Kodak DisplayMaker: $2,000 Video Graphics System from 1988

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  • In 1988, Kodak introduced the Display Maker system as a digital alternative to analog presentations. No need to rely on overhead projectors and expensive 35mm slides anymore! Of course, no one bought one.
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  • @michaelwhite5641
    @michaelwhite5641 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1473

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

    • @kshadehyaena
      @kshadehyaena 5 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      By swishing it around in his mouth?

    • @TheRealColBosch
      @TheRealColBosch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      By nodding knowledgeably as the waiter is talking, then picking the cheapest one and annoying his date?

    • @drewsauveterre8867
      @drewsauveterre8867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      He likes his monitors the way his likes his pinot noir. Full-bodied with an oak finish.

    • @yellowblanka6058
      @yellowblanka6058 5 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      "I'm enjoying the sharpness of these scanlines, and I'm detecting hints of Cyan and Neon-green in the image with a strong beige plastic finish"

    • @Ojisan642
      @Ojisan642 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      He’s a sommelier of finely aged display technology 😂

  • @seangriffin6901
    @seangriffin6901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

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

  • @arigato7788
    @arigato7788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    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

    • @Toastmaster_5000
      @Toastmaster_5000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      the really funny part is back at that time, that typo wasn't wrong

    • @dwaynezilla
      @dwaynezilla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I think you meant "Preparing and presenting the farts has never been easy"

    • @qallincha
      @qallincha 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bien vu !

    • @sand0decker
      @sand0decker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In Quebecois Français, it still translates properly. They adopted some English style word orders and pas is sometimes skipped for reasons I do not pretend to understand

    • @googleinc6033
      @googleinc6033 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dwaynezilla woosh

  • @strictoaster
    @strictoaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +462

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

    • @plushifoxed
      @plushifoxed 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Strictoaster yeah, im really into those typefaces

    • @JimHaderon
      @JimHaderon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      But can it run Cities Skylines in 4k..? 🤔

    • @MaxusR
      @MaxusR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Jim Haderon, 1 frame per year or maybe even less))

    • @bwgti
      @bwgti 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Monitor Cellar

  • @ordinosaurs
    @ordinosaurs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    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.

    • @Patchuchan
      @Patchuchan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The video chip was used in the NEC PC-9801 and the DEC Rainbow graphics board.

    • @TheTurnipKing
      @TheTurnipKing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The obvious first port of call is an IBM compatible BIOS. Would probably need a disk that would start up the Displaymaker via whatever it's using as a BIOS, then transition into something like TurboXT BIOS, which would also probably need to be specially modified for the displaymaker to be made aware of the exact hardware it has, rather than looking at the PC Bus or for an AT Keyboard, it just knows.
      But it is, at least in theory, binary compatible.

  • @timraup4888
    @timraup4888 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    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.

  • @xtokumaru
    @xtokumaru 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    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!

  • @DeelightFenua
    @DeelightFenua 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    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".

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      wow they did a really good job at marketing this thing huh? The German seems correct though.

    • @einsteinx2
      @einsteinx2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      John Hill the Spanish translation seems to be done well also. Though it’s funny how each one is a bit different.

    • @fnjesusfreak
      @fnjesusfreak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Given it was produced by German Kodak, that doesn't surprise me.

    • @gwishart
      @gwishart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That would actually make sense in this context, it's identifying the need for the product. You wouldn't pay two grand to do something that was easy and straight forward.

    • @paco4756
      @paco4756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...and neither will it be with this device.

  • @BartechTV
    @BartechTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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.

    • @himselfe
      @himselfe ปีที่แล้ว +1

      By the time this was released you could also buy an Amiga 500 which was almost equally as portable and vastly superior in graphics capabilities, all at 1/3 the price. Hell, you could buy an amiga 1000 and an Amiga 500 for the price of one of these, and use the 1000 for production and the 500 for presentation.

  • @Manawyrm
    @Manawyrm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

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

    • @LGR
      @LGR  5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Interesting indeed, looks like that might be the OEM!

