Chevtech Disk Drive: MS-DOS Chevrolet Software from 1987
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- Ahh, I love this kinda stuff. Chevy Tech is a retro computer program all about configuring a new Chevy car or truck in the 80s! Seems there were a number of versions but this one is for the 1987 model year.
Download the floppy disk image here:
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8-bit Show & Tell dug up some more versions of ChevyTech!
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♫ Listen to the heartbeat of America ♪
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Also, Chevtech is now playable in your browser on archive.org!
archive.org/details/Chevtech_Disk_Drive
see the USA, in your chev ro let... baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and chevrolet
Now I want a Beretta.
That's VHS quality right there!
btw the next version of the pickup didn't release 'till 88 ;)
The Corvette C4 had the best 80s cheese commercial th-cam.com/video/CP7ijUkgc-4/w-d-xo.html
One of my dad’s friends used to work for Mercedes, They had this kind of software where you design a car The disk gets sent to the factory. and the card gets made and then sent to the dealership. One of the employees I’m not sure who was playing with it and designed the most vile colour combination and made the car look hideous for a laugh. unfortunately someone sent the wrong disk into the factory and this vile car got made! They only realised their mistake when it arrived on a transporter, they then spent thousands getting the car re-sprayed and reupholstered :-)
That's hilarious!
That's amazing, dude! What a cool story
Ahhh, the classic pink and green and tennis-ball yellow! What a combo!
That was immensely stupid. It should have been taken and preserved as a time capsule. You can't do that anymore.
My granddad managed a fleet of Chevy work vehicles for the Sprint company back in the day, and he was a big Chevy fan, so of course he had this on his computer. Seeing that "Heartbeat of America" tagline again was weirdly nostalgic! I'm not a car guy, but when you're three years old and your granddad is showing you DOS, man, everything is interesting! I used to put together dream cars and trucks with this like I knew what I was doing. :)
Dang, I miss my granddad. He taught me a lot.
The full size pick-up is an 86. In 1987 the body style changed to the more 90s looking trucks.
Clint: there are no games on here :,(
Me: :,(
Clint: *plays the ad program with the same zest and passion as if hes playing a brilliant classic DOS game*
Me: :,) I love this channel
When you said sprint fort some reason I was thinking about the triumph Dolomite sprint lol
Mmmm can I get that Start Menu music on vinyl?
Random question, where do you store all the PCs you have? Either you live in a god damn mansion to house all those beige wonders or you've got a hell of a lockup somewhere
I’m impatiently waiting for LGR Cars.
We should put Clint in the Trabant with Robert (Aging Wheels) and Alex (aka Clone Robert) from Technology Connections.
Agreed. I've tried mentioning that as well
@@HB45175 I'm fully down with this
I hope with RCR as well, this pandemic sucks.
@@HB45175 *Alec
So, basically .. It was Chevrolet.com before the internet was mainstream. I mean, that's essentially just a DOS version of any auto manufacturers website today. I actually wonder if this is just a modified version of their actual ordering software. You know, someone comes into the dealer and wants to special order a brand new car. They likely used a system like this to record the features that the customer wants, so they could print it off and send it to the factory to be fulfilled.
If that's the case, then it's kind of brilliant, because you are paying them to do the job of their secretary when you brought in the print-off to order your new car.
You got it! Pretty novel stuff at the time.
GM at the time was actually pretty forward thinking with electronics. Doug DeMuro uploaded a video yesterday of a Buick Reatta from the 80s with a factory touchscreen that actually responded extremely well for the 80’s.
2 years ago I was working at a dealership (not Chevy!) and they were using a computer system from 1984. It was way more complicated than this. But you could have used this as a starting point I guess. Anyway, as a retro computer enthusiast it was amusing to use such a system! The novelty eventually wore off though.
LGR Blerbs 🧐
I can't remember if he mentioned it, but those screens used CRT screens. I never thought a car had one built in the dash ever.
I shared this on our internal social media site. Would love to see if this is still available somewhere within the company. #iworkforGM
Nice! Would love to know more if anything comes up that you can share.
Seems a bit unusual that this guy's been on TH-cam for 11 years, no content, no subs and he works for GM.. just an opinion
@@aidancommenting is it a requirement that you need to make videos to be on TH-cam? I wasn't aware
@@hectorg5809 i don't have any videos either. should i be worried?
