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。
BeOS Demo Video
A vintage demo video of the BeOS operating system running on mid-90s hardware.
Why the Soviet Computer Failed
An Asianometry explainer on why the Soviet Union, once a leading computing power, fell far behind the US in computers by the 1980s.
Tomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC
A 1969 BBC Tomorrow's World segment about Nellie, a school computer used by pupils at Forest Grammar School to solve equations and play music.
Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
A one-minute clip about Paul Otlet, the Belgian bibliographer who in 1934 imagined users accessing a remote database through an electric telescope over a phone line.
Canon Cat
A short Italian-language clip about the Canon Cat, a text-oriented personal computer from Canon designed by Jef Raskin, who started the Macintosh project.
The Computer Programme (1): It's Happening Now (Introduction to Computing)
The first episode of the BBC's 1982 television series The Computer Programme, introducing home computing to a general audience.
David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities
David Patterson's talk on the history of computer architecture, from RISC and superscalar designs to the end of Dennard scaling and Moore's Law.
Edsger Dijkstra interview
A 24-minute interview with Edsger Dijkstra, the Dutch computer scientist, including his views on writing programs by hand and keeping errors out of them.
Lamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
A short clip from an ACM and Computer History Museum interview in which Leslie Lamport discusses writing his paper on time, clocks and the ordering of events.
The Dial Comes To Town
A 1940 Bell Telephone educational short teaching customers how to use their new dial phones and why the change was happening.
VCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa
Jason Perkins's talk at Vintage Computer Festival East 2020 compares the user interface of the Xerox Star with that of the Apple Lisa.
Making Money Flow: The MONIAC
A short demonstration of the MONIAC, Bill Phillips' hydro-mechanical economic computer, at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand museum.
NeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs
A 35-minute demonstration of NeXTSTEP Release 3 by Steve Jobs.
Intentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editor
A roughly ten-minute demo of Microsoft's Intentional Programming research system, showing its editor and an unusual way of working with code.
Harwell Dekatron / WITCH Reboot tnmoc.org
A short clip of the Harwell Dekatron/WITCH, the world's oldest original working digital computer from 1951, being restarted at The National Museum of Computing in 2012.
Dial Up Modem Handshake Sound - Spectrogram
A spectrogram visualization of the sounds in a dial-up modem handshake, with an annotated image explaining each noise.
EEVblog #1341 - AMAZING $250,000 IBM Processor TEARDOWN!
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down a 1991 IBM 9121 thermal conduction module from a System/390 mainframe, a 63-layer ceramic hybrid module with 2772 pins worth about $250,000, and demonstrates a BGA desoldering technique.
Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
A Talks at Google visit by Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse.
LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
A Technology Connections video on JVC's LCCS, a display hybrid that cycles a color LCD shutter over a monochrome CRT to produce field-sequential color without dots or stripes.
IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]
A 47-minute restoration of a 1920s IBM computing cheese cutter, a machine with parts patented between 1901 and 1907.
ALAIN COLMERAUER L'AVENTURE PROLOG
A French-language documentary on the history of Prolog, created in Marseille by Alain Colmerauer in the early 1970s, with interviews of many people involved.
Mercury-Redstone 1 Launch failure (MR-1)
Footage of the failed Mercury-Redstone 1 launch, where the engine cut off almost immediately after liftoff.
Upgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 On Actual Hardware
A 74-minute video of upgrading Windows 1.0 through every release up to Windows 8 on a real netbook rather than in a virtual machine.
Flashback! The Internet In 1995 | Archives | TODAY
A short compilation of NBC Today show clips from 1994-95 in which hosts and guests puzzle over the World Wide Web and email.