AT&T Computer 1985

[melissacarl2002]

Future wasn't built in, it was obsolete in the future. LIES!

[Dreambro1]

@melissacarl2002 Obsolete is relative. Even Todays computers will be called obsolete in the future by someone. It worked for its purpose then, and todays computers work for out purpose now. Pretty soon , we will have our computers cooking and sewing for us, and the ones that cant will be called Obsolete! Those old computeres did what computers were meant to do.

[Private19872]

This commercial just has that cozy feeling instead of buy this buy that. :D

[Ticklemytummy]

wow - I had an AT&T PC 6300 plus. Used it till around 1995 believe it or not. Had a VGA card (which was a ^%$^%$ to make work in it) and a hardcard with 2 40Meg harddrives!! Finally stopped using it when friend gave me a bunch of 486 parts. I still have a IBM PS2/8595 Server that WORKS!!! (80486/100, 8 megs ram, 4 9 gig scsi drives, win 98SE) ahhh...the memories.

[derteufel669LB]

yep...just typing up another youtube comment on the ol' AT&T personal computer, it's got all the speed, power and graphics that I will ever need! The computers with the future built in them!!!

[FrozenParanormalwolf]

i seen one them computer on Ebay 3,000 Price tag it came with everything they made for them computers

[thaichubby101]

AFTER THIS 10 YRS, YOUR SON, YOUR GRANDCHILD, THE CHILDREN NEARLY YOUR HOME..ALSO LOL to you when they see you still usuing iPhone4, HTC Sensation, iPad2...as same as your LOL with this AT&T commercial.

[ispinspinners2]

"The computer with the future built in" Until 1995 at least...

[SuperHorseman22]

I used to have one in these in 1990! my neigbor who worked at IBM gave it to me!

[singletona082]

Wonder if that phone number leads anywhere now.

[nickman888]

If it has the future built in, then why not load up windows 7 or mac os10

[HowToEatWaffles]

The future built in? DAMMIT, I knew I should have kept it!

[ZombehWolf]

Future built in? I totally still have mine.

[me1ization]

It sounds like I'm hearing someone talk through the walls

[chris978820]

Can that computer run Windows 8? I would really like to know.

[WebVMan]

And look at AT&T today... selling Apple products.

[xytsdx2]

@WebVMan When did they start selling fruits?

[MrCorporalTunnel]

I had a friend who had this box, he knew how to cheat on the Strip Poker game with it. Porn on Amberscreen monochrome back in the 80's had it's charm, especially to a 14 year old boy at the time, like myself.

[gab1971]

Intel Graphics 1

[samrebardi]

all i heard was mmm m mm mm m m m m mm mmmm mmm m m mm m m m m m m mm m m m future built in mm m m

[psp12345678998765432]

Of course AT&T was a computer company, they are the ones who invited UNIX. They're also why the C programming language and a few others exist. Including AT&T style assembly.

[Goldenfury12]

At&t now works for all computers :)

[MrIntosh]

6Hz sound is sooooo awesome!!!!!

[Omerack]

i think they gave up on the enhancements lol

[sugarpuffextrem]

@Omerack haha yes indeed just what I though :P Today we know for a fact what a load of bullshit that was, the thing with how that computer will not get obsolete XD

[7megahertz]

GRAPHICS AND POWER!

[TheRealFurryFox]

But can it run Vista?

[739199]

@TheRealFurryFox WHO THE FUCK WANT'S THAT ANYWHERE NEAR UNIX?

[TheRealFurryFox]

@739199 WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TALK WITH CAPS LOCK ON?

[739199]

@TheRealFurryFox Since you cannot hear my physical voice, I use all caps to imitate anger/louder voice.

[TheRealFurryFox]

@739199 Anyway... >_>

It was a joke.

[739199]

@TheRealFurryFox Sorry about that, sarcasm does not transmit well thru ASCII. 

[TheRealFurryFox]

@739199 lol, sorry.

[739199]

@TheRealFurryFox I'm all sorry. Also nice Garry's Mod avatar picture. I enjoy that game but I will soon enjoy it better when it is ported to linux. :)

[TheRealFurryFox]

@739199 Have you tried Wine? I heard it works well with cracked G-mods.

[739199]

@TheRealFurryFox I own a legal copy of Garry's Mod but wine seems to crash when I view the advertisement in steam (Popups at start saying all it's new games). I believe it was fixed when wine got integrated html however I'm still having problems. I would rather wait for Valve to release a port of steam to linux.

