It seems pretty good to me, or at least my local one is. Best Buy is in a solid niche between, say, Micro Center and Walmart.

For fun, when a drug ad comes on I often search <drug name> + “price”. A thousand dollars a month? No wonder you can afford all these ads.

Now that software is so easily changed with almost no effort, the real test of engineering maturity will be in resisting the siren song of change.

What a nice time capsule. All praise to the cameraman for doing long steady shots and not replacing the audio with music or commentary.

It makes me wonder if this is B-roll footage for a news piece.

From the first graph, "The footage was captured by a CBS news team"

Indeed.

It seems exactly like what you’d get from a decent “prosumer” video camera then.

Which has kind of always been the lower end of the ENG market ;-)

It seems like the kind of thing you’d get at a company party then, say for meeting a milestone.

It was the typical way to connect a TV to an Apple. I used one before I bought a monitor.

Maybe 'typical' only in the very early days? I just never saw one plugged into a television rather than a computer monitor, nor did I ever hear about such a thing. I would have loved to play those games in color.

I feel very old.

We are both old, buddy. My dad bought this pretty loaded used system from a 'hacker', so at least I can post about z80 softcards and etc.

Unironic use of CP/M qualifies you as O.G.!

And maybe comedy, not tragedy!

That's the Ask Tog "study"[1]. It wasn't programmers, just regular users. The problem is he just says it, and of course Apple at the time of the Macintosh's development would have a strong motivation to prove mousing superior to keyboarding to skeptical users. Additionally, the experience level of the users was never specified.

[1]: https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

This suprises me because at the time user interfaces were optimised for keyboard - the only input device most people had. Also screen resolutions were lower so there were fewer things you could click on anyway.

These should become a permanent part of our profiles. :-)