@@aidancommenting This was just an attempt to gain attention of the Marketing team for the company I work for in effort to support Clint. Wasn't aware I had to make a video on it, GM, or allow all to see who I subscribe to and identify as legitimate fan or someone trying to help.
The noise of a old computer in the background, aaahhhhh clint you know how to bring back memories
Lee01Mr it’s strangely calming
I can't hear it over the noise my own computer is making :p
My fan is louder than your fan :p
I love seeing these old, weird softwares
so say we all
I’m imagining cork feet... underneath.
_Good._
I'm imagining cork-grained XT. Cork everywhere!
@@LGRBlerbs They are fantastic! I have three 5150s that I stack so that I can pull or push on them and feel the corky solidity.
"Look at that generic GM design! Fantastic!"
Definitely 1987, as it said to pick a 1988 Beretta at the beginning of the program...
Also in 1988 model year they redesigned some of the trucks.
It is 1987... It is the future... (insert darksynth song)
Oh boy! The 1987 Chevy Nova was a rebadged Toyota Corolla, the best car GM never made!
Nova Twin Cam was a rebadged AE82 Corolla with the 4A-GE. Very interesting little thing
I owned one and put 200k miles on it before my wife totaled it.
The first family car I remember was a gray '87 Chevy Nova. I recall it having very scratchy seats. We ditched it around 1996 for a Saturn.
It was also an insult to the Nova name.
@@benn454 definitely fit with "no va", or "won't/doesnt go" which was said to be why the nova wasn't a big seller in Spanish speaking countries. Lol
Cash for Clunkers ended up being the death knell for a of cars from this era, which is why you don't see them on the road much anymore. A bit of a shame, really.
I would have spent hundreds of hours messing with car configs, memorizing every single option for every single car, if I had access to this in the 80s. There's wasn't a lot to do then, just re-read the same magazines, but to have individual options and prices available, configure exactly how you wanted it, etc - I can't overstate how amazing that would have been at the time to be able to do from home.
Nothing like the feeling of bare cork feet running on smooth woodgrain!
Thank you for looking through the graphics! I was really curious about the Corvette :) The graphics remind me how I used to mess around in Deluxe Paint on my Amiga 500, doodling all sorts of things. It must have been fun making the art for this little program.
Thinking of it, I probably once did see this demonstrated at a Chevy display at a shopping mall once as kid. Nice of them to show it off, even though I was obviously a kid with no possible way of buying a car.
From my childhood watching American TV, so many cars for the A-Team to trash! Thanks for buying all the Chevies bad guys! ;-)
And B.A. had a GMC Vandura
0:01 Just wanted to say I appreciate you waving to us via the reflection on the monitor. 👋🏼
I had a friend in college who owned and drove a Chevy Celebrity (in 2010), lol
It was old, had awful transmission, and it smelled like cat pee
Ah the '80s, when a 12% interest rate was considered normal...
Now its normal to see 8 year plans. You take some you lose some...
I sold cars for five years, people do zero down 84 months on 80k dollar Tahoe’s and suburbans. I don’t get it.
@@campaug Those are what's known, to use the highly technical scientific term, as "shortsighted idiots."
In the late 70s/early 80s, mortgage rates could be even higher than that. Car loans could be over 20%!
@Karl Burnett leaseing is much more expensive. Its only cheaper if you want new cars every 3 years...
Most PC builders on TH-cam: Look at my new insane liquid cooling rig for my Ryzen 9 PC!
Clint: Look at my new cork feet for my 286 PC
Me: Nice cork feet.
I love these old computer illustrations! Always wonder how they were done, if they hand drew them on graph paper and then put in the coordinates for vectors or if they drew right on screen with the keyboard or mouse (if available at the time).
They did both! They also used graphics tablets and lightpens as inputs
@@nathanczaja sounds like a great idea for an LGR episode :)
First commercial mouse is 1983 (for the Apple Lisa) but the first light pen was 1955 and they were in wide use by 1965 to the point they were IBMs input of choice when they sold mainframe computers.
Hey Clint, this is Shane from The Internet Archive. Thanks for archiving this software with us! We've gone ahead and created a version of the software that can be run in the browser via DOSBox. You can find it at archive.org/details/Chevtech_Disk_Drive
Let me know if you ever have other items to convert to emulation.
A Celebrity has never driven a Chevy Celebrity, and the Monte Carlo was never driven in Monte Carlo!
I’m so happy this channel exists. Keeps me going between LGR episodes.
