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。
SGI IRIS 2400 (1985)
A short demo reel of the 1985 Silicon Graphics IRIS 2400 workstation animating flat-shaded polygons on a 68010 CPU.
1968 “Mother of All Demos” by SRI’s Doug Engelbart and Team
Highlights from Doug Engelbart's December 1968 demonstration at SRI, the first public showing of the mouse, hypertext, windows, real-time collaborative editing and shared-screen teleconferencing.
Etak Navigator Tour & Demo
Raw 1991 home footage of a working Etak Navigator, the 1985 in-car navigation system that predated consumer GPS.
LGR Oddware - MiniDisc Data Storage: Sony MDH-10
An LGR Oddware episode looking at Sony's MDH-10 MD Data drive from 1995, which used MiniDisc for computer storage years before Hi-MD.
The IBM 1401 makes "music"
A one-minute demo at the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401 restoration lab, where a program makes the machine's radio-frequency interference play tunes on an AM radio.
The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds
Scott Manley tells the story of a computerized telemetry system built to sit at the heart of a nuclear test device in place of the plutonium pit, designed to transmit data in the microseconds before it was destroyed.
Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
A short clip of Bill Gates demonstrating Visual Basic in 1991, showing drag-and-drop building of a Windows GUI.
Automatic Hamburger Machine - 50 Years Ahead of Its Time!
A circa-1964 film showing AMF's AMFare system, which ordered, cooked and packaged hamburgers, fries, shakes and more automatically for a pilot fast-food operation.
Ernst Dickmanns’ VaMoRs Mercedes Van, 1986-2003
A three-minute Computer History Museum clip showing Ernst Dickmanns' VaMoRs Mercedes van and later VaMP sedan, early self-driving vehicles tested from 1986 to 2003.
Bill Gates, Windows 98, Blue Screen of Death
A very short clip of Bill Gates hitting a Blue Screen of Death while demonstrating plug and play on Windows 98 on stage.
How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX
A short video telling how Xerox PARC invented the graphical user interface and how Steve Jobs's 1979 visit influenced Apple's Lisa.
Steve Jobs - NeXT marketing strategy video 1991
An internal 1991 NeXT video in which Steve Jobs explains the company's product and marketing strategy.
Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 2 of 2
Second half of a demonstration of the 1982 Xerox Star user interface.
KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS
An episode of REACT in which children try to figure out 1970s-1980s computers, including an Apple II and floppy disks.
Apple - 1984
Apple's famous 1984 Macintosh television commercial, which casts the company as a rebel breaking a Big Brother-style conformity.
The Voder: 1939, the worlds first electronic voice synthesizer
A short look at the Voder, the first electronic voice synthesizer, demonstrated by Bell Labs at the 1939 World's Fair.
The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993)
A 1993 episode of The Computer Chronicles on the early Internet, with guests including Howard Rheingold discussing online community.
The Editor of a Lifetime
Perry Metzger, an Emacs user since 1983, gives a talk on why he has used one editor for decades.
1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial (HD)
The famous 1984 Super Bowl commercial introducing the Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott and based on Orwell's novel.
Apple II Forever
A short clip from the April 1984 Apple IIc rollout presentation at the Moscone Center, uploaded by Alfred DiBlasi.
GE Walking Truck - Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM) 1969.
Short footage of the General Electric Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine, or Walking Truck, a 1960s quadruped vehicle operated by a human driver using hydraulic limbs.
Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup
A two-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, conducted by Paul McJones in 2015.
The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer
A Computer History Museum recording of the final demonstration of the Xerox Star, the early graphical user interface workstation.
The World Premiere of the Amiga (1985, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry)
Footage of the 1985 world premiere of the Amiga 1000 at Lincoln Center.