    • @anetanel
      @anetanel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That's Interesting. Amcor was a very popular electronics company in Israel, mainly known for home appliances. I noticed that the package said that this machine was made in Israel.

    • @dolphinpix
      @dolphinpix 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Its one of these, ifworlddesignguide.com/entry/16465-projectron

    • @jorgendnilsson
      @jorgendnilsson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@anetanel explains why the strings-command on the image files spits out alot of the string "HEBREW".

    • @shamrice
      @shamrice 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dolphinpix Good find! Looks like the terrible keyboard in this version is actually a step UP from that version's flat membrane like keyboard.

  • @10MARC
    @10MARC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    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...

    • @tylisirn
      @tylisirn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not quite in '88, the list price then was still about $700. But still a steal though compared to... this thing.

    • @MacXpert74
      @MacXpert74 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Haha, yep I was thinking the same thing. Why on earth would anyone buy such a useless overpriced piece of crap when you could get a real computer like the Amiga 500 for much less. What was Kodak thinking? :D

    • @filanfyretracker
      @filanfyretracker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MacXpert74 They were thinking like a vendor to the enterprise market. The sad thing is you probably could have pitched the Kodak better to a board room than an Amiga simply because the suits and grey hairs at the table would go "We can trust Kodak they are a big company with years of experience". Admittedly this product failed but the point still stands. Companies will spend money on inferior things simply because the folks upstairs have a certain perception of the vendors. This is probably why IBM held onto the Workplace PC market for as long as it did before eventually being displaced by Compaq and then Dell. "We can trust IBM they are faithful Big Blue".

  • @jeremiefaucher-goulet3365
    @jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    "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 :) :) :)

    • @Catastropheshe
      @Catastropheshe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll never look at my remote the same way

    • @aidancommenting
      @aidancommenting 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      My LG came out 2 years ago and it doesn't do that

  • @eformance
    @eformance 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    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".

    • @armorgeddon
      @armorgeddon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Products labeled "Made in Germany" could also come from the GDR, in fact that's why manufacturers from the west often/mostly put "Made in West Germany" onto their products.
      Therefor those batteries could very well have been made in the GDR for a western company, which was probably keen to blur the fact that the product was made in den GDR and so ordered them with the "Made in Germany" designation.

  • @unlimitedbitsgaming
    @unlimitedbitsgaming 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.)

  • @kingedwin
    @kingedwin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +302

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

    • @highpineapple
      @highpineapple 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @ A medically necessary bodily function.

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      justify a woman's fart

    • @FloopDeMoop
      @FloopDeMoop 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alright, after you brought it up, I've used one to make a 20 slide presentation on why we need the DisplayMaker.

  • @keiyakins
    @keiyakins 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @fastandsavage
    @fastandsavage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    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 ?

    • @gwishart
      @gwishart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Surely that still makes sense though? It's pointing out that preparing and presenting facts is a difficult task, hence the need for this product.

    • @LeeDee5
      @LeeDee5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ​@@gwishart the other two translations that i'm fluent in (English/Spanish) are both implying [that presentations are easier because (or up until) I used this device], while apparently the French one implies that [presentations have always been difficult].
      I get what you're saying though.

    • @gwishart
      @gwishart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Grompf Grouik It appears to have worked!

    • @Poodleinacan
      @Poodleinacan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahaha, yeah, true. My attention didn't even went on the French part.

    • @qallincha
      @qallincha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bien vu !

  • @MrTBoneSF
    @MrTBoneSF 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    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.

    • @idimidodjimi6760
      @idimidodjimi6760 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      A500 was scarce in US at that point , and A1200 was 5 years in to the future. A1000 Would be much better system to be compared to this , although it was full blown computer and much much much better this was aimed at different clients. I am an Amiga fan , have most of them, but Amiga did come as a massive surprise to tech industry at that point, sadly poor marketing from the start failed to impose same level of sales as C64 did. If it had you would most probably be typing and watching TH-cam on Amiga based computer or a clone of Commodore rather than an IBM clone.