Also love how your “throwaway” channel is so high quality.
I think Clint needs some sort of 80's-90's Regular Car to drive to Goodwill in.
Cavalier Z24 has my vote.
@@39Chevy Celebrity for me. Friend of mine had one when I was in high school.
@@39Chevy Does it have wood grain trim though?
@@As_Phil My grandparents had a burgundy Celebrity and my mother had a Corsica.
1992 Buick Roadmaster Wagon Woodgrain
Well I'm glad to see the base coat was a standard option for the Beretta
man my dad's 88 corsica lasted like 14 years. drove the hell out of that thing until it disintegrated.
There's probably a recall out for this... :P
We need @RegularCars in here.
More like @ZebraCorner - Mahk loves Chevrolet.
Ah yes the good ol 80's, when A/C and window defrost was entirely optional.
My dad owned a Corsica back in the day. Brings back memories.
""Knight Rider 2000", good lord there's a made-for-tv I haven't thought of for a few years.
Hilariously, adjusted for inflation the Corvette coupe featured would cost roughly $60,000. They were really proud of that car.
A new 2020 corvette is about that much, so I guess they're still on track price wise.
K.I.T.T. in that movie is a redesigned Dodge Stealth (to give it a look of a Pontiac concept car of the time) though and the one in the series was a Pontiac Firebird TransAm.
12.5% interest?! Could you imagine paying that for a car today?
On a $6000 brand new car, I'd stand in a line waiting on that deal.
I own a pretty modest car (Mazda 3 hatchback), and for the price I paid for it I could buy 3 of their compact trucks with cash to spare. Hell, I could almost buy a Corvette! If only I could go back in time with 2020 dollars....
@@Damaniel3 You should have seen what I paid for my Malibu, even with employee discount it wasn't cheap.
My mom had a Sprint, the memories in that tiny car lol. Haven't thought about it in 20 years now haha, I do vaguely remember being able to fill the gas tank for $10 or less in the early 90s.
The 1987 version of automation car designing game.
Our 83 Camaro had the "Extended Range Audio System" I honestly don't know what it meant. I know this may sound dumb, but I think it just meant you got 2 speakers in the back (as well as the front).
I drove my '50 Dodge over to a friend's place today and went out for a cruise in his '52 Chevy DeLuxe Sport Coupe that he has owned for over 60 years.
With a name like Chevy Tech, I thought it'd be diagnostic software for the onboard computers on the cars, repair manuals, that kind of thing.
Still cool though.
this is now known as the Build Your Own tool on the GM brand websites. i used to work for the call center that did this via phone back in the 90's, and now i work for the company that built and maintains the current BYO tool and the websites. the version we used in the call center was basically a Windows version of what you have there.
I own a '98 Chevy Cavalier 2.2 RS (2 door) model. Just rebuilt the head gasket and a bunch of other stuff on it since last Fall. She still purrs at over 250k miles! Seeing this though brought me back to when my Aunt owned an 86/87 Cav convertible. So cool!
So aside from the financing calculator, they might as well have just made a printed catalog with all this information, and probably been able to fit a lot more pictures in it showing what some of the options looked like. But hey, it's the 1980s, and guess what? COMPUTERS.
Ford Simulator gives me mixed feelings.
So mostly what I learned here is to reinforce why financing a car is a terrible, terrible mistake.
6k in interest on a 29k loan, big oof
So the sprint was a suzuki, the spectrum was an isuzu, and the nova was a toyota. Precursor to what became GEO motors in the 90s. Worth researching.
Speaking of Chevy, the Australian subsidiary of GM is closing down!
Man what id give to pay 9000 bucks for a brand new Chevy these days
A month or two back you could get a stripped down Spark for $13k with 7 year 0% financing... Not the pinnacle of motoring joy, but I thought about it pretty hard..
That deal might still be going?
I think the Corsica was just the 4 door Beretta.
As I recall Chevy claimed it wasn't... but it really was... and they were SLOW.
9:01 “Ackchually, it’s called a [Goofy’s laugh]-die.”
And I have Bob Seger like a rock song playing in the background.
My father owned the 1985 hatchback 2-door sprint when I was little. Lasted 16 years.
9:39 My first car was a '97 Chevy Cavalier. Funny how retro hardware/software is a product of the times it's in, thus giving way to individual context and nostalgia...
Cavalier was replaced with the Cobalt, which was then replaced with the Cruze.
monte carlo YUCK!!! I had an 83 in 2001. It was a freaking tank. $500 Also no AC. In the end it would pop belts every other week.
