In 30 years from now, our grandchildren will be watching our 2020 computer commercials saying, "You mean those computers couldn't cure that pesky disease they used to call cancer?"
@@Ampersand1988 Perhaps not, but I was using some exaggeration to spotlight the fact at how "old" our 2020 technology is going to look like several decades from now. Just like when I was a kid, the thought of a 65" flat screen TV was only something I thought I would see in Sci-Fi books. Today...get one at Wal Mart.
Apple Lisa was a huge failure because it was listed at $9,995.00 and only had 5MB of storage. You could get an IBM XT II with twice the specs for half the price. I just read that Apple ended up dumping 2,100 units of the Lisa into a Utah landfill.
@@jsplinc2000 I never used a Commodore in my life. I just can't get over having only 64k of memory. It's sort of like giving your child a stack of elaborate coloring books and two crayons. The least amount I ever used was 1mb and believe it or not, I got onto the internet in 1996 with just that one megabyte.
It's also homework, the job that you will do with your hands, the hand j... I mean you could say that your kid will quickly become really "handy" with computers xD
4:45 Gamer: "Yeah I'd like to buy this video game for $12" EA/Activision: "That'll be $50" Gamer: "Well what about that $10 one?" EA/AC: "oh, that's $35 for the game, disc ans content not to mention dlc etc" Gamer: * picks up phone, dials* "Hello, Better Business Bureau" EA/AC: *dive towards the phone and eat it* "OK FINE!"
Lisa was a great computer for the time, but it was really, really expensive. Freaking 10 grand in 1980. That "Dark Shadows" music in the commercial was a weird choice. I think it was a "Wallace Computer Mart" commercial, not an Apple commercial. Steve Jobs would have murdered people over that.
The Coleco Adam was actually an expansion for the Colecovision game console that turned it into a computer. The Texas Instruments Home Computer didn't sell well, and you probably didn't hear much about Headstart because it was an IBM PC-compatible computer (just like Dell, HP etc. are today) rather than its own operational standard.
@@passengersplace TI sold over 3,000,000 "Home Computers"("99/4" & "99/4A" variants) from 1979 until 1984, So they DID sell - They just didn't make a profit from them. Fun Fact: the TI-99/4 was the first "home" computer with a 16 Bit processor (in 1979!!). As to the ADAM what you said is HALF true. There WAS the ADAM expansion for the Colecovision that turned the game console into the ADAM computer, BUT more commonly the ADAM sold as a standalone whole unit (that naturally ran Colecovision cartrdiges out of the box) . I actually "dug" the ADAM, it was a neat "home" setup, Unfortunately the hardware (while very novel for the time) was....quirky. as to "Headstart"- Yep like "Compaq", "Dell" and maybe 100 others they were IBM "clone" makers. I worked for Radio Shack in the early-mid 1980s, I had to keep up with this shit. It changed every week! Frustrating for the consumer to choose, But an interesting time for tech!
I did. I thought I was on the cutting edge when I was programming in BASIC on my Commodore VIC-20. Programs were saved on a cassette tape that had an analog dial indicator to tell you where your programs were. Of course, you had to write down each program's counter number on a piece of paper in order to keep track of them. That was a fun time to be a kid. These commercials take me right back.
My fridge has more processing power....lol
It's retro time bitch
Which one of these will run Doom Eternal in 4k on Ultra nightmare settings?
The commodore 64
The Wonder Computer, of course, the VIC-20!
64K memory? That's ENORMOUS!
Yep, 64K is all you will ever need! :)
Well I think k stands for kilobytes and kilo=1,000, but average phones have 128 gigabytes. Giga=1,000,000,000, so no 64k is not big.
@@Connorconnor19191 Yeah. It was a joke. The commercial was from the olden days when they thought so.
I was pretty sure that was a joke, because if you have any sort of tech, if it’s new, the lowest will probably 64GB
@fortnte I was pretty sure it was a joke, but some people.. ehhhh... they... uhh.... are messed up in the head.
Yeah, I'd like to buy this $1,200 dollar computer. That'll be $5,300 dollars complete.
