When we got our computer I was usually playing games, like most people. When I got bored of playing Doom and King's Quest. I went looking around and found Norton Utilities. That directory changed my life. I found the disk editor and starting learning how to use a hexeditor. That got me into learning how to program. And of course learning what the programs did and knowing when/how to use them was amazing.
Actually I think it was the opposite. Norton Commander made people lazy. It was like a GUI in text mode. Pure command line made me learn the commands and motivated me to learn much more. I still use command line interfaces every day. By knowing MS-DOS command line it was natural to move to Linux in the mid 90s. I still dont like Windows interfaces.
@Paul Morley nope those people died and got replaced by idiots whom do not care about anything at all anymore haven't you been paying attention to the news it's call covid 19 and it never ends cause of such stupid people those from computer chronicles age never feared weakling diseases like covid 19
The time constraints could have also been due to budgetary reasons, as producing such shows were not free. The more airtime there is with producing a TV show, the costlier it gets. Heck, going to an hour format would have also meant the double amount of video tape needed for sending the shows to the TV affiliates carrying this show. That in itself could have been a budget buster, as broadcast video tape back then was very expensive.
George was full of crap with that analogy. The mid 80s computers were so far ahead of the mid 70s ones. It’s more like an 80s PC was like a 50s/60s car. Plenty of non professional enthusiasts modding and tweaking.
@@AcornElectron DOS machines were still hairy beasts, though. This whole mess with different RAM expansion standards is a fine example. The situation got better, but didn't really resolve until 32-bit addressing became the norm. There were options for 32-bit OSes even in the 1980s, but for most PC users (and major applications) the change didn't come until Windows 95.
The 1980s superminis and Unix workstations were certainly way ahead of MS-DOS and CP/M: multitasking, memory protection and advanced memory-management capabilities, networking, linear 32-bit address spaces, and no silly single-character device names.
Love re-watching these episodes after so many years. I remember a lot of this back in the day, even now I still use DOS for some of my favorite old DOS applications like Norton Commander, Skyglobe, YagiMax and others using DOS Box. I did use X-Tree but preferred Norton Commander instead.
It's kind of sad watching Gary talk about DOS in most episodes, since CP/M lost out in the IBM-PC world. Yeah, he made some mistakes that caused it to happen, or so the story goes, but still, he really seemed to love DRI and the products he and his team made, and as years go on watching his baby grow into obsolescence really shows in his tone when talking about DOS.
He did deserve better. His Concurrent CP/M should have been what PCs shipped with. Imagine how much better OS's would be today if the very first IBM PC OS was already multi-tasking. But that said, Stuart has talked about Gary in interviews, driving to tape Computer Chronicles in his Lamborghini, and flying in his airplane. Gary did better than most of us EVER will, financially. Died way too soon.
I constantly think about that whenever he is talking about a dos or windows based machine or product. Although he is very professional while in his role of host on this show, never letting his own involvement in the industry getting in the way of his hosting duties
this was such a good episode of computer chronicles my god. I literally laughed out loud when when Ed Tolson said utilities were a big business bc there are a lot of holes in the operating system, like that was what was considered normal in those days. Ezra Shapiro brings up a valid point. the average consumer just wants the machine to work. the user shouldn't have to download third party utilities just for our PCS to do very basic functions such as storing and calling data. Ezra would be very happy with PC in 2021. George Morrow also brings up a valid point that this era of computing is like the early days of the automobile. things are not streamlined and one would almost have to be a "computer mechanic" to own and operate these machines. the fact that he could see that they were in this era is just amazing to me. TLDR: Utilities were a way of making up for shortcomings in operating systems. Ezra dreams of a better more simpler future and George accepts the reality theyre in and that utilities are a necessary yet useful product for their current era of PC. I just want to go back in time and speak to these guys and let them all know that it does indeed get better.
mad reallly because for a long time people even to this day who run older hardware and os's use xtree, wonder if concurrent dos came after or before that task swapping tool double dos - wonder if gary got the idea from that utility ??
