I think we all would like to have a 20 megabyte hard disk...

This is a fascinating piece of history. My god how far we've come.

5:41 - "Our new product line, the cellular telephone..." (Lifts up 20 pound bowling ball bag from underneath desk) LOL.

At least the Dynamac didn't crash during its demo on the show, unlike Apple's own Macintosh Portable a few years later!

"...our new product 'grunt' our cellular telephone." 5:24

R.I.P. Gary Kildall..

Kids today have no appreciation of how good their hardware is.

"It's no more cumbersome than a case of binders." Haha, that's enormous!

I am watching this video in bed on my cellular phone.  

I was too poor to own these as an 80s kid. Now, I want all these old machines. These guys were so happy and excited about technology.

Love how peoppe mock all the old specs when 99.999% of you couldnt build a computer like this. Even though these things are ancient they are still amazing from a technical standpoint. I love collecting old computers because i respect what mechanical wonders they are. That just 100 years ago somthing like a old pentium 4 machine would be viewed as some kind of witchcraft. I despise that microsoft is cutting support for so many old machines. My hp dv7 from 2009 has i7 840qm 4core 4 thread, gt 210 1gb v ram with cuda, 8gb ddr3 memory, 2x2tb ssds in raid, 4k led display, and blu-ray drive. It runs windows 10 very quick. For the internet 20 year old computers are completely fine. These companies claim to he green yet they are going to make millions of computers useless. I have always used windows but i am going to switch to linux. Windows 11 was the final straw for me.

Oh man I laughed when he pulled out the cell phone at 5:38

Portable Computers in the 1980s were designed to be a supplement to the use of an office computer, but now in the 2020s a Portable Computer is now an alternative to an office computer instead. However I still enjoy watching these The Computer Chronicles episodes.

The more I watch this channel, it really hits home how far we've come in the IT world.
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"I think we'd all like a 20MB hard disk! haha". Wow.

I have an Toshiba T1100 Plus. Awesome to see it in the Computer Chronicles 1987.

Back in the days when computers were such specialty business tools.... so bizarre where we are now by comparison XD

I miss this style of computer journalism. Also, good keyboards on laptops and Gary Kildall.

No wonder why 80s people were so in shape. Those laptops were as heavy as barbell plates.

5:41 What are you gonna do with that thing? Call in an airstrike?