Had a RTX 3090TI I think
Sounds like beer and cigarettes commercials: "Ours is perfect, everything else is shite"
I love the "clicky keyboard" and sounds of "Booting up" Thanks!
In 30 years from now, our grandchildren will be watching our 2020 computer commercials saying, "You mean those computers couldn't cure that pesky disease they used to call cancer?"
Don't think will cure cancer, it changes it's structure and there are like 100 different types of cancer.
@@Ampersand1988 Perhaps not, but I was using some exaggeration to spotlight the fact at how "old" our 2020 technology is going to look like several decades from now. Just like when I was a kid, the thought of a 65" flat screen TV was only something I thought I would see in Sci-Fi books. Today...get one at Wal Mart.
Every single 80's computer commercial displayed column and pie charts. Buy the computer for the charts in the ad, use it for playing games.
Man, I had no idea the Lisa was ever featured in a commercial.
i used to play Oregon train on a Lisa in elementary school
@@mattycreek384 Yeah my family had an Apple //e back then. The Lisa/Mac was unknown territory for me!
Some of the commercials I had never seen before. Thanks for sharing.
Apple Lisa was a huge failure because it was listed at $9,995.00 and only had 5MB of storage. You could get an IBM XT II with twice the specs for half the price. I just read that Apple ended up dumping 2,100 units of the Lisa into a Utah landfill.
or also the "commodore"
@@jsplinc2000 I never used a Commodore in my life. I just can't get over having only 64k of memory. It's sort of like giving your child a stack of elaborate coloring books and two crayons. The least amount I ever used was 1mb and believe it or not, I got onto the internet in 1996 with just that one megabyte.
@@ldchappell1 My first computer had 16kb. TI-99/4A. It had a 32 kb expansion card (The size of a toaster) but it wasn't true RAM. It was a RAM drive.
0:38 A nice voice-over by Burgess Meredith for Commodore.
2:33 Ed Grover, who was the signature voice of Apple in the 80s.
"Your kid will want to use it for his own homework."
Heh heh, yeah... "homework." Please never invent the internet, people of the past.
It's also homework, the job that you will do with your hands, the hand j... I mean you could say that your kid will quickly become really "handy" with computers xD
Yeah ..teenage boy on the computer for hours, he is like "yeah ...homework ...that's my story and I'm sticking to it" lol
"Sorry, son. I can't" -- Gee, thanks, DAD! Finish watching your gawd-damn tv show.
Burgess Meredith doing the VO for the first Commodore ad.
What homework is that teenage boy doing on the computer for hours? I'm guessing Human Anatomy 101 lol
That action was almost too immersive and intense for me.
"The enormous memory of 64kb." xD
If only they would have know what that would be in today terms, they would hardly believe it.
The awe inspiring hyper detail of the bonus retro at the end was absolutely heart stopping!
My Samsung has more memory then all these computers combined
Beacuse these computers older then your Samsung
0:25 😱 OMG they made the game from the amazing world of gumball into real life
Did y'all know the 1998 imac had an 4 GB hard Drive? that's almost enough space for three full length movies!
yeah wow look at that action 😁
bless that elephant🤣
Thanks a lot, my friend.
24 k memory wow!!
4:45
Gamer: "Yeah I'd like to buy this video game for $12"
EA/Activision: "That'll be $50"
Gamer: "Well what about that $10 one?"
EA/AC: "oh, that's $35 for the game, disc ans content not to mention dlc etc"
Gamer: * picks up phone, dials*
"Hello, Better Business Bureau"
EA/AC: *dive towards the phone and eat it*
"OK FINE!"
3:55 Just he says 15 k memory.
Ok. But you didn't include the Atari 8-Bit line??? Sinner.
Burgess Meredith was great in the 1978 film The Return of Captain Nemo when he shouted Fire Delta Beam!!!
No wonder the Lisa didn't sell anything they put god damn horror music in the advertisement
Lisa was a great computer for the time, but it was really, really expensive. Freaking 10 grand in 1980. That "Dark Shadows" music in the commercial was a weird choice. I think it was a "Wallace Computer Mart" commercial, not an Apple commercial. Steve Jobs would have murdered people over that.
5:28 holy shit is that King Kong bundy?
