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LGR - Strangest Computer Designs of the '70s

🕑 Added 2017-04-29 18:13:33 +0000 UTC

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floverSaeu09

Wahhh pretty interesting stuff :D

Jade_of_Arc

That was very interesting, some designs I've seen before, but some I've never heard of before. Cool video... just wish it would have been a bit longer and more indepth detail. I love this stuff :)

I love these videos. All your videos. Awesome job!

Mintaka

Amazing. I can really appreciate all your thorough research and articulate way of introducing it. I've learned so much about computing, technology, and the history thereof through your videos. Good stuff.

LGR

I'm with you there. Some really stellar designs were to be found in the 70s

LGR

Thank you!

LGR

I'd love that as well. Although there are plenty of amazing computer museums already, it'd be nice to have one dedicated to strangeness.

LGR

It was actually pretty reasonable for the time! I'm not familiar enough with it to know what prevented its popularity though, other than a lack of software support

I am just drooling over the keyboard designs

TJ @ The Variety Show Podcast

Top stuff again!

Maximilien Noal

The Triumph Adler TA-1000 looks seriously slick ! I'd love to have that, but with a modern PC around it of course. Look at that keyboard and how it's integrated into the desk. It appeals a lot to me. :)

John Arild Lolland

That computer computer built as a desk was pretty cool. I'd like one of those.

SammyToesis

I'd love to have a museum dedicated to strange and vintage computer designs, I'd go there.

The APF Imagination Machine is a really interesting piece of kit. Surprised it didn't catch on. I wonder if it was just priced way too high for what it was.

LGR

Not to mention they're almost all impossible to find :/

LGR

It's a genuine shame, that. One feature that needs to be revived.

LGR

For sure, almost every other computer had some kind of unique feature or setup for the time. One era I'd give anything to time travel back to, just to see the excitement.

LGR

Glad to hear it!

Some of these computers are pretty crazy. Yet somehow fascinating. Dammit! I have no room for them!

LGR

Awesome, thanks :)

LGR

Oh yeah, and it was an even bigger deal in the '80s when you had thousands of manufacturers all doing different things for a few years. Standardization was a game-changer.

LGR

Thank you!

LGR

She didn't though, it was just a "computer book." Not remotely the same hardware or usage, and is entirely fictional.

Renzo Thönen

The lack of standards must've been really hard for people to make purchase decisions back in the 70s.

Kevin Furr

Dangit, none of my computers has a single metal toggle switch.

Lindsay Michelle

Maybe it's just me but... computers seemed to be still so new in the 70s, especially personal ones, that all of them seem kind of strange to me! But I'm sure the ones in this video were probably the strangest of the era, hehe :)

wonderful story and very nice video as usual. So glad to be a patron :)