Me in 1993: Were probably going to be driving flying cars in 2020!!!! Me in 2020: watching a youtube video about how to buy a computer in 1993.

"Lot's of hard drive space, up to 200 MB". About the size of this KZfaq video.

"If your just playing games it's not worth it" oh Stuart .. if only you knew.

It’s amazing that a pterodactyl didn’t fly in and carry someone away.

"Battery life is excepted for 3-6 hours." Well, that has not changed much over the years.

You know it's the 90s when a computer advertisement spends half its time showing you books and papers, instead of actual computers.

People in 1993: "Should I get an optical disk drive?" People in 2020: "Should I get an optical disk drive?"

To all the young ones watching, if you're wondering how one moves such a large desktop computer, there are forklift slots on the back of the case.

Did that lady really just stand there and stare at the wall when he went to talk to the other chick? 😂

This video was uploaded in 2013 and all 1000 comments are max. 12 days old. That's very remarkable.

Almost 30 years. It'd be cool to see the older fellow, if he's still alive today. Weird that 1993 was so long ago.

1993: Apple is more expensive 2020: oh boy...

PC saleswoman in 1993: 16 MB is the way to go. Me in 2018: 16 GB is the way to go.

CompUSA is a word I haven't heard in years... Brings back childhood memories.

"A $5000 laptop, your looking at the highest end possible - expect a whopping 200MB of HDD Space hahaha"

Lol it's so weird to watch this to see how far we've come in just 27 years. Now I have a 4k screen resolution, with 256gb of storage on my phone

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.

"If you're just playing games it's probably not worth it." Classic!!!

Anyone else remember seeing your librarian showing you "The Internet" in 1992 and saying, "This is your future."You were all, "Ok"?

Man this is so nostalgic to watch, crazy how far stuff has come. Seeing all these old machines also makes me want to build a retro PC.

Not just a CD but a dual CD. When quad speed came out, that guy lost his mind

natural brows and hair styles are so refreshing.

It’s amazing how much our technology has advanced in the last 7 years since this was uploaded...

"now that the prices of macs have come down so much" ...who wants to tell him

These videos are gold. I love the hosts direct, impatient desire to attend to the audiences weak attention span

This was before society was offically ruined by the internet

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.

I love watching these videos. Reminds me of my early childhood around PCs.

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.

Man, i'm old. I've watched episodes of this show when i was in grade school. Stewart Cheifet is like the best at asking stuff you wouldn't think of.

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.

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

"you're going to have to be using windows whether you want to or not" (Me in 1993 running Slackware) ... What?

" prices have come down .. " From about $3000 to $2500

I miss the 90's. It's probably all based on nostalgia but still, I think the 90's was a great decade.

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 :)

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!

Watching this on something 1000x more powerful that i can carry around in my pocket. Weird to think about

I can't wait to go down to my local CompUSA to look at the new computers!

This guy is spot on. Apples are designed to be used right out of the boxs while pcs offer more customizations and options. This still stands today.

Autoexec.bat and config.sys , auww the good old days.

6:56 if you substitute megs for gigs, she could be talking about a PC in 2020....

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.

Watching this on my 256gb iPhone 📱 in 2020 just seems insane.

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.

1993, I was a Jr, Sr in high school, it doesn’t feel like nearly 30 years ago damn.

"As long as you're persistent, as long as you're tenacious, you can usually get satisfaction" ...giggity...

“Multi Media PC” I almost forgot that phrase was used. But it was used a lot back then.

I thought the man and woman's hands were going to touch and cause a magic spark when they both went for that keyboard.

Awesome old footage, thank you so much for this gem! I liked this video and subscribed to your channel :) Looking forward to watching more now!

I bought a 486dx when I came back from Somalia. Boy I remember gaming all night playing wing commander!!

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.

16:06 WTF! I thought Bill Gates was advertising an Apple product!

They're talking about having 2, 4, 8, 16 MB of RAM... Im sitting here on a laptop with 32 gigs... fml

In another 30 years we'll be watching old MKBHD videos with just as much amazement.

I was 6 years old when this was new.

I wanna go back in time to 1993 with my 2020 computer and take it to a repair shop just to see what the make of it.

Pc's where so expensive back then that people that purchased a full set back then just finish paying them around now.

My first computer had no hard drive, ran solely on diskettes, had a turbo button and was monochrome of course. Sometimes I miss that little monster...

13:36 I though he F bombed at first when slagging off the direct print vendors.

I learned computers on MSDOS back in the 80s so I still know how computers actually work nowadays.

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.

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".

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.

It's crazy how the RAM guidelines are the same numbers as today but in MB instead of GB. Literally 1,000x increase.

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.

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.

Wow a massive memory on those laptops! A whole 200MB! :))

8:27 "fry's mousepad" relic

‘How many megs of ram would I need for gaming?’ ‘Yes’

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?

This video is definitely a blast from the past stuff I had forgotten about back in the day

wow compusa last time I shopped at one was in 2003! crazy how fast time flies by

Watching this video on my 486 right now.

I'm glad I stumbled upon this video. Now I know what to look for when I go computer shopping today!!!!

I was so excited to see these kinds of show, back when I had no PC, or later ones that plugged in a TV with--very--low graphic capabilities.

That guy must be related to Jimmy Fallon. He doesnt let those women complete a sentence.😂😂😂

@8:30Mindblowing... a girl from 1993 telling me to get a mech keyboard for better gaming experience

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.

13:39 Marty was so fired up he said the F word to begin his main point!

Anyone here because of the computer guy who reacted to this?

Wonder what these people are doing now..

I miss the old days computer. It brings back memories and when I was young.

3:54 That sinister smile when he mentions the upcharge 🤣

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 🤓

Lisa Biow reminds me of my old computer lab teacher.

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.

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).

my favorite line "maybe as much as 200 megabyte's!" wowie!

5000.00 will buy a mid range server in today's world! This is crazy!

200 MB hard drive, and that was $5K, oh the good ole 90's..

A glimpse into the past. Awesome.

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.

Could that dude cut her off anymore while she was talking it was driving me crazy.

i feel im watching this from another planet in a far away galaxy

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

Afterc 486s were introduced, it wasn't long before early pentiums came along with windows 95.

Oh, I'm definitely copying that floppy.

Whats left unchanged is a smell of unboxed fresh PC :)

Oh wow! I was born in 1993, and this is so cool! It's so amazing how tech has changeed so much since then!