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Adding more source videos?

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maehr commented

Hi there

The computerhistory.org website has many important video resources. There might be some of interest for this list.

http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/2021-February/002233.html

Here are the Museum’s movies by theme/topic by Dag Spicer:

Narrated/Produced Pieces for Broad Audience

  1. False Dawn: The Babbage Engine [5:37]
  2. Human Computers [5:15]
  3. IBM Ever Onward [4:04]
  4. Who Invented the Computer? [4:55]
  5. Colossus: Breaking the Code [5:39]
  6. History of Databases [5:29]
  7. Digital Dark Age [4:21]
  8. Art of Writing Software [9:17]
  9. The Cray Way [6:01]
  10. The Silicon Engine [8:45]
  11. Artificial Intelligence  [8:53]
  12. When a Bit Became a Pixel [11:46]
  13. Story of SpaceWar! [4:14]
  14. Roots of Microsoft [5:38]
  15. Navigating Knowledge: Hypertext Pioneers [5:36]
  16. Birth of the World Wide Web [5:55]
  17. Dot Com Boom and Bust [9:30]

Calculators
18. The Antikythera Mechanism [6:06]
19. Texas Instruments and the Marketing of the Datamath Calculator, Charles Phipps [2:26]

Punched Cards
20. The IBM Punched Card [3:01]
21. Bill Worthington: What is a Punched Card? [3:14]
22. Ellis D. Kropotchev Silent Film: The Punched Card [2:03]

Analog Computers
23. Arthur Porter: A Great Educational Tool Differential Analyzer [1:27]
24. The UCLA Differential Analyzer [00:48]
25. Tim Robinson: Integration and Differential Equations [3:52]

Birth of the Computer
26. John Mauchly: ENIAC Reliability [1:46]
27. J. Presper Eckert: Little Pink Lights [1:34]
28. Jean Bartik: ENIAC’s Programmers [2:16]
29. John Brainerd: What is ENIAC? [3:32]
30. Tom Kilburn: The Manchester Baby [2:13]
31. Early Innovators: Konrad Zuse [1:35]
32. Early Innovators: Howard Aiken [3:55]
33. Early Innovators: George Stibitz [2:18]
34. Universe of Numbers: What is the Stored Program [1:39]

Early Computer Companies
35. Bob Beck: Bendix G15 Users [1:46]
36. Harry Huskey: Designing the Bendix G15 [1:55]
37. LEO: The Automatic Office [5:44]

Real-Time Computing
38. Whirlwind: Making Electrons Count [1:58]
39. Jay Forrester: Whirlwind’s Origins [1:42]
40. Bob Everett: Whirlwind’s Applications [00:59]
41. NASA Apollo 11 Highlights [2:17]
42. Richard Egan: Who Worked on the Apollo Guidance Computer? [2:07]
43. Eldon Hall: Where was the Guidance Computer in the Apollo Spacecraft? [2:06]

Programming
44. Don Knuth: The Art of Programming, Recovering Errors [00:56]
45. Jamie Zawinski: The Art of Programming, About Style [1:24]

Mainframes
46. Gene Amdahl: The Amdahl Business Plan [5:50]
47. Bob Evans: Clearing the Way for the IBM 360 [3:15]
48. Fred Brooks: Birth of IBM 360 [7:07]
49. Excerpts from RCA’s Decade of Difference, IBM Competitors [1:15]

Memory & Storage
50. The Search at San Jose, IBM Disk Drive [1:47]
51. Albert Hoagland: RAMAC Innovation and Legacy [1:45]
52. Alan Shugart: About the Floppy Disk [1:44]

Supercomputers
53. Introducing IBM Stretch [4:19]
54. Gordon Bell: Three Phases of Supercomputing [2:05]
55. Gary Smaby: Cray and the Cold War [1:23]
56. Seymour Cray: The Challenge of Supercomputer Design [4:15]

Minicomputers
57. DEC Digital: From the Beginning [4:50]
58. The HP Way, All the People [2:00]

Digital Logic
59. The Story of the Intel 4004 [3:08]
60. Marketing Wars: Intel X86, 3 Stages of War [1:45]
61. Marketing Wars: Intel x86 [00:57]
62. Marketing Wars: Zilog Z8000 [1:34]
63. Marketing Wars: IBM PC Decision [2:52]
64. Microprocessor Stories: Four-Phase Systems AL1 [1:52]
65. Microprocessor Stories: Motorola MC 6800 [1:57]
66. Microprocessor Stories: Zilog Z80 [1:53]
67. Microprocessor Stories: Advanced Micro Devices AM 2901 [2:01]
68. From Sand to Silicon: Integrated Circuit Design and Manufacturing [5:11]

Computer Graphics, Music & Art
69. Max Mathews: Computer Synthesis Sound [2:47]
70. John Chowning: FM Synthesis [4:31]
71. Harold Cohen and AARON: Ray Kurzeil Interviews [2:22]

Input/Output
72. Chuck Thacker: Why The Xerox Alto? [00:31]
73. Chuck Thacker: Dover Prints Anything [00:50]
74. Chuck Thacker: PARC’s First Laser Printer [1:33]
75. Chuck Thacker: Xerox Altos in the White House [00:20]
76. Charles Simonyi: WSYIWIG [1:09]
77. Adele Goldberg: About Smalltalk [1:00]
78. Adele Goldberg: Bean Bags and PARC [00:40]
79. Xerox PARC’s Commercial for the Ethernet Office System of the Future  [00:57]
80. Doug Engelbart: Mouse Demo [2:12]
81. Gary Starkweather: The Eureka Moment First Laser Printer [1:25]

Games
82. Al Alcorn: Atari in the Beginning [3:26]
83. Ralph Baer and The Story of Odyssey [3:05]
84. Will Wright: Probability Space, Possibility Space [3:31]

Personal Computers
85. Forrest Mims and the Altair 8800 [00:44]
86. Steve Wozniak: The Homebrew Computer Club and the Apple I [1:13]
87. Len Shustek, Lee Felsenstein: The Homebrew Computer Club [5:12]
88. PC Software: Bob Frankston The Visicalc Grid [00:38]
89. PC Software: Dan Bricklin VisiCalc [1:26]
90. PC Software: Linus Torvalds and Linux [1:35]
91. PC Software: Bill Atkinson, Andy Herzfeld About MacPaint [4:26]

Mobile Computing
92. The Story of Palm: Donna Dubinsky [3:06]
93. Jeff Hawkins: The VisorPhone Interface [3:40]
94. The Story of Palm: Jeff Hawkins [2:07]
95. The Story of Palm: Ed Colligan, One Button [1:05]
96. Martin Riddiford: The Psion Organiser II Interface [3:58]
97. Nils Rydbeck: The R380 Interface [4:04]

Networking & the Web
98. Dave Boggs: Office Networks [00:58]
99. Robert Metcalfe: The Naming of the Ethernet [1:40]
100.Roger Scantlebury: Intro to Protocol Wars [1:39]
101.Vint Cerf the Road to the Internet [1:02]
102.Ray Tomlinson: The Early Days of Email [1:50]
103. Lee Felsenstein: The First Community Memory [2:26]
104.John Kohler: Building on Mosaic User Base
105.Kevin Hughes: The White House’s First Website [3:31]

Searching for Profit: Gary Chevsky on Banners and Pop-Ups [1:45]