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00:00:24:On the retro-gadget enthusiasts - Pawel Szot
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00:00:30:iPhone, iPod and iPad
00:00:32:epochal inventions that pushed the world of consumer electronics light years ahead.
00:00:37:15 years ago no one expected
00:00:39:mobile phone to be something more than just a phone,
00:00:43:but today, as the world is flooded with gadgets
00:00:45:people still miss the time when the electronic revolution
00:00:48:was just starting.
00:00:55:The newest of these computers was made in the middle of nineties.
00:00:58:The have no hard disks, no LCD screens
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00:01:02:However, they possess something else
00:01:04:Everything, that modern PCs lacks
00:01:06:First of all, childhood memories
00:01:08:I've been given the first Atari
00:01:11:as the first Holy Communion gift from my parents
00:01:13:Since then my enchantment in Atari didn't fade, it thrives instead.
00:01:18:There are hundreds of similar retro hotheads in Poland
00:01:21:They meet regularly and discuss the old, good times
00:01:25:when only two computer manufactures were of great importance
00:01:28:The rival company Commodore
00:01:30:has been releasing its products at the more or less the same time
00:01:32:in order to compete with Atari
00:01:33:(Michal Michalowski - Atari computer hothead)
00:01:34:There was small Atari, there was Commodore 64
00:01:36:There was Atari ST, there was Amiga 500
00:01:38:There was Atari Falcon 030, there was also Amiga 1200
00:01:41:and that was competition.
00:01:43:Unfortunately, because of that
00:01:45:both companies became bankrupt
00:01:47:and they no longer produce computer.
00:01:51:But the fondness remains.
00:01:52:Old memories from struggling with friends
00:01:54:My fried had a Commodore 64, I had Atari
00:01:57:Who has better games?
00:01:58:Who has better sound?
00:01:59:Who has better graphics?
00:02:01:Sure, today there is no struggling anymore
00:02:04:but some magical memories remain.
00:02:06:The magic of retro games, which on the contrary to the modern ones
00:02:11:trained the imagination as well as the eyes.
00:02:15:But it's not only entertainment that experiences the revival
00:02:20:"Good bye our Odra, our pleasant friend"
00:02:23:This is how the last of the working Odra computer in Poland was said goodbye to.
00:02:27:This device was produced at the heyday of  the Edward Gierek epoch
00:02:30:Today the computer professional - Marek Barabasz
00:02:32:repairs Odra in the museum at Lower Silesia region
00:02:35:This is the CPU
00:02:38:Nowadays it looks like this.
00:02:42:In the seventies it looked like this.
00:02:45:Very simple components were used to build it.
00:02:48:What lies here is a memory module
00:02:51:equivalent of today BIOS.
00:02:55:Such computer is far more slower than simple mobile phone
00:02:58:with all peripherals it occupies the entire room
00:03:01:it needs a lot of power and makes intensive noise.
00:03:05:For 34 years it worked for Polish Railroads analyzing data
00:03:08:and calculates the optimal set of engines and cars.
00:03:12:It has even been connected to the Internet.
00:03:14:Three of such computers made the core
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00:03:18:of the first computer network in this part of the world.
00:03:21:It has a long history.
00:03:25:It's a good piece of work.
00:03:29:Also the mobile phones went through the similar evolution
00:03:33:Need proof? See the collection in one of the commission shops in Lodz
00:03:36:It's a pity to throw such things away. After all, they are still operational.
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00:03:40:Customers bought new devices
00:03:42:and left the old ones here
00:03:45:so we started to arrange them in our shop.
00:03:49:First mobile phones weighted more than few kilograms
00:03:51:and were carried in special briefcases.
00:03:53:Then came the miniaturization.
00:03:55:"You don't even remember how to open it"
00:03:57:Even though this hardware is useless nowadays
00:04:00:it still attracts a lot of attention.
00:04:02:Well, people even want to buy them.
00:04:03:A lot of interesting memories are bound to these phones
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00:04:06:People like to look at it, to examine and say
00:04:09:I used to have such one. It was something.
00:04:12:Collecting the retro-hardware is not just a hobby
00:04:16:Not long ago NASA has been purchasing CPU's from the eighties
00:04:20:in order to secure spare parts for space shuttles.
00:04:23:They have been designed to use the components available in the past
00:04:27:but they worked so well that no one thought about modernization.
00:04:31:Pawel Szot, TVP Info
00:04:35:Quite a recall we made here...
