The 1994 Computer Dealers Expo via Computer Chronicles

LGR April 22, 2025
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Video tour of the huge COMDEX convention show floor and its many marvels through the lens of Stewart Cheifet and the Computer Chronicles TV show, with LGR commentary along the way. Pentium laptops, Windows 95, PowerPC systems, PDAs, early wireless tech, odd devices and more! ● LGR things elsewhere: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://bsky.app/profile/lgr-yt.bsky.social ● Other pertinent links: Watch or download the full CC episode here: https://archive.org/details/ComdexSp Timex DataLink on LGR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCHHzw4s5W4 General Magic Magic Link on LGR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opcuy-8VO64 Proxim RangeLAN on LGR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkapxbW93g CRD covers the HP Ominshare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ncp10mIezE ● Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ 00:00 COMDEX! What an event! 01:00 exposition overview 02:08 Intergraph 03:27 1994 was wild 04:30 the show floor 05:18 US Robotics, Prodigy 05:56 Animation Master 06:38 InternetWorks browser 07:25 IBM ThinkPad 755C 08:16 Windows 95 hype 09:14 Softkey 10:00 Avid Media Suite 10:55 Plug and play 11:43 Timex DataLink 12:05 IBM OS/2 13:51 The CPU Wars 14:33 IBM PowerPC 15:23 Altec Lansing clamshells 15:38 Taiwan New PC Consortium 16:26 RenderWare Animated Knight 16:56 NexGen CPUs 18:07 Cyrix M1 chip 18:58 Shelby CRT Cobra 19:18 IBM Simon "smartphone" 20:02 Sharp Wizard OZ 20:26 Sony MagicLink 21:21 CDPD wireless 23:17 Zenith CruisePad 24:09 HP Omnishare 24:40 Lithium ion batteries 25:38 Digital, Tadpole notebooks 26:26 NTK 2X CD-ROM laptop 26:48 Overhead projector laptop 27:27 Media Vision PCMCIA sound 28:23 Spectrum Ring Mouse 29:40 Weird mice, keyboards 30:57 Touchscreen torture 31:11 NCR Write Touch tablet 31:40 talking, secret faxing 32:29 creepy 3D masks 32:47 Phase-Change Dual 33:27 unexpected lederhosen 34:01 Citizen thermal printer 34:28 TOUCH MASSAGER 34:42 outroduction #LGR #retro #convention #technology

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