PickVidsBest History of computing Videos
「History of computing」下面有231部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象：入门6部，适合还没学过的人；进阶50部，适合已经懂术语的人；普通向173部，按兴趣就能看；更硬的2部，留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演示，所以它们的共同点是先看到做成了什么，再决定要不要追细节。常出现的频道包括Computer History Museum、TheTedNelson、CuriousMarc。目录给这个主题划的范围是：Computing history: early computers, mainframes, Bletchley Park, ENIAC, Xerox PARC, Unix history, minicomputers, personal computer revolution, historical lectures and museum restorations.如果只看三部，就从《AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)》开始，它负责把问题讲出画面；然后看《Micro Men - 720p (2009)》，换一种讲法或例子；最后看《Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer》，留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开，顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月，不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明，用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看，把引用当成只是拿来举例，把批评留下来对照，不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。
Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963
A TV show about Ivan Sutherland's 1963 MIT thesis software Sketchpad, which ran on the TX-2 computer.
Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)
Posy gives a short history of the computer mouse cursor, from early straight pointers to the tilted arrow, comparing Apple and Windows designs.
The Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie's entertaining NDC talk imagines an alternate history of the web, asking what if different decisions had been made on operating systems, browsers and standards.
Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond
Admiral Grace Hopper holds up a length of wire to show how far light travels in a nanosecond, about 11.8 inches.
Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space
Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space, his software for representing hypertext in three-dimensional space with linked, referenced content fragments.
2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time
Jason Scott's DerbyCon 2012 talk on rescuing the Prince of Persia source code from old floppy disks, working with the game's author Jordan Mechner.
The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
Veritasium traces analog computers from the Antikythera mechanism and Kelvin's tide-predicting machines to fire control and modern analog approaches.
UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories
A 1982 AT&T Bell Labs film for students about the Unix system and how it can be used practically.
IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter
Bill Hammack of engineerguy uses slow motion video to show how the IBM Selectric typewriter works.
MiniDisc - An Appreciation
Techmoan's 45-minute retrospective on Sony's MiniDisc, covering the first and last machines, ATRAC, MD-LP, Net-MD and HiMD.
Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013
Symbolics developer Kalman Reti gives a short introductory demo of a Symbolics Lisp Machine running Genera in an emulator.
Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1
A Computer History Museum oral history with Avie Tevanian covering his math talent, work on the Mach microkernel at CMU, joining NeXT, leading NEXTSTEP development and the 1996 Apple acquisition.
GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
Jason Scott discusses making his documentary GET LAMP at a Google Tech Talk and screens part of the film.
Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS
A documentary by Stuart Brown (XboxAhoy) on the history of first-person shooters on the Amiga and how Doom's arrival affected the platform.
How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock
CuriousMarc powers up a vintage HP 5061A cesium beam clock and explains both the quantum principle and the HP implementation in detail.
BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)
The first episode of Jason Scott's eight-part BBS documentary, covering the predecessors and beginnings of the dial-up bulletin board system.
James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect
The first episode of James Burke's Connections series, 'The Trigger Effect', explores how modern society depends on interlinked technological systems and how quickly it breaks down when they fail, starting with a power blackout.
"A Political History of X" - Keith Packard (LCA 2020)
Keith Packard traces the 35-year history of the X Window System at linux.conf.au 2020.
SYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO
A demo of the Symbolics Graphics Division's S-Packages, a Lisp-based 3D color graphics and animation system from the 1980s.
Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk
A roughly two-hour demonstration by Dan Ingalls of Smalltalk running on the Computer History Museum's restored Xerox Alto.
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018
Erlang co-creator Joe Armstrong's Code BEAM SF 2018 keynote revisits good ideas from the history of computing that were dropped, and asks which should be revived.
Keynote: Begin...End?
David Beazley's PyData Global 2021 keynote, an oral history of early scientific Python.
Flaw in the Enigma Code - Numberphile
Numberphile's Dr James Grime explains the flaw in the Enigma machine, namely that a letter could never be encrypted to itself, and how that helped the Allies break the code.
APL demonstration 1975
A 1975 live demonstration of the APL language by Imperial College professor Bob Spence, showing a REPL on a modified typewriter terminal and APL's appeal to non-programmers.