LGR - Strangest Computer Designs of the 90's

Ha! I see you are actually doing it! That is so awesome :)

Ant Field

Great episode, thanks, never get tired of stuff like this.

Kevin Furr

That's some weird stuff for sure... Never thought that such things could exist... XD The corner thingy was just amazingly bad designed... It's like "we made it! Yay!" *pops champagne* "wait... Oh well... Too late..."

Alessandro Perlini

Absolutely love weird crap like this. Definitely want to see more!

Ian Larrea

Indeed it did! Along with the SE, PowerBook Duo, and Mac 6100. Always enjoy seeing the changing Apple computers in the background of the show.

LGR

It'd be so great to customize with modern hardware

LGR

:) Certainly considering it.

LGR

Thanks for the input!

LGR

Whoa, never heard of it! Awesome-looking thing.

LGR

I STILL want it!

LGR

Yay, semi-useless knowledge! :D

LGR

Oh my, I never even thought there might be a different shape of computer other than that white, slow cube. I've learned a thing today!

Sabrina

Oh god I remember that Hot Wheels pc, whats worse is I remember wanting it ._.

SinKillerJ Tachikawa

What do you make of the Amiga Walker (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Walker)?" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Walker)?</a>

The TAM certainly has some weird aesthetic choices, when you consider the Mac LC500 and Power Mac 5000 series that came before it were also all-in-one, and actually looked kinda cool.

RetroSwim

Did you ever end up finding a multisync monitor to go with your MegaPC, Clint?

RetroSwim

That was fascinating. More please. Thank you.

Gary Leigh

This was great. Yes, please do more archeology of this stuff!

Josh Lawrence

I would totally rock one of those Hot Wheels cases. Ha!

Ant Field

I was familiar with some of these, but there were a few I've never heard of before. Fun fact: the 20th anniversary Mac served as Jerry's computer on Seinfeld for a while!

Love it. Make more. Kthxbye. ;)

DGDW (Derek G. Weber)

Just memories and exploring the depths of archive.org, haha

LGR

please dig up more stuff, man where did you found all this? Was it burryd in your yawn? (I think my english broke there for a sec, sorry)

Ezydenias

The Teradrive looks like such a fantastic machine, one of my holy grails for sure. Speaking of, I really need to do a video on my Amstrad Mega PC, which I mentioned briefly! It's a lot of fun as well.

LGR

It's such a hideous monster that it's kind've adorable.

LGR

I have felt inspired! Thank you.

LGR

Thank you! I've certainly got ideas for other decades and similar products.

LGR

Everything I've read agrees with your sentiment, haha. I still would love to own one someday.

LGR

I had that "corner" packard bell. My first computer actually. didn't fit on my desk well at all, really hard to stick the floppy disks in, I had to pull the computer to the side first.

Brojaye

It seems like it would be turning a fridge into the nightmare that printers are now. Too complicated and bound for failure. At least broken printers don't smell like rotten food.

Kevin

I really liked this video. I really hope you do this for other decades too. I love oddities and things that break the established order. That's why I love your Oddware series so much too. I can't wait for more Oddware.

Kevin

I think the Hotwheels PC looks cool as hell. Too bad it sounds like they didn't hardly work whatsoever.

Andrew Lentz

Friggin neato!

Mark Whitbeck

Awesome...pure gold!

Chad Keck

That Presario 3020 you can just hear it screaming, Kill Meee!

Michael Lamartina

Great video !!! I love IT !

Oh God that Hot Wheels PC...I didn't even know it had a Barbie variant, let alone how much of a monstrous disaster it was. I must admit the Packard Bell Corner PC always looked kinda cool, though. Thank you, blessed 90s, for giving us some of the most hideous abortions of tech design, second only to the early 2000s.

SwissArmyTin

Ahh the 90s. Some 'wonderful' experiments there. Though, you do have to give it to Sega & IBM with the Teradrive - especially making it a compact development environment - something which would have been very handy for games studios of the time. But that's exclusively about the only win here - most of the others… are probably best left to the mists of time.

Rob Caporetto

You've been keeping busy. Wonderful video.

Zabe

It took me a while to find one again, and I paid like a $100 on eBay for the one I got. I couldn't pass it up because I wanted my childhood machine back. Hehe, things we do for Nostalgia. Hopefully you can find one too! I'll definitely let you know if I see one somewhere. :)

ReeseRiverson

I want one of those earlier Acer PCs so badly!

LGR

Oh cool, you captured the Acer computer (25 seconds in) that was the same as our first computer ever! Except it had a slower Pentium than that. Hehe But yeah that Packard Bell corner PC was a weird one!

ReeseRiverson

I admit, I've always liked the G3 iMac style. I even like it now, despite it screaming 90s and early 00s nowadays. I wanted one when I was younger but my parents are hardcore PC people so it didn't happen, haha.

Lindsay Michelle

Thanks for the feedback!

LGR

I like this idea, and this is me letting you know.

Matthew Dooley

Heh, during the 90's especially the "forward-thinking" designs were just so off the wall. Even Apple's G3 iMac, which was futuristic at the time, looks really silly now if you ask me.

LGR

These either look blatantly from the 90s, a poor attempt at being "futuristic," or both. I swear every time people try to make tech that's forward-thinking, all the stuff that fails just looks so awkward stylistically... and from what I can tell from this video, this is especially true if it's from the 90s! >.<

Lindsay Michelle