The Computer Chronicles - Megahertz Mania (1989)
The Computer Chronicles
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@standarddeviation6428 8 months ago
Rest in Peace the talented and charismatic Stewart Cheifet! ❤ 87 years of life well lived! Thank you so much for everything Stewart!
@oldprecision 1 year ago (edited)
As a 17 year old, I was blown away by this stuff and couldn't afford it. As a 53 year old, it's amazing to look back at what we thought was cool. 33Mhz, yes please!
@fordxbgtfalcon 4 years ago
Lol, I remember watching this in 1989 and thinking about how far we had come. Now I’m watching this on YouTube on my cell phone which makes these desktops look like calculator’s.
@k6computers 10 years ago
386 at 33Mhz is great machine for video editing. 5 minutes long video was rendered in just one week. What a insane speed!
@AllMuscle1 4 years ago
10 years after this episode aired, Intel had surpassed the 200Mhz target that Bill Rash stated. By 1999, it was well over 1Ghz. Amazing!
@2dfx 5 years ago
I will always fondly remember this era in personal computing. So many small vendors adding their own special upgrade, their own flair on something new.
@DAndyLord 6 years ago
The guy from Intel expecting 200Mhz clock speeds by 99. The first Ghz CPU was released by AMD in 99.
@Digital_Magic_Studios 5 years ago
33MHz was blazing fast around 1990. My 386 had a "turbo" button to slow it down to 8MHz for when running old applications that ran too fast to be usable
@Turbotrousers 3 years ago
Imagine upgrading your CPU cos your spreadsheets weren't loading fast enough 😂
@handlealreadytaken 6 years ago
Still remember our first family pc. Gateway 2000 with a 386DX 33Mhz, 4MB RAM and 35MB hdd. Got a Sound card for Christmas to play Wing Commander 2 with the voice add on pack.
@DrErikEvrard 5 years ago
26:35: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Soviet Union... none of these countries exist anymore.
@MasterKoala777 6 years ago
Then there was the Gigaherz race, and now in 2019 we have the multi-core wars.
@JohnMichaelson 5 years ago
While Gary was irreplaceable on the show, Jan was great as well. She was very charismatic and personable, and didn't sound like she was just reading a script.
@cloviscareca 8 years ago
This is how I get updated to the newest technologies. In the future we will probably be watching this show in small computers in the palm of our hands
@Zedek 5 years ago
OH MY GOD! We had ONE golf game on a floppy we played up until 2003. The whole family would play it. And this it! That feeling of accidently stumbling over "That" game!
@WaybackTECH 13 years ago
"In 10 years from now, we expect to be shipping processors in the range of 200MHz" lol well the end of 1999 to early 2000 they got up to 1GHZ. I guess they beat their own estimates :)
The Computer Chronicles - Megahertz Mania (1989)
The Computer Chronicles
185,090 views
Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerch...