotcakes thanks to these scalping whores.
@@mathgasm8484 It's where I went to buy The 7th Guest when it came out for PC, but most of my older DOS games at the time were bought when we would go to Egghead Software in Severna Park MD, and we'd go to the computer show in Timonium MD. Back in the day, those computer shows would literally be jam packed shoulder to shoulder with people.
Back in 1994, I was a kid who went with my dad to a crowded computer store. Objective was to buy a home pc. My dad had a stack of cash on the way there (people paid in cash), we looked at a variety of things. Phones, printers, personal palm tablets, bulky laptops... it was a such a wonderful time to shop for a computer. Sales folks and everyone who was shopping both asked questions and the level of intellect back then was much better then than now.
Me in 1993: 4 MB is the way I'll go (and 8 Mb was already OP for gaming). Only got 16 Mb in '96. Me in 2015: 32 GB is the way I'll go. Me in 2020: What you mean, 32 GB is STILL plenty for gaming????
Personally, I think the only thing that really changed was the internet. It still had the same form with basic application used mostly. And building one today is pretty much like building one back then, except it's easier because today you don't have to know as much about computers. It's just faster and shrank a lot in some cases.
Wow. I've been watching a lot of these old computer videos (the 90s mostly) and it just blew my mind how almost every salesperson, tech support and even buyers seem to know a lot or show a lot of interest into the things they sell and buy. The tone and language are also much more comfortable to listen to compared to mainstream medias nowadays. I'm aware that these are professionally recorded but it just feels much more welcoming to watch and listen. I would say it's impressive how far technology has advanced nowadays but the level of professionalism and lingual manners of the people back then seemed much more impressive.
Good observations. As someone who lived through it all I can confirm your thoughts and say that is very true, this world was a completely different place, far more attractive and comfortable, men were more manly, women were more womanly and warm. Modern times are a nightmare.
" spect realistic images" hahahah. and that story has never end. now they sale oled tvs with life like color, and then here it coms micro-LED and better than oled more powerful more durable and quantum simulation on your own living room haaha
In the 90s, I heard theres a computer in our school, but were not allowed to see it. It became a legend, some of my friends claimed to have seen it from the windows but I never believed them. In the frist year we were given books to read what a computer is and its parts. The second year we got to see the computer and type our name, I still remember typing my name wrong so that I could spend little extra time up close looking at the computer. Good old days.
@@VonDutchNL depends on the school. I lucked out and went to a school that had a computer lab and 1-2 in every class room. It was the only school in the district with that much tech. A lot of its circumstantial and where you landed in the upgrade cycle, not to mention the relative wealth of school districts and their access to tech.
It's kinda like how my dad made me take a typing class in middle school and a programming class freshman year of high school. I asked why and he answered with "because this is how you're going to pay your bills." He wasn't wrong.
@@SanderEvers I do like and own their phones though, they are reliable, durable and as you said a full experience. 2013 was my first and last macbook pro I bought. It went downhill from there..
@@SanderEvers Honestly up until 2010 I would always enjoy the Apple experience but after that things seemed to become repetitive. The thing that killed me was the removal of the optical drive in the 2013 MacBook Pro. Now it feels like you are just paying for a overpriced weak status symbol. They are durable products though, I will give Apple that.
I was 12 in 92' we had an old IBM still running DOS if I remember correctly. I still preferred typing homework up on a typewriter lol. We ended up with a Packard Bell 486 once Win 95 came out, I was all in on computers then!
Which later turned into making music with them! Hello buddy, nice to meet you here :)) We were one of the few at home that started with Windows 98. I did homework on it but also had Quicktime for playing back MIDI files. Ah yes the times..
@@ZenithMusicNet yo Zenith! Fancy running into you here ha! 🤘Ah, yes MIDI playback, I remember some general MIDI thing in Windows back in the day, well before I even had a clue lol. Was nice though, in the old days uncompressed audio would fill a drive super quick! Thank goodness for MP3 and Winamp! I whips the lamas ass lol
You must have been a great typist. I *hated* typing reports. WordStar on a KayPro II (it had an amazingly sharp monitor which was awesome for text) was a true game changer.
I grew up in this era, got my first machine just a couple years after this was shot. These prices in real dollars would be exorbitant today. I can't believe anyone spent $4k on such a limited machine that was obsolete in two years. Progress was much faster then. A computer from 10 years ago now would still be perfectly usable. My parents were not rich. I can't believe they bought a computer for an 9 year old in the 90's. They must have saved for months. I was very privileged.
