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2018 saw yet another big budget take on the legendary English outlaw, Robin Hood. This particular version is mostly noteworthy for painfully crashing and burning at the box office for reasons both many and varied. The film is indeed rife with problems, including in its historical details. In today's video we are going to look at the top ten painful anachronisms that we noticed in it. Were the historical inaccuracies the reason why Robin Hood failed? Undoubtedly not, but since this channel is run by nitpicking history nerds... ;) Interestingly, Adobe Premiere gave no end of trouble editing this, with multiple crashes and such pronounced instability that it had to be reinstalled, which unfortunately did not fully fix the issue. So apparently even software doesn't want anything to do with this film.

2018 saw yet another big budget take on the legendary English outlaw, Robin Hood. This particular version is mostly noteworthy for painfully crashing and burning at the box office for reasons both many and varied. The film is indeed rife with problems, including in its historical details. In today's video we are going to look at the top ten painful anachronisms that we noticed in it. Were the historical inaccuracies the reason why Robin Hood failed? Undoubtedly not, but since this channel is run by nitpicking history nerds... ;) Interestingly, Adobe Premiere gave no end of trouble editing this, with multiple crashes and such pronounced instability that it had to be reinstalled, which unfortunately did not fully fix the issue. So apparently even software doesn't want anything to do with this film...

In this second installment of the Rise and Fall of the IBM PC series, we will be taking a look at the rise of the IBM Compatible clone market and how it seized control of the IBM PC standard away from IBM itself, relegating IBM to just another PC manufacturer. We cover events up to IBM's decision to release OS/2 and the PS/2 line of computers, which is where the next part will pick up. I would be remiss if I did not mention the enormous help that Jeff Duntemann (a man who went head to head with Bill Gates in programming and is an expert on legacy computing) was in helping me understand just what the BIOS did on legacy PCs and how it interacted with the OS and the hardware. He was kind enough to respond to not only answer my questions regarding the BIOS, but also gave me a massive amount of useful information, some of which will be appearing in future planned videos.

Have you ever heard of a Yak 3, a Ilyushin Il-2, or a Polikarpov I-16? The air war on the eastern front in World War 2 doesn't get nearly the press that other sectors of the conflict receive. Yet the Soviets had a large air force and made major advances in airplane design throughout the war, eventually reaching parity with the Luftwaffe. This video is a brief overview of the major Soviet planes from the start of the war through the end, together with some comparisons with their German counterparts.

Steve Jobs was an enormously influential figure in the history of personal computing, not only as a founder of Apple computer, but also as the man who significantly changed the way we experience computing, music, communications, and media. But in between introducing the Macintosh in 1984 and the iMac in 1998, Jobs went through an interesting but rarely covered period in life where he was essentially fired from Apple and started a new computer company called NeXT. His goal was to repeat his success with the Macintosh and bring to market an entirely new platform that would go as far beyond the Macintosh as the Macintosh had gone beyond the IBM PCs.

Most people are unaware that Apple has its own relational database that dates back to the 1980s and today is up to version 18 and is used by tens of thousands of people world wide, with over 24 million total copies delivered since its inception. The version of FileMaker we are unboxing today is FileMaker Pro 2.1, which was released as a small update to FileMaker Pro 2(1992) in 1993. This version of FileMaker Pro 2 came still sealed in its original box, and we will be doing a full unboxing, review, and demonstration of it. The demonstration Macintosh is a PowerBook G3 "Lombard" with a 400 mhz PowerPC processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a 4 GB hard drive.