Well, first bear in mind that this was a *supercomputer* from 1986. about the size of a small car, probably costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Second, it wasn't a 10GHz computer, rather it was a vector computer - meaning it derives a lot of its performance from being able to perform operations in parallel (basically to take advantage of it you need to organize your program in such a way that you have a very large data set that you need to perform operations on uniformly and independently, so the computer can split up the vector and hand off chunks of it to different cores). Their top-of-the-line was a 64-core system with the cores reaching around 140MHz clock speed (with a nitrogen-cooling system to keep it happy). Certainly, an impressive feat by 1986 standards - by today's standards of course the clock speed is nothing and the parallelism doesn't really overcome that.
I'm not living in a world of "just APPS" (as in, app stores loaded with locked-down or otherwise predatory or exploitative software) I know both Mac and Windows have shifted (on their desktop machines, I mean) in a direction that heavily favors "app-store"-type experiences over the older, more open system of simply downloading software you want and running it. (Frequently there are even defaults in place to prevent you from running programs that are not cryptographically signed by the people who manage the platform) But these defaults can still be turned off. People can still write program and just share them with other people without their code being blessed by Apple, Google, or Microsoft. (And personally I run Linux - which of course is limiting in terms of the software available... But it is almost entirely free of this "App Store" model.)
Whether I am using my Atari 800XL computer or my Pentium MMX PC I always have to use a utility program on my disk drives. For utilities are essential for any computer system regardless of what level or era of its technology.
I'm sure new generations will always be looking down at previous generations. When I look back at these Computer Chronicles videos, I often wonder how these people remembered all of the codes they had to type in, in order to open programs and why someone other than a business man or company want the computers from that time period?
Most people can learn more than one language. Using a text-based interface is basically just another language to learn, with a very small (easy to learn) vocabulary.
There aren't any codes, they were program names, or commands to do things. Often mnemonic. You wanted to change directories? CD. You want to read a directory? DIR. This stuff is easy. These boring crappy appliances people are using now calle smart phones are no fun at all.
@@Wizardofgosz 🙄 Yeah for sure. I’m referring to where they had to manually open everything. Not use short code like CD and then click what they wanted and that could turn into a very lengthy memorization. For example: self.file=open.debug=settings.getfile
Not real sure what that has to do with anything. I think modern Windows and MacOS manage the fragmentation problem as well. But in the 1980s, even the 1990s, that was not the norm on most OSes, in part because the computers of the time didn't have loads of CPU and memory resources to spare on the problem of making filesystems a little bit better.
It's sooo awesome that even in the early stage of internet, hackers broke in security systems in stanford just to remind those personels that their computer systems were vanurble for break ins. I laved my ass off when that guy said that in the late 70's one man said,we can rule the world with an 5065 64KB chip,hahaha XD.
johneygd at the same time in ‘86 as the Pink Floyd hacker was doing this, the first part time cyber security guy and full time astronomer, Cliff Stoll, was chasing his hackers who were going after military secrets, which he wrote about in the great book “The Cuckoo’s Egg” which was basically the start of the infosec industry.
In the early days of Linux, in the 1990s, to maintain the system, you had to know UNIX, the file system, so that you couldn't bugger it up when you were upgrading it. I know, because I was just learning back then, and there were no YUM or other auto-install RPMs back then. Had to manually install and match the correct version of files like "ld.so". It wasn't until the 2000s when Linux became easy to use and maintain. Now I use YUM Extender (DNF) and let the machine do the work.
Indeed, I recall having to compile the network drivers as part of the installation. We also compiled Quake 1, once it's source was made free of course.
Seems Ezra was totally off about ultilties that offered auto-complete or auto-correct would "get in the way" of serious computer users... Pretty much every non-game program there is today offers both functions in some way, and even advanced users appear happy to have them available.
