The 8-Bit Guy
American YouTuber
David Murray (born 1975), professionally known as The 8-Bit Guy, is an American retrocomputing enthusiast and video game developer who runs a YouTube channel under the same name.
Content and history
Murray launched his YouTube channel in 2006 under the username adric22. He worked on repairing and refurbishing iBook G3 and G4 laptops and later on MacBooks, buying and selling them on eBay, and later from his own website. He called himself The iBook Guy. He made videos to show how he repairs some of the equipment, but had made his living with the actual repairs, as well as resales. In 2011, he shut down his repair business.
Murray noticed his general videos about computing were attracting more subscribers. In 2015, he renamed his primary channel to "The 8-Bit Guy" and focused on retrocomputing. He says an average episode takes about 15 hours to produce.
Murray ran several different YouTube channels about keyboard instruments from the 1980s, coin collecting, (air) guns, and ran a comedy channel, although the latter three did not have as much popularity as his retrocomputing videos, so he stopped uploading videos to them.
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