[chris978820]

@TheRealFurryFox BECAUSE IT MAKES WHAT YOU ARE SAYING FEEL MORE IMPORTANT

[TheRealFurryFox]

@chris978820 IT ACTUALLY MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A DUMBASS

[chris978820]

@TheRealFurryFox true. And you used all caps twice in both of your comments. You must be a dumb ass then since I only used it once and you must be an even bigger dumb ass for thinking i was serious. lol

[TheRealFurryFox]

@chris978820 I never thought you were serious.

[chris978820]

@TheRealFurryFox then that makes even more of a dumb ass. Because u knew i wasn't serious but still called me a dumb ass. Just makes u look more stupid

[TheRealFurryFox]

@chris978820 You're also taking me seriously. People who use caps lock (I'm being serious right now) don't sound like they mean what they're saying.

[chris978820]

@TheRealFurryFox how can I possibly take someone serious when their name is"TheRealFurryFox"? Lol.

[TheRealFurryFox]

@chris978820 You took it seriously that you were a dumbass. (not saying you are). 

[therealsporadicaarmy]

its spectacular that the weakest cell phone today has more computing power than this thing lol

[zeroamis]

i want one...does it have 3g ?!? lol

[doubleshag]

@zeroamis or 4g!!! lol

[Mrcomputergeek1]

Today our commercials say "The Dell personal computer has all the lag, crap, and porn your buesness needs today. And when things change your dell computer will be a piece of shit with old features, and unenhansments. The worst choice today, Tommorow, and forever. The Dell PC with all the shit built in.

[Daniel55556]

@Mrcomputergeek1 Dell and HP are the best computers fuck tard get a brain.

[jackmarshak]

@Daniel55556 Custom builds are the best computers. Dell and HP are for brainless drones who have no fucking idea what a computer is or what it is capable of. They just want to "get on the internet".

[gixxygamma]

@Daniel55556 OLD Dells. before the major outsource. They are getting better again, bit by bit(get the joke), but still not what they once were.

[RoGQuizzno]

@Mrcomputergeek1 and apparently Your Spell Check Doesn't Work either, shitty Dells...

[Mrcomputergeek1]

@RoGQuizzno LOL

[murdoch201]

@Mrcomputergeek1 And why is it shit?

[gobipill]

IRONY =D

[BroyhillVideo]

that is one hot cofee

[benreaves]

Which OS will still be around in 5 years - Android? Iphone? Windows? Same question as in 1985. Thus "future built in."

[PchanStitch]

How things change....

commercial in the 80s: This is the only computer you'll ever need.

Commercial in the 2010s: Get this, and we'll buy it back because you'll need a new one in a few months.

Those were the days..something so simple was seen as so advanced.

[vhsrestoredotcom]

Just think back to how much one of these things cost back then. Heck, a 1MB memory chip was unheard of. It wasn't until the 90's that there was a 4MB memory chip that cost over $300 (let alone a 4GB chip that we use today)! Thanks for the upload my friend!

[benreaves]

@MBP6705 maybe input by speech and motion (what if Nintendo made cellphones!) And output direct to the insides of sunglasses and earbuds or just a full helmet... just my guess

[benreaves]

iPhones will look just as antique, 26 years from now. Remember those fuzzy " YouTube" videos people used to watch on little 4 inch screens? Back then you couldn't even...

[MBP6705]

@benreaves Damn, just try to imagine what we will have by then...

[nathanjames098]

it means it updates from the internet!

[rstandrew7]

at&t computer now is the iphone!

[gopconservative78]

They couldn't get the modem to link up to the CompuServe...........

[MorreskiBear]

Getting better all the time? Maybe this AT&T computer will become Skynet!

[LilShizammy]

What a piece of crap, a real vintage old school Mc Chugz.

[LilShizammy]

HAHAHAHAHA

[0marianlibrarian]

Back then they couldn't just say "this costs hundreds of dollars and will be so obsolete as to be utterly unusable in three years, but by then you'll have become so dependent on it that you'll have to buy a new one." Because what kind of idiots would agree to something like that?

[polaris911]

does it run crysis 2?

[meggish]

how did they know what 1989 looked like?! Yarghhh

[himrellik]

These commercials make me want to drink poison, being that everything is so diffrent now. Does anyone remember having to remember phone numbers?

I had a ton memorized. Now if i lost my phone i would be out of my mind....

[veilx]

SOMEONE CALL THAT FUCKING NUMBER.