    • @Patchuchan
      @Patchuchan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Probably one of the reasons it never caught on.
      For $500 less you could get an Amiga 2000 which was expandable and could easily share data with other computers.
      Amigas were very popular for computer graphics and video processing back then.

    • @OlpusBonzo
      @OlpusBonzo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      True that. Indeed the Amiga, paired with video capture cards, was used in my country for a long time as a cheap character generator by small local television stations.

    • @OlpusBonzo
      @OlpusBonzo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@idimidodjimi6760 But for the truth, in 2019 most of us are watching TH-cam not on IBM PC clones, but on Acorn Archimedes successors with a UNIX based OS installed.

    • @jessehill9993
      @jessehill9993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I have always hated when tech was way ahead of it's time. Look at OS/2. The Amiga is the epitome of this. Another thing that also counts... the Tablet PC and Slate PC... Fast forward to today and now Slates are Tablets and Tablets are "Convertible PC's". If Bill had his way (but he was giving Steve Balmer a chance) he would have merged the Windows NT and MS-DOS/Windows 9x lines back in 1999. @@idimidodjimi6760 EDIT: I hate it because the amazing technology that was ahead of it's time should had been massively successful. It's the garbage that gets ahead. Part of it has to do with expensive price tags.

  • @mandiduncan5437
    @mandiduncan5437 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @liampiper9357
    @liampiper9357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    8:15 Look At This LGR Graph.

    • @Ephunker89
      @Ephunker89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was looking to see who else caught it lol

    • @guerillalife
      @guerillalife 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ephunker89 I'd say about a nickel's worth

    • @MerchManDan
      @MerchManDan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Now that I know it's there, it makes me laugh.

  • @KillroyWasHere86
    @KillroyWasHere86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

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

    • @IsraelLuisGeerRivera-ff4cg
      @IsraelLuisGeerRivera-ff4cg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Samuel Blair oh yeah yeah welcome to the club

    • @dwaynezilla
      @dwaynezilla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Machine: oh ok huh weird

    • @qallincha
      @qallincha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      To be fair, this is a very high IQ reference.

  • @R33Racer
    @R33Racer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

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

  • @user-kj1rg4gp9y
    @user-kj1rg4gp9y 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @gc_marcelli
    @gc_marcelli 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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!

  • @blinkinglightsandsmokingcaps
    @blinkinglightsandsmokingcaps 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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.

  • @jwflame
    @jwflame 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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.

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I suppose that's why they used it here if they didn't think they'd be caught too easily stateside.

    • @Petertronic
      @Petertronic 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha, I noticed that too JW :)

    • @Kaufmancab51
      @Kaufmancab51 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Perhaps because of the handful of Midland banks in Western NY (home of Kodak) at the time? Could be a possibility

    • @TheTurnipKing
      @TheTurnipKing 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kaufmancab51 Might also explain the existence of the hardware. Maybe it was predominantely intended for another market where there were less of the better alternatives available.

    • @sithompson74
      @sithompson74 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That caught my eye too. Must have had some success over here. May have been used to present new developments in banking to staff in branch?

  • @Metal_Icarus
    @Metal_Icarus 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jeffh3649
    @jeffh3649 5 ปีที่แล้ว +237

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

    • @DemocracyDiesInDarkness
      @DemocracyDiesInDarkness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      They used SGI hardware.

    • @sloppynyuszi
      @sloppynyuszi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      tzzhc4 which still isn’t that good. A cheap chrome book has more power.

    • @DemocracyDiesInDarkness
      @DemocracyDiesInDarkness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      True but the comparison was Kodak Displaymaker and what they made T2 with and the SGI hardware was light-years better than the Displaymaker.

    • @sloppynyuszi
      @sloppynyuszi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      tzzhc4 yes, but I think an SGI machine was also $200k per unit. This is only $2k. Nobody said they made CGI effects on it. Probably similar tech to what they computed the moon missions on though. Which is mighty impressive

    • @jeiku5041
      @jeiku5041 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sloppynyuszi It sure is neat how much technology changes in just 20, 30 years, huh?

