LGR Oddware - IBM 8516 Touchscreen CRT Monitor

When this released in 1991 it cost $1,695 and was used in universities, businesses, and even the Barcelona Olympics! So let's see how it does playing Duke3D and SimCity. Because Oddware.

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Downtown Alley 1, Not That Serious 2, Time For Spring 1

[LGR]

To answer the inevitable questions: *no, it doesn't work with modern Windows.*
As described in the video, the drivers are only for DOS, Windows 3, and OS/2. On a newer system it just works the same as any other monitor, no touch enabled. Unless someone more skilled than me develops software for it of course, and I'd be happy to test that out if it happens :)

[austinprunty]

I keep seeing comments of "So IBM did it before Apple ?". Look the answer to your question is yes, everyone did everything before Apple

[RobertCrowther]

The wobbly table gives it a more authentic retro feel

[emilyofjane]

It always fascinates me that the “cutting-edge“ technology we have today has actually been around for decades. Like that z-axis action? That’s literally an early version of 3D touch! I just think that’s amazing, you know? That this technology has existed for years -- sometimes even decades -- before it became mainstream.

[BigRed]

the 90s .... you pay 3000$ for something new and radical and all you can do with it is play telephone dialer.

[martinj]

I remember in school my computer lab had one of single computer with one of these and everyone fought over who'd get to use it even though it never made anything easier.
I also remember one time we had to make a calendar for the October, and one of the clip art images in the program we had was, what my innocent mind thought was a melted candle, so I covered the entire outside of my calendar with a ton of them... I mean literally like a hundred just slapped overtop of each other the whole way around... Only after id gotten it back I realized that it was really supposed to be a sculpture of a naked female body from the thighs to the neck. Needless to say I wish I could know what my third grade teacher thought when she flipped to my Halloween themed calendar with a boatload of sets of perky tits outlining the thing.

[BuildItnow]

so IBM was doing force touch 20 years before apple, neat!

[connormason]

IBM over-engineered everything they make and that's why I love their products

[coachrenaldo]

The laugh LGR makes when he realized that Duke Nukem 3D works on the computer cracks me up.

[DustinRodriguez_]

When I was in junior high school, the teacher of the computer class won the AT&T Technology Teacher of the Year award. As a result, several companies gave our school various things. One of the things was an IBM system that connected to a Laserdisc player. I seem to recall being told at the time that it was a $30k+ system. It ran OS/2 (I THINK this was pre-Warp but might be wrong... this would have been somewhere around 1993-1995) and also had a special floppy drive that read regular 3.5" floppies as well as some sort of optical floppies that stored more data. It was a pretty interesting system but didn't have a ton of software due to it being OS/2. The only time I recall ever seeing the Laserdisc part used was when an external TV was hooked up and some educational/history stuff was run that included video parts. I got to play with the system, but don't recall anything particularly fun except finding out you could hard crash that version of OS/2 by not having a floppy in the drive but trying to read it anyway.

[MegaManNeo]

My childhood self that draws endless hours in paint would have love this monitor.

[Zizzily]

I love all the people in the comments being shocked by touchscreen CRTs. Seemed like in the '90s and early '00s that places like museums and government places wanted to show off that they were using modern technology with something that had a touchscreen, even if it was just an interactive directory or something.

[molivil]

As far as I remember, SFX self extracting archives (just like PKUNZIP) needed to be run with the /D parameter to extract directory/subdirectory information. Cheers.

[theodoreking]

When I was young my school had touch screen PC's and we had one crt. Everytime I got the crt. I would touch the screen and I would always get a shock

That Duke Nukem playthrough had me laughing hysterically... I'm really glad I found your channel.

[Andromedax]

Should've played leisure suit larry... Touch that screen. You know you want it.

[AmyraCarter]

Yes, I've used one of these. A relative even had one and because they smoked and never properly maintained any of their hardware, it eventually caught fire.
Lesson: Tobacco is bad for everyone, including electronics.

[Froban]

This ain't "but can it run Crysis?" On LGR, it's "but can it run Duke Nukem 3D?"

[Kylehudgins]

This video brought back memories I had as a child playing with a touchscreen computer at Burger King. It had Kids Club theming and for the last two hours I’ve tried to find any information about it and sadly it’s been lost to time. :(

[orionx]

That Duke Nukeem impersonation was 12/10