This entire channel is just nostalgia after nostalgia.
Growing up in Southern Africa, I watched this on satellite TV. My mom worked, so after school, I stayed at a house of one of my mom's friends down the street from mine. He worked in information and comms tech, had a huge AM antenna in his yard and a massive satellite dish that he picked up all sorts of world-wide stuff with.

This was one of the programs he had found during travels to the USA that he purposefully recorded on VHS [due to time differences, this was on during the late Sunday evenings / AM Monday mornings here], and then he'd watch them Mondays when he came home for his lunch break, which was also when I was there.

For some reason, I vividly remember this one.

"Is there really a home computer market?" :)

Did she just say that apple computer was $3,769.00, no wonder we couldn’t afford a computer in the 90s.  Me and my brother stuck with the Commodore 64 until the late 90s.

"Is there a home computer market" Seems odd to think that question could even be asked lol

"At $999 its Apple's most affordable model ever!" I've heard that many times over the years.

Does anybody remember when programs on magazines were written out on the page so that readers could type them into their own PC?

Nowadays office computers are slower than your home pcs

Ground breaking and educational series that offered tech knowledge and awareness before the internet.

I still have a working Commodore *64 😊

Tim White can't unfortunately go outside as his magnifier glass would instantly cause the sun to scorch his eyes out.

The toys r us computer spot brings back a lot of memories.  As a kid in the mid 80s, I remember going into that store and just being amazed at the commodore 64 and amiga computers.  We had an 8088 pc at home but it was cga and just felt old compared to the commodore and amigas.  It's like I can almost smell the buttered popcorn that they had at our local toys r us.  It was so magical to a 10 year old kid in 1985.  I would stand in front of the action figure aisle and just dream of taking home He-Man and Battle-Cat.  Takes me back.

God I remember DeskMate.   Junk.  Tandy trash.  Ripped me off with a EGA monitor telling me it was VGA.   Got home and couldn't run god damned Tank Wars which required VGA.  I cried.

That store only sold 5 Commodores a month 😂

Aw, just been googling Seymour, turns out he died in 2010. The CC curse?
Great series.  Wish we'd had something like this in the UK during the 80s/90s.

The Macintosh II came out in 1987 and makes that IBM PS/1 that came out 3 years later look like a dinosaur.

"LOW COST Home Computers from APPLE" LOL

That feeling when you hear PS1 and immediately think they are talking about the PS1 in 1990. Oof.

Man, I just love this show ... The Computer Chronicles Rock!

LOL Frankie Muniz

DRAM was very expensive in those days. And the reason why is that the Japanese had control of the DRAM chip market and was flooding them for peanuts. So in order for American chip companies to take back the market, which was impossible, the Reagan Administration put out a No Dumping Policy. This made DRAM chip prices to rise quickly, and none of the American chip companies had plans on producing them due to the expense on production and planning. A 386 machine with 2 MB of ram and VGA graphics with Windows 3.0 would cost $2,000+. Way too much for the average home user to afford.