"The Finger Trick" - JOHN CLEESE Compaq Commercial

[JamesIsHereBro]

Holy crap...

That was amazing!

[zcarrell]

Clesse's all like TL;DR

[bryonlape]

Back when computers had keys. Oh how I remember those days.

[syk123456]

There is nobody NOBODY nobody like John Cleese! the man is my hero!

[AleksandarTadich]

70 Mb, 8 MHz ... it's a must have, don't you think

[Erik0423]

8 Mhz LOL my grandma's pacemaker has more processing power than that load of garbage xD

[pHr33kAcHu]

@Erik0423 Disrespectful n00b.

[napoleon950]

8 Mhz?

[LowStackTom]

long, long time ago ...

i remember working on 286 without graphic interface ...

well, we didn´t have much these days, the cold war was at it´s peak and doc-martins were made out of wood.

but wasn´t it a jolly relaxed time with the "fast" 8 Mhz processor these days?!

[FebbieVanceGarcia]

@LowStackTom After "long, long time ago... I remember..." I started trying to read this comment to myself to the tune of 'American Pie'. *chuckle*

[LowStackTom]

@FebbieVanceGarcia that´s what I wanted u to do! *chuckle even more*

but u have to miss out the "relaxed" in the last line, then it works even better ;)

[nurb101]

70 megabyes? Wow, must have been expensive because when we got our computer in the early 90's, it was a 486 with a 25mb HDD and 2mb of ram

[roosswald]

@nurb101 it was probably 250mb. I had 386 w/ 4MB RAM and 400MB HDD in '94 when 486s were already all at rage. And I remember that in '91 40MB disks were common (in fact, more like the rockbottom). I don't even remember that 25MB disks existed...

[sladikk]

8 megabytes??? SWEET! All I needed was enough space for a .txt document.

[ShasLaMontyr]

@sladikk he says 8 megahertz not 8 megabytes... which when you consider the size of this thing and compare that to a Calculator which usually run at 6MHz it gets kind of ridiclous.

[snerl69]

wow 8 mb this is old haha

still funny:D

[PublicKenny]

I think it is fake!!

[j24800]

When does this come out? I want to pre-order mine

[Macintosh3745]

@j24800 It comes out in 1985

[Nerd0042]

:O how did he do that?!?!

[Holmes82497]

@Nerd0042 If you look closely, you'll notice that his index finger is already folded and his hand is holding a fake finger. Watch the hands real fast, you'll see it! :)

[MiNigle]

@Holmes82497 no you moose it's not a fake finger, it's his thumb folded over

[MasterMrJett]

is that a KEY in the pc unit? WTF?!?!

[MemphisMemories]

@MasterMrJett: Yep, early models had a key to lock the unit and prevent unauthorized use.

This was long before computers were sophisticated enough to perform a lock-out of the unit via firmware/software.

[netraven5000]

@MasterMrJett You can still buy PC cases with a key. The purpose is that the PC won't turn on if it's not unlocked first.

[Mr27ace27]

this makes me proud to own a compaq!

[OmegaRFox]

70MB considering our hard drives are 320GB to 1 TB... moved on a LONG way

[OmegaRFox]

Can PC World get john cleese to sell laptops?

That would be funny

[smithjj61614]

My first LOL off You Tube for many weeks!

[NIQNick]

I love how John Clesse advertises for Compaq without actually advertising Compaq.

[myg0tpurepunk]

8mhz? Your kidding? Lol I have that on my PSP.

[gigaves]

@myg0tpurepunk You actually have 222mhz by default and 333mhz when it's needed more processing speed.

[fatalisanima]

70 mb!?!?!?!?!?????!!!!! wow. computer memory is advancing pretty rapidly! I Have a 200GB HDD, that's 204,800 megabytes or two thousand nine hundred and twenty-five times as much memory!

[scampc]

@fatalisanima Wow, 200GB is an exceptionally small amount of space these days...

[fatalisanima]

@scampc Yeah, definitely. I'm planning on getting a 1.5 TB barracuda HDD.... when I run out of space on this one

[goldendisc]

I'm looking forward to the day when my grandchildren say "You only had 8 cores in your processor!? And 4 of them were virtual!? How the hell did you live with 6GB of RAM? GTA 46 takes up 200GB of RAM!". That is of course if they become techies. Otherwise they can get lost with their hover boots. Bloody kids. ;)

[SuperNESFreak]

@goldendisc I'm fairly sure Mega Man has had more than 46 games. I seem to recall I lost count after Mega Man 64. :D

[RazrHack]

70MB...

I'm pretty sure that I can think of like a million games that take up more space than that.

[SuperNESFreak]

@RazrHack I'm sure I can think of twice that don't.

