Lego Antikythera Mechanism

Old Compaq Computer Advert

So What is a "Record" or "45"?

Reach Out I'll Be There The Four Tops 1966

What a boring description from Wikipedia ... 45s were part of a culture
A gramophone record (also known as phonograph record, or simply record) is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc.

When made of polyvinyl chloride they are also known as vinyl records.

BBC B Microcomputer - Computerphile

Telephone Operator (1937) - Full Movie

Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry

The Information Machine (1958)

1929 to 1999

The Internet in 1993

The Internet in 1994

Museum Of Technology, Berlin

Logo and Seymour Papert (1983)

Classic footage of an old Windows OS

Amiga and Atari (12/3/1985)

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30 minutes 1985

http://www.archive.org/details/Amigaand1985

How much computer can you get at the bottom end of the market - comparison between the Commodore Amiga and the Atari 520ST.
Guests: Rick Geiger, Commodore; Tim Mott, Electronic Arts; Bryan Kerr, Atari; Jim Tittsler, Atari; Lewis Moore, Home Computing; George Morrow, Morrow Computing; Gary Kildall, Digital Research; Tim Bajarin, Creative Strategies
Products/Demos: Atari 800, Commodore 64, Amiga IBM PC Emulator, Commodore Amiga, Atari 520, STNEO Paint

Commodore 64

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30 minutes

http://www.archive.org/details/CC517_commodore_64

The Commodore 64 was the first computer for many families. This program looks at what you can do with the famous C-64. Demonstrations include The Wine Steward, Skate or Die, Strike Fleet, the Koala Pad, Master Composer, Tetris, and Berkeley Software's GEOS.
Includes a visit to a Commodore Owners Users Group meeting and an interview with Max Toy President of Commodore. Originally broadcast in 1988.

Early Technology TV Programmes

These free TV programmes cannot be viewed here, click on the image or link below.
You may have to download them to view.

http://www.archive.org/details/computersandtechvideos
This archive allows you to watch several different 'old' computer TV series online, a brilliant (although time consuming) resource if you are researching the history of computers.

This collection features two television programs popular in the 1980's and 1990's: Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. In addition, the BBS Documentaries cover the history of Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems, and The Digital Tipping Point is a growing collection of footage documenting the Open Source movement.

On Guard! The Story of SAGE (ca. 1956)

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12 minutes



http://www.archive.org/details/OnGuard1956

Film made in the mid 1950s ... innovations in computer technology as weapons in the Cold War.

PDP 8a (1975)

www.technikum29.de/en/computer/early-computers.shtm

NACA Computer (flight)

www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Evolution_of_Technology/Computers/Tech37G2.htm

Computers in 1941

www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1941

Jef Raskin (Apple Guy .. maybe?)

http://blog.wired.com/herosandvillains/2007/01/false_idol_jef_.html

Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak,Steve Jobs

http://www.fireinthevalley.com/fitv_voices.html

LGP-30

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/early.computers.html

Women and Computers

http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159251&lid=1&seq=6

Early Car Computer

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/naefentonpics.htm

Vintage Robot Gallery

http://www.oricomtech.com/projects/gallery1.htm

The Bendix G-15

http://horningtales.blogspot.com

Old Computer Magazines

www.vintage-computer.com/magazines.shtml

Commodore PET, the Radio-Shack TRS-80

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.ars/3
From left to right: a Vector Graphic, SOL-20, SWTP 6800.
Bottom row: NASCOM-1, Apple I, Cromenco Z-2, IMSAI 8080

Apple II

www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=68

Atari 400

www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=76

Commodore 64

www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=98

IBM PC Junior 1983

www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=186

The Acorn BBC model A

www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=29

BBC Model B

www.boznet.com/wiki/index.php/BBC_Model_B

Babbage's Analytical Engine

http://technology.niagarac.on.ca/courses/tech1271/Unit5.html

Farm of RISC Machines

http://ssl-computing.web.cern.ch/ssl-computing

CERN Old Computer Centre

http://ssl-computing.web.cern.ch/ssl-computing

Super Computers

www.espionageinfo.com/Sp-Te/Supercomputers.html

Wireless Transmitter

www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/td/1940/photos/

RAMAC, 1956 : the First Hardrive

www.pcworld.com/article/id,127104/article.html

The First Computer Company 1946-1951

www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwm10.html

The ENIAC Computer

The Alto Computer

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html

The Edsac Simulator 1949-51

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/

Home Computer of the Future

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_rand_home_computer.htm

Burroughs machines (calculators)

http://www.shorpy.com/computing-division

Early Filing System

http://www.shorpy.com/office-boy

Number, Please?

http://www.shorpy.com/node/149

Is the Caller There?

http://www.shorpy.com/node/148

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