History of Personal Computers Part 1

I know a 'nerd' didn't like drop down menus...he said it .."took the mystery and the secrecy out of running a computer"...my biggest and abrupt reply to him was..."Good, about time!" It was as if it was making fun of all the commands he used to type in. I just reminded him, that "we are in the 20th century, Peter", I'm glad of the drop down menus...it made my life easier. The drop downs revolutionized personal computers. It certainly put paid to the Commodore 20 I used to own. My next one was an Atari 520ST, then the 1040. Wasn't compatible with other computers, but I did use it for a lot of things like typing songs out, and sending them to my little Star dot matrix printer. Oh those were the days. Then microsoft came out with a real computer...the 3.1. Personal computers really came alive then. The rest is history.

If you see a programmer when you arrive at work at 8 or 9, it mean they've been there from the night before!

You can think the Japanese for making the resistor's smaller

He didn't make personal computers >.> IBM had PC's before that fool was even doing software.

Apple 2c sexiest computer ever....
Apple //c FTW!

I'm looking for the Radio Shack TRS-80. When it came to home computers it was much better than the bigger, more complex ones.

I thought i heard him say a teacher a Catholic school...two seconds later we sher are dope we sher are bed ..... I love it simply 👍👍👍👍👍

I couldn’t quite see because of the old video quality, was that guy growing mushrooms in the office?

Bad info start's right at the beginning, Gates and Allen didn't invent shit, especially the computer.

Its interesting how winners writes the History new, the Apple II was entering the Market on June 1977, but the Commodore PET was entering the Market on January 1977 on the Winter show CES. Hmm ok the first complete PC was not the Apple II it was the Commodore PET. damn

And the people in this film couldn't have imagined how the market has evolved since then.

I wonder what Edwin Chen is doing now.

You gotta be an idiot to think these two invented the pc :))

How the heck did they made run BASIC on that switchboard?

Great old documentary but is a pity that is very racist(white younger boys...) and machist(so many biased citations against woman in tech that is hard to pick one as example...) .

Graham Spencer sure is a Goofy looking dude

Let’s see Paul Allen’s business card.

Is this from 1996?

Such a cool case for clickbait. But let's watch the video. Oh wow, this docu is 20+ years old,!

Just more assholes that contributed to computers

IBM's open architecture,
MS's SW licensing, and
a bunch of loose-cannon nerds changed the world...

In the late 1970's nerds invented spreadsheets just to improve things.
Forty years later I used them at work in order to improve things.
Still today most don't even know how useful the most modern versions of these things can be with careful effort in programming.

One of my favorites was programming a calculator in a spreadsheet that would calculate the position of the cutterheads on a machine by using critical part and cutterhead dimensions. I could even calculate what would need to be changed between one part and the setup of any other part. This decreased the setup time for these machines.

I created another one that could count not just available staff, but their training and skills as well, on a daily basis. In addition, I could schedule a work cell, and the spreadsheet I made could check if a crew member were trained at that position, if they were scheduled to be available that day, or if I had inadvertently scheduled them somewhere else at the same time. Then I made it so that the layout or contents of the department could easily be changed in the future by the manager without them knowing a single formula, and it would still work like it always had.

Sad to look back and see the great wonderful advancements and what it is coming to. That which was meant to set us free is being subverted to trap and people like Paul Allen and Bill Gates get the money trap. Look at Gates now actually responsible for who knows how many deaths.

Computer are cool :)

2023. As a touring musician who is stepping into programming. I appreciate the Gibson Les Paul (the guitar behind Woz) so purposefully set in frame. 🍻 💻

I bought a TRS80 in '77, and upgraded to an Apple II in '79. It was the last Apple product I ever bought. It followed the design philosophy of Wozniak, meaning it was greatly customizable. Subsequent Apple products followed the Jobs philosophy, meaning the design was DICTATED, with NO opportunity for customization. I've always hated that attitude. It's no wonder that Apple has a small market share.

Interesting how women couldn't possibly be nerds. Actually I thought a good portion of the early computer industry did have females and it dropped off substantially after that.

Wow the past is so cool not smh

Good thing nothing happened in the PC industry after 1996.

I had to watch this in college, in my computer science class.

"The very uselessness of the Altair is what drove the hobbyists together."

Yep. I was a new student at a DeVry school in Toronto in 1982, and one guy who'd homebrewed an Altair -based system that could run CP/M had brought it into the school to do some work he couldn't do at home... and I was there the day he managed to prove his idea that an Altair with 32K of RAM could manage time-sharing by running two completely separate CP/M operating systems - each with its own memory and I/O space - with timing allocated by a simple timing device.

For a newbie, it was pretty heady stuff.

Hard to think about Gary Kildalls wife who waisted the deal with IBM. Gary Kildall could have been Bill Gates.

aaaaaahhhh , the good old days ; my father got me hooked on those ; his first computer was a ( ??? ) , i have no idea but it had to be housed in a 3 story building and he used metal pins to actually program it ; he was SO glad when they went to punch cards ; for myself my first one was an 8088 programming machine language and basic ; frig binary programming 😵‍💫😵 ; then i went to the TRS80 model 3 and started learning cobol and fortran ; then progressed from there --- good times 😁

TRS-80

Demand is never created, but rather is facilitated over time.

Very interesting but you missed Allan Turing

MICROSHIT didn't "INVENT" ANYTHING... they stole it.

I'm 66. It was the most fun I've ever had. A moment in time that will probably never happen again. The only regret is I was so young I didn't know it was special. I thought most people did what loved and worked with very bright and creative people. If I had a time machine I'd go back...over and over.

Wait. What. Who invented the personal computer?

they did NOT "invent" the personal computer

Maybe that lady in the park was just tired of the misogyny. Ada Lovelace and generations of her spiritual descendants are too often forgotten. I'd love to see a video on the history of women in computing, including the lady "computers" who were hired to do calculations and examine data before electronic computers became widespread. Also the ladies who "wove" the rope memory for the computers used in the Apollo program.

Now Gates is a climate cult nut that wants people to eat bugs.

5 minutes in the the Reporter who made this would be fired from his job and never work again if made now..
Funny how truthful things tend to get you destroyed these days..

Let’s see Paul Allen’s personal computer…

Your the best of the bunch with the late Steve Jobs, Bill Gates & Steve Wozniak , our Hero's and I love coco cola and pizza with Science class with the American freedom ✔

You are a fool