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。
Seymour Papert
A short vintage film clip of Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on using computers to spark children's imagination and learning.
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
A Computer History Museum oral history panel with four 3dfx founders on the company's rise with Voodoo Graphics and Glide, and its fall into bankruptcy.
Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives
A 1973 AT&T training film made for new employees at Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center, when Unix was in its third version and running at 16 computer centers in the Bell System.
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
Technology Connections takes apart a 1970 Wurlitzer 3400 jukebox to show how electromechanical relays and switches automated its behavior without a computer.
Self: The Movie;
A 1995 Sun Microsystems film about the Self programming language, a prototype-based Smalltalk relative, showing its live, graphical programming environment.
DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
Jason Scott's DEF CON 18 talk tells the history of software piracy over thirty years, centered on the feuds and drama among rival warez groups.
Alan Kay Demos GRaIL
Alan Kay demonstrates GRaIL, a graphical input language system from around 1968 in which hand-drawn strokes become boxes, connections and dataflow-style programs.
Oral History of Donald Knuth Part 1
A roughly three-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview of Donald Knuth by Edward Feigenbaum, recorded in 2007.
BBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
Part 4 of the BBS: The Documentary series, covering FidoNet, the amateur network that linked dial-up bulletin board systems together to relay messages and files worldwide.
"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)
Guy Steele's Strange Loop 2010 talk argues that programmers should not have to think about parallelism, and that languages should support algorithms built on independence and divide-and-conquer.
Apollo Core Rope Memory (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 30)
CuriousMarc's Apollo Guidance Computer restoration series looks at core rope memory, the ROM that held the Moon landing programs.
Here I Stand, at Age 80
Ted Nelson, the originator of hypertext and Project Xanadu, gives a personal account at age 80 of his ideals, his career, and how a poor career plan led to discoveries and adventures.
GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
The official trailer for the documentary General Magic, about the secretive Apple spinoff that tried to build a handheld communicator in 1990 and whose ideas shaped the smartphone era.
The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine
Brian Troutwine's Code Mesh 2015 talk on the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)
A 1984 Computer Chronicles segment in which Susan Kare explains the ergonomics and interface design of the original Macintosh.
Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)
Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar!
Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1
A Computer History Museum oral history interview with Dave Cutler, covering his youth, early work on operating systems at DuPont and Digital Equipment, and his path toward VMS and Windows NT.
Lisp Editing in the 80s - Interlisp SEdit
A short demo of SEdit, the structure editor for Interlisp-D on Xerox Lisp machines in the 1980s, which edits code as trees rather than text.
Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
Connor Krukosky, an 18-year-old college student and vintage computer collector, tells how he bought an IBM z890 mainframe and got it running at home.
NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling
A 1990 lecture by James Gosling on NeWS, Sun's networked window system in which clients send PostScript programs to the server for execution.
The Origins of APL - 1974
A 1974 talk-show-style interview with the original developers of APL, including Iverson, Falkoff and Breed.
This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
Tom Scott visits the Swiss Military Museum to see the last surviving 1970s tank-driving simulator.
BeOS DEMO VIDEO
The official demo video from Be, Inc.
The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile
Computerphile with Professor Brailsford on how a 1979 Bell Labs team reverse engineered a Linotron 202 phototypesetter over a summer to get high-quality print output.