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First part of the out-of-print and unavailable history of computing from 1991.
For more information about this video, including a list of all interviewees and notes, see the related entry on Waxy.org.
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1 year ago +1 + -UNISYS funded the majority of the documentary's $500k budget.
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1 year ago 0 + -Title sequence
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1 year ago 0 + -Human "computers" like William Shanks, who spend decades calculating pi.
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1 year ago 0 + -How logarithm tables were used for calculations
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1 year ago 0 + -Charles Babbage
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1 year ago 0 + -Babbage's Difference Engine
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1 year ago 0 + -Babbage's Analytical Engine
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1 year ago 0 + -The Jacquard Loom, inspiration for punch cards in computing
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1 year ago Show -1 + -Ada Lovelace
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1 year ago 0 + -Konrad Zuse, creator of the first functional general-purpose computer
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1 year ago 0 + -Explanation of binary counting
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1 year ago 0 + -Vacuum tubes instead of mechanical relays
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1 year ago 0 + -America's need for faster computation during WWII
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1 year ago 0 + -John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania invent ENIAC
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1 year ago 0 + -The difficulties of reprogramming ENIAC
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1 year ago 0 + -John von Neumann's paper outlining the lessons learned building ENIAC
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1 year ago 0 + -Eckert and Mauchly form the first commercial computer company
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1 year ago 0 + -Freddie Williams, creator of the first computer with a stored program
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1 year ago 0 + -Maurice Wilkes builds EDSAC, first practical computer with stored programs
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1 year ago 0 + -Alan Turing
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1 year ago 0 + -Bletchley Park, the British HQ for codebreaking during WWII
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1 year ago 0 + -Colossus
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1 year ago 0 + -Derek Jacobi performs as Alan Turing
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1 year ago 0 + -Interview with Donald Mitchie, codebreaker at Bletchley Park
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1 year ago 0 + -Interview with Kay Mauchley, ENIAC programmer and human computer
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1 year ago 0 + -Newsreel footage of ENIAC
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1 year ago 0 + -Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)
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1 year ago 0 + -Turing on machine intelligence
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1 year ago 0 + -Devising the Turing test