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Kodak DisplayMaker: $2,000 Video Graphics System from 1988

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In 1988, Kodak introduced the Display Maker system as a digital alternative to analog presentations. No need to rely on overhead projectors and expensive 35mm slides anymore! Of course, no one bought one.

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19 Comments

@michaelwhite5641 7 years ago

I like to imagine LGR chooses a monitor in the same way a wine connoisseur chooses a wine.

@arigato7788 7 years ago

there's a typo in the french text on the front face of the box, they forgot a word so now it just means "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy" LOL

@seangriffin6901 6 years ago (edited)

[Marge Simpson holding two old leaking AA batteries]

”I just think they’re neat.”

@strictoaster 7 years ago

I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of the font selection.

@jeffh3649 7 years ago

Fun fact: Terminator 2's graphics were NOT made with this hardware.

@kingedwin 7 years ago

How do we justify this purchase to the accounting office?
farts

@eformance 7 years ago

I'd venture that system was made in the VERY LATE 80's or early 90's, the batteries say "MADE IN GERMANY" instead of "MADE IN WEST GERMANY".

@jerem-SaveStargate 7 years ago

"An infrared remote control for controlling the system remotely using a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum"

This is pure LGR gold :) :) :)

@ordinosaurs 7 years ago

I suspect one of the reasons this isn't pc compatible is the graphic 7220 chip. It was incredibly powerful at the time, already a 2D accelerator with provision for creating shapes (box, circles etc), filling surfaces with patterns, rendering fonts at different sizes or scaling / zooming the screen in hardware. And it supported a light pen on silicon. In this type of appliance, this chip was more important than the processor itself, taking up most of the workload with the processor being sidelined to i/o and user inputs.

@KillroyWasHere86 7 years ago

Machine: What is my purpose?
LGR: Tracking my farts
Machine: OMG

@xtokumaru 7 years ago

Too bad you didn't test the video capture feature! I bet that the results of capturing composite video to low-res 16-colors would be... interesting!

@brycevo 7 years ago

Wow. This is a really odd clunker, but God is this fascinating

@MrTBoneSF 7 years ago

Anybody tech savvy enough to not be intimidated by the computer keyboard (chicklet!), thick manual, and bare bones software would have been tech savvy enough to just buy an Amiga 500 or 1200, a ton of presentation software, and still have over $1000 leftover for fun and games. They could even overlay live video.

@10MARC 7 years ago

My goodness. Watching this video kicked my Amiga Snobbishness from the eighties into overdrive... "My Amiga 500 could do all that, And add animation, speech and stereo audio for $299".
That was over 30 years ago, Douglas... Let it go man...

@DeelightFenua 7 years ago

3:29: "Préparer et présenter les fait n'a jamais été facile" on the box actually means "Preparing and presenting the facts has never been easy".

@lashyndragon 7 years ago

4:00 "a remote control for controlling it remotely using a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum"

Why did this make me laugh 😄

@timraup4888 7 years ago

Every time I see that Kodak logo I get nostalgic. One of my grandparents worked there for many years and so I used to see Kodak products all over their house.