At 5:30...King Kong Bundy!!!!!!
3:46 PUDDIN' POP
The World of The Ancients.
Wish i could go back in time and show them my smartphone
Your smartphone would have to go back in time too
At 3:46 Bill Cosby promoting the computer he used to calculate drug doses. :( Can't believe we used to look up to that guy.
I'm sure he loves 16(K memory) year old girls
Wait a minute! I was 17 in 1980, and I've never heard of half of these. Adam? TI? Headstart? Did they go anywhere beyond commercials?
The Coleco Adam was actually an expansion for the Colecovision game console that turned it into a computer. The Texas Instruments Home Computer didn't sell well, and you probably didn't hear much about Headstart because it was an IBM PC-compatible computer (just like Dell, HP etc. are today) rather than its own operational standard.
@@passengersplace TI sold over 3,000,000 "Home Computers"("99/4" & "99/4A" variants) from 1979 until 1984, So they DID sell - They just didn't make a profit from them. Fun Fact: the TI-99/4 was the first "home" computer with a 16 Bit processor (in 1979!!). As to the ADAM what you said is HALF true. There WAS the ADAM expansion for the Colecovision that turned the game console into the ADAM computer, BUT more commonly the ADAM sold as a standalone whole unit (that naturally ran Colecovision cartrdiges out of the box) . I actually "dug" the ADAM, it was a neat "home" setup, Unfortunately the hardware (while very novel for the time) was....quirky. as to "Headstart"- Yep like "Compaq", "Dell" and maybe 100 others they were IBM "clone" makers. I worked for Radio Shack in the early-mid 1980s, I had to keep up with this shit. It changed every week! Frustrating for the consumer to choose, But an interesting time for tech!
Yeah, they went places. Landfills mostly...
Watching this shit from my vr headset
Under $300 for a VIC-20? Wow! That's less than you can find them for on eBay!
don´t forget to count an inflation, bruh...
6:15 woooah simpsons/captain planet
Hey there! would you mind if I used this video for small segments in a video I'm making? Full credit to you of course :)
I think the smooth one is from the 80's.
It is all I know
6:48 😮Wow, very lifelike. I feel like I'm there.
Wait hold up, there were Bart Simpson gifs in the 80s? (6:27)
I think it's a sprite, not a gif.
512k 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm... i wonder how cyberpunk would run on this...🤔🤔
3:45 Cancel culture. XD
Imagine living at that time and thinking these are powerful af
I did. I thought I was on the cutting edge when I was programming in BASIC on my Commodore VIC-20. Programs were saved on a cassette tape that had an analog dial indicator to tell you where your programs were. Of course, you had to write down each program's counter number on a piece of paper in order to keep track of them. That was a fun time to be a kid. These commercials take me right back.
@@NicConstitution damm thats so cool i was born in 2005 so 🤷🏻♂️
@@NicConstitution must be weird seeing 1tb of data on mobiles nowadays
But can it play Crysis?
Why so angry?
Who is here after technical Sagar
Here!!
Today, it rains, and watch these retro computer ads!
I want that single button mouse SO BAD
Commodore, Apple, Coleco, Kaypro, Tandy, Headstart(?), but no IBMs or IBM compatibles.
What's a Headstart computer?
Headstart is an IBM PC-Compatible.
I owned a HeadStart. They were more popular here in The Netherlands, I think. Made by VENDEX, a Dutch corporation in those days.
I Wonder if you GO back in those TIMES and drop off iPhone 12pro on Apple HQ... Will society get iPhone 25pro in the future... hmmmm....
Or better yet, an Android. Show them what a real phone looks like. Then maybe crApple wouldn't suck and be commies in the future.
@@Bri-bn5kt hurt hurt much?
@@miroslavbriza spell spell much?
such high res
Damn. Now I want a Commodore Vic-20
3:50. Awkwaaaard..
@Predevsign Tutorials Bill Cosby.
Lisa commercial sounds horror 😅
What's a floppy disk
Seriously?
There's couple in the lower part of my spine after a day of work
why apple II's CPU is smaller than my computer's CPU?
the bigger cpu the better
That’s y 3990x’s are enormous
SUNSHINE @ 6:11