I like to imagine LGR chooses a monitor in the same way a wine connoisseur chooses a wine.

[Marge Simpson holding two old leaking AA batteries] *”I just think they’re neat.”*

there's a typo in the french text on the front face of the box, they forgot a word so now it just means "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy" LOL

I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of the font selection.

I suspect one of the reasons this isn't pc compatible is the graphic 7220 chip. It was incredibly powerful at the time, already a 2D accelerator with provision for creating shapes (box, circles etc), filling surfaces with patterns, rendering fonts at different sizes or scaling / zooming the screen in hardware. And it supported a light pen on silicon. In this type of appliance, this chip was more important than the processor itself, taking up most of the workload with the processor being sidelined to i/o and user inputs.

Every time I see that Kodak logo I get nostalgic. One of my grandparents worked there for many years and so I used to see Kodak products all over their house.

Too bad you didn't test the video capture feature! I bet that the results of capturing composite video to low-res 16-colors would be... interesting!

3:29: "Préparer et présenter les fait n'a jamais été facile" on the box actually means "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy".

"An infrared remote control for controlling the system remotely using a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum" This is pure LGR gold :) :) :)

I always stop editing and take a much needed break when I see an LGR vid pop up in my feed.

How do we justify this purchase to the accounting office? farts

This channel has, now on multiple occasions, pleasantly amazed me at how so much of the efficient tech we use and take for granted today has been around for way longer than I would have thought. But I'm mostly an ignoramus when it comes to technology, BUT that's why I watch content like this, to learn! Another excellent video. You rock for making this stuff, man. I regret not being introduced to your channel years ago (subscribed only a few months back.)

By the time this was released, the Amiga 1000 had already been available for three years with a proper GUI, 4096 colors, multiple video modes and a Genlock which allowed you to overlay Amiga graphics on a video feed. Plus it was only $1,285.

"AMCOR ELECTRONICS LTD. DISKETTE PROJECTRON" and other interesting strings in the raw disk images. Very interesting :)

3:27 The French version is just hilarious : the translation of the word "so" is missing. It litteraly says "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy". Maybe too honest ?

Your videos not only enjoyable to watch but also very educational and products history. Love it

Cool intro! Tho I will miss the klacky key sounds. . .

Fun fact: Terminator 2's graphics were NOT made with this hardware.

7:03 It's such a nice setup that there's a friend crawling across the left side of the desk to see what you've set up.

Anybody tech savvy enough to not be intimidated by the computer keyboard (chicklet!), thick manual, and bare bones software would have been tech savvy enough to just buy an Amiga 500 or 1200, a ton of presentation software, and still have over $1000 leftover for fun and games. They could even overlay live video.

I'd venture that system was made in the VERY LATE 80's or early 90's, the batteries say "MADE IN GERMANY" instead of "MADE IN WEST GERMANY".

"I dunno, I just think they're kinda neat." - practically LGR's motto. And it's why I love you

My goodness. Watching this video kicked my Amiga Snobbishness from the eighties into overdrive... "My Amiga 500 could do all that, And add animation, speech and stereo audio for $299". That was over 30 years ago, Douglas... Let it go man...

Your videos are always well made! The music and your voice make it easy to listen to! Keep making videos man!

8:05 Strange inclusion of a screen for Midland Bank and the Access card, both of which were UK only things and would be pretty much unknown anywhere else.

8:15 Look At This LGR Graph.

Keep the videos coming LGR from the UK!

Great video, awesome to see you opened it up to look inside!

Machine: What is my purpose? LGR: Tracking my farts Machine: OMG

Yay it's Friday!!! Wait, no it's not. Clint, why are you playing with my emotions?!

This, this is why im a fan of your channel! Thanks for delightful odd great time!

I love the quality of your videos. Fun and informitive stuff.. Thank you 👍🏻

The floppy format looks a bit odd - the directory entries appear to begin at an offset of 04800h into the disk image on every disk, and the first 03800h of that is identical binary data across all four disks. I presume this initial data is the device firmware. I was expected to see a well known format, such as one of the myriad of ones used for CP/M. It isn't - I've no idea as to what it is.

Wow. This is a really odd clunker, but God is this fascinating

As a designer myself, and someone who just a presentation the other day at work, this is fascinating. Also the fact that I was born in 1983!

When you unboxed this I was anxious to see it in action. Thank you for sharing!

It's a good day for YouTubing. Gordon Ramsey on Hot Ones, a new AVGN episode, and a new LGR video

Gotta do one of my videos on this one 😂

This is exactly the kind of stuff that keeps me coming back to your channel. Super weird and very cool! (Also, like the new intro!)

Thanks for another great video. I love the oddware and obscure ones the most. I have also decided to start building a retro PC because you make me so nostalgic for them. :)

Thank you a lot for Including the Metric Dimensions on Screen. I don't know if it was the first time you did that, but I really love it. Makes it so much easier for me.

LOOK AT THIS -GRAPH lol, dat sneaky edit. ;) Great content as usual. ^_^

That is a great intro man. Short but very eye catching.

this is really cool! thank you for making this video

If I could be a time traveler I'd grab a Macbook and Keynote and head to the 80's to conquer the business world. If this was a more efficient way of presenting things in 1988 just imagine how horrible the alternative was.

4:00 "a remote control for controlling it remotely using a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum" Why did this make me laugh 😄

Your videos are so relaxing.

Thank you Clint! Love your content.

I always thought Clint seemed like the kind of dude with 50% weird farts. Now we have video evidence of this.

Wish you could dump the device's ROM and include it with the disks' images; this way I could try emulating the device using an 808x emulator... even my own (x8086Net). The only missing piece would be emulating the NEC D7220AD, but I'm sure that shouldn't be too hard...

