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#3184743 - 01/20/11 11:14 PM Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990)
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I'm sure this has been posted here before, but I couldn't find it in a search. It's a show produced in San Mateo that covered all sorts of computer topics, and this episode from 1990 is all about flight simulators, "the best selling category of entertainment software for years," as of 1990.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8688029843119861402#

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#3184831 - 01/21/11 04:29 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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Thanks for the post, brilliant stuff, some real FS gold, and quite amusing when they are talking of the specs etc hehe.
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#3184852 - 01/21/11 05:05 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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I recall how wonderful it was to see the evolution of the technology back then - like the terrain, the cockpits, the framerate - of course I saw most of it through magazines. Stuff was expensive back then.
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#3184877 - 01/21/11 05:38 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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Originally Posted By: Arthonon
I'm sure this has been posted here before, but I couldn't find it in a search. It's a show produced in San Mateo that covered all sorts of computer topics, and this episode from 1990 is all about flight simulators, "the best selling category of entertainment software for years," as of 1990.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8688029843119861402#

A blast from the past...


yeah, someone posted that vid here in the past. Seeing this stuff makes me cry thinking of how much good stuff we have lost! Adults having calm, informed discussions about flight sims on a television show!? unbelievable in this day!
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#3185106 - 01/21/11 09:30 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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Wow Great Stuff! Thanks for posting. Loved seeing the Flight Sim Software packaged in big boxes with big manuals and maps at the Computer Air Show site. The good ol days.
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#3185149 - 01/21/11 10:22 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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OMG! They actually said "realistic graphics"! And 386. Wow! We sure came a long way!
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#3185160 - 01/21/11 10:30 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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As soon as I saw the title of the thread, I could hear the title music playing in my head.
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#3185165 - 01/21/11 10:39 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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LOL at the dogfight they had between the female presenter and Gilman Louie rofl

Grunting,going 'oooh' and saying 'take that you dirt bag' made me pmsl.


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#3185173 - 01/21/11 10:43 AM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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I used to have that on VHS. lol

That was back when I belonged to a IBM PC Users Group. We used to meet the third Wednesday of the month. Lotus 1,2,3 and OS/2 was Huge then. lol


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#3185340 - 01/21/11 01:21 PM Re: Computer Chronicles - Flight Simulators (1990) [Re: Arthonon]
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OMG that was great.

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