It ticks me off so much that companies like Commodore and Atari screwed up their businesses and handed the industry over to the PC clones on a silver platter. I remember when PCs and Macs were selling for between $3,000-5000 and were nightmares to own and upgrade, while a $500 Amiga or ST was a perfectly usable machine out of the box. The computer industry before the 2000's was an absolute mess and everything cost many times what it was actually worth. No wonder "progress" happened so quickly. It was all junk from the start.
My dad built his desktop back in the day that cost like 5 grand. He's a computer scientist so I had the benefit of using top of the line stuff if he didnt use it for work at the time but his work gave him laptops and an extra desktop as well. Good times.
Buying a PC back then was like an automobile purchase decision. There were 2 reasons to buy one: If you use it for work. Or you really bought into the hype that "computers were the future" and you wanted your kids to have one. Then a few of those kids trained in computers since youth and shaped the internet. ;)
I used to love looking through Computer Shopper back when I was 12 or 13 years old. Loved the demos that came on the 3.5 inch disks taped to the front. Dad used to pick it up at Sainsbury's with the grocery shop :)
Dear gawd...I remember those pre-internet days (and even further back in the '80s to 1991-ish with green screens). A computer class was a required class to go to in our elementary school that I attended from 1988 to 1992. Green screens, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, MIG fighter text-based game, Olympic Games game, Print Shop word processor, 8" and 5.25" floppy disks and tower floppy drives (literally, a tower that was like 5 feet tall for those floppies), etc. I do appreciate having parents that saw this coming way ahead of time because I am where I am in terms of skill with hardware and software today because of them. The teachers at Lanesborough Elementary saw this coming too and I am forever grateful for having a good quality education there even if we were all elementary kids doing simple things in a simpler time.
Crazy I remember watching this being mind blown. Between these shows and my dad working as a system analyst It started a journey of curiosity. Really cool seeing these
I really wish there was a video program like this today. Some youtubers come close but there’s really nothing quite like this that feels this professional.
🤔🤔🤔 The Macintosh Centris 650 in 1993: $3000 with upgraded video and ram The Mac Pro Tower 2020 in 2020: $5999 Keep in mind $3,000 in 1993 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $5,403.74 in 2020
buying a PC back in the day was basically like buying a car. Loads of technical terms, booklets, etc etc. Not to mention the price. But the feeling of it, was like a part of the future was in your living room.
Haha that would be awesome, especially if you have a sleeper pc with a pc case from 1993 like in this video but with all top of the line components and no hdds (only NVME m.2 drives) or optical drives. I'd kill to see their faces!!
Yeah, I remember Pentium processors being advertised with MMX technology for Multimedia purposes. A computer being multimedia capable was considered a huge deal in those days.
I know all of these comments are older than what I remember, but I distinctly remember the green, "multi-media" windows that spawned off of XP. I was like 8 or 9 at the time and thought that was a power pc.
And even then, 8GB now days is not going to be a very fun windows experience. Sure it will run, but not very well. I don't know what's crazier, the fact that ram sizes are more than 1024x what they were then, or the fact that windows got so bloated that even 1024x more ram is still not quit enough lol.
At first, I just heard "two ...bytes of RAM", and I didn't even register that he said MEGA bytes. Just. Wow. Early programmers and engineers were amazing what they managed to pull out of these systems.
Thank you for the video. It is easy to giggle and point at this video, but the selection methods have not changed over the past twenty five years. This technology was ground-breaking, and very relevant to our world today. Thank you for sharing. I watched this program all the time when it was airing.
if you need this kind of guides, yes you will run windows because people watching it is a noob.. you can push people to use something complicated if they are newbie.. they will give up
6:55 the actual quote was: "and almost all of us is gonna have to be using Windows, whether we want it or not" - which is correct, whether you run Slackware or not (kudos for that btw).
It's crazy how far Linux has come since then though. Now I find Linux easier than Windows. Ever try windows 8 or 10? Holy crap! Linux is officially more user friendly now.
It's interesting how easy the sales pitch was for Apple. In the case of PCs, they had to explain how much RAM you need for every use case and whether or not you should get a sound card or CD ROM unit. With MACs, all they had to say was "this one is for education, this one is for business, they all come bundled with everything you need so you don't even need to know the name of the processing unit or the amount of RAM". I can totally understand why MACs were popular back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For a business person, "you plug it in and it works out of the box" is everything they ever wanted to hear. Same for rich families that wanted to feel like they're on the cutting edge of multimedia technology.
