How Computers Work – Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer
[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.
“Welcome to the walk-through computer!”
“Wow, it’s so big!”
Unfortunately, something tells me that isn’t the last time she’s said that over the course of her acting career…
hahhaha the floppy disk can store whole!!!! novel!! soooo bad!!
and also you can watch porn with computer
quite high tech pc there i see
Now i know thank you computer history!
terrible acting
lol science correspondent.. is that like a failed scientist
hey….no gloves…..anti staic wrist???
intel will never hire them
“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*
very very old….
its the breakfast club
I remember watching this when I was little. Wow, nineties!
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.
lol and now theres crysis
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.
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..
Shouldn’t this have commercial breaks?
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.
Maybe you should delete your youtube account then.
no but thay make sum
thank you for your opinion. I’m sure I’d never have read it without whatever it is you’re trashing.
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.
this is 1990! now we have hp touchsmarts and macbook pros
Do you have to get the trackball registered as a weapon nowadays? That thing looks like a murderous cudgel that is designed by Apple.
lol