How Computers Work – Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer
Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2011 at 09:33am
[Recorded 1990] How Computers Work: A Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer is an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of pbs’s Newton’s Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through The Computer Museum’s one-of-a-kind, two-story working model of a desktop computer. The Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts was the predecessor institution to the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California since 1996. Sadly, the walk-through computer did not move to California with the Computer Museum’s collection, but as you can see from this video, it was a very engaging exhibit.
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24 Comments for How Computers Work – Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer
1. mitch019850 | March 3rd, 2011 at 5:08 pm
terrible acting
2. 420y2k | March 4th, 2011 at 11:07 am
lol science correspondent.. is that like a failed scientist
3. martinzopetazo | March 5th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
hey….no gloves…..anti staic wrist???
intel will never hire them
4. stargater94 | March 7th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
“so wait, now the computer reads now too? *has a stupid grin*” fml……. epicly old vids give you cancer :/…..
Stoped @10:34…. I cant go on any further without severe brain damage…. *opens a terminal and tells it to PWN this tab*
5. gonnabagates | March 9th, 2011 at 10:55 am
very very old….
6. simtwo2007 | March 9th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
its the breakfast club
7. dagger86 | March 10th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
I remember watching this when I was little. Wow, nineties!
8. RandomXUsr | March 12th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
This video is so old that it might be bettered served at the smithsonian. If 21 jump street there still use computers, then I fear we are doomed.
9. nascar51523fan | March 15th, 2011 at 11:25 am
lol and now theres crysis
10. azkeyz | March 16th, 2011 at 11:39 am
It felt like kenney loggins was doing the teaching lol
prety good video among it’s class and level.
if yer not writting programs in the womb
or your daddy wasn’t steve wosniak , I suggest calling it a hobby.
11. iTeaze888 | March 16th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Lol This is to old, whats next? amiga programming lessons..
Trackball; try Wolvenstein 3d with that one!
(WE HAD TO!! AAAARG)
Thank god for mice.. uhm the mouse..
12. Celiecinema1 | March 16th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Shouldn’t this have commercial breaks?
13. Scatmanfan45 | March 19th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
The computer really doesn’t know, but that’s what the output looks like. For example, if that letter, or group of 8 bits, is stored in RAM, then if a program (or 0’s and 1’s) calls out those specific bits or letters and tells it to be written on-screen, the graphics processing unit will get a picture of the letter “Q” and draw it on-screen.
14. LemonInYourEye | March 22nd, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Maybe you should delete your youtube account then.
15. lookman373 | March 25th, 2011 at 3:44 am
no but thay make sum
16. isophist | March 26th, 2011 at 12:03 am
thank you for your opinion. I’m sure I’d never have read it without whatever it is you’re trashing.
17. lostinxlation | March 28th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
I almost forgot how the things were like in those days.
I started using Sun workstation in 1990, and it had SPARC processor running like at 30MHz or so. Before that, I used PC with 286 and a separate floppy drive for 12 inch floppy !!
And all I could access on internet was Newsgroup, but good thing was we didn’t have to deal with internet trolls.
18. SuperBeachgoer | March 30th, 2011 at 3:35 am
this is 1990! now we have hp touchsmarts and macbook pros
19. murumiq | April 1st, 2011 at 4:21 am
Do you have to get the trackball registered as a weapon nowadays? That thing looks like a murderous cudgel that is designed by Apple.
20. deadmetalbr | April 4th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
@11:28, holy moley, look at the size of that… what’d he call the hard drive? a hummer? i’ve never once heard that.
21. Blongers1 | April 7th, 2011 at 11:39 am
We are only just seeing how micro-processing technology has helped end the world. Its so unhuman, it seperates us, it makes all jobs the same, it turns people into cabbages.
22. dragonheadthing | April 10th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Wow, I have been looking for this since seeing it years ago in elementary school. Thanks for the upload!
23. barbarash | April 13th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Trackball lol…. it didn’t quite catch on did it!
24. robert0joe | April 15th, 2011 at 2:18 am
Quotes from the Past
1981 640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates)
1982 I don’t know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. (C A R Hoare)
1983 No one knows what to do with 7 windows at one time (PC Week magazine)
1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want us these things. (John Dvorak)
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