He was right to do so IMO. Tools like autocomplete and autocorrect can be useful, but they can also get in the way. This is mostly a matter of preference, how one is accustomed to working with the machine. I would say the real answer to his challenge is that, if autocomplete/autocorrect/etc. isn't your style, maybe you don't buy that product that provides that stuff... Though of course the guy demoing the product would very much like you to buy it so he talks about how it's customizable instead. Just my personal perspective here - I find *noninvasive* completion suggestions to be very useful, but *invasive* autocomplete or autocorrect is very frustrating to work with IMO. The difference is whether completion interferes with what I'm doing, or changes the usual rules of input. So for instance in Chrome if I type "goo" in the URL bar and then hit backspace, the URL bar will still contain "goo", because the backspace key only removed the auto-complete text that was added by the browser. Usually for me the best way to keep the features from being a nuisance is to provide them when I ask for them (like tab-completion) - or like the command input interface in Blender, where I can type the name of a command and it will provide me a list of matches, but it doesn't actually auto-complete my input unless I manually select the match I want (even if there's only one match).
When they were talking about whether you have to be a mechanic, I wish I could go back in time with a Windows 8 tablet and say, "This is what you'll get. You want that, Ezra? HUH?" he'd be like, "OK, I'll learn how to operating my programs."
@24:11 amazing, 10 gflop supercomputer that would destroy everything on earth in 1986. And now a cheap disposable $30 Motorola G Pure smartphone can do 40 gflops.
It's amazing to me that I can open my Linux terminal, and the experience is pretty damn close to what old Unix computers were like. It's obviously a lot more consistent nowadays, but I'm typing in all the same stuff lol
First we see utilities on mac's that have Gui and can do multitasking. Then over to DOS and the horror begins. Double Dos.......can you please disable it I can't run my utility......640k limits......etc. I wonder why apple didn't take the lead with such a crappy OS leading the market. DOS with IBM pc was stepping on the computers brake. How did we ever survive 😂 It took until NT to solve all the problems. My first interaction with a PC was in school. Half the pc's were old and running pc/m, the other half shiny new running dos. No hard drives of course.
George getting it arse over face again. Yeah I sympathise with his plight but damn, he is bloody pessimistic about any new ideas and speed of implementation.
Why do I see so many women in these videos doing useful and cutting edge work? I thought back in the "bad old days", they were relegated to making coffee and answering the phone. Surely we're not being lied to about the evils of the hetero-white-patriarchy???
Technology became an opportunity for people to break out of their established roles. People needed the technology, which meant the skills to use it effectively were in demand, which meant that anyone who could learn and demonstrate those skills would be in demand as well. There is some truth to how you describe the problem of gender discrimination in the workplace, but it was never an absolute, so you can't point to a handful of examples and coyly suggest that this disproves the whole phenomenon.
Software again.. It is probably too late to ask, but it would be so great if they also covered the latest in PC hardware, like different types of CPUs, their clocks, co-processors, RAM and ROM, network hardware, and followed advancement of all that hardware. Also, if they did some comparisons of systems, and basic speed tests. Because now- it is mostly all OS, programs, and fields where computers are used. For me, who got introduced into PC world only in late 90s with Pentium 166MMX- this program would have been so much better if they also covered the development and use of silicon.. Another thing- advancement of hardware of gaming consoles, and reviews of games would also be very interesting. Maybe there is another archived program for this topic?
Vernon Buerg -- legendary MS-DOS programmer! Unfortunately he passed away in 2009.
I was just going to give him a shoutout. He was legendary. RIP!
it was for the best as dos is a dead os lol
The Norton Utilities and Norton Commander were God's gift for the MS-DOS user!
When we got our computer I was usually playing games, like most people. When I got bored of playing Doom and King's Quest. I went looking around and found Norton Utilities. That directory changed my life. I found the disk editor and starting learning how to use a hexeditor. That got me into learning how to program. And of course learning what the programs did and knowing when/how to use them was amazing.
Yep, The power to see (and mess with) the "innards" for the first time was awesome! Never forgot the feeling!
Actually I think it was the opposite. Norton Commander made people lazy. It was like a GUI in text mode.