[tryithere]

My first computer was a TI-44-9a or a TI-99-4a. The week after I bought it, they announced they were leaving the home computer market and slashed the price down below $100. I'm still pissed.

[richardmaudsley77]

That guy went though a lot of phones.

[MapleJokerRofl]

I bet it can run Crysis.

[topzombie3]

@MapleJokerRofl yes

[startreking2007]

@MapleJokerRofl I just takes 6 months to load the first cinematic.

[coolgames14]

@MapleJokerRofl fuck crysis, crysis 2

[NullDeveloper]

@MapleJokerRofl Crysis is from 2011 so it cant, also they didnt have EXEs back then in windows, they were COM files, and the Commodore that no file extenstion so it would be like crysis-setup instead of crysis-setup.exe

[pbanta62]

By 1989 that computer was in the Goodwill.

[camarocomputer]

i was born that year! that coffee looked hot

[MACK100001]

at and t makes computers?

[japierce15]

@MACK100001 they did back then and into the mid nineties -- shoot they may still make them, idk. In fact i have one that i use now to play my favorite old games on -- Duke nukem, doom, kings quest, etc. its a pentium 1 120 mhz, probably about 40mbs ram and 500 mb hdd. very good stuff back then. Radio Shack also made computers, even sears i think! Every1 was gettign in on the game.

[tryithere]

@japierce15 It wasn't a Pentium. It may have been an Intel 8085 or 8088 or a Motorola 6800 series though.

[japierce15]

@tryithere the one from 1985 is definetely not pentium. i know that ... i was saying the att model i have does have a pentium

[OnlineOptic]

These days you need to change your PC every year to keep up with the tech.

[Roflcopter4b]

@OnlineOptic Or change one part. Moran.

[OnlineOptic]

@Roflcopter4b

Or fuck you moron

[Roflcopter4b]

@OnlineOptic Real mature dumbass. Notice my misspelling of moran, signifying to any sane person I was joking. Indeed, I must reverse you're own statement on yourself.

[OnlineOptic]

@Roflcopter4b

My god your retarded.

Check my channel, ive built my own computer. New Processors and GPU's come out each year, you have to change almost everything inside your pc to keep up, hence, changing the entire pc in theorey, just keep the case the same. Moron

[Roflcopter4b]

@OnlineOptic You don't HAVE to, you realize. Only for the sake of consumerism do you have to. Step outside of America for a day genius.

[OnlineOptic]

@Roflcopter4b

youll be happy with windows 95 then? and a dial up interent

[Roflcopter4b]

@OnlineOptic You seem to be confusing software with hardware. A common mistake for a 5 year old.

[OnlineOptic]

@Roflcopter4b

I know the difference. Modem is hardware btw.

[tryithere]

@OnlineOptic Now it's an anchor.

[OnlineOptic]

@tryithere

LOL!

[Aggelosmj]

where's the mouse????

[Eep386]

The AT&T 6300 was the one that featured an 8086 (the 8088's bigger elder with a full 16-bit bus) and featured odd-ball modified ISA slots, right?

[NitekMuscle]

This was featured at the old AT&T Communications mall stores. Remember those?

[kwang1imsa]

So, you're saying I can play Modern Warfare 2 on this?

[johnnyvnt4]

Ah... although their attempt at breaking into the PC market failed for many technical faults, it was an AT&T model 1100 AT PC that was used in the first successful attempt to complete a dial-up connection to the then existing Internet in the summer of 1985.

[HRRyan2]

bullshit. they come out with new technology for computers all the time!

[schemaia]

They are so right, it really keeps up with me....It can Handle all the Graphics and Power Todays Buiness needs so Fast.

[qaywsxedc666]

i upgraded it to a intel i7 and got a new fancy desk lamp too!

[halo3productions911]

Wait, wth..... At&T made computers? Never heard of that before.... must be because they failed.

Lol, it'll keep up in the future, my ass.

[mkennedy999]

Notice the lack of a mouse. Ahhh the good old days.

[gbowne1]

Your phone company's attempt at PC's.. :-) Very cool I had one for a short time.

[corywsmith]

I remember using one of these in college...back in '86. oh...my...gawd!