I positively reminisce the past of everything I’ve been through. I’m in the early 30s and I’m glad to be alive to see ahead of new trends of technology.
Oh... You tell me with all the 80's Motley Crue stuff where going on and all those square people where on coke during 80's and most of 90's. Society...
It's amazing how the numbers they suggest for memory are basically the same as in 2020 but MB instead of GB. So maybe in 2050 we'll be saying "16TB RAM would be nice".
My uncle was deep in debt for buying a high end 32 Megahertz beast of a computer but couldn't pay it off. He then took a loan from a "nice rich gentleman" in a back alley which helped him pay it off. However he couldn't pay it off in time. Turns out the guy was part of the Mafia and now he's somewhere at the bottom of the ocean. R.I.P. Uncle Mackey :(
@@maleficarus not really. I bought my first proper PC in 1997 and it cost £2,500, which is about £4,700 with inflation. It was high end but point is that 23 years later, I could buy a pre built very high end PC right now for slightly less. And a very decent one for much less.
@@kevinskipp2762 Jesus Christ that's a Mortgage down payment. That's a super high end enthusiast gaming PC money today. That's why we never got a PC until like 1999 and that was an outdated model.
30 years ago I was just learning how to type on an old 386 clone at my middle school. I got my first computer in 1997, and that $2,400 beast was quickly obsoleted by the pace of advancing tech. If only these people knew just how fast their state-of-the-art systems would be outclassed. This was two years before Windows 95, even.
And setting the IRQ, DMA and address on my Sound Blaster Pro's jumpers, as well as bus multipliers and CPU voltages on motherboards, also with jumpers!! Good times!!
@@TMGMedia73 Last time I checked, which was 2 y ago, Ryzen had many cores. Up to 8 cores + hyperthreading. Intel i7 something or other had fewer cores but had better IPC and so, better single core performance. Intel performed better in games. The difference in performance isn't huge. I went with AMD since it was cheaper and wanted 8C16T.
@@louistournas120 AMD now has more cores, more IPC, better single threaded performance and and all that at a lower power budget. It's also not the first time they've been ahead, Intel's chips just prior to the Core 2 Duos were a hot mess.
Got my first computer in November of 1993 in 7th grade (thanks mom and dad!). An off-brand from a place called Compuage Computers. Back when there were thousands of vendors of IBM-compatibles.
I seem to be having problems installing my new software: it said insert CD 1 so I did that, then it said insert CD 2 so I did that, and now it says insert CD 3 but the tray appears to be stuck.
The comment made about "the Centris machine" being renamed to the Quadra really demonstrates the issues Apple had in the 90s. Too many products and it was difficult to figure out which one was best. Especially when some Performa models were just rebadged Quadra models.
I just an hour ago found some old QBasic programs I wrote in 93, including a Mandelbrot Set generator that took hours and hours :D It felt quite weird looking at the last modified dates and seeing how old they were, and remembering how much younger I was, and the state of technology at the time.
Back in those days if you wanted to get a decent computer and at a reasonable price, practically the only way to do that was to purchase a copy of Computer Shopper magazine (an enormous magazine weighing several pounds and much larger than a phone book). In it there were advertisements with detailed specs by all of the various PC builders in the US. You’d have to sift through the hundreds of pages and settle on something that suited you best.
I remember this episode. I thought it was very funny that they did not have the first lady walk off the set after Stuart finished talking to her. She just stood there and he went over to the cute girl. LOL 🤓
What i remember from the mid 90's regarding computers is that they were rare, slow and very expensive. Only a few of my friends from school had a computer at home, and it was usually old even then.
I used to have a 286 with 1MB RAM. When I wanted to write something, I started Windows 3.1, opened Write (aka Wordpad today) and typed the first letter. After that I went away a while because it took literally a minute to load the font into memory. After that I could write my text. Printing was another story with my Epson FX85 needle printer....
Damn these videos are really interesting. The average computer purchaser had to be fairly educated on the products back then. The power of the computers was quite variant, so you might actually be screwed if you make the wrong choice whereas today you can pretty much get whatever power you need from any machine (unless you're heavy into gaming).
So apparently people knew back then you don't want a crappy rubber dome keyboard you want a nice heavy clicky mechanical one where you actually feel the contact points.. I'm super impressed by her... 8:20
Thank goodness I found this! I need a new computer, and now I know what to look for! Seriously though, this is a wonderful trip back in time, and I'm grateful that someone is archiving it! I wonder who the phone numbers connect to now. Did anyone archive the computer chronicles forum? They didn't list their website, I guess you had to call the number to get their site info?
