Vintage 1992 Computer Demo on Home Shopping Channel

[mark_wpduet]

Fun to watch........Ancient!

 

[mark_wpduet]

Whoops

First link is wrong. Here is the correct one. First accidental link is funny though

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OzBCwDWNqs

 

[jerrod6]

Sure was fun.  It cost  $3800+, contains DOS and windows 3.1,  and Prodigy because it comes with a Modem.  I think my current cell phone has more storage than this thing had.  The woman was really excited talking about it too.

 

 

 

[whirlcool]

Even back then it was slow. The SX series from Intel were the stripped down version of the faster 486 series.

I loved the way she said VGA... "V.........G........A........"

Hey a 170MB hard disk was pretty big for the time. And Whew! that was an expensive machine. Did they ever get around to telling their customers what brand the computer was?

 

[twintubdexter]

The dufus commenting "kids" in that first video are the real stars, not the actors they're watching. Today's young people are tomorrow's adults...what an awful thought.

 

[gansky1]

Price dropped through the course of the pitch to $1899.

 

Pitch-lady has very hairy arms.

 

[tennblondie78]

I had those exact same speakers.

 

[mark_wpduet]

My first

internet experience was AOL with a USED computer and dial-up in late 1995. I don't even remember what kind of computer it was or the stats of it. I remember at first I wasn't very excited about using a computer or thinking of it being fun. I remember when calling someone if their phone was busy, you knew they were on the internet. My first brand new computer was a Compaq that came from sears with windows 98 in late 1997 I believe? I can't remember but I think it was close to $2000

 

[whirlcool]

I was kind of forced to use the Internet when our airline no longer allowed bidding for trips via mail in cards. You had to log into the employee scheduling system to do that. This was around 1995 or so. I was using a 486 PC and with 9600 baud dial up it was very slow.

Those first couple of months a lot of guys got trips they didn't expect because they screwed up their bids and not double checking before hitting the *enter* key.
Even though the system came back with the message *Are You Sure?*. It was all text based until around 2001 when the scheduling app was written for Windows.

Remember when ISP's used to charge for internet use by the hour?

 

[petek]

If only we could get the money back we spent on a few computers back then I'd be near halfway to a new Mazda 3

 

[tolivac]

While watching the "demo" of that computer-the woman announcer kept rambling on as to what the computer could be made to do-while a hand and arm seemed to ramdomly push keys and buttons on the keyboard,and moved the mouse around.No 'REAL" demo done there.So as I watched this-still don't know really what that computer could really do.Poor demo!