[ZeroKnightAR]

anyone saw the twin towers in the background

[Littleuncle07]

HAHA love

[FLYNVL]

built for the future? Umm compare it with newer pc's of today and its junk lol

[BiZinatChos]

@FLYNVL Dude, back then they thought we would live on other planets by now. xD

[tallirasha]

I want to know wheres my hoverboard ,flying car, and nikes with power laces! @BiZinatChos

[chrismofer]

ahh. cozy

[bodyboarder3452]

i liked how these older commercials just sounded "cozier" and made you feel more relaxed at home unlike the fast paced lively commercials we have now that actually stress me out even more than i already am lol :/

[eMGeeGFX]

@bodyboarder3452, excellent point. I completely agree.

[OnlineOptic]

@bodyboarder3452

Now its like;

50% off FIFTY PERCENT OFF!!!

[jebug29]

@bodyboarder3452 lol, weird because that's what I was about to say. I wish they still made commercials like this. Nowadays everybody is yelling XD

[SoulMaster71]

@bodyboarder3452 The thinking now goes, if it's not fast-paced in-your-face all the time sensory overload, you won't care or notice. Louder noises, flashier colors, these get attention. Commercials get flashier competing for the same money, and while it stresses out the consumers, they gotta keep up because the loudest and flashiest get the most sales. Is that true or not? Well, what do you notice more outside your window: a cricket chirping, or a tree falling? That's how they think, now.

[EdgeRatedR007]

@bodyboarder3452

alienware GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH EXPLOSIOOOOOOOOONS

[SOOMProductions]

built for the future, in 2010 i dont think i can add ram and extra HDD to run windows 7...

[puggy605]

i didnt know at&t made computers

[lukebccb]

A gazillion clones were available at a gazillion different Taiwanese clone shops in 1985.

[JesusManson323]

It makes me mad that such a nice color computer was available in 1985, but my parents had bought a "PC clone" that was monochrome.

[dbodiford]

@JesusManson323 The $2495 basic model didn't come with the color monitor though. We had the standard green one. Upgrading to the color monitor was $900 or so. And they used proprietary cables so you couldn't buy a "cheap" $500 color monitor.

[bestamerica]

'

was a microsoft OS program inside the IBM computer

[dbodiford]

@bestamerica The AT&T came with MS-DOS, but the basic model had no hard drive, only 2 floppys, so you put your floppy in the A: drive to boot MS-DOS.

IBM PC's came with PC-DOS, which was identical to MS-DOS. IBM & Microsoft collaborated on OS standards for IBMs & IBM-compatible PCs until 1991.

[Mickeywiki]

the computers we use will be outdated faster than this one

[cathplyr]

thats a real cool comercial.

[somenonimportantguy]

I like to watch old ads for computers and laugh as they say "NEW AMAZING 10MB HD" with a straight face.

[tazy4tazy]

Hovering iCars.

[livebabylive15]

if you build a computer that never needs replacing its a sure win for instant failure lol

[Wayne2219]

Y2K Certified

[MGuniverse]

Like windows 98 ;)

[XxXRangerXxX]

Fascinating.

Im gonna buy one and try to run Crysis 20 times :D

since it has a 20core i25 Processor <_<

future my ass

[ADABUD659]

Does this mean i could play Crysis 3 and COD 8, Awsome

[petey8887]

If AT&T made computers 'with the future built in,' why is it that they exited the computer business entirely within a few years? An example of how little you can trust advertisements :/

[bestamerica]

,

was a microsoft system inside the ATT computer yet

[LittleBIGRacer]

It also has the world's most ridiculous Cell Phone and worst 3G coverage.

[LowRider220]

lol when it says all the years up to '89 i think, what if it says we would still have this computer in 2010.

[dbodiford]

My dad bought one in early 1986 and it was a "steal" at $1999, including 640K RAM, CGA, monochrome monitor, 10MB HD, 5 1/4" floppy and an Okidata Microline dot-matrix printer thrown in.

The color monitor cost about $900, so that was out of the question.

I think it had some proprietary components, but it was 95+% PC-compatible. The only thing I can remember it not running was earlier versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator (which had to be booted from a disk). Later DOS versions were fine

[krystian1333]

@dbodiford

I personaly think a 10MB HD is funny.

[dbodiford]

@krystian1333 LOL. That HD was LOUD too! And almost as slow as a floppy drive.

It was convenient though - you didn't have insert your OS disk in A: every time you turned on your computer.

Also, the computer had a BIOS clock battery. No more entering new date/time other than 01/01/80 00:00:07.35 every reset.

Of course, we forgot to PARK the heads on the drive when moving the computer. So it scratched the platters. Lots of (Abort, Retry, Ignore)? errors and loud scratching sounds.