Pure command line made me learn the commands and motivated me to learn much more. I still use command line interfaces every day. By knowing MS-DOS command line it was natural to move to Linux in the mid 90s.
I still dont like Windows interfaces.
Total Command still is. And ForkLift and others on the Mac. They make you 10-50x more productive.
And look at what Norton does now! Chokes your PC to death.
CC deserved an hour at least. Poor Stuart trying to get in as much as he can in short segments was unfair to everyone from the guests to the viewers.
Stewart was the station manager and probably had some say in how long his program would be.
back in the day when people cared about file and directory structure in your ms dos os muhahahahahahahaha
@Paul Morley nope those people died and got replaced by idiots whom do not care about anything at all anymore haven't you been paying attention to the news it's call covid 19 and it never ends cause of such stupid people those from computer chronicles age never feared weakling diseases like covid 19
The time constraints could have also been due to budgetary reasons, as producing such shows were not free. The more airtime there is with producing a TV show, the costlier it gets.
Heck, going to an hour format would have also meant the double amount of video tape needed for sending the shows to the TV affiliates carrying this show. That in itself could have been a budget buster, as broadcast video tape back then was very expensive.
@@Bag_monkeyImagine what Stewart could do today with longform interviews.
It would equate to today's Lex Friedman interviews.
I loved Xtree. Used it regularly.
The car comparison was very interesting. It's hard to think of the mid-late 80's like the Model T era.
George was full of crap with that analogy. The mid 80s computers were so far ahead of the mid 70s ones. It’s more like an 80s PC was like a 50s/60s car. Plenty of non professional enthusiasts modding and tweaking.
@@AcornElectron DOS machines were still hairy beasts, though. This whole mess with different RAM expansion standards is a fine example. The situation got better, but didn't really resolve until 32-bit addressing became the norm. There were options for 32-bit OSes even in the 1980s, but for most PC users (and major applications) the change didn't come until Windows 95.
The 1980s superminis and Unix workstations were certainly way ahead of MS-DOS and CP/M: multitasking, memory protection and advanced memory-management capabilities, networking, linear 32-bit address spaces, and no silly single-character device names.
Love re-watching these episodes after so many years. I remember a lot of this back in the day, even now I still use DOS for some of my favorite old DOS applications like Norton Commander, Skyglobe, YagiMax and others using DOS Box. I did use X-Tree but preferred Norton Commander instead.
It's kind of sad watching Gary talk about DOS in most episodes, since CP/M lost out in the IBM-PC world. Yeah, he made some mistakes that caused it to happen, or so the story goes, but still, he really seemed to love DRI and the products he and his team made, and as years go on watching his baby grow into obsolescence really shows in his tone when talking about DOS.
@SteelRodent Wasn't that ms-dos just a reverse-engineenered CP/M?
He did deserve better. His Concurrent CP/M should have been what PCs shipped with. Imagine how much better OS's would be today if the very first IBM PC OS was already multi-tasking.
But that said, Stuart has talked about Gary in interviews, driving to tape Computer Chronicles in his Lamborghini, and flying in his airplane. Gary did better than most of us EVER will, financially. Died way too soon.
@@aris95 Not really, it was mostly the interface. It was all written for a different processor architecture.
I constantly think about that whenever he is talking about a dos or windows based machine or product. Although he is very professional while in his role of host on this show, never letting his own involvement in the industry getting in the way of his hosting duties
The real shame is that he died in 1994. Imagine what else he could have accomplished as technology advanced
My late father loved X-Tree. It changed his relationship with his computer. He went from being a klutz to a whiz.
I had XTree Gold and still recall it fondly.
24:40 I wager that Stu knew that command by heart and it wasn't even on the prompter.
He probably can still recite it now. What a guy.
The Unix episode was 1985! This episode helps to remind me.
That Xtree tool was eventually sold to Mr. Softee and used in DOS 6.
Xtree was fine filemanager at its time. Shame there was no dual window Norton commander view...
Oh, that keyboard though. Soooo nice.