Great episode! Thanks Clint !

I love how much you love it. Thanks dude, as always.

I can't remember the name of the software, but back 80s I used to play around with an Apple II (green screen, no bloody e, c, or GS) that let me make sort of newsletters with some built in clipart. I used to make sort of jokey fake newspapers. At least 10 year old me thought they were funny. But that's exactally what this reminds me of. Trying to do graphics without a mouse back in the 80s. Raise your hand if you ever did that, and etch a sketch doesn't count.

Why wouldn't you just use an Amiga? In 1988, they were running rings around everything graphically and cost a fraction of this. And had a decent keyboard and mouse! And you could get genlock hardware for a song

I love your content and I really appreciate the fact that you upload in 4k. So little youtuber are doing this and it's a shame. It's 2019!

another great video! , thank you LGR :)

"Anyone else kinda like old batteries? I dunno I just think they're neat..." Lol I love Clint and his little eccentricities.

I give it a weird 50% out of 108 what is this.

Your excitement about seeing all the sample display art and graphs on the demo disc reminds me of all the time I would spend with a similar demo disc on my family's old Apple 2e. I love that sort of thing.

hey LGR, just wanted to let you know that your videos are very therapeutic and help me when I’m having panic attacks! I can just focus on the random PC facts and zone out lol

i have a non working one with the keyboard, i could try finding it in the attic and send over to your place

Dude... MINT

Thoroughly enjoyed, thanks for the nerd tech. Keep it up, and see you again next week! Thanks for keeping it alive for "the rest of us"!

I love your videos. I love vintage computers and "retro" technology in general. I kinda wish technology was more like in the 80s-90s. It was painful sometimes, but also fun other times. Thank you for sharing these videos with us! Also I liked the system you just reviewed, but I think I like the artwork in the box shown at 12:30 more. I have a thing for 80s and 90s artwork!

The colors and fonts used on the DisplayMaker are super appealing to me. ^_^

Great video, I love retro tech. I guess because it was new when I was young. I had an Amiga 500 that I did screens like that with. Then I got Wordperfect for the Amiga it was my go to computer for years with IBM PC emulator HW board and Mac software emulator. It did it all and I even later got an accelerator for it too a 68030. I miss my Amiga. I wish I had the money back then for a Video Toaster From NewTek. It did animations I could only dream of. I don't know if you can get your hands on one of them, can you?

I've been sick at home this week with your videos playing for going on 48 hours now. At one point it was playing stuff from 8 or 9 years ago... Had no idea you had a beard, that thing was sick!

Intro is gorgeous. Video is even better!

Is it Friday already?!

The 1980's... back when you had companies like Kodak and Xerox making computers.

Love the new intro Clint!

Thanks for the images of diskettes !

I remember this. Some absolutely perverted buffoon spent long periods of time making proprietary porn comics with this thing. I won't name names, but I knew the individual. It's the only time I ever saw this device in person.

See, this is how you do it. Thanks for including metric measurements. You don't make a big deal out of it, and just include them onscreen. I've seen so many people that make videos justify not including it at all because they 'make content for an American audience', which seems to be a statement that's completely ignorant of how the internet works. At the same time, making some huge deal out of it doesn't seem worthwhile either. So... Thanks from the rest of the world. XD Anyway, that's truly a fascinating device. I wasn't even aware that was a category of thing that ever existed, much less this specific device. That's the kind of thing that's especially interesting to learn about.

That's an incredible find!! Wish I could find something like this

This is *exactly* the kind of content that makes LGR one of the best channels in all of KZfaq. I love this stuff.

Hi Clint, fan of old batteries here, You aren't alone! I don't have anything that special though, other than a couple of undated Energizers I found in an 80s calculator. (I should take some proper photos of them sometime.)

Now imagine you could've used this machine for one of your last videos where you discussed your KZfaq stats. :)

Well done on the 1 million LGR!!!!👏👏🖱💻🖥🖨📠⌨

Thanks Paul for letting LGR share.

8:15 LOOK AT THIS GRAPH

On a Thursday? What madness is this?

Any LGR upload makes me happy.

Love the new intro, although I will always be partial to the keyboard keys played over soothing music. So nice and calming, so jazzy.

I love how the text on the front just says something different for each language. The German one says "the easiest way to create a presentation in color"

This makes me want an LGR review of the Amiga Video Toaster(s) for the Amiga. Edit: Looks like Björn metaal already responded with this suggestion :)

Love the new intro, man!

Thanks for the awesome content

I was 21 in 88 .. I Love 80's Cheese :) QC

Fart pie chart! Good options there too. Oh for the: Oh god that wasn't a fart. Okay for: That fart was okay, not the best I've done though. Huh for: Huh felt like a wet one but isn't ? I'll take it, it's a winner that spared my underwear or the toilet, think i need too stop eating that stuff at least at work. Weird for: Weird feels like i need too fart, but maybe not here in the presence of others. I can totally see someone messing with a system like this one weekend when nothing is happening at the office & then promptly forgets he made it later & someone needing the device finds it on the following Monday.

Man, that's a good intro, but I liked for your appreciation of old batteries. You definitely aren't alone.

Your videos are great, love the thrifting ones

Hey kodak. Ibm called. They want their chicklet keyboard back

The new intro makes me spazz out in happiness.

I really love the look of this thing especially the keyboard. You have yourself a full computer museum over here

i have no idea what you're talking about half of the time but i still love your videos for some reason

Can it run Doom?

What kind of insane fiend puts their graphics files on... film?

An awesome LGR video on a Thursday?! HELL YEAH!