I laughed way too hard at the mental image of Clint sniffing a cassette recorder. Thanks for that; you made my night!

@@alternatelives8559 Glad to have made you smile :)

LGR is the boss.

He has a very pleasing voice,and it's nice to listen to

That's awesome. Hopefully mom kept em in a box for you to look at as an adult ^^;

You actually reminded me that I used to do the same thing! I completely forgot. How nerdy :P

Yeah remember that video 😅 but don't remember the exact name of it

well I mean I'm not sure what you expected from a channel dedicated to legacy tech.....

I hardly know what a Ryzen is

@@ahandsomefridge It's a type of cheese

@@TheGangCraftOFFICIEL Nice, I need to fry one of those some time soon!

The Ryzen 5000 series are for his 80th birthday episode!

I guess 1981 was even better. because it witnessed my personal birth into this world 😉

But what a disappointment it must have been to go from the PDP-11 at the university computer lab to CP/M or DOS, and on the very slow 8088. The PC really was more of an office machine than a home computer (Commodore and Apple had better offerings and wider game libraries, which frankly is what home computers were used for), and hobbyists would just rather have UNIX than be stuck with DOS, even if that meant you had to actually sit in a computer lab to have a terminal. What the PC did have was eighty column mode, which made work like spreadsheets viable. Just imagine trying to edit a spreadsheet on the C64, which could only show 40x25 characters. Needless to say history has proven me completely wrong. When the PC did eventually get UNIX (in the form of a version that somehow makes do without memory management called Xenix), it sold extremely poorly. Somehow people were just able to tolerate DOS (and eventually Windows, which is equally baffling to me considering how much better CDE, NeXT, or even Apple System were).

Now all Clint needs is a Mrs Clint, if he doesn't have one already, an 11 or 12 year old daughter, and a similarly aged son haha, just to complete the image. Edit: What would really be cool, is if one of the models from that image got in contact with Clint.

houses just looked better back then

@@arokh72 bruh they’d be like 70

@@TerrisLP what? Sure the adults might be over 70, but the kids were close to my age at that time, slightly older, so they'd be just a little older than me, and I'm 48. I turned 11 in late 1983.

@@arokh72 Didn’t even think about the kids lol god I’m tired my bad

It goes next to the pong console.

@Nicole King or maybe an Atari 2600

My Atari 800XL was set up in my parents' entertainment center for about a week until my father got sick of me wanting to use his television to play Jungle Hunt and I got gifted the entertainment center for them to buy a nicer one. The end.

It's also awful. Lol. So sick of fixing Sage for people.

@@eyehatekyle it's called corporate strategy... Awful then, now and in the future 😆

Judge Dredd: *_Inhabitants of Peach Trees, this is Judge Dredd._*

that’s really cool! here’s tonight’s rabbit hole

Peachtree, along with just about every other accounting package, was acquired bt Sage Software aeons back who rebranded it under their own name.

*_Peach Trees, this is Ma-Ma._*

Yeah I turned 13 in 1981

it’s cool you were able to experience it when it happened! i was born in a year that starts with 2 to expose my age a little, but retro tech is one of my interests :)

I'd love this

He already has! "LGR Tech Tales - How Digital Research Almost Ruled PCs" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrB-lKR4l6i8n6s.html

I kinda have, though not the whole story! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrB-lKR4l6i8n6s.html

I don't know if you can compare serious "home" computers to minis and workstations. Actually workstations were arguably even newer at this time than both the PC and serious home computers (apollo had maybe 1 machine out, sun was still in development). I would consider many of the CP/M machines just prior to this time to be as much in the category of serious home machine as the IBM PC, especially things like the TRS-80 series from 1977, but arguably also things like the IMSAI or Sol-20 etc also in this category (whereas machines from e.g. cromemco were decidedly more serious and less home, so perhaps a slightly better comparison to the minicomputer). I think the PET and Apple II deserve to be in this category too. Perhaps considering some of the later machines from commodore, atari and e.g. the coco to be some of the first less-serious home machines.

@@MrKurtHaeusler Not a comparison. This is the point where computing is still shifting from big stuff to micros. Home micros were still marketed largely as toys at this point. Look at ads from this period where games are the focus. Productivity might be mentioned, but the selling point is all the great gems you can play. Business micros did exist, but they were marketed to businesses. IBM positioned its computer as something that would have a place in the real world and the home. The computer would benefit institutions and businesses while also being a tool for the home.

Yeah before the web,Reading was a ‘thing’ & the main way we found out about our tech.

@@Doobie3010 Reading is still a thing, perhaps even more than back then. It's paper that's going away.

@@ironcito1101 Probably for the best,saving the planet before Elon Musk nukes it from space!

good one :D

@Tarpon Vashon Glad I'm not the only old person in the comments lol

@Tarpon Vashon lol

Why are there always big launches interrupting my retro fun times?

AMD smash🤣😂

@@LGRBlerbs Yeah, how dare they!!!

I always wondered what was wrong with me when I would see people do that in literature or TV shows / movies. I could never get comfortable, but the photo models always looked so darn casual!

I did that for years as a child playing the ZX on the TV. I think a lot of us did it back then before the days of ergonomics anxiety. Also, children are a lot more flexible and resilient than we are now.

You mean in contrast to the TRS-80? Where al expansion was housed in an extension to the case?

The IBM Model F had all the function keys on the side though, not along the top!

I've read that IBM first approached Microsoft about porting CP/M under the mistaken assumption that it was an MS product due to them making the Z80 Softcard for the Apple II. MS sent them to Digital and kind of had an informal working arrangement that MS did programming languages and DR did operating systems. Then the infamous DR IBM meeting happened you referenced and IBM came back to MS and asked if they could do an OS instead, and MS agreed to look around and came across Seattle Computer Products and their 86-DOS (code named QDOS) and licensed it as a base for an OS for IBM