It’s 1999 and America’s Store Wants to Sells You a Power Up! Computer Over the Local Airwaves
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- In early April of 1999, in the wee hours of the morning, the local ABC affiliate WMTW Channel 8 in Maine switches to America's Store. America's Store is a subdivision of the Home Shopping Network. A deal of a lifetime is about to be offered...
433 Mhz Intel Celeron Mini Tower
12GB Hard drive
??? MB RAM... Some!
Windows 98
104 Key Keyboard
Scroll Mouse
15" or 17" monitor options
Powered satellite speakers
Lexmark 1100 Color Printer
31 titles of software... a bundle of dubious qualities - Розваги
@19:16 LOL Y2K compliant! Heck yeah!
This guy says so many funny and wrong things!
Is this one of those shopping channels?
I'm not sure if we had them here in the 90s.
Well, maybe QVC.🤔
Tell you what I'm watching at the minute. Remember, the day after?
I remember hearing about it, but never seen it.
I was watching a podcast yesterday and it was mentioned. I didn't realise that 100 million Americans tuned in to watch it.
It was shown here, but we had our own version called, threads.
Yup, this was a division of HSN over here.
So, I don’t recall watching The Day After, but I was aware of it. I’ll look up the TV listings in the Google newspaper archives tomorrow for when it was on to see what was on the other stations. I was probably watching the A-Team or something. I do remember they were always scaring us kids about nuclear war in the 80s. I’m sure I had a few sleepless nights thinking about it back then.
@@RetroGamingNook 1983 was it's release.
It was shown in the uk a month after apparently.
Lol, yeah, they loved to scare us too.
We had those drills in school about hiding under your desk, or if at home you get in the doorway, lol.
My grandparents still had a bomb shelter from the second world war, although it probably wouldn't have done us much good, lol.
Our town was hit by the luftwaffe in WII so most houses had bomb shelters dug in the back garden's.😂
@@TheRetroManRandySavage This is interesting. So looking up the old newspaper listings for my hometown, this ABC movie ran Sunday night opposite a US/UK mini-series called Kennedy on NBC and the TV show Alice on CBS... Based on that maybe my parents were watching it... We would have only had one TV at this time. I'll have to watch the whole thing to see if it brings back any locked away memories. I will definitely also check out Threads.
@@RetroGamingNook dang! You can find, "tv guides" going back to 83?
Yeah, I doubt my dad was watching it. He was probably in the pub when it aired, lol.
Doubtful my mum watched it. I definitely wouldn't have. I didn't start watching adult stuff till about 85 when my dad had me and my sister watch, a nightmare on elm Street, poltergeist, and terminator.
All I remember watching before 85 were cartoons, sesame Street and fraggle rock.😂
I haven't seen threads either. I'll watch it after the day after. There is about 30 minutes left of that. I'm just about to finish it.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage yup, google newspaper archives has most of the news papers digitized for my home town for my whole childhood. I go back to see where I saw a movie if I can’t remember. It’s crazy to see ads for stores and the malls that are gone or local news stories from when I was a kid I didn’t know about. All the funny pages are intact too.