Many of these programs were really cool
1980s offices look so cozy. A yuppie moving a mouse around then driving home in his Testarrossa to watch 30 Something on his CRT.
Back then the PCs had a whopping 10 MB, or maybe a 20 MB, hard drive.
this was such a good episode of computer chronicles my god. I literally laughed out loud when when Ed Tolson said utilities were a big business bc there are a lot of holes in the operating system, like that was what was considered normal in those days.
Ezra Shapiro brings up a valid point. the average consumer just wants the machine to work. the user shouldn't have to download third party utilities just for our PCS to do very basic functions such as storing and calling data. Ezra would be very happy with PC in 2021.
George Morrow also brings up a valid point that this era of computing is like the early days of the automobile. things are not streamlined and one would almost have to be a "computer mechanic" to own and operate these machines. the fact that he could see that they were in this era is just amazing to me.
TLDR: Utilities were a way of making up for shortcomings in operating systems. Ezra dreams of a better more simpler future and George accepts the reality theyre in and that utilities are a necessary yet useful product for their current era of PC. I just want to go back in time and speak to these guys and let them all know that it does indeed get better.
I didnt realize these computer came out in the 80s - I thought the 90's they came out.
mad reallly because for a long time people even to this day who run older hardware and os's use xtree, wonder if concurrent dos came after or before that task swapping tool double dos - wonder if gary got the idea from that utility ??
I loved DOS. It was great for me.
I don't miss cause I hated the 640k bs I have 8 megs of ram I shouldn't have to make a boot disk to run a game the is made for dos
Oh! Boot disks!!!! Haha and the Audio settings
24:15 that 10 Ghz computer from 1986 is faster than my 2.2 ghz Core i5 that I bought yesterday. Bollocks !!
Well, first bear in mind that this was a *supercomputer* from 1986. about the size of a small car, probably costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Second, it wasn't a 10GHz computer, rather it was a vector computer - meaning it derives a lot of its performance from being able to perform operations in parallel (basically to take advantage of it you need to organize your program in such a way that you have a very large data set that you need to perform operations on uniformly and independently, so the computer can split up the vector and hand off chunks of it to different cores). Their top-of-the-line was a 64-core system with the cores reaching around 140MHz clock speed (with a nitrogen-cooling system to keep it happy).
Certainly, an impressive feat by 1986 standards - by today's standards of course the clock speed is nothing and the parallelism doesn't really overcome that.
@@tetsujin_144 Smart and intelligent answer ! thanks a lot I do appreciate it.
@@tetsujin_144 and it's interesting to note that todays phones already have 100 times more GFLOPS power than this mythical "10 GHz" supercomputer 😎
Back in the good old days when there were programs and not just APPS :P
I'm not living in a world of "just APPS" (as in, app stores loaded with locked-down or otherwise predatory or exploitative software)
I know both Mac and Windows have shifted (on their desktop machines, I mean) in a direction that heavily favors "app-store"-type experiences over the older, more open system of simply downloading software you want and running it. (Frequently there are even defaults in place to prevent you from running programs that are not cryptographically signed by the people who manage the platform)
But these defaults can still be turned off. People can still write program and just share them with other people without their code being blessed by Apple, Google, or Microsoft.
(And personally I run Linux - which of course is limiting in terms of the software available... But it is almost entirely free of this "App Store" model.)
Whether I am using my Atari 800XL computer or my Pentium MMX PC I always have to use a utility program on my disk drives. For utilities are essential for any computer system regardless of what level or era of its technology.
The problem with a computer program that tells you how to fix your computer is that you have to have your computer running in order to use it...
21:35 I wish my beard touched my glasses
So that "Hot" program is basically the Windows 95 start menu (but for DOS)?
Gene Takovic @ 10:56 🤯
I'm sure new generations will always be looking down at previous generations. When I look back at these Computer Chronicles videos, I often wonder how these people remembered all of the codes they had to type in, in order to open programs and why someone other than a business man or company want the computers from that time period?
Most people can learn more than one language. Using a text-based interface is basically just another language to learn, with a very small (easy to learn) vocabulary.
