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LGR - Computer Chronicles Christmas 1985
🕑 Added 2024-12-08 21:39:10 +0000 UTCGot a bit of a different LGR thing here for this Christmas season!
It's a laid-back, cozy time with the wonderful Computer Chronicles TV show. Watching and commenting on the 1985 Christmas buyer’s guide episode, looking up archives and trivia along the way, and generally just enjoying the comfy vintage vibes. (And eggnog.)
I hope you enjoy, and do lemme know your thoughts! Definitely not planning to become a “reaction channel” or whatever, this is meant as a one time thing for the holidays. But this is something I've wanted to try for a while with Computer Chronicles and this seemed like a good time to do so since there's very little of the LGR collection accessible right now.
Thank you for your support this month and take care till the next one – whatever it ends up being! $5+ members can expect the next LGR Wrap Up episode pretty soon as well.
Comments
T. Rillener
This was great, I hope it becomes an annual tradition to cover a Christmas Computer Chronicles episode during the holidays!
LGR
Now that was a solid recommendation, that was tasty!
Paul
An LGR guided discussion of computer chronicles episodes is definitely something I’d watch again. And I have a bottle of the Pennsylvania Dutch eggnog in my fridge too. Try it with a splash of crème de menthe and you get a nice minty eggnog.
Martin Roeleveld
The Computer Chronicles was so cool back in the day - nice to see your reactions to this video. How time has gone by and so much has changed. Life. The atmosphere of those times i find it missing from the modern day. It feels like Businesses and Corporations spent more time and went that little bit extra for the consumer back then compared to now. Although it is not easy to compare as we are living in different times. Thanks for the video Clint - good stuff! :D
Zvi
Wow, I didn't have Clint looking up Davka Software on my bingo card. They've been around forever and they're still in business, their main product these days is a hebrew-english word processor called DavkaWriter (remember the languages go in opposite directions so while you can use Word, using them together is a pain). They also did a CD-Rom in the late 90s with essentially all the major hebrew and aramaic texts in translation. I remember buying a boxed copy of DavkaWriter in a big box at a Judaica store in the late 90s and I think I still have the disks. Think I'll dig a bit for the Apple II stuff. Edit to add: Looks like it's on this compilation - http://www.bmsoftware.com/davkaclassicgamepack2.htm
LevyNeptune
To Think this was just two months after the NES was released in 1985
Gary Leigh
Got to love how condescending people were back in the day towards those who used computers. And they tried so hard to act as though they knew anything about it.
Kevin Brice
Hi Clint! I don’t think Stewart misspoke saying DOS 5—that’s what IBM was calling OS/2 at the time. https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/os2/misc/86295/ Thanks for another enjoyable video, and glad you’re doing okay through the home recovery!
nada
I had the Math version of the Rabbit game growing up. Fun fact, it was clock dependent, so running it on a 386 was interesting.
David Traube
Thoroughly enjoyable
Gareth P
Ah thank you, just looked them up, they look interesting!
Ben Williams
In the UK we had The Computer Programme and Micro Live on the BBC in the 80s - kind of similar (I only know because of episodes uploaded to YouTube!)
Tom Anderson
"Christmas!" LGR! Your blue eyes are fun to see in all your vids Clint!
Alyxx the Rat
Glad your clone is doing alright! Also Computer Chronicles is one of my favourite things to watch when I'm having a hard time. It's just nice to be brought back to the bleeding edge of computer technology in the 80s and 90s cause like you pointed out here, there's so much that's been lost to time in some way. RIP Gary. We truly live in the wrong timeline.
Gareth P
This was most enjoyable and fascinating too, thanks Clint! I would have just turned 5 when this was out, I was familiar with computers but I don't remember anything like this being on TV in the UK - but that doesn't mean there wasn't! That bear was hilarious, the bizarre noises it made kept reminding me of a light-sabre battle :-D
Evan B
That was so fun! I hope you do more of these, Clint!
Nachts
I love these fascinating looks at what was big in the computer world during the days back when the biggest wish I had was to get some He-Man action figures (which I did!). We ended up being an Atari 2600 and then NES family, so all your videos about computers in those days usually just flabbergast me. So much cool stuff I missed until I finally got into computing in the early 2000's. Great stuff man! Hope you and yours have a good Christmas despite all the hardships lately.
LGR
Not at all, archive.org makes it easy to upload anything. Just need the hardware and time to do the backing up of things!
Jeremy M. Beaver
Is it hard to archive media? I have some old stuff that is not online but I don't have time to upload.
Jacob Owen Lütje
Hopefully you can make it work. Thank you for the comforting videos! :)
Andrew L. Budny
Awesome, I binged watched some episodes of the computer chronicle on YouTube over Christmas a few years ago and it was interesting to see how much has changed in tech over the years. Will definitely watch this tonight when I get home from work, Thanks Clint for sharing this and Happy Holidays.
LGR
Ooh that’s an idea. I’ve never looked into that but I’m sure there are a good few! For Doom and other classic FPS games
Uncleawesome
Very nice video :) I would love to see you react to all of the computer chronicles videos. Also that clone made me smile :)
J Ruonti
Thanks for finding the feel to do a christmas video! I did like it and you had nice insights to things. I do agree with.. I guess you? that you should not become a reactiontuber. This was nice now but I don't think it would feel that way as a reguöar thing.
Jacob Owen Lütje
My favourite Christmas tradition is back! Not sure if you have all the videos planned out already, but what about one on all the Christmas mods for Doom?
akcrazyfool
Brings a freaking smile to my face to see that dang Christmas clone still! Great video; nostalgia during the holidays is what I want too. Thank you for this.
John Salt
Interesting to think that neither host qualifies as a Baby Boomer, Cheifet being born in 1938 and Kildall in 1942 (although of course they would know who Willard Scott was). By tech industry standards, they're already old here, compared to, say, Steve Jobs, who was 30 in 1985.
Peter Jensen
I really liked this. Would like to see more in the future. Clint is a great storyteller and in this case narrator, that gives the program a new life, where even i learn some history.
Mac84
This was awesome! Feel free to do more :)
Rogier van Lierop
That was fun too see. Never had seen an episode before, wasn't a thing in The Netherlands back then. I wish you a Merry Christmas!
Daniel Cayea
Just my opinion but you are up there with Stewart in terms of quality content. I know he had planned on coming back with some new thing but I guess it didn't work out, but that's okay because we have Clint, so I'll stay tuned for the next episode of the LGR Chronicles
Ben Williams
I love this, even if it is a one off! There was a comparable show in the UK called The Computer Programme and I always queue up a list of them on YouTube. There's something warming about that era of tv. You might find that series interesting actually - obviously a lot more talk about BBC Micros than you'd be used to, but it's all demonstration and not so much the round table talk.
Rick Green
Would be funny if there was a scene where you go "Huh. Where's my clone?" and then it cuts to the storage with a sad Christmas clone going "Christmas... :("
