Best 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。

The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete)
The 1990 NOVA documentary follows astronomer Clifford Stoll as he tracks a hacker through military and research computer networks, a story that involved the CIA and KGB.

The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)
A 1987 episode of The Computer Chronicles on Apple's HyperCard, showing users building their own applications.

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
Part one of Technology Connections' account of the VHS versus Betamax format war.

General Magic (1080p) FULL DOCUMENTARY - History, Technology, Business
A feature-length documentary on General Magic, the 1989 startup that envisioned the smartphone and handheld connected devices, featuring Tony Fadell, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat.

Making of Second Reality / Future Crew
Home video from 1993 showing Future Crew members at Mika Tuomi's home finishing the PC demo Second Reality shortly before release.

The Secret Life of the Radio - Remastered
Remastered episode of Tim Hunkin's The Secret Life of Machines about the radio, covering its development including Hertz and Marconi experiments and Armstrong's FM radio in animated form.

The IBM 1401 mainframe runs "Edith"
CuriousMarc runs the program 'Edith' on a 1959 IBM 1401 mainframe at the Computer History Museum.

Oral History of Gary Davidian, part 2 of 2
Part two of a Computer History Museum oral history with Gary Davidian, covering his work on the 68000 emulator for PowerPC at Apple, Power Computing, clean-room contracting and later performance optimization work.

Commodore 64—25th Anniversary Celebration
The Computer History Museum's 25th anniversary celebration of the Commodore 64, recorded in December 2007, with a panel including Jack Tramiel and Steve Wozniak.

Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)
A long recorded seminar in which Alan Kay discusses object-oriented programming, probably from the mid-1980s.

MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn
Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths demonstrates MENACE, Donald Michie's 1961 machine made of matchboxes that learns to play noughts and crosses through reinforcement.

Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"
Seventeen-year-old Ray Kurzweil appears on the TV show I've Got a Secret in 1965, playing a piece of music composed by a computer program he built.

SGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995
LGR looks at the Silicon Graphics Indigo2, a UNIX workstation that cost about $86,000 in 1995, covering its pros and cons, games it can run, and whether it is worth owning today.

Teletype Model 19 - Part 1: A Teletype Arrives for Restoration
CuriousMarc inspects a newly arrived Teletype Model 19, an early military unit built around a Model 15 keyboard and printer, after an initial rough cleaning.

Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone (Full Documentary)
The Verge's documentary on Handspring and its Treo, a smartphone that came a decade before the iPhone.

Oral History of Chuck Peddle
A Computer History Museum oral history of Chuck Peddle, the engineer behind the 6502 and the Commodore PET, covering his career from GE through Motorola and MOS Technology.

The 3D-Printed Curta Calculator
Adam Savage shows off his collection of analog calculators, ending with a 3D-printed, scaled reproduction of the Curta mechanical calculator built by Marcus Wu.

Why is Japan So Weak in Software?
Asianometry examines why Japan's software industry has lagged despite its hardware strengths.

BBS the Documentary [Full HD]
Jason Scott's multi-episode documentary on the bulletin board system scene of the 1980s and 1990s, built from over 200 interviews.

Leap Technology
A promotional video for Leap, the navigation technology invented by Jef Raskin, demonstrated on the Canon Cat computer around 1987.

Altair 8800 - Video #7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype
A demonstration of loading Altair 4K BASIC on an Altair 8800 clone, using a front-panel bootloader and an ASR-33 Teletype.

Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984
A 1984 AT&T film showing the live cutover of a Glendale, California central office from step-by-step switching to an electronic switching system.

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)
Part one of Capt.

Quick Start, Episode 7: Crimes... And Felonies.
Cathode Ray Dude covers two bizarre HP 'Quick Start' features: QuickLook, an offline email client built on EFI firmware, and Daystarter, which hijacks the Windows boot process.