  • @kylejscheffler
    @kylejscheffler 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

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

    • @LGR
      @LGR  5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Gonna be away for a few days, so SURPRISE. New LGR video today instead of tomorrow!

    • @aveavis2247
      @aveavis2247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But for me it is friday, because I am on vacation.

    • @martin1b
      @martin1b 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LGRThrifting?

    • @BradNakken
      @BradNakken 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, that just means us Australians (and others in our part of the world) get a video on Friday this time!

    • @CheapBastard1988
      @CheapBastard1988 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aveavis2247 In Asia I presume?

  • @brycevo
    @brycevo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

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

    • @brycevo
      @brycevo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for the ♥️, LGR

    • @brycevo
      @brycevo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MontieMongoose Thank you for the compliment. I just Comment on videos I like

    • @AgentSmith911
      @AgentSmith911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      >old
      >1988
      *cries*

    • @EddieBurke
      @EddieBurke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is what we’ll say about the 2070 in like 10 year

  • @Dagur_Johannsson
    @Dagur_Johannsson 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Damaniel3
    @Damaniel3 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!)

  • @LonSeidman
    @LonSeidman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    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.

    • @straightpipediesel
      @straightpipediesel ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You sketched pictures out and let your company's graphics arts department or a service bureau make the slides/viewgraphs. Just like word processing, you didn't type or format your letters, you dictated it on a tape and the office typist pool did the rest. Office "productivity" software didn't make us more productive, we now screw around with formatting and fonts and being perfectionists, instead of spending time thinking and deciding.

    • @amaruqlonewolf3350
      @amaruqlonewolf3350 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You'd shun out a fortune for essentially what PowerPoint does?

  • @lashyndragon
    @lashyndragon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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 😄

  • @vapeck42
    @vapeck42 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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. :)

  • @KzintiCV
    @KzintiCV 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @PlayMoGame
    @PlayMoGame 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @W0mpa
      @W0mpa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You had my like with AVGN.

    • @TheMarcusramsey
      @TheMarcusramsey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Pushing Up Roses and Doug Demuro for me. My next week of lunch breaks is set.

    • @martinhowser4094
      @martinhowser4094 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cheers, will go watch Avgn next. He’s not great recently, but at least he’s still more watchable than nostalgia nerds boring vids

    • @PlayMoGame
      @PlayMoGame 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Barry Kramer also put out a 30 minute Kingdom Hearts story summary video today as well

    • @RussellTeapot
      @RussellTeapot 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      WHAT a new AVGN episode? Why it didn't show the notification for me?

  • @laowhy86
    @laowhy86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

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

    • @guarapo66
      @guarapo66 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      你好

    • @paco4756
      @paco4756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Why are you illegally watching imperialist propaganda? Emperor Xi the Pooh is not pleased with you.
      PS Hi, I had no idea you watched LGR

    • @Archman2312
      @Archman2312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whoa, did not expect to see you here! Cool to see someone else who has an interest in modern China and very unmodern computers. I would not have guessed this overlap is common. Love both your channels!

    • @quite1enough
      @quite1enough 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh hello there

    • @avongil
      @avongil 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't believe you are here. Two thumbs up.

  • @laurent4363
    @laurent4363 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @SeanDuffyProductions
    @SeanDuffyProductions 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Soonjai
    @Soonjai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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.

    • @romajimamulo
      @romajimamulo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is not.
      He actually mentioned in his very long 2018 recap that he does it because a lot of his audience is outside the US

    • @BarHonigfeld
      @BarHonigfeld 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@romajimamulo That is such a nice thing to do. It takes 4 seconds to google the conversion and maybe 20 to insert the data in the video. Let's say it is one minute of work for Clint. Now say 100.000 people benefit from those conversions, that is 400.000 seconds saved for mankind :D

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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.

