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Third part of the out-of-print and unavailable documentary about the history of computers.
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1 year ago 0 + -Illuminated manuscripts
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1 year ago 0 + -Canon Tiller (Library Master, Hereford Cathedral)
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1 year ago 0 + -Mitch Kapor (Lotus)
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1 year ago 0 + -Programming onto punchcards
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1 year ago 0 + -Robert Taylor (Xerox PARC)
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1 year ago 0 + -Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad for the Lincoln TX-2
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1 year ago 0 + -Ted Nelson (Xanadu)
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1 year ago 0 + -Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos
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1 year ago 0 + -Mitch Kapor on Doug Engelbart
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1 year ago 0 + -Doug Engelbart shows the first mouse
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1 year ago 0 + -Doug Engelbart interviewed on Stanford campus
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1 year ago 0 + -Engelbart's demo didn't have an immediate impact
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1 year ago 0 + -XEROX
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1 year ago 0 + -XEROX PARC created
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1 year ago 0 + -Larry Tesler (Xerox PARC)
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1 year ago 0 + -Footage from Xerox PARC employees
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1 year ago 0 + -Alan Kay (Xerox PARC)
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1 year ago 0 + -Cognitive development and perception in children
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1 year ago 0 + -Jean Piaget's studies of children's cognitive process
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1 year ago 0 + -Piaget's conclusion: Kids are dumb.
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1 year ago 0 + -Paint application from 1972
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1 year ago 0 + -OfficeTalk for the Xerox Alto
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1 year ago 0 + -Promo for the Xerox Alto
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1 year ago 0 + -Silicon Valley in the 1970s
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1 year ago 0 + -Invention of the microprocessor
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1 year ago 0 + -Ted Hoff (Co-inventor, microprocessor)
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1 year ago 0 + -Altair 8800 released
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1 year ago 0 + -Homebrew Computer Club in San Francisco
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1 year ago 0 + -Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, August 1976
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1 year ago 0 + -The birth of Apple Computer
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1 year ago 0 + -Steve Jobs (Co-founder, Apple)
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1 year ago 0 + -Steve Wozniak (Co-founder, Apple)
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1 year ago 0 + -Mike Markkula (Investor, Apple)
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1 year ago 0 + -Apple becomes the fastest-growing company in history
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1 year ago 0 + -Apple goes public
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1 year ago 0 + -Lee Felsenstein (Designer, Osborne 1)
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1 year ago 0 + -IBM PC introduced in 1981
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1 year ago 0 + -IBM's Charlie Chaplin ad campaign
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1 year ago 0 + -Macintosh introduced
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1 year ago 0 + -Apple's 1984 Superbowl ad
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1 year ago 0 + -Mitch Kapor demos DOS vs. Windows 3.0
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1 year ago 0 + -Computers were simpler, and software far more diverse
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1 year ago 0 + -The Steve Jobs-hosted "Software Dating Game" with Fred Gibbons, Mitch Kapor, and Bill Gates
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1 year ago 0 + -Mitch Kapor and Lotus 1-2-3
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1 year ago 0 + -Bill Gates and Microsoft
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1 year ago 0 + -Bill Gates (Chairman, Microsoft)
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1 year ago 0 + -Chris Peters leads an Excel staff meeting
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1 year ago 0 + -Chris Peters (Development Manager, Office)
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1 year ago 0 + -Kids talk about computers on Sesame Street
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1 year ago 0 + -Disabled children use computers to communicate
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1 year ago 0 + -The computer isn't a machine, but a new medium.
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1 year ago 0 + -Computers chained in libraries, just like books used to be.
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1 year ago 0 + -1992-era predictions of future computers
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1 year ago 0 + -3D animation circa 1991
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1 year ago 0 + -Ivan Sutherland's augmented reality display from 1968
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1 year ago 0 + -Dr. Henry Fuchs (UNC, Chapel Hill)
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1 year ago 0 + -Henry Fuchs demos virtual reality
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1 year ago 0 + -Dr. Jane Richards (UNC, Chapel Hill)
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1 year ago 0 + -Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr (UNC, Chapel Hill)