[pinger56]

grandfather of today's computers...

[VintageReviewsJr]

Actually it IS already pretty much one of them.

[Steveos312]

The commercial attempted to make the computer to not outgrow, but I find it funny with the phones and how that wasn't so. First few were from the 60s (the 500 and 2 sets of 2554s), and the last couple were the then recent office phones, the MET and Merlin telephones. A different perspective, ;-).

[momandiswa]

the computer without the future built in

[ThePuppetgirl12]

MAYBE ill find one at the thrift store :)

[zomgthesoftness]

It's interesting how the "future" stops at 1989.

[Acidburn24]

@zomgthesoftness glad i wasnt the only one to notice that...look at 2001 space odyssey too for example....people really figured we would be further along by now. where are our flying AT&T cars!

[dbodiford]

@Acidburn24 LOL... Yeah, "tomorrow" just can't be predicted so easily.

I was born in 76, so I grew up in the 80's, and remember how 2010 seemed incredibly far into the future - we'd have colonized the moon by now!

But, the flying cars, robot servants, classrooms by TV, . - my parents grew up in the 50's thinking those "miracles" would be in place in 1980, so we felt we should have been further along back then too! Our vision of the future was actually pretty cynical back in the 80's.

[Latengodesmesurada]

@zomgthesoftness That's because 1989 is the year when i was born and a new world order started :)

[Hutcarlingos]

@zomgthesoftness well at least it's an honest commercial

[MASTURCHEEF001]

@zomgthesoftness Y1990?

[prelynmax]

@zomgthesoftness No, I think the "future" stopped at 1986.

[pivotnoobRB]

@zomgthesoftness

Were they based in the Soviet Union? LOL

[fjccommish]

@zomgthesoftness If you think about it 4 years was pretty aggressive thinking for a computer's life time.

[Dreambro1]

well o814 ,, windows wasnt around yet,, maybe they were seeking computing for their users

[KingDT2007]

it was but very shitty

[0814ma]

The AT&T PC was a flop, despite huge expectations and hype. It was faster than comparable IBM models and boasted far superior graphics. Unfortunately, it was not fully IBM-compatible. It could only run some DOS programs, and even then with problems.

AT&T's PC division tried to push Unix as a mainstream desktop operating system, instead of focusing its efforts on building a competitive, fully compatible DOS machine. The company pulled out of the PC market after a couple of years.

[hyretech]

@0814ma - don't feel bad, DEC didn't succeed in the PC market either, but their Alpha line was interesting. Unix and Linux on commodity PC-compatible hardware nuked most 'midrange' systems. So DEC was bought by Compaq, and then Compaq was bought by HP.

I agree with @DrLove0378, though. The Apple // series will outlast them all.

[VintageReviewsJr]

You sure you're talking about this machine? After all, this one is an Olivetta M24 (I think that's what it's called) in At&T's design. And the Olivetta was extremely compatible with the PC.

[0814ma]

Come to think of it, I might have the wrong one.

[SkeletalRemains2]

I love how this computer will not become obsolete as newer software and hardware is released, as the commercial suggests!

[recto89]

Wow I remember when 256k Diskettes were a big deal to update software back then and they were 3" back then.

[roadragecafe]

Computers do have the future built in ... as in future trash.

[DrLove0378]

Boy ain't that the truth. Today's computers only last 5 years, on average. but the old Apple II series lasts almost forever!

[cjzzzzz]

I never knew A T & T made computers. They must not been no good.

[xabat77]

keeping the computer business but relinquishing all the B-band cellular licenses to the Baby Bells (Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, BellSouth, etc) may be the dumbest corporate decision of the last 30 years.

Then AT&T spent billions to get back into the wireless game (mostly thru buying McCaw Cellular then PCS spectrum to fill in coverage gaps), when they essentially could have dominated the entire industry b4 PCS (Sprint, Voicestream) ever got off the ground.

[KingDT2007]

they made that choice through the advice of an outside consulting firm during the breakup i beleive it was McKinsey & Co that gave them that advice also the company languished under Robert Allen control during the late 80 and mid 90s may Dad worked as a technican and two of my finance professors worked there as executives during his tenure and there was a general consensus from top to bottom he fucked up AT&T. No wonder CNBC named him one of the worst ceos of all time.

[julianbell90]

airline tickets?

[douro20]

AT&T once owned NCR.

[stefan23494]

'The Right Choice, today, tomorrow and as time goes by'!!

OK...n