Computer Chronicles - The Apple Macintosh

[JohnnyLucero13]

Cheifet has a sweet sweet comb-over.

[splitfatal]

LOL a black white display and 8" oO

[sh1ngo]

Gary Kildall here?

[TheAstro30]

o0o 10MB hard disk on an Atari

[privee1]

GARY KILLDALL INVENTED DOS !!!!!!!!

[puppyrootbeer]

@andrew20012002 U are so right, and I am trying so hard not to say this, but ALL CAPS RAGE!!!!

[macuser5555]

@andrew20012002 Uh, get off the drugs and alcohol. It shows.

[DemonTraven]

@macuser5555 seriously, calm down, don't try to force your opinion on everyone saying mac os is the "only" os, cuz it aint, it might be good, but it's also not perfect, like everything else...

there will never be a perfect os for everyone, it all depends on your own opinion, and nobody cares bout yurs >.>

[macuser5555]

@DemonTraven LOL, obviously you care about my opinion dumbass or you wouldn't have replied. Do you have a life, did you see that I wrote that over 4 months ago? LOL, after 4 months my opinion was strong enough to get your panties in a bunch. LOL. Sorry pal, Microsoft Windows 8 ain't gonna be the end all. In fact it's the beginning to the end of Windows as we speak. Apple is taking over, just deal with it.

[macuser5555]

@andrew20012002 Oh really OS X is UNIX compliant????? WOW. Thanks for telling something I already knew especially since I have a bachelor's in electronics and computer science. Not to mention that I teach computers for a living. But it's always nice to know when a teenage pimply-faced douchebag thinks he can tell me something. HAHA. Now go do your homework while your mommy packs your lunch for summer school.

[bneyens]

You can cut out "macintosh" and replace it with "iOS", and the same conversation is going on today.

[macuser5555]

@bneyens You can say the same for Windows 8. You can just called it Windows Phone 7 for desktops.

[macuser5555]

THE ONLY REAL COMPUTER OS. MACINTOSH. Windows.....the same ole, same old crap trying to fake it.

[Danny77uk]

Software was so elegantly simple back then.

[dvamateur]

Horrible voice compression artifacts, annoying.... Our technology is so backwards today than it was in the '80s, when it was much more professional oriented. Today, everything seems to be make for idiots.

[pufixas]

oh... that PC is HD...

[masterlee123]

Joanna is kinda HOT I wonder how she in bed? Think she wild.

[persevere67]

that giant monitor in the beginning, scares the hell out of me for some reason

[Danny77uk]

@persevere67 I suspect it was simply a projector, not a huge CRT!

[fistoprince]

Appleworks... I made a board game in that....

[lukewind30]

99% of Mac haters have never used one.

[JoeyJoeJoe5000]

@lukewind30 99% of Mac users are too brain dead to use a PC.

[lukewind30]

@JoeyJoeJoe5000 LOL....thanks for proving my point Joe Joe. I love how u assume that I hate PC's for some reason, rather then just pointing out how moronic it is to hate on something because you can't afford it and have never owned one. Don't bother replying I don't go past one reply with morons like you.

[macuser5555]

@JoeyJoeJoe5000 Haha, funny that you would make such a retarded comment. What does that say about millions of people dumping Windows to switch to a Mac? LOL.

[lemonrind]

The interviewer drives me crazy because he always interrupts the guest to ask a question just as they're getting to the good part of their demonstration.

[todd3293]

macs were the best back then and still are today :)

[MrEddieBTV]

@todd3293 Umhmm!

[JohnAngusFTW]

overkill for word processing lmao :P 

[troizvulkanu]

I consider very interesting that the apple macintosh was just black and white and they used to advert it as a graphic utility... maybe I see here a coincidence between this and the ipad with no multitasking at all... maybe we should wait a couple of years before we get a multitasking able ipad or something

[Danny77uk]

@troizvulkanu Compare the quality of the original Mac's display to the color displays of it's competitors. Color computer displays back then were very low-res, blurry and had no color balance and software developers produced horrible looking interfaces that tried to use every color available as a sales point. The Mac's B&W display, fixed resolution and restricted toolset, forced developers to think about usability and consistency.

[freeeeeemusic]

Nice Video but i think it need more effects.. you can get nice video effects plugins and addons from aries-films file section. Just google for Aries-Films man.. pc

[Appule69]

It's funny how Apple acted/acts so high and mighty, yet they were never really that big at all in the computer industry. Apple is much better at making portable devices.

[bonchbonch]

@Appule69 Apple II was pretty huge, even a decade after its release. But really, Apple's significance is in their influence on the industry.

[DarkCybrid]

"where is the software?" Couldn't have said it better myself.

[64moonshoes]

I really enjoyed this. That track ball thing was quite cool, I wish that caught on more instead of the laptop track pad.

I'm young so I didn't get to see the older generation of computers, I wish I were older!

[Dms12444]

You still can, not in their prime of course but it's still better than nothing. I'm 14 and I have an IBM PS/2 in my room. The track ball idea was a lot smoother and easier to control than the 16th generation track pads that are in use today.

[howardd21]

I watched this show every Saturday on PBS in the 80s and loved it.  Wish there was something as good now. I also subscribed to the Lotus Magazine mentioned at 27:55 - it was pretty good.

[doginstine]

I remember watching this very show when it first came out.

[RichGilly]

25:18 <-- I want the laptop they talk about here. LOL.

[Appule69]

I know that was 1985....but have got to be the worst looking laptops I have ever seen...XD

[oldtwins]

We've come a long way since this show aired but what they had on there isn't that radically different from what we use today. Would've liked to have heard more on that dude's assessment of the future, he seems to have had a crystal ball in front of him.

[hyperthreaded]

The Xerox/Smalltalk/Apple guy (Larry Tesler), right. You can google him. The guy worked on Smalltalk. He could assess the future so well because he helped inventing it. :-P

[surfitlive]

@oldtwins Beta over VHS MiniDisc over CD Motorola over Intel 68x00 over x86 Commodore over Microsoft Amiga over PC Clones Workbench over Windows CP/M over MS DOS(a Modified CP/M clone) Gary Arlen Kildall(May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994(A true programmer) over Bill Gates(A better businessman...see;thief) Google Mr.Kildall the true creator of DOS. probably dont know but he owned Digital Research, Inc 14:38 & made GEM But he didn't 'toot' his own horn here. Very Humble,True PC guy.RIP

[slugnbozo]

@surfitlive Agree. Gary Kildall sounds like he was a well respectable industry person.

[cmommsen1]

@oldtwins Not radically different? Seriously?! If you time-traveled back to that interview and dropped the new mac book pro in front of them on the table, those guys would have gone into epileptic shock..... and not from the time-traveling part.

I'd call that radically different.

[persevere67]

@cmommsen1 that was funny and true

[aaroninclub]

gem?

[themaritimeman]

GEM - Graphics Environment Manager, was a GUI for DOS made by Digital Research. It looked somewhat like the Macintosh System Software.

GEM lives on today in it's freeware form called OpenGEM.

[THEDEFOCATOR]

Stewarts bad hair is really distracting!

[SOLIDSNAKEC]

I like the quote, "where is the software?" I used to watch this show as a kid.

[cowndelorean]

There's nothing more actual and accurate than a 20 year old show, and nothing older than yesterday news.

[cosmotcat]

Wow, the early days. I loved this show back in the day.

God I feel old.

[jwd0808]

Mr. Schindler told us what he thought and he was right.

[OGRMaster]

Look at this monster screen! I think they needed a crane to get it on spot.:D