Retro Tech Tuesday: Apple IIe Promo Video

Last week, we shared a news segment evaluating the laserdisc format, compared to VHS. Coincidentally, this week we bring you a video from a laserdisc, showing off the nifty features and add-ons of the Apple IIe. Of special interest/amusement will be the size of the external hard drive. We won't ruin the surprise, except to say they excitedly mention you can store up to 2400 text pages on it! Get out those rainbow-colored logos kids, we're going to the 80's!

Retro Tech Tuesday: WGRZ-TV Kills The Laserdisc

Is this it? Is this the smoking gun revealing why laserdisc players never took off? We will let you be the judge, as this segment from WGRZ-TV in Buffalo shows why you might want to stick with your VCR. Granted it's the early 1990's, and they didn't want to talk solely about the Buffalo Bills then (or now, for that matter), but could the laserdisc have reigned supreme, at least until the "bag of hurt" known as blu-ray arrived?