38:26atari 2600 graphicsExplainer
Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television
Retro Game Mechanics Explained
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23:41vintage mainframe computingDemo
The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II
CuriousMarc
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3:36telephone audio compressionExplainer
Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.
Tom Scott
2 HN recommenders
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9:20early electronic calculatorsExplainer
An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommender
23:33rca ced videodisc historyDocumentary
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
Technology Connections
1 HN recommender
1:02:09supercomputer designTalk
Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)
UC Berkeley Events
1 HN recommender
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21:53sgi workstationsTutorial
SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 - Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine²
Dodoid
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2:39:396502 historyInterview
Oral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr.
Computer History Museum
1 HN recommender
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15:20wearable augmented interfacesTalk
The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry
TED
1 HN recommender
1:02:28arm architecture historyTalk
A History of The ARM Microprocessor | Dave Jaggar | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommender
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1:21:07computer architectureTalk
David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities
UBC Computer Science
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29:44mainframe processor teardownDemo
EEVblog #1341 - AMAZING $250,000 IBM Processor TEARDOWN!
EEVblog
1 HN recommender
12:16field-sequential color displaysExplainer
LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
Technology Connections
1 HN recommender
46:56antique machine restorationDemo
IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]
Hand Tool Rescue
1 HN recommender
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14:03nuclear weapons testingExplainer
The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds
Scott Manley
Discussed on HN
6:18early speech synthesisDemo
The Voder: 1939, the worlds first electronic voice synthesizer
Brian Roemmele
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15:15lisp machine keyboardsDemo
Symbolics Space Cadet keyboard review (Honeywell Hall effect 4B3E)
Chyrosran22
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