[hattrickster33]

they should have a whole day of only john cleese on mad tv that would be awsum

[Unit4]

8 Mhz? Thats amazing! Thats 8,000,000 cycles per second!

Never you mind we run between 2 and 3 billion. Now, this was incredible back then, and even to this day, if you only one knows what it means.

[SuperNESFreak]

@Unit4 What can a cycle do?

Sony has the PS3 can do 2 trillion 'calculations'. Is that the same as cycles?

[Unit4]

@SuperNESFreak

a cycle is a whole set of calculations... A good CPU will run a lot of calculations per cycle, and they all have different sizes. You'd have to look up the specifics on that CPU to get the number of calculations per cycle.

Oh, and then you have to decide if a 64-bit calculation counts as 2 32-bit calculations or not...

[RoPWU]

70mb...wow last one i saw said 4.1

they really came a long way

[pufixas]

yeah

[Hykazu]

They should have cleese advertise for computers again, but world wide.

[kornguy26]

8 mhz wow we really have come a long way

[regresspiral]

AWESOME!

[CHRIS90ANDES]

70mb 8mhz!!!! holy crap....

My usb is 10 times better =p

[bacsilva]

O'RLY?

[CHRIS90ANDES]

yep :p

[senseit2007]

But back then, it was considered to be amazing!

[CHRIS90ANDES]

i know :p

people would be laughing if they put this ad on tv!

lol what a humiliation, maybe they should put it on a comedy show :p

[senseit2007]

Think about it now.. Windows 2000/Me is considered a joke nowadays! (Unless you still use it, then i sincerely apologise for making this statement, lol)

[viathor]

He's done recently an excellent commercial for one polish bank where he argues with the cameraman that he should receive one of the bank's loans because he can speak some polish, e.g. "Good day". And then he says "Guten Morgen" ;-)

[psychopathicvideos]

lol i just clicked on this by accident, and I"M RUNNING ON A COMPAQ

[tazmaniaco65]

haha Me too.Just realized now

[blobofblue]

hahahah i can do that with my thumb

[66richardson]

My computer is a Compaq!!!!!!!

[4K4K1K0]

In that case he is probably pretty old.

[66richardson]

Uh, what?

[4K4K1K0]

It does not exist as an  independent corporation since 2002, so your computer is not the youngest or you've got a computer from HP of the Compaq brand.

[66richardson]

I got my computer in 2006.

It must be HP then

[PowerPcTricks]

Well i just have a HP :P i havn't seen any new compaq deskops around for a while really...

[DragonSporks]

I should NOT be laughing this hard at a trick like that!

[BjornAbbahot]

John Cleese makes everything funnier,doesn't he?

[sevin6068]

cleese for the win

[TheGeolocation]

@BjornAbbahot Apparently the bitter racist Nazi Sarah-Palin thugs would not agree with you, because John Cleese dared to insult her Holy Image by calling her a 'parrot' (check out video on youtube) :)

[Crate97]

@TheGeolocation LOL, I know they're pathetic... I just laugh with them, though they're mostly harmless except to themselves, possibly. :)

[DragonsREpic]

@DragonSporks oh no....u shouldnt >=)

[Stephie2007]

HOW MANY MHz WAS THAT?!! my brain hurts.

[EXnitroxxxxx]

My brain hurst too. Are you a brain specialist?!

[fullfist]

no, NO I am not a BRAIIIN speci... Yes! i am a brain specialist!

hahahhaha

[JorisDumspieker]

Hilarious.

[djrghosting]

thast awesome lol!

[tropperstopper]

great finger trick.

[TacticusPrime]

70Mb, 8MHz, wow shows how far we've come.

[gdement]

Yeah, but they used to write better code back then. Everything is sloppy and bloated now.

[timonn]

Yeah. I remember one of the old IBM computers can do something that the modern ones are not capable of... i can't remember what was...

[Rusty0918B]

Because programs were simpler back then.

[CrdBrdProjects]

and they were much MUCH faster at running simple things then computers which should be more powerful are today

[QuannanHade]

The modern computers are slower because they literally triple-chek everything they do (as long as they have spare ram etc.) and i agree- they did write better code back then, most of the decline in coding can be contributed to microsoft, they never fix a problem, they just add more and more stuff until the computers cant run it, then tell people to get better computers...

[CrdBrdProjects]

everybody, slowclap at microsoft...

[BorkGonsam]

Everything was simpler back then, but I wouldn't trade in my computer for one of those. Though they were Alot more productive backthen, the times changed, the computer pretty much peaked at what it can do. And now we are going to have to prepare for the slow decline, as people make their desktops look more "pretty" and Shiney. Requiring more resources and eventually making the computer a spoofed up picture

[CamdenBloke]

I've tried running newer computers on older resources, for example trading in Window Maker for GNOME, but for what I'm doing (maths modeling, video editing, web browsing, and desktop apps) there hasn't been that much advantage in speed. The only noticeable change is that the system intially boots more quickly.