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Self sufficient, doesn't require access to the Internet, and doesn't require a monthly fee to use. Butler In A Box seems very cool, and definitely before its time. Pretty unfair to rant about the price increases during the 80's — everything was shooting up in price during that time due to Reagan-era inflation.
You should check what home automatisation costs 😀
🤣 The fact that memory wipes when you un*plug it is the stuff of nightmares.
we are adults, and still getting schooled by dad.
I think I made something with similar technology in windows 98 when siri is still not invented yet, its one of microsoft hidden voice api, where you can record anything and it recognize it as a symbol and you can use that symbol to do anything in the computer, its hard to train, recognizing words are hit/miss but it sometimes work.
fyi, its not a ghost story, its quite popular in the forums
the old tech had better voice , today we get politically correct voices
I saw something same in the movie.. Electric Dreams in 1984😅😊😂😂
could've been 9min
How thw hell do you not have a land line? Almost anywhere still has those unless your place was built in the last 10 years. Also you got this on ebay and couldent pick up a cassette player too?
Just I found this video and it is sad that you speak so bad about this engineering marvel.
We had wealthy friends back in the day 1988 seen it..growing up we thought these innovative tech was normal..think I even seen one at a thrift stores in 90s or not too long ago..yea around 2017 it's like we went back in progress..all the flagship tvs had 3d built into starting in 2011- 15… transparent tvs are old in my memory I visited china town in LA in 2004 electronic store they had a laptop running the standard windows fish tank it could play a video on transparent led tv way back then.i was very confident in 2015 when I sold my 3d Samsung plasma tv that the 3d feature would continue..no it didn't..lol..but were back on track now holograms..
LG crazy $20 grand transparent tv…lol..you can get one from Asia for under $1000.. straight jokers yo.
New channel? Let's begin.
I never had one but I have a big nostalgia coming
10 years from now. Man can you imagine having a modem?
I just love the voice from it, it sounds so good
Well done! Your points at the end about how many trailblazers do all the hard work and don't get the payoffs is really pretty sad. I think TiVo is another example of this. They made something so groundbreaking for the home consumer that it became a verb for recording a show at home. Then cable companies started offering DVR's and that really hurt TiVo. TiVo will always have a soft spot in my heart though. I was one of those folks who bought it when it first came out…$600 and it recorded a whopping 4 hours of content in high quality mode. Ahhh, how far we've come!
where does he keep looking at off the camera? this guy is very jittery
In about the same, 1983, Mattel electronics made a speech recognition device for the TI-99/4a home computer. Combined with the speech capabilities of the TI, it made for a very immersive experience in the games that supported it. I'll bet the Butler in a Box used the same basic components for speech recognition. The X11 wireless standard for controlling devices still lives today, making any working Butler in a Box still useful… at least with a large UPS attached for power outages.
That packing foam is almost half a century old 🤯😭
I love it
Should've asked chatGPT to interpret the manual for you….
I’m 22.. X10 ran my whole house when I was really young. I remember messing around with it when I was 5 and making random things light up or turn on in different rooms.
We didnt have anything like this as the controller tho.. the main controller looked like a sort of souped up clock thing to program each address.. no need for this voice activated complication lol.
The whole system ran really well and was incredibly ahead of its time.
Conclusion
The Butler in a Box was an innovative piece of technology for its time, providing voice-activated control over home devices. However, it was not an AI in the modern sense. It relied on programmed voice recognition and did not have learning capabilities or the ability to understand natural language. It serves as a historical example of early attempts at creating voice-controlled systems and highlights the significant advancements that have been made in the field of artificial intelligence and home automation.
A.I OR HOME AUTOMATION SETUP?
CHAT GPT 4.0 STATES THAT:
22 Minutes to 40 seconds read first then thank chat gpt. 🙂
I never had a butler, but I did have an x10 in the 90s I thought those were so cool. Back when radio shack was sill a thing.
I guarantee it will get a Wikipedia page now.
Good on you for giving some love to an obscure precursor to commonplace technology we all take for granted now.
It needed an UPS
Mr Belvedere? Was that an American Pie reference?
In the future we will have computers in our pockets.
Those were EASY and well written instructions compared to most equipment of that time. Ever have to learn assembly lang to setup a vic20 to a 1200baud pre-modem 😅
I swear we peaked in the 80s
Remember the amiga 500 chatbot called Alan 1?
to learn the art of stalling… see this channel. always stalling 😅😅
22min and NEVER HE SHOW the product in operation. BiG FAiL !!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember seeing this in the 1980s homeshow.
@03:40 HOOOLY MOOLLYYY!!!!!!!!!! Is there something modern black robot that could impregnate me?!?!?!!? I would love it!!!!! 😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
RS232 (the protocol, and the often-associated DB9 connector – but to a lesser extent) is alive and well and still in use in many modern devices today.
Yea… Idk why everyone acts like people r be coming more I telligent…. Bak in the day when electronics first came out…EVERYTHING electronic with instructions was practically unknown hyrogliphics to a NON TECH enthusiast … So if u weren't educated in the "way of tech" u basically couldn't do it … But that DOES NOT mean thing I probably thought WERENT NOT POSSIBLE back then…it entirely was. You just needed to understand coding… Now days everything has been coded by a GENIOUS to make it possible for YOU to use …. So all in all what I'm saying is this isn't that surprising to me being 39 and having been into electronics since it basically began…I knew the future was coming cause I understood the capability when I saw what was being done And having a pretty good imagination I knew what was possible…
Fuck me I came up with a pair of Bluetooth earbuds in like 94 … Just weren't bluetooth…cause it didn't exist.
And I had no idea for real time vr goggles that would track the movement of a pair of gloves and would let u edit the sky and or w.e was in the view finder in real time
Even thought as far ahead to think of a color for the gloves that the goggles would take into around nd edit out of the view…
Ugh FML…. I'm a loser drug addict now
What a waste
Ps…not saying i been arround since electronics began lmao…but basicaly from the beginning of home cocmputers and internet
20:45 This isn't a tech video. It's a ghost story. 😀
Oh dear. ^^
It's unhackable!
it was a very nice content