Christmas Shopping 1987: Computer, Video Game and Gadget Gift Guide
Vintage Christmas Films ? XmasFLIX.com ? DVD ? http ? MUSIC ? amzn.to ? facebook.com Do you believe in Santa Claus? Click here! ? TrustSanta.com Here’s a Christmas Shopping Guide to help you find the perfect gift for the special nerd in your life, from Computer Chronicles … however, it’s almost 23 years old. So it might be a little outdated. I’m not sure. Gary Kildall shows us the Sony Picture Computer to add images to your VCR movies! Scribble some crap on the screen and color it. Superimpose your work of art and you’ll be the hottest thing on YouTube! if only YouTube existed! Only 0! Wall Street stock market crashed in October 1987 , and selling IBM and software like WordPerfect, Draw Plus, Chuck Yeager’s Flight Instruction and Test Drive Accolade are flying off the shelves! 75% of sales are games. Now we get to the hot items that you will definitely want in your stocking this year how about the Byline desktop publishing software for only 0? Or the perfect software for your 3.5″ and 5.25″ drives, the Laplink with a bunch of cables for only 0? And you just got to get “HIggins”, your perfect productivity software for your “portable” 100lb laptop the size of a sewing machine! Who the hell needs a blackberry with this thing?! Great software for only #200! Then you have the nifty Complete hand scanner from “Complete PC” to scan your Garry Larson Far Side cartoons! You can actually scan paper and it magically appears on your computer! Only 9! Now we’re …
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400 dollars for adding drawings on some footage? D:
I was a gamer and in the gaming industry when this programme was aired, required watching! You have to realise that back then your home PC was as much about utilities and non-gaming programs as it was about rushing out to get the latest Microprose simulation!
that is an epic car.
lol his big ass laptop
The prices are out of control!
anyone remember a tv that was made just for video games it had swing out panels that the speakers was inclosed on them. It was black GFX or some name like that was sold at electronics boutique .was around 1997 time before ps2 was thought of.
@dafyddoe That part was the best! And there was a little pause after he said portable which made an even greater effect.
HAHAHAHA this is awesome
Damn those accesories and cables are expensive! Even for today’s market!
Imagine how much that was back then!
@masmotors AHEM quad is slow hexacore is faster….. then maybe tomorow there will be 8 cores…. i always feel bad if i buy expensive new stuff as they only last short..
haha his “portable”
4:16
Some things never change…
omg how the time flies as i complain that my duel core processotr is to slow i want quad and that my radeon hd 4650 is not a 58xx man they well look at our stuff as junk when were old crazy
Hm, with portables like that, the computer nerds of the 80′s must’ve been pretty buff xP
What game is that Mega ST running? at 1:40
Wendy’s hot!
@WhoMelissa can you imagine giving one to a kid today? They would hit you with it!
Awww, man, I wanted a talking Julie doll when I was a kid, and it was too darn expensive. I never got one, but I think I would get one nowadays just for the collectible value.
i guarantee you that doll does not have voice recognition software hahah
Ha ha ha. Better than photoshop!
Nice glasses Wendy!!!!!
“…on my portable” “THUD!”
Yes, that’s THE Gary Kildall. He co-hosted Computer Chronicles with Stuart for a while.
Microsoft bought QDOS, which was a somewhat unauthorized varient of CP/M for the 8086 processor.
9:33 Google Earth, eat your heart out
The T-1000 is made of liquid metal! Look out you bunch of squares!!!