OMG!!! The memories! At my first job as a programmer in 1981, one of our development systems was exactly this machine. 5 MB hard drive plus a 106 KB 5.25" floppy.

For a machine called Vector Graphic, it's sure making raster graphics!

Wow, that machine is beautiful!

That was my first computer, also had a vector graphic 4 machine

Beautiful piece of kit. Well done for restoring it and take care of it!

brings back memories. I had one of those, surplus from Saint Mary's University. 1988 or so, got for free when helping clean out the tech lab. Do you have space war? That was the best game on the 8inch discs. No clue where it is now... those fans sounded like a jet engine.

5Megabytes who would ever need that much space??? LOL!!!

That Keyboard sounds amazing

I own one of these machines but have no disk. :( not even a boot disk. It has the green monochrome on it making it the coolest machine in my collection

you came a long way baby

Wow.

I see the 80 x 24 display hasn’t changed that much in 40 years!

That's a nice machine!

Thanks for sharing - I would love to own one of these!

Hate to be that person who points out the obvious but the company Vector Graphics really shouldn't have made RASTER graphics

The 8" 5MB HD and very DOS-like CP/M takes me back a bit.

That’s awesome.

Раритетная техника, хотел бы я такую иметь...

That's too cool! Was that a 5Mb MFM/RLL hard drive or SCSI drive ? Those quad floppy drivers where a big deal in it's day. I was an ATARI 800 user myself.

Hate to say it but I remember throwing out my father’s pristine Vectorgraphics computer. It looked the same as this one.

wow i had 2 of these long time ago. an a bunch of parts. was fixn' them to get me thru school. ! Odd disks thou

a 5mb hard drive on a '79? i had my first hard drive in '94 in an amiga 600! 40mb i thought i would never fill...

And how did you replace the capacitive foam pads for the keyboard? Thanks.

Do you know where I might find service info on a Vector Graphic Model 4? Thanks!

do you mind sharing what price you picked this up for?

"[CP/M is] a little bit like DOS.'" It's actually a LOT like (MS-)DOS.

"It allows you to select what you're gonna boot off of, and in this case we're gonna boot off of the 5MB hard drive." OK, it's cool that you can eliminate one drive to boot from by saying you're not booting from the hard drive. But why not just state which disk you will boot FROM?

If I were you, I would have shot this video from 10m or more away! -Sarcasm- Taken with the phone, From this distance you can never really appreciate the sharpness of the Vector Graphics, instead it looks to me just like the low resolution of a TRS-80 in ASCII Graphics !!!

"...Disk drive...." (If you were talking about the _floppy_ disk drive, then...) * _"Floppy_ disk drive" (to compare with the *hard* disk drive that's also there).

3:56 That doesn't look like vector graphics. The whole point of vector systems is supposed to be the ability to show diagonals and arcs (including circles) without the tell-tale stairstep jaggedness of pixels.

Dude, why don't you SIT DOWN and SIT STILL so the computer and screen are close up?

"vector" raster screen rofl

just want to point out that it is an act of unmitigated gall to name your company Vector Graphics and then have your actual machines all run raster graphics...