    • @mrjsv4935
      @mrjsv4935 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did some drawings with C-64 Koala Painter using Quick Shot II Turbo joystic :D

    • @tazcatsdad
      @tazcatsdad 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was “The Newsroom” ... can’t remember who published it, though. Originally I thought it was Broderbund, but I’m probably wrong about that.

    • @rayceeya8659
      @rayceeya8659 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tazcatsdad
      OMG you're right. I've been trying to remember the name of that program for over 20 years. That little clue gave me a linkt to this,
      www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1984/newsroom-apple/
      Apparently it was Springboard software though but that was the clue I needed top track it down.

    • @DimensionDude
      @DimensionDude 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rayceeya8659 I've known the guy who owns and operates www.thelogbook.com for a very long time. He gave me his disk of The Newsroom so I could make a video of it running on the Apple emulation of my Dimension 68000.
      th-cam.com/video/RiY2GORGn-M/w-d-xo.html
      It's very short, it was really only meant to show the Apple emulator at work.

  • @nezomegamob
    @nezomegamob 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Keep the videos coming LGR from the UK!

  • @AndyMelton
    @AndyMelton 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @FantomLightning
    @FantomLightning 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @paulleins7809
    @paulleins7809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    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

    • @jamesbennettmusic
      @jamesbennettmusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      my first thought as well - given that an Amiga 500 supposedly retailed for $699!

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Because then you'd have to be a hopeless cock, like all the other Amiga owners.

    • @OlpusBonzo
      @OlpusBonzo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Indeed the Amiga was one of the reasons for the failure of this hardware by Kodak. In 1988 you could also have used a Macintosh II with PowerPoint, and although that system costed three times as much as the Displaymaker, you had a better workflow and also that computer could have been used for many more office tasks. At the time even IBM compatible PCs could have VGA cards, introduced in 1987 on the IBM PS/2 and paving the way to the multimedia PCs of the '90s. This Displaymaker was too little and too late.

    • @paulleins7809
      @paulleins7809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@greenaum what trauma made you this salty about retro computing?

    • @MacXpert74
      @MacXpert74 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +greenaum "then you'd have to be a hopeless cock, like all the other Amiga owners."
      Sounds like someone was stuck with a lousy CGA 286 with adlib sound card. ;D

  • @nimrodlevy
    @nimrodlevy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @killinit2116
    @killinit2116 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @morphx666
    @morphx666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    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...

    • @LGR
      @LGR  5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I'd be happy to dump it if I had the hardware to do so. Being a socketed IC it should be rather painless.

    • @morphx666
      @morphx666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well, if you ever get around it, please let me know - I'd love to give it a try.
      Huge fan from the Dominican Republic! Love your videos!

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      An Arduino should be able to do it, there must be plans out there for an Ardunio ROM dumper. You can get Arduinos for a few dollars, then you'd just need a socket and some wires. Choose a 5V Arduino, then you don't have to worry about voltages. Powered by the USB port you'll be collecting the data from.

    • @kruppin
      @kruppin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LGR There are cheap eeprom programmers on ebay for cheap that can recognize almost all chips, very handy to have anyway so..

    • @ZXGuesser
      @ZXGuesser 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      With the boot ROM and the disk images to reverse engineer, it'd only be a matter of time before someone ports Doom. ;)

  • @MordecaiWalfish
    @MordecaiWalfish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @pedrorubiomoreno9119
    @pedrorubiomoreno9119 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @Yetus
    @Yetus 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @RetroHellspawn
    @RetroHellspawn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @VorpalStorm
    @VorpalStorm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @schwiftynintendonerd
    @schwiftynintendonerd 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    another great video! , thank you LGR :)

  • @PeaceLoveAndGuns
    @PeaceLoveAndGuns 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos are so relaxing.

  • @mrjohnnyk
    @mrjohnnyk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @benn454
      @benn454 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If it wasn't for corporate espionage Xerox would be the biggest computer company on the planet right now.

