Ghosts of Tokyo Tech Past - The Computer Chronicles Visits Japan For Expo ‘85

As with many nerds my age, The Computer Chronicles was one of my favorite show growing up. I learned many things and shared them with my nerdy friends. Fun was had.

However, I don’t remember the episode below and I’m probably better for it. I think I might’ve exploded. This is pure mid-80s robot bliss. Not even Beyond 2000 could take on the awesomeness contained in the thirty minutes below.

As for now, there’s a lot of retro thrills here: the premiere of the Jumbotron, the MagLev train, the communications devices. And of course, the predictions of robots taking over. Which as we know is still at least five years away.


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In case you’re as big a fan of The Computer Chronicles as I am, you can watch the entire series at the Internet Archive. It’s kinda awesome that way.

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11 Responses to “Ghosts of Tokyo Tech Past - The Computer Chronicles Visits Japan For Expo ‘85”

Luke November 16th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

Fiber Optics laid down in 85′? Dude. We seriously are behind schedule. No wonder they get 100 Mbps up/down.

mexist November 17th, 2007 at 3:04 am

hah! did you see the kid’s head pop up at 40 seconds? that was subtle…

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Jabjabs November 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 am

Hawt dawg, I’m a huge fan of the computer chronicles, I’ve got the entirety of whats on archive.org and I’m glad to see that it’s been uploaded else where.

bobby December 24th, 2007 at 1:34 am

wow, i actually visited tsukuba expo all those years ago! (grew up on a US military base outside of tokyo) the only thing i remember though was a demo of a computer graphics program that morphed people’s faces. what a flashback.

Computer February 26th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

Time will only tell. These fiber optics communications will be replaced by wireless ones in the future. Although as of the moment, wireless communications is slower than cables, engineers are always studying on ways to improve mankind’s communication connectivity.

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