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Computer History Museum's YouTube Channel
Doctor-R writes "The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has created a new YouTube channel for videos of their lecture series. Newest is the Dec 10 panel on the 25th Anniversary of the Commodore 64. Currently there are 23 lectures available and the 7-minute Museum overview."
Newest is the Dec 10 panel
I read that as "DEC-10 panel." Was thinking someone used a panel from a DEC-10 to show youtube videos?
You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
The next thing they need to do is take pictures inside the museum itself and make some of those quicktime 3D/360 degrees view things. I don't particularly like quicktime, but that is one cool thing about it.
Or, they could make an actual 3D museum, sort of like google earth, only inside. Now THAT would be awesome.
I'm still kicking myself for not visiting this place the last time I was in CA. I was there to visit with my girlfriend at the time and meet her family - it turns out her dad made a pretty substantial donation to the museum. I believe it may have been a T/16, but that's just a guess - my memories of talking to him about it are pretty hazy. I tried to find out more on their website, but unfortunately they don't have anything mentioning donations on there (though his name is on a plaque at the museum from what I hear).
Hmmm... I'll have to look into this some more.
The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia also have their own channel. They use it for similiar purposes as the museum but also to give overviews of each faculty and the research they are doing.
I think this is an excellent way for these institutions to present themselves. It's much more convenient just watching a movie on Youtube than reading the "About Us" section on their websites.
Furthermore, it's much easier formming opinions and attitudes when you see something visual than when you a webpage or two.
... I thought the DEC-10 panel was a plain pdp/11 ? Where's the point ?
Now those are some long videos
is no-one going to post a c64 running as a webserver?
Read the book that tells the Commodore story: www.commodorebook.com
I started my computer career in 1962 working as a systems analyst. Later in 1970 worked with the CDC 3200 mainframe. The basic timing mechanism was a delay line that sent a "0" down it with various taps for read, write, gating, etc that the magnetic core memory and associated electronics required.
We would run margins on the computer by setting the voltage low and test it then setting the voltage high and retest to verify that it would pass diagnostics under both conditions.
The toughest thing i ever did was rewire a memory board by hand to replace a broken ferrite core. It required unlacing the diagonal "Z" sense wire and then removing the x and y wires plus the inhibit x wire and then reinstalling the wiring. Fortunately I was nearsighted and could see the fine wires but today I would have problems even seeing a core since I am now very far sighted.
Every job that I have ever had was like a game for me. I would have paid someone to allow me to do what i got paid to do. that sure makes time fly though.
I worked with Dr. Wang at Wang Laboratories and traveled to China with him to meet his siblings. While there I installed some of the very first mini-computers/mainframe for China. We slowed the rpm of the disk drives down from 3600 to 2400 and then installed high altitude heads to keep the disk's heads from crashing. Also the seek flip-flop in the logic had a bigger capacitor on it so that after the heads settled from moving then the read/write cycle could occur. By adding the extra capacitance slowed the access time down greatly so that China would not be on parity with us,
That has been a career of 45 years which is far older than most individual who read Slashdot. My 4H project when I was 13 or 14 was building a ham transmitter and modulator. That was back in the 50's.
I was one of the original geeks and today could not stay up with what the average individual on slashdot needs to know... it is just too much information now, but I do enjoy those that post here and those that actually enjoy the coding and the fixing of equipment for it shows in your posts.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make
Or, they could make an actual 3D museum, sort of like google earth, only inside. Now THAT would be awesome.
With emulations of the machines at each display point. Not too difficult to do these days. Use this, or maybe something like this.
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rediculous.
I can rip that flv and convert it to watch it later.
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What genre is Hello Kitty's Island Adventure?
...when Tool said "Who of you is here for the first time ?.... Wow... Thank you to you all... (Applause)" ;=)
What's next, dude standing up saying: "I am Vic, and I am a Commodore-addict for 20 years, I haven't poked 32768 for 2 weeks" (Loud Applause)
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... when you watch it you see the expressions on their faces, the intonations in the sentences they speak and the things they leave out. It gives you much more info than text and pictures, and makes you pick up the things in the speeches that matter...
;=)
But this is probably the wrong place to say that
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If you view the Past Events on the Computer History Museum, you will see all of the talks, in quite high-quality WMV files.
:)
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?view=previous§ion=calendar
In addition, there is a website called http://archive.computerhistory.org/ which apparently functions as somewhere they stash files that they don't mind being public, but don't care enough to yell loudly about. There are a lot of cool videos there! Highly recommended.
Also highly recommended is the Computer History Museum itself. It is an incredibly exciting place to go. It's about two or three stone's throws from the Googleplex, in Mountain View, in an old SGI building. Go there. Donations also recommended, because in short: They do extremely important work, they're the only ones who do it well enough, and they've got extremely skilled people there.
I am not affiliated with the museum, but I do wear the "Volunteer" shirt with some amount of pride.
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