Optical Storage In 1985

[andybpiano]

This stuff seems so primitive now but it still amazes me how they "figured out" all of this technology in the first place.

[MultiBrados]

What an awesome historic! PURE GOLD, thank you very much for uploading this :))

[Rayrard]

I want a few of those at 0:23... lol

[homosaur]

that game looks REALLY fun.

[thork420gonsam]

I love these videos, but I hate how Youtube Allocates its bandwith to stupid justin beiber music videos, where I am struggling to watch more than 12 seconds of this at a time on 240p

[NielsShoe]

Blu-ray quad is next and rven 6 layer blu-ray its no where near dead.

[TechXMarine]

@NielsShoe For disk based that is

The major leap were making atm is rather than distribution via disk storage or even Solid State storage is distribution via the internet

while Blu-ray hasn't reached its full potential new technologies will surpass it before it does, it always happens and it will continue to do so.

[kinmanyuen]

cd 4ever

[locouk]

I just kept wondering "I wonder how thin the hosts comb over will be by now?"

Sheesh, I bet he has about 3 strands of hair going from one side then looped around his ear and back again.

[bneyens]

That guy totally sucks at that space game.

[Hunkola]

" Billion bytes of information --- about the size of a law library"

LOL......just more proof of how stupid lawyers are

[outpostprime]

"Only 50 cents per megabyte" lmao so $250 per disc.

[UniqeTeckNique]

@outpostprime i got a pack of 200 for 25$ @ COSTCO. :)

[SounzNice]

"virtually indestructable" .. provided the disc doesn't get scratched scuffed cracked..

[mgabrysSF]

@SounzNice

or rot (the cheap glue on the layers separating or clouding)

[heatflash888]

This innocent looking disc looks innocent but is currently serving life

[Arminixnix]

I remember reading about that in a computer magazine those days. My thoughts were "over 500 mb? unbelievable, nobody ever will need such amounts of data to store"

[sspoke]

Lol this is a good example of threading.. before threading even came out.. using a video player to play music+video while the computer draws on top of it the computer graphics and controls the video player hardware as well..

shame microsoft didn't look at this technology they could of built windows 95 on top of multi-threading (multi tasking) but they didn't thats why windows 95 sucked..

[vox2007]

Also nvidia didn't create SLI (where you connect two video cards up in a pc), 3dfx from the early 90's came out with SLI, when nvidia bought them out in 2000, they revamped the SLI technolgy. BTW I'm not bashing nvidia, I have a bfg 6200 vid card in my dell 8200, yes dell 8200, a 2001 model pc, works great after all these years. :)

[vox2007]

But you have to wonder. That guy is holding a CD in 1985. He said it can hold 540mbs of data. To be honest we have not improved alot from then. Before blu ray disc came out, a CD of the year 2000 on up to now can only hold 600mbs, 540mb to 600mb= not much improved, and that CD he's holding looks excactly the same as our standard CD's today b/c it hasn't changed at all.

[SCSNSE]

I don't know where you got that 600MB number. A Yellow Book standard CD-ROM holds atleast 650 MB of data, with 700 MB discs being common especially with CD-R/RW's.

[Vox0707]

@SCSNSE The main point I was making was that from what he said to what you all are saying thats not a quadrople leap. Anyways who cares, just as long as what we have works :)

[renmorpheus]

@vox2007 CD-Roms usually hold from 650 to 700 Mb, up to 879, so we actually did improve on that. Besides, DVDs and Blu-Rays are simply different optical storage devices, an offpsring of the CD-Rom, if you will, so it's not like there has been no change.

[Vox0707]

@renmorpheus Ok, you win :P : l

hehe ;)

[Appule69]

Well, We'll just have to wait and see if this CD thing takes off, I don't have high hopes though.

[ElectraGSX]

John Dove patented the CD and DVD Technology in 1969 working at Rome Labs. He is the father of the technology.

[GoblinSlasher]

I cant wait till the mid-quater of 1985!

This CD thing is going to be AAWWEESSOOMMEE!!!!!!!!

[FuriousTM]

this how blu-ray and Hdtv are going to look about 30 years from now

[darkblackShinobi]

in my opinion we won't have discs in 30 years any more. maybe hdd/ssd for backups but beside from this we will be using the internet to get our data and to storage it.

[pgdevil]

@FuriousTM Try 5 years.

[cuttock]

@FuriousTM That's already happening. HD DVD and Bluray are worthless, Apple knows optical is dead, and as usual, is leading the way by ignoring that garbage.

[Krom456]

@cuttock Except they're not worthless and Bluray at least is far from dead. Apple is hyping tech that is at least a decade away from being anywhere near the same price as optical and nothing new, like most of Apple's MAGICAL INNOVATICE POST-PC tech. It's just marketing hype, Apple was one of the major players in developing Bluray. Look past the hype, do some reading and educate yourself.

[cuttock]

@Krom456 This coming from a dude with Hitler as an avatar LMAO

[DoctorMobius]

Virtually indestructable!

[viceroy0980]

see at 3:11 the face of the guy from Pioneer, very skeptic of that assertion

[wesmatron]

@DoctorMobius When I was a kid they demonstrated CDs....took it out of the player, dropped it, stood on it, smeared ketchup on it....then wiped it off and it played perfectly. Modern CDs can withstand 'looking at' before beginning to skip and fall apart.

[srod712]

so! nostalgic

[andeyactcom]

haha awesome..they had no idea what was going to happend :p