Bits & Bytes - Loading Programs Into Memory

[johnnylifeson]

Good Ol' Trash 80..  I Remember those.. 520k floppys..

[pufixas]

We can't do it now with our PC's...

[kleptomax]

good one :)

[jtmax24]

Ah, Tandy computers... The horrible horrible memories... ;)

[SigEpBlue]

Ah, back when you could go brew a pot of coffee in the time it took to cold boot. :)

[er10b]

No Billy, bad idea. No sticking your finger in the disk drive. It will get stuck and it will be very painful.

No one wants to see you coming into the emergency room with a TRS-80 Model III hanging off your finger.

[Afroxec]

omg i havent heard that loading sound in 20yrs

[DancingMadRB3]

Floppy disks, Tandy Computers, text interfaces, it must be THE FUTURE!

No its the 80's :D

But did this sort of predict the webcam and video chat software?

Nahh :D

[tiberianfiend]

"Take the disk oot of the disk drive."

[JDonahue79]

It's amazing how Microcomputer became PCs today, which are becomming bulky and out of date. Today's Microcomputers are like iPod touches and smartphones.

[xander7b]

@OBSysteme you mean the entire series of overkill facebook machines (old names: pc, laptop, netbook, tablet, etc)

[khisanth75]

i need a monitor for this TRS-80 i picked up a year ago, boxed with the manuals. Cant get it tuned into my CRT TV :(

[dr1303]

... that was when women teached men about computers... :D

[Darck25Cents]

you can listen how this dinosaur load program ... :(

[vinny9er]

loading random guys fingers... 1:56  1 101

1001

1111

1111

1111

end of finger

[plavins1]

WOOOOWWW!!!

[idlewild]

I think it's safe to call the orange button a fail now.

[neocoders]

Don't let the computer load your fingers or you'll end up on the Game Grid.

[OmahaCanada]

What are these "disk drives" they speak of?

[ianchard]

This explains things *so* well! Compare and contrast to the built-in help in modern software...

[daeviant]

That woman knows too much about computers. You know what that means. WITCH!!!

[wabankik]

am expecting Igor to show up and take orders from Billy Van,,"But Only if The sloth Tells Me Too!!"

[aquarius6374]

If I stick my penis into the disk drive, will it show up on the screen? LOL.

[BranislavDJ]

You will have your own home-made pr0n ready for RedTube to upload!

XD

[MysticKnight38]

Isn't that Luba Goy?

[Netstryke]

Holy crow, it is Luba Goy!

I'd recognize her voice anywhere.

[nwajoe]

Yes, I was being sarcastic. However, I do have Apple II software that insists the disk stays in. Take Wizard and the Princess for instance. If I take the disk out right after it loads, it gives me an error every time I try to walk to a new location because all the graphics data is on the floppy. I'm not saying there weren't programs that could load entirely into memory and not requier their disk anymore, but there were programs that needed to go back to disk occasionally.

[adisharr]

@nwajoe I hope you didn't copy that floppy.

[nepssis]

Not exactly speed of light ;)

[matt9741399]

Yeah, I bet his fingers weren't the only things he was thinking of sticking in there... dirty old man.

[Chubachus]

will wonders ever cease?

[nwajoe]

Yeah, always take the disk out of the disk drive once your program is up on the screen. It'll never need to access the disk again, even if the disk contains more data than can actually fit into available RAM.

[jakeharvey]

I bet you're under 30.

[lemonrind]

I think you're being sarcastic, but many programs from those days actually worked like that.

[watchitnz]

I use one of these for high powered graphic games

[fuckpossible]

Both ended up on John Byner's sketch comedy show 'Bizarre'. RIP, Billy Van.

[AlansVlogs]

I bet in say, 100 years from now, people will say, oh, that MacBook Air is so big and thick what a brick.

And that 50tb memory is nothing compared to my 800,000,000 zb memory.

[ClassicGarth]

Nah, after the nuclear zombie holocaust, only the TRS-80's will still be working.

[ThirdOfJune4444]

@ClassicGarth LMAO!!!!!!!! I laughed my ass off when I read your comment. I used to own a TRS-80 and it took a hell of a beating more times than I can count, and it still worked.

[HasegawaYamato]

@ClassicGarth your right, cause of the 32 and 64 bit overflow haha

[small16g]

@ClassicGarth Yep, invest in guns though not computers

[pufixas]

@AlansVlogs

I can that guaranty nobody will say that...

[ljubisask]

Damn I love this type of INFORMATICAL EDUCATION

[mokkshaa]

Will wonders ever cease?? LOL!! I guess Radio Shack computers and floppy disks *were* considered to be wonders back then...

[urinemonster]

OMG, they played it over here in OZ. I remember watching it and wondering what on earth a Radio Shack was. And why they spoke funny. I guess at about 10 years of age I didnt know the differene between Americans and Canadians. ;-)

[Msdos4]

good god...

"IF I STICK MY HAND INTO THE DISK DRIVE, WILL MY FINGERS GET LOADED INTO THE COMPUTER TOO?"

"No, dumb shit, you'll get your fingers cut and you'll break the machine"

[jci10]

"No, because as soon as you lift the flap, the disk drive will stop." Eh? So, if I could find a way to prevent the disk-drive from stopping, I could, in theory, load my fingers into the computer, then my arm, torso, legs, and finally my head. I would be a computer god living in a TRS-80 computer and all would worship me.... Mooohahahahaha!!!

[richintalent]

This seems so quaint now, lol

[ClassicGarth]

25 years later, I think people still buy computers thinking they will balance their cheque book with it, but never do.

[dangon007]

ur an idiot

[MyTubeUN]

Would like to see the Intro.

[ClassicGarth]

I don't have the intro or end credits, but there is some possibility we will see it eventually. I know of someone who recently acquired a collection of this whole series.

[MagicFingers001]

really???  still any possibility?? I loved watching this on TVO....

[crusty21]

Man this is primordial.

[khisanth75]

love this kind of thing. programs i would have wanted to watch when i was a kid. didnt get many over here in the UK

[TreatyFrum999]

Billy Van and Luba Goy! Classic! (miss you Van!)

It'd be a hoot if Luba Goy did a remake skit of this on The Royal Canadian Airfarce...

[TupolevTech]

"...you can hear the sound of the disk loading...", did she really say that???? LOL

[camm242]

Ahhh,the good ol' days :) Brings back good memories. Thanks :)

[c0deMunkey]

I remember watching this on PBS (I think). I dig their Canadian accents. "Disc oat!"

[lemonrind]

Thank you for getting the Canadian accent right and saying "oat" instead of "oot".

[JemKei]

Amazing to see this...is it a real explaining documentary ? so great to see old machines...I almost forgot it !

[ClassicGarth]

It sure is real, it aired in 1983 and I used to watch it when I was a kid.

[JemKei]

Thanks for the answer ! if you have some others, with the other ones you posted, I'll enjoy to watch it !