The Heartbeat of America. That's Yesterday's Chevrolet.
Clint, all your friends had Chevys because they could always rely on that great GM quality. Remember kids: a GM car will run like shit longer than most cars will run at all.
I'm a GM fanboi by-the-by, I've owned 3 Pontiacs and not a single one of them powered by a Pontiac engine. Oh GM, you are a wonder.
I've owned a chevy powered by a pontiac and a pontiac powered by a chevy 😁
Like, 20 years ago, I was really big on scraping off the cork feet on my vintage systems, and replacing them with rubber feet. Then I found out that rubber feet break down and ruin tables. Those were the days.
LGR for the c:\win!
@Crawling Chaos **beep** I'm pretty sure autocorrect is drunk today. It's really tripping up for some reason...
Camaro z28 got "computer command control", wow man, computer!!!
Yeah, and it ran the Quadrajet E4ME carburetor which was a 4 barrel with electronically controlled primaries.
Thanks for the video Clint~ by the way, made any tasty sandwiches lately? :)
The early TIE Fighter demo was sponsored by Dodge Neon :P
I had a 66 Chevy II that came radio delete, and when I put one in I ended up selling the delete plate for like $300. Evidently they can be rare parts and people will pay decent sums for them, depending on the car. Of course we could just 3D print things now, but this was the 90s.
Makes sense! Can't imagine many folks selection that option.
any of those rare parts can be worth it, even for fairly new cars, I sold the tonneau cover bag for a Chevy Avalanche an eBay and the guy said he's had several of those trucks and never had the bag and was so happy to finally find one
@@LGRBlerbs Radio delete was more popular than you'd think, but usually only on the lower tier cars like Novas, Chevettes, S10s, etc. I had what had to be one of the strangest optioned Chevys of all time. '89 S10, radio delete, manual everything except power brakes, and air conditioning. So, the original owner didn't want to pay for a _radio_ or _power steering,_ but AC was mandatory.
Frankly, I'd order radio delete today too if I could because the aftermarket stuff is so good and vastly less expensive than the "tech" option package on the car, but everything is so integrated now that I doubt there's many you can even get radio delete.
The CGA Color's even match the 1980s.
That's why they chose those colors for CGA. They were the most natural for the perpetual neon-lit midnight we lived in.
My dad was “too cool” for a Chrysler style mini van and I grew up with Astro. Took my drivers test with one! Thanks for the nostalgia Clint.
Astro vans were rear wheel drive, 4.3L V6, and built on a truck frame. They were absolute beasts.
My dad sold Chevys during this era. He'd come home all the time with demo cars. Astro Vans were fun.
We had the 1988 GMC cousin, the Safari. Waaaay cooler!
Yeah we had a 4wd version and my favourite memory of it was pulling an old beetle out of snow filled ditch sideways. That thing was a beast.
I drove an Astro van for work, low bid government purchase, underpowered 4 cylinder with an exhaust leak into the cab to make driving more relaxing, and piss-poor brakes. Hated the POS! Finally got a '94 Ford Aerostar with a V6 and functional brakes.
Thanks for the upload LGR! I was way stoked you found the 86'-87' years! That Chevy R-10 truck you deemed a "70's style" is debatably the worst Chevy truck to work on! One year truck that had the old Silverado bodies with the new TBI/Fuel Injected engines. Cool find and again thanks for the upload!
In excellent condition they are worth $20-$30k right now!
LOL, you start off cleaning the locations where the new cork feet will go, then your OCD kicks in and you clean the whole bottom. ;)
♪♪♪ Blerby, Blerby. Chevy floppy. The stuff keeps comin' on.. :)
Like a Rock.
My dad drove a 1987 Chevy Nova 5 door hatch! The Chevy Nova was just a rebadged Toyota Corolla. That car ran forever and got over 50mpg.
Thanks for another great piece of content! I love this older, obscure software. A lot of my family members drove those very cars. Most of them were terrible.
a lunchbox?
who invited that kid?
I had a 1987 G-20 Chevy van, last year! I put a bunch of money into fixing it up and then, I donated it to Denver homeless program.
Thank you for sharing this! I had a 1988 Chevy Corsica, when I was in high school, in the late 90s. It was a generous hand-me-down from my parents and I loved it. I have many great memories of that "noble steed". There are times where I think about buying one to restore, since it's such a basic car and underappreciated car.