There aren't any codes, they were program names, or commands to do things. Often mnemonic. You wanted to change directories? CD. You want to read a directory? DIR.
This stuff is easy. These boring crappy appliances people are using now calle smart phones are no fun at all.
@@Wizardofgosz Well that’s what I mean lengthy program names and commands
@@CaptchaNeon CD is lengthy?
@@Wizardofgosz 🙄 Yeah for sure. I’m referring to where they had to manually open everything. Not use short code like CD and then click what they wanted and that could turn into a very lengthy memorization. For example: self.file=open.debug=settings.getfile
Damn it I'm not going to go beyond 640k I tell you. And I'm going to copy a floppy....I'll show you rebellious.
Who remembers Norton's utilities , Old NC
when companies' software aim was to enhance and facilitate people interaction with the computers
UNIX storage formats like ext4 (Linux) do not require disk optimization, as the OS looks after that piece inheritantly.
@ungratefulmetalpansy Guess you don't know how to capitalize.
@ungratefulmetalpansy Yeah, but why pick on him?
@ungratefulmetalpansy You gotta' be nicer. C'mon man, you're better than that. :)
Yes but in linux it is possible to opimize ext4 :)
Not real sure what that has to do with anything. I think modern Windows and MacOS manage the fragmentation problem as well. But in the 1980s, even the 1990s, that was not the norm on most OSes, in part because the computers of the time didn't have loads of CPU and memory resources to spare on the problem of making filesystems a little bit better.
12:42 Deadrie Barlow
i still feel dizzy from the speed of the printing at the beginning
It's sooo awesome that even in the early stage of internet, hackers broke in security systems in stanford just to remind those personels that their computer systems were vanurble for break ins.
I laved my ass off when that guy said that in the late 70's one man said,we can rule the world with an 5065 64KB chip,hahaha XD.
johneygd at the same time in ‘86 as the Pink Floyd hacker was doing this, the first part time cyber security guy and full time astronomer, Cliff Stoll, was chasing his hackers who were going after military secrets, which he wrote about in the great book “The Cuckoo’s Egg” which was basically the start of the infosec industry.
In the early days of Linux, in the 1990s, to maintain the system, you had to know UNIX, the file system, so that you couldn't bugger it up when you were upgrading it. I know, because I was just learning back then, and there were no YUM or other auto-install RPMs back then. Had to manually install and match the correct version of files like "ld.so".
It wasn't until the 2000s when Linux became easy to use and maintain. Now I use YUM Extender (DNF) and let the machine do the work.
Indeed, I recall having to compile the network drivers as part of the installation. We also compiled Quake 1, once it's source was made free of course.
Free programs, huh? Wonder if they ever had Fred Fish on the show? The Fish Disk series started in 1986, and is still useful for hobbyists today.
double dos is the future man I can feel it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎
10:52 He died in 2009.
These show was always "out of time"!
It's hard to fit a lot of content into a half-hour show. People got to use their time real effectively in a format like that.
Ezra sounds exactly like Tom Lennon
3:10 Shazam, starring Sinbad, never existed anymore. No, I’m not thinking of Kazaam, starting Shaquille O'Neal. Mandela Effect.
Neat seeing xtree used that and sd (stupendos)
15:13 Look at his eyes!..... :O
12:00 Ooh, a lady!
Seems Ezra was totally off about ultilties that offered auto-complete or auto-correct would "get in the way" of serious computer users... Pretty much every non-game program there is today offers both functions in some way, and even advanced users appear happy to have them available.
Yeah and even programming and web language front-ends now have auto-complete and suggestions that pop-up as you begin to type code.
Auto fill and rudimentary auto correct in 1986.
The man at 20:50 is dissing autocomplete.
He was right to do so IMO.
Tools like autocomplete and autocorrect can be useful, but they can also get in the way. This is mostly a matter of preference, how one is accustomed to working with the machine.
