How Computers Work – Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer
May.22, 2010 in
computers
[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.
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:43 am
OMG I remember watching this in keyboarding class in middle school.
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:48 am
this is correct
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:40 am
“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…
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:50 am
hahhaha the floppy disk can store whole!!!! novel!! soooo bad!!
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:53 am
and also you can watch porn with computer
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:55 am
quite high tech pc there i see
May 22nd, 2010 at 6:00 am
Now i know thank you computer history!
May 22nd, 2010 at 6:18 am
terrible acting
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:01 am
lol science correspondent.. is that like a failed scientist
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:38 am
hey….no gloves…..anti staic wrist???
intel will never hire them
May 22nd, 2010 at 8:25 am
“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*
May 22nd, 2010 at 8:56 am
very very old….
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:04 am
its the breakfast club
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:33 am
I remember watching this when I was little. Wow, nineties!
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
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.
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:54 am
lol and now theres crysis
May 22nd, 2010 at 11:12 am
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.
May 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 am
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..
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Shouldn’t this have commercial breaks?
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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.
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Maybe you should delete your youtube account then.
May 22nd, 2010 at 2:27 pm
no but thay make sum
May 22nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm
thank you for your opinion. I’m sure I’d never have read it without whatever it is you’re trashing.
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
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.
May 22nd, 2010 at 3:47 pm
this is 1990! now we have hp touchsmarts and macbook pros