Documentary Videos

The Story of Computer Games 5/5

This is a pretty good documentary by the british Discovery Channel about the beginnings of computer games. It covers the early 70s with the rise of Atari right up to the big crash of the videogame market in the 80s. From that point on, it becomes pretty one-sided by only covering Miyamoto (the inventor of Mario and Zelda) and Nintendo. Anyway, it’s still an excellent documentary thanks to its accurate way of dealing with historical facts. Continue reading…

The Story of Computer Games 2/5

This is a pretty good documentary by the british Discovery Channel about the beginnings of computer games. It covers the early 70s with the rise of Atari right up to the big crash of the videogame market in the 80s. From that point on, it becomes pretty one-sided by only covering Miyamoto (the inventor of Mario and Zelda) and Nintendo. Anyway, it’s still an excellent documentary thanks to its accurate way of dealing with historical facts. Continue reading…

BBC documentary history of computers part 4

The BBC broadcasted in 1991 the serie ‘The dream machine’, this is part 4. In this part we see the the computer manufacturers overlooked that company’s won’t buy their computer without software, and writing software cost up to 4x the price of the machine itself. Jean Sammet, Historian of Progamming language, explains binairy code and we also see the brandnew IBM 1401 computer of the American Harvard Association which is started up by America’s grand champion Harvard Bull Silverimage 70! The introduction of computers brings fear that the computer will replace people on the workplace. Further a scene of Ronald Reagan, as the commercial spokesman of General Electric who says that the Bank of America calls their new computer Electronic Recording Method of Accounting (ERMA). Continue reading…

INTOI Interchange of Ideas (Digital Whiteboard) Documentary

INTOI is a hardware-software setup that serves as a digital hybrid of a whiteboard and a multimeda installation. Pen based multi user interaction on a rear projection surface is quite similar to working on an analogous whiteboard. Intoi allows its users to easily write, draw and, additionally, load images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF’s and videos. An easy-to-use menu system and a simple remote control enable the user to easily change properties and switch between slides. Navigation on the page of infinite size is performed by simple hand gestures. Intoi combines the benefits of ordinary flipcharts and whiteboards with the potential of today’s computer systems. Furthermore Intoi introduces a unique user interface which is easy to understand even for people without any computer experience. You find further information @ www.intoi.net! (c) 2007 The INTOI Team – Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg – Office of Tomorrow www.intoi.net – www.officeoftomorrow.org Video produced, filmed and edited by Dion Schmidt, music composed by Uli Nollert. Thank’s a lot! Continue reading…

Building computer labs in Kenya

This video profiles American missionary Steve Peifer in Kenya. Peifer has established a free lunch program that feeds over 10000 students at 25 of the poorest Kenyan schools outside Nairobi. He also has built six solar-powered computer labs which will enable these children to learn needed computer skills to find jobs and forge paths out of poverty. Continue reading…

BBC documentary history of computers part 1.

The BBC broadcasted in 1991 the serie ‘The dream machine’. This scene is about the tragic story of Alan Turing, the “father” of the modern computer. During the Second World War he devised a number of techniques for breaking German telegraph codes. After the war Alan Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE. This series of the BBC was broadcasted in 1991. Continue reading…

QED – My Best Friend’s a Computer (Part 1 / 3) Full documentary

A BBC QED documentary from 1990. Maggie Philbin reports on video game and computer addiction. bad-influence.co.uk Continue reading…

The Story of Computer Games 1/5

This is a pretty good documentary by the british Discovery Channel about the beginnings of computer games. It covers the early 70s with the rise of Atari right up to the big crash of the videogame market in the 80s. From that point on, it becomes pretty one-sided by only covering Miyamoto (the inventor of Mario and Zelda) and Nintendo. Anyway, it’s still an excellent documentary thanks to its accurate way of dealing with historical facts. Continue reading…

Pirates of Silicon Valley : A documentary video / film of Apple and Microsoft (Torrent)

This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft Inc.  Written by Flotis
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