Retro computer unboxing! | 1980s home computers review | Four computer buffs | 1985
Retro computer unboxing! | 1980s home computers review | Four computer buffs | 1985
The Thames TV Show ‘Four Computer Buffs’ takes a look at the the Latest home computers and their games that are on offer.
First shown: 11/02/1985
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I am disappointed that no one has asked, "They didn’t put in the review if any of the computers could run Crysis." The internet has failed to maintain an old joke.
Back in the days when beards meant intelligence.
I feel like £399 is a lot today, let alone in the 80s.
pentagram
And then Sir. Clive pumped everything into the C5. Oof!
Im so sad without Windows and Apple.
I would be glad to go back, healthier times. Sadly they did not know what they are up against.
Omg…the music…
I’ll take the C64.
Printshop pro on my Tandy 1000
2020: ZX-81 completes the circle drawing program
_suddenly I wonder what it was like to Cruise in the 80s……_ 🤔
Xyphoe brought me here! The CPC was robbed!
Which one of these three should you choose? The Commodore 64 of course is the right answer.
Bollocks #cpc
4:22
Ahhh, what a good way to demonstrate a computer’s graphical abilities
1:15 – Amstrad Hifi? Really?? 2:40 – wrong again. The monitor options were colour or green on BLACK.
My second computer was actually the Armstrad cpc 464. The loading noise of the tape drive was uniquely horrible.
An unboxing?? What a stupid idea, it will never catch on!
I remember my father buying me and brother amstrad 64, thought we were the luckiest kids in the world.
Would only take 15 mins to load a game! The worst part was the game would crash whilst loading and you would have to start from the beginning again.
Lol each add-on adds 1 point to the tally………
4:27 ahhh such good graphics
Will buy the BBC in the upcoming Amazon sale! Thanks for the review!
When I was younger, I never imagined the computer industry would change so damn fast, otherwise I would’ve invested in Microsoft, Apple, etc. and I would’ve been a millionaire today. I need to invent a time machine. 🙂 I relied on my touch-typerwriter to get me through school, then suddenly Wordperfect appeared, then Word overtook it, fun times.
I was only a few months into the Acorn Electron.
*_8:25_**_ why is everyone too terrified to show their bulges in the 80’s?_*
@10:43 What are your thoughts, put it in the comments below. Don’t forget to like and subscribe
Discussing benchmarks, no mention of Crysis.
Tech reviews 2020: “what’s up everybody, today we are going to drop a brand new iPhone 11 from the 47th floor…. woooow, amazing, it shattered… thanks for watching and don’t forget to like and subscribe”
When things were made to last, my Amiga 1200 still works to this day. Breath on a PS4/Xbox One and watch it malfunction
Tony Harris of PCW magazine looks like such a spiv , the Frank Warren of the computer world , wonder if he’s still around , prob running a dodgy used car lot
I am still undecided on which to buy…..
0:24 We’re gonna put him really on the spot, as here are some investigators from Operation Yewtree.
We had the Amstrad CPC 664 with the colour monitor and built in disk drive and an external tape deck for tape games, not as well known as its 464 brother but still good. Great games in their day (The scout steps out, dizzy island, harrier attack etc) but it was a pain when a game crashed whilst loading and you’d have to rewind the tape and start again.
100 pounds of software in the box? Wow, that’s gotta be heavier than the computer itself.
To think my gaming laptop would have been the most powerful computer on Earth at that time.
?18 for QL with those horrid micro drives, I take it they did NOT test it properly, buggy was not the word!… I know a lot about computers even back then and I never had a beard lol my dad taught at Manchester Poly in electronics and software in 1980s and he only had mustache why do they assume we all had beards?? … i hated beards lol and a boring pull over from the 1920s 😀 I admit the BBC was a good micro but Amstrad was a cheap system for entry level .. QL should have went same way as the ZX81 .. … nick named the door stop..pile of tat .. In 1987 I was gonna by QL until I got Tatung Einstein best choice i ever made … £129 for Einstein and £99 for QL .. worth the extra £31 lol it made me what i am today…
4:36 Why are they drawing pentagrams within circles on these things?
Beard is Mandatory. They forgot to mention that!
I thought those were just clucky keyboards 😅
Blimey if you’re tired and can’t sleep, this is well worth playing.
That said, the CPC wins by miles.
Fantastic
For those who love retro computers I made this track tribute to retrogames, their creators and players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM96lC8yQ_4
Imagine let him play GTA V in 4K just after he did this review.
After all these years. We know how tapes and floppy disks have kept up against micro drives. Was a good idea, yet shitty in real life.
Whats with the Pentagram’s
When 1MB of RAM was a lot
When eMail was called Electronic Mail and was actually popular
When GUI was not a thing
Wen my birth was ~20 years away 🙂 (2005)
Guy Kewney. Doing his best, bless him. A mix up lead to him being there instead of the well respected technology expert Guy Goma.
Bbc bias
The days when they had people on who knew what they were on about, instead of requiring them to simply be some irritating personality.