OMG!!! The memories! At my first job as a programmer in 1981, one of our development systems was exactly this machine. 5 MB hard drive plus a 106 KB 5.25" floppy.
I own one of these machines but have no disk. :( not even a boot disk. It has the green monochrome on it making it the coolest machine in my collection
brings back memories. I had one of those, surplus from Saint Mary's University. 1988 or so, got for free when helping clean out the tech lab. Do you have space war? That was the best game on the 8inch discs. No clue where it is now... those fans sounded like a jet engine.
That's too cool! Was that a 5Mb MFM/RLL hard drive or SCSI drive ? Those quad floppy drivers where a big deal in it's day. I was an ATARI 800 user myself.
Free! It was completely non functional when I bought it. Needed the power supply and keyboard rebuilt, the memory board repaired, and the hard drive and floppy drive maintained. It was also missing a few keys. Very rewarding restoration!
@@timothycolegrove4365 Definitely! That is fantastic going from non functioning. I just had to pass one up on my local market, seller declined a $200 offer for one that looks to be slightly worse condition to your restoration. Back to tinkering with my TDDs lol.
@@deathzombee I actually have an old Minicom IV somewhere. I had the idea that if I were ever to go to a vintage computer fair I would have software running which would use it as a scrolling text display.
"It allows you to select what you're gonna boot off of, and in this case we're gonna boot off of the 5MB hard drive." OK, it's cool that you can eliminate one drive to boot from by saying you're not booting from the hard drive. But why not just state which disk you will boot FROM?
If I were you, I would have shot this video from 10m or more away! -Sarcasm- Taken with the phone, From this distance you can never really appreciate the sharpness of the Vector Graphics, instead it looks to me just like the low resolution of a TRS-80 in ASCII Graphics !!!
"...Disk drive...." (If you were talking about the _floppy_ disk drive, then...) * _"Floppy_ disk drive" (to compare with the *hard* disk drive that's also there).
3:56 That doesn't look like vector graphics. The whole point of vector systems is supposed to be the ability to show diagonals and arcs (including circles) without the tell-tale stairstep jaggedness of pixels.
just want to point out that it is an act of unmitigated gall to name your company Vector Graphics and then have your actual machines all run raster graphics...
OMG!!! The memories! At my first job as a programmer in 1981, one of our development systems was exactly this machine. 5 MB hard drive plus a 106 KB 5.25" floppy.
For a machine called Vector Graphic, it's sure making raster graphics!
Wow, that machine is beautiful!
Beautiful piece of kit. Well done for restoring it and take care of it!
5Megabytes who would ever need that much space??? LOL!!!
I own one of these machines but have no disk. :( not even a boot disk. It has the green monochrome on it making it the coolest machine in my collection
That Keyboard sounds amazing
That was my first computer, also had a vector graphic 4 machine
That's a nice machine!
you came a long way baby
brings back memories. I had one of those, surplus from Saint Mary's University. 1988 or so, got for free when helping clean out the tech lab. Do you have space war? That was the best game on the 8inch discs. No clue where it is now... those fans sounded like a jet engine.
I see the 80 x 24 display hasn’t changed that much in 40 years!
Thanks for sharing - I would love to own one of these!
Wow.
That’s awesome.
The 8" 5MB HD and very DOS-like CP/M takes me back a bit.
actually it is other way around, the DOS is like CP/M which a knock off is based on. CP/M is the origin of microcomputer operating systems.
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 Yes I'm aware CP/M was before DOS, I was just saying that CP/M is very similar to it imho.
Hate to be that person who points out the obvious but the company Vector Graphics really shouldn't have made RASTER graphics
And how did you replace the capacitive foam pads for the keyboard? Thanks.
Раритетная техника, хотел бы я такую иметь...
wow i had 2 of these long time ago. an a bunch of parts. was fixn' them to get me thru school. ! Odd disks thou
Hate to say it but I remember throwing out my father’s pristine Vectorgraphics computer. It looked the same as this one.
Do you know where I might find service info on a Vector Graphic Model 4? Thanks!
That's too cool! Was that a 5Mb MFM/RLL hard drive or SCSI drive ? Those quad floppy drivers where a big deal in it's day. I was an ATARI 800 user myself.
a 5mb hard drive on a '79? i had my first hard drive in '94 in an amiga 600!
40mb i thought i would never fill...
"[CP/M is] a little bit like DOS.'"
It's actually a LOT like (MS-)DOS.
do you mind sharing what price you picked this up for?
Free! It was completely non functional when I bought it. Needed the power supply and keyboard rebuilt, the memory board repaired, and the hard drive and floppy drive maintained. It was also missing a few keys. Very rewarding restoration!
@@timothycolegrove4365 Definitely! That is fantastic going from non functioning. I just had to pass one up on my local market, seller declined a $200 offer for one that looks to be slightly worse condition to your restoration. Back to tinkering with my TDDs lol.
@@deathzombee I actually have an old Minicom IV somewhere. I had the idea that if I were ever to go to a vintage computer fair I would have software running which would use it as a scrolling text display.
"It allows you to select what you're gonna boot off of, and in this case we're gonna boot off of the 5MB hard drive." OK, it's cool that you can eliminate one drive to boot from by saying you're not booting from the hard drive. But why not just state which disk you will boot FROM?
If I were you, I would have shot this video from 10m or more away!
-Sarcasm-
Taken with the phone, From this distance you can never really appreciate the sharpness of the Vector Graphics, instead it looks to me just like the low resolution of a TRS-80 in ASCII Graphics !!!
"...Disk drive...."
(If you were talking about the _floppy_ disk drive, then...) * _"Floppy_ disk drive" (to compare with the *hard* disk drive that's also there).
Dude, why don't you SIT DOWN and SIT STILL so the computer and screen are close up?
3:56 That doesn't look like vector graphics. The whole point of vector systems is supposed to be the ability to show diagonals and arcs (including circles) without the tell-tale stairstep jaggedness of pixels.
You are correct. The company was called "Vector Graphic" but the system is not capable of vector graphics.
@@timothycolegrove4365 I have a the same machine running off dual floppies I would really like to have the demo software is it available anywhere?
@@JeremyThorntonMSc deramp.com/downloads/vector_graphic/software/
"vector" raster screen rofl
just want to point out that it is an act of unmitigated gall to name your company Vector Graphics and then have your actual machines all run raster graphics...