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When you say "the '80s" do you mean literally from the period between 1980 and 1989? That has to be off by 5-10 years because in 1989 I was rocking out with 4-
by jessedhillon 15y ago
When you say "the '80s" do you mean literally from the period between 1980 and 1989?
That has to be off by 5-10 years because in 1989 I was rocking out with 4-color CGA graphics on my 286 (with the turbo button), and maybe a 386 with a 256-color VGA was state of the art back then. Embedded cameras in consumer devices were sufficiently far off to be considered sci-fi, as was the idea of real-time video streaming.
I know you said it was a concept device, but it would have been a big stretch given where we were at that time. IIRC, 1GB drives were going to debut in a few years at $1000.
- hugh3 15y agoNo, I think I remember this video, though it would have been very late 80s, and I remember it as being from Apple. Of course it was just a video done with special effects, no part of the device was real. It was a big flat computer built into a desktop, and the person interacted with it for a while using fingers and voice commands before receiving a video call from somebody. Those things seemed a long way off at the time, but certainly not unimaginably far off. It was probably pretty damn close to actual present-day technology, but of course we've learned since then that things that may seem spiffy such as voice-controlled computers and video chat aren't nearly as useful as we thought they might be before we had them.
- Shebanator 15y agoYes, I remember this video too. I think it was part of the Information At Your Fingertips speech at Comdex in 1990. http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/05/information_at.html http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/05/information_a...
- teilo 15y agoIt wasn't a real device. It was done with special effects, to show what might be possible in the future.