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The Difference Between Apple ][ and TRS-80
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 97 seconds
From early 80's TV show Bits & Bytes. Luba tells Billy to RTFM!
Related: 8-bit , 80s , 8bit , apple , billyvan , canada , computers , lubagoy , ontario , tandy , trs-80 , trs80 , tvo , tvontario
Bits & Bytes - ROM and RAM
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 238 seconds
Billy checks out a BASIC ROM cartridge in the Atari 800.
Related: 1980s , 8-bit , 80s , 800 , 80s , 8bit , atari , atari800 , basic , billyvan , canada , computers , lubagoy , ontario , programming , tvo , tvontario
Exploding Hamster - Maniac Mansion
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 71 seconds
Razor microwaves Weird Ed's hamster and shows it to him.
Related: amiga , commodore , explosion , game , hamster , lucasarts , lucasfilm , lucasfilmgames , maniacmansion , microwave , oven
Bits & Bytes - The Computer's Speed
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 195 seconds
1 MHz ought to be enough for anybody. Featuring the guts of a Commodore PET.
Related: 1980s , 1980s , 8-bit , 80s , 80s , 8bit , billyvan , commodore , computers , lubagoy , ontario , pet , tvo , tvontario
Bits & Bytes - Loading Programs Into Memory
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 151 seconds
Billy wonders if he should stick his fingers into the disk drive. Luba casually ignores the innuendo.
Related: 1980s , 1980s , 8-bit , 80s , 80s , 8bit , billyvan , canada , computers , lubagoy , ontario , tandy , trs-80 , trs80 , tvo , tvontario
Hsieh Kuo-cheng's bank-robber-catching net
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 31 seconds
Ig Nobel Prize-winning invention is demonstrated.
"Hsieh runs a security company... he is a former commander of an amphibian frogman unit... he once set up similar traps underwater to capture swimming Chinese spies... he is diligently trying to market his machinery to banks"
http://tinyurl.co m/2cxam5
Also refer to http://improbable.co m/2007/11/05/ig-winn er-hsie-is-found/
Related: bank , catch , crime , criminal , device , ig , net , nobel , prize , robber
Bits & Bytes - Home Accounting
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 155 seconds
TRS-80 Model III in action! Luba tells Billy to ignore the copyright notice.
Related: 1980s , 1980s , 8-bit , 80s , 80s , 8bit , billyvan , canada , computers , lubagoy , ontario , tandy , trs-80 , trs80 , tvo , tvontario
Learning French on the Atari 800
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 229 seconds
From early 80's TV show Bits & Bytes.
Related: 8-bit , 80s , 8bit , atari , billyvan , canada , computers , lubagoy , ontario , tvo , tvontario
3-2-1 Contact Intro: "Forces and Fields"
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 67 seconds
The intro from PBS science show for kids, 3-2-1 Contact. This episode aired in 1980 and the title is "Forces and Fields".
Related: 1980s , 1980s , 3-2-1 , 321 , 321contact , 80s , 80s , contact , educational , pbs , tv
Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 374 seconds
MECC produced the educational computer game "Oregon Trail". You know, the game where you always end up dying of dysentery. From early 80's TV show Bits & Bytes.
Related: 1980s , 8-bit , 80s , 8bit , apple , canada , computer , computers , games , minnesota , ontario , tvo , tvontario , videogames
Bits & Bytes - Preview of Programme 3
Posted by: ClassicGarth
Video duration: 163 seconds
Billy learns BASIC programming on the Commodore PET; we learn how a CPU works; young programmers in action; the computer buys some milk; Billy & Luba say good-bye.
Related: 1980s , 1980s , 8-bit , 80s , 80s , 8bit , billyvan , canada , commodore , computers , lubagoy , ontario , pet , programming , tvo , tvontario
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