I remember the Sprint Turbo being really fast when they came out.
Extended Range Sound for your 1988 car with the deleted radio and no stereo.
Back in late 93 or early 94 my family received a 3 1/2 inch demo floppy from Chrysler. The disk was about the Dodge Neon which was being introduced at the time. It was somewhat similar to this Chevy disk but included full VGA pictures of the car and had some simple animations. I think it even had some simple Adlib or SB music included too!
My grandmother had a celebrity,and you never do see any late eighties cavilers running aroubf,it's usually the late nineties and early 2000s
I love the car videos on LGR. Musing about the cars that aren't around anymore. Feels hollow man.
LOL GM put the Nova and the cavalier into the us market. Crazy given it is opel and vauxall was over here
Extended range sound was probably their way of saying you get an extra tweeter in the speaker or something. Almost bought a 5160 XT at the weekend, was busted up and the auction had no bids 24 hours before. It appeared to have a Hercules card though and the bids soon started going up. I just wanted a busted one to measure the case for a modern ATX version, maybe repair the machine if possible.
I love the blerbs! 🍄
I feel like most everybody had some amount of these crappy not-quite-a-game disks at some point. I always had a collection that never got used for anything, other than the initial curiosity of what was on the disk. It was easy fodder for upload credits on BBSes at the time, at least, unless somebody else beat you to it.
Fun! Years ago I went to a hoarder house estate sale and found a Ford dealership branded LaserDisc player. Unfortunately, it was at the bottom of a pile of 10 other LD and CED players and they had none of the discs.
Finally! I was starting to get Blerb withdrawal.
I love those old trucks, my first truck was an '83 K20!
My dad bought a 87 Sprint new that had a 3 cylinder but also sold with a turbo. I love that car, 45 mpg city and 54 on highway. No power and you had to cut the AC to pull up a hill in first gear. Not many cars since then with that great mpg rating, but a awesome compact.
A shaver would have been nice in that blue box ^^ and NO, I dont mean "Helen Shaver" ...
great reflection in the monitor
C4 looks like Inspector Gadget’s car
I remember playing a car building game in the early 90's, you could choose, engine type,size and location. Brake type and adjust the design of the vehicle profile for aerodynamics and then hit the test button and the program would run the vehicle around a track for you and then give you the results of how it performed.
It could be Detroit by Impressions?
Oh man, what a coincidence. I had a dim memory of playing that _incessantly_ as an early 90s kid, and about a year ago I tracked it down. Assuming you're remembering the same game I was, it's "Car Builder", by Optimum Resources in 1982
Ktothe Swiss A modern version of this would be Automation.
I played this game too. I remember putting a snow plow on the front, testing it in the wind tunnel and the program would chastise me for putting that in there.
@@Chocomint_Queen I'll look it up. Thanks, I couldn't remember much, but I thought the concept was cool and spent fair amounts of time tweaking to see what aspects changed.
The Chevy Sprint was just a rebranded Geo Metro/Suzuki "Whatever" so you've almost certainly seen one before, just not in that "trim". Oddly, GM continued to sell the Sprint while the Metro was also on the market, thus having the two brands competing with the exact same car under the same parent.
Good old GM, with 15 brands selling 3 different cars.
Edit: The S10 "EL" was actually the "Camino EL". It was a god awful '80s stripe kit added to a base model S10. All of them that I've ever seen have also been long beds, which makes them super weird in the S10 family. Google search one if you want to bathe in the '80s badness. They look like the splash screen for GTA Vice City...
The only Chevys I rarely saw on german roads back the days was the Baron Cabriolet and the Corvette. I remember holidays in Sweden the early 90's. I saw plenty Chevys there, these cars fascinated me as a kid because I mostly never saw them but on TV. When I recently visit Sweden again, all the US cars were gone, and I saw the same boring Cars as everywhere in Europe :-) Nice memories.
I always appreciate those little updates like that, seems small but it makes the restoration feel really complete and that's fun to know :)
They used “Heartbeat of America” for years. Then it was “Like a Rock” with the trucks for F ever!
I still love the ford counter to it that got banned becasue GM sued. guys with a chevy are trying to pull a boat out of the water and it ends up sliding back and getting pulled underwater. as a guy with a ford is hooking up to pull them out the owners are all "wow that sunk fast" and the ford guy is all "yeah, like a rock" as he then proceeds to pull them and the boat out