    • @mrjohnnyk
      @mrjohnnyk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@benn454 Yeah but then again Xerox was going to shoot themselves in the foot anyways because they weren't really willing to see their OS as a public product, they felt like computers were only useful as business machines and wanted to focus on their copying machines as their primary product.

    • @dmtd2388
      @dmtd2388 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      PCs and Macs where back in there stone ages in everything back then compared to Amiga workstations and Silicon Graphics pc-macs could only do basic spread sheets and basic games while in 1992 doing Jurassic Park that changed movie history in cgi they used Amiga 3000 workstations for pre-render and SGI for final render and other movies to even small amiga 1200 was way ahead of pcs and mac in graphics or sound

  • @MilitaryHistoryVisualized
    @MilitaryHistoryVisualized 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Gotta do one of my videos on this one 😂

  • @hunterdavis3003
    @hunterdavis3003 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode! Thanks Clint !

  • @whiskersmcclean157
    @whiskersmcclean157 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Clint! Love your content.

  • @jerrywatson1958
    @jerrywatson1958 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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?

  • @c4tze
    @c4tze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @blanchfor
    @blanchfor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @ivys5367
    @ivys5367 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is really cool! thank you for making this video

  • @AmyraCarter
    @AmyraCarter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    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.

    • @exodiathecoolone
      @exodiathecoolone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Making porn via a keyboard? Tell that person if ever you meet them that I'll raise a glass in salute to them.

    • @TheRealColBosch
      @TheRealColBosch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      So THAT'S why he's called Techmoan.

    • @figit090
      @figit090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TheRealColBosch roflmao! Yessss

    • @TheBodgybrothers
      @TheBodgybrothers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Long time no see, Amy.

    • @nytrodioxide
      @nytrodioxide 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's true dedication to his craft. I respect him.

  • @IGVGameplayreviews
    @IGVGameplayreviews 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Is it Friday already?!

    • @LGR
      @LGR  5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      It’s Friday in our hearts.

    • @WitchTrials92
      @WitchTrials92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No Clint is going to be away for a few days so new LGR video today instead of tomorrow

    • @papyrusthegreat1022
      @papyrusthegreat1022 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No Tuesday

    • @mrobbmr
      @mrobbmr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LGR I got more excited than I should have when I saw this video and thought it was Friday

    • @johnfrancisdoe1563
      @johnfrancisdoe1563 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      IGV IOS and Android Gameplay Trailers It has to be early, because Israel still holds the Sabbath from sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday. It would have been even earlier if Palestinian.

  • @retrocademediaofficial
    @retrocademediaofficial 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mglmouser
    @mglmouser 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was a pre-press technician back in 1988 where my job was to output pre-press client files onto various high-end printers and recorders (line Linotype 300 film recorders). We did have direct-to-slide imagers. Think they were Tektronics though, but those were quite popular back then. The recorder was in use most days.

  • @RegularCars
    @RegularCars 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Dude... MINT

    • @amnottabs
      @amnottabs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      didn't know you liked woodgrain Mr. Regular

    • @nevertryberg
      @nevertryberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice

    • @BertieJasokie
      @BertieJasokie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Noice

  • @doomfussel3179
    @doomfussel3179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    8:15 LOOK AT THIS GRAPH

    • @Guciom
      @Guciom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Does it make you laugh?

    • @doomfussel3179
      @doomfussel3179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Guciom EVERYTIME I SEE IT

  • @tl1024
    @tl1024 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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"!

  • @Yohoho151rum
    @Yohoho151rum 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @KuraIthys
    @KuraIthys 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

  • @Unplanted
    @Unplanted 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @ectofrost
    @ectofrost 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @neonity4294
    @neonity4294 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That device was made for the Kodak AG in Stuttgart, the capital of my state! It even shows the old four digit post code (7000) which got changed to a five digit during the early 90s. What a blast from the past. We've got some good technic museums here, a shame nobody was interested in this.

  • @GammaMAXXdotcom
    @GammaMAXXdotcom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.)