I would say the real answer to his challenge is that, if autocomplete/autocorrect/etc. isn't your style, maybe you don't buy that product that provides that stuff... Though of course the guy demoing the product would very much like you to buy it so he talks about how it's customizable instead.
Just my personal perspective here - I find *noninvasive* completion suggestions to be very useful, but *invasive* autocomplete or autocorrect is very frustrating to work with IMO. The difference is whether completion interferes with what I'm doing, or changes the usual rules of input. So for instance in Chrome if I type "goo" in the URL bar and then hit backspace, the URL bar will still contain "goo", because the backspace key only removed the auto-complete text that was added by the browser. Usually for me the best way to keep the features from being a nuisance is to provide them when I ask for them (like tab-completion) - or like the command input interface in Blender, where I can type the name of a command and it will provide me a list of matches, but it doesn't actually auto-complete my input unless I manually select the match I want (even if there's only one match).
Gotta love NC. O finally a word on the dreadfull limit of 640kb conventional ram.
As for Linux, we tend to advance our way from desktop to terminal😁
have you got your copy of double dos yet trust me man it's going to be big so get it whiles it's free🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gary died way to young
When they were talking about whether you have to be a mechanic, I wish I could go back in time with a Windows 8 tablet and say, "This is what you'll get. You want that, Ezra? HUH?" he'd be like, "OK, I'll learn how to operating my programs."
I love how hes like dos didn't give him enough memory so glad windows 11 does not have that problem🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's an Application Programme, so we can call it an App, yes
A utility is a miniature application, not a full-blown one, that's why they were called utilities.
@24:11 amazing, 10 gflop supercomputer that would destroy everything on earth in 1986. And now a cheap disposable $30 Motorola G Pure smartphone can do 40 gflops.
20 records in file? What did they do . Just buy bigger pcs ?
Grahambo 😅
It's amazing to me that I can open my Linux terminal, and the experience is pretty damn close to what old Unix computers were like. It's obviously a lot more consistent nowadays, but I'm typing in all the same stuff lol
I hate how everyone calls programmes 'Apps' Its not an App its an effing programme
so it's an app🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol, those owl glasses
First we see utilities on mac's that have Gui and can do multitasking. Then over to DOS and the horror begins. Double Dos.......can you please disable it I can't run my utility......640k limits......etc.
I wonder why apple didn't take the lead with such a crappy OS leading the market. DOS with IBM pc was stepping on the computers brake. How did we ever survive 😂
It took until NT to solve all the problems.
My first interaction with a PC was in school. Half the pc's were old and running pc/m, the other half shiny new running dos. No hard drives of course.
George getting it arse over face again. Yeah I sympathise with his plight but damn, he is bloody pessimistic about any new ideas and speed of implementation.
@SteelRodent no they weren’t. If you mean the syntax correction then that only activates if your syntax is incorrect so .......
Why do I see so many women in these videos doing useful and cutting edge work?
I thought back in the "bad old days", they were relegated to making coffee and answering the phone.
Surely we're not being lied to about the evils of the hetero-white-patriarchy???
Technology became an opportunity for people to break out of their established roles. People needed the technology, which meant the skills to use it effectively were in demand, which meant that anyone who could learn and demonstrate those skills would be in demand as well.
There is some truth to how you describe the problem of gender discrimination in the workplace, but it was never an absolute, so you can't point to a handful of examples and coyly suggest that this disproves the whole phenomenon.
Software again.. It is probably too late to ask, but it would be so great if they also covered the latest in PC hardware, like different types of CPUs, their clocks, co-processors, RAM and ROM, network hardware, and followed advancement of all that hardware. Also, if they did some comparisons of systems, and basic speed tests. Because now- it is mostly all OS, programs, and fields where computers are used. For me, who got introduced into PC world only in late 90s with Pentium 166MMX- this program would have been so much better if they also covered the development and use of silicon..
Another thing- advancement of hardware of gaming consoles, and reviews of games would also be very interesting. Maybe there is another archived program for this topic?
Shapiro ... typical novice wants a mind reader.
Ah 1986 no woke fools
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