    • @ZachAttackIsBack
      @ZachAttackIsBack 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Today I found some 1980s Radio Shack D cell batteries (made in Japan) in an old radio from an estate sale. Amazingly, none of the 9 batteries leaked. The old Radio Shack logo is so cool and retro that I'm tempted to put a couple on display.

    • @douro20
      @douro20 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a couple of old calculators which are still running on their original mercury coin cells. One of them is from 1978.

  • @Zizzily
    @Zizzily 5 ปีที่แล้ว +172

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

    • @MammaApa
      @MammaApa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One shaved hedgehog!

    • @dwaynezilla
      @dwaynezilla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      farts

    • @nicholas_scott
      @nicholas_scott 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1:08 computer chronicals

    • @gastonbell108
      @gastonbell108 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can confirm: 50% of my farts are, indeed, weird.

  • @The-Urban-Goose
    @The-Urban-Goose 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this system's PCB. The blue traces on the black background just look so nice.

  • @TrailBlazer5280
    @TrailBlazer5280 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @nobodyyouknow1065
    @nobodyyouknow1065 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    On a Thursday? What madness is this?

  • @92Hidden
    @92Hidden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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"

    • @einsteinx2
      @einsteinx2 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hidden haha I was thinking the same thing. I speak Spanish and noticed that the English and Spanish lines are a bit different too. I mean it’s fairly normal to have translations change a bit to fit the language but they seem to have gone a bit further when they could have been more similar and still made sense. The French one says “facts” instead of “presentation” which is kind of funny as I’m sure there’s a word for presentation in French haha.

    • @gwishart
      @gwishart 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Given the structure of Kodak at the time; it's more likely that each national division was asked to come up with something for their market.

  • @mikemissesthefairway
    @mikemissesthefairway 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Shand1982
    @Shand1982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, just wow. It's so interesting to see where we have come from given we're quick to take what we have today for granted. Some work has gone into that product from the Kodak dev team, despite it's obvious flaws, it's mightily impressive.

  • @moofree
    @moofree 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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 :)

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That does require the special card to install in the Amiga. I suppose he'll have to go hunting that down.

  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @StephanS
    @StephanS 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely love that graphical style of the Displaymaker. Those fonts, borders, lines... aaahhh... i just love it.

  • @thierrykurt3867
    @thierrykurt3867 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the images of diskettes !

  • @anarchist135
    @anarchist135 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Mini-z1994
    @Mini-z1994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @beyondthesky518
    @beyondthesky518 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do I find the voice of this guy and the sound of old tech so soothing that makes me sleep?

  • @jsc315
    @jsc315 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm really impressed with how much that were able to compact into such a small device for it's time.

  • @kacperw587
    @kacperw587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The new intro makes me spazz out in happiness.

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161
    @fratercontenduntocculta8161 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the blocky gray and brushed steel look of the video show remote

  • @robharper7114
    @robharper7114 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    ComputerEyes. I had one of those for my Atari ST. I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it in this video.

  • @KirbytPink
    @KirbytPink 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Can it run Doom?

  • @Mr.Morden
    @Mr.Morden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @Sizzlik
      @Sizzlik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I remember that from the early 80's. The unforgettable sound of "Next image please" *Click RRRR Clack* (No such thing as remote control..you had an assistant =)

    • @no1DdC
      @no1DdC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I had a teacher who did this in the 2000s.

    • @johnfrancisdoe1563
      @johnfrancisdoe1563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sizzlik Most magazine loading slide projectors had an input to advance the slide via a long remote control cable or the second channel on a stereo tape recorder (with speech, music and effects on the first channel). Could run fully automatically once set up.

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sizzlik In grade school, it used to be a fun privilege that one of the kids gets to run the filmstrip projector!

    • @Sizzlik
      @Sizzlik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChristopherSobieniak i know

  • @MontegaB
    @MontegaB 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man that 5154 on that stand that the DisplayMaker just perfectly sits under is beautiful. Well done.

  • @flopflips420
    @flopflips420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the new intro Clint!