How Computers Work - Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer

[EliteLennon117]

n00bs

[4joules]

thank you :)

[Starioshka]

@stekel60 they work on dark magic and christian kids blood.

[JakeLencioni]

@RavageXtreme and now we have kindles that hold over 1000 books and other apps

[yaobrao]

"World Traveler" looks like a really fun game

[thenumber1ize]

Trackball? This is ancient because I use a trackpad

[Urlulz]

Wtf the empire state building probably could hold 500 MB back then!

[Radnyxerr]

Sometimes I wonder if people like this are inside my computer right now...

[madara435]

it's mozart!

[MsThemuh]

The computer set up is kind of similar but computers are far more better than 1990. I don't think internet was that popular or releast to the public.

[ejdf870]

MAJOR CHEESE

[achan1058]

They have GPU's back then?

[Thewickedjunglist]

Hay guy with 80s hair? CTRL+Z

[MorpheusDProductions]

Wow, this have very valuable information if I knew what a computer was!

[dorugu]

boy this is soo oold an obsolete now computer revolution has gone fast :)

[Nullatrum]

of course they made the black guy put both of his arms down, racist bastards...

[gruntlover2]

why am i watching this???

[stekel60]

WHATTABOUT APPLE DESKTOP COMPUTERS???...

[er10b]

If they had offered me the walkthrough computer I would have taken it. I'm sure with a little work it would have handled Windows like a boss.

[1rbobcat]

Why would it scare people? unless your ugly....i'm 16 and that should not scare nobody

[visor109]

What is this...a "Zoom" episode?  Where's the "Ubbi-Dubbi" segement?

[omfgirl2]

Finally! "How Computers Work" in layman's term! I don't care that this is old info, the concepts are basically the same. Thumbs up for simplicity!

[sjj500]

pop quiz what language was it?

[sjj500]

he just killed his hard drive

[TheOnlyTechnoFish]

Hi Mr.Ramos

[James0roll1]

I would of told him to try.

CTRL+Z!

Undo! :D

[TazarZero]

At 5:45, I found it funny that they didn't mention that the disk could be prone to damage with the 'silver thingy' (oh god, this stuff is so dated that i don't remember what it's called) being held open like it is.

And at 11:30, the 'hummer' as he calls it? OMG!!! =O Huge BRICK of a hard drive right there!! Best not drop that on your foot!

[tucense]

yeah I'm game.. 1990s... LOL

[100alvinandchipmunks]

woah look at that beauty intel i 486

[crby101]

WOW A FLOPPY DISK CAN HOLD A WHOLE NOVEL!!! Wait, I have 9 novels on my iPhone...

[SoundWavesSurfer]

21 years ago, kind of scary...

[DrTorture28]

@SoundWavesSurfer Think about those guys. If they were 18 in 1990 then they are 39 now.

[briancalibergbmd]

@DrTorture28 yup....I graduated high school in 1990 and I will be 39 in October!!

[DrTorture28]

@briancalibergbmd Wow man. I was born in 1990 so I'm currently 21. I bet that kinda scares you? Hope not though. Haha.

[Bracerjack]

WOW......a Track Ball!!!!

[Hanske90]

Man, if i had a teacher like that i'd punch him for being to nice...

[howeworth]

Damn, I wanna be the data bus! No wait, I wanna be the RAM man!!!

[Mrtheben]

Ahh, the 90's, how I miss them so.

[Kazaskater123]

Is there a reason at 16:39 that he's saving the mouse position as a variable? He could just call it at any time by using cursor.position.x, cursor.position.y.  Also, typing "Say" will do nothing. The compiler would come back with an error since it isn't in your library. Sorry. Just had to point that out.

[davezetino]

11:39 "hundreds of Floppy disks" hahaha that's less than 200mb!!

[PatabookG5]

Even a tiny iPod is faster then this. This is really outdated. torlololo

[PatabookG5]

World Traveller, the 90's "cool" game. Crysis 2, extreme all this and that in the 21th century. A lot of stuff can happen in 10 years.

[ghanmy]

i think at 22:10 should say he is the electric signal and walking through data bus n not he is the data bus. cpu gets the data from ram using data bus.

[XtieRaptor]

how much faster dave?

[jdtrim22]

The person that built that huge computer must have been so mad when half of it was outdated five years later.

[QuaziGNRLNose]

"the trackball" LOLOLOL

[6SIX6Bloodshedded]

it's fun how we talk about multiple terrabytes now... "when you turn off the computer the ram forgets the data and doesnt have enough memory" solution now: SSD! :)

[SoLiDJinZo]

haha evil damien!!

[incben]

7.32 That's what my bedroom looks like.

[djtriniknight]

Like this if you are watching this for skool work -.- :p

[Greenduck05]

i love how he just opens the computer, and starts passing parts out...without undoing any wires or screws....must be a radio shack computer

[persevere67]

how far we have come in 20 years

[PresentedIn4D]

Y U NO SAVE UR WORK?!!??!!?!?!?

[JohnXT7]

6:48 that was pretty racist lol

[MEATYOKERRable]

what a delightlfully cheesy tidbit. 

[blueflamestudios]

i love the flat top

[lefant0m3]

"Hard" disk. heh. >_<

[joshuajacob236]

this video is just a haven for that's what she said fanatics

[Mandragara]

Walk through HD 6990

[Jorce]

Floppy disk, now a days we use USB instead of those crappy floppy disks

[Default158]

omg a floppy disk?

[SuperKenny720]

I still don't get it!

[EDDlEMEDUZA]

Hard Disk

Floppy Disk

xD

[Britishdude1]

LMFAO

[unfortunatebeam]

@Britishdude1 I lmao at God of War and Grand Theft Auto and Tomb Raider

[tipman2000]

Wow, a while Novel on a floppy disc that fits in you pocket?? How technology has advanced. Now I can store a whole library's worth of 1000 books on my flash drive that is much smaller than the floppy.

[Greenduck05]

@tipman2000

1000 books, thats it? more like 100000000000000000000 BOOKS : )

[BigExplosionGoBoom]

i still dont get the switches and why did they want to know about computers if they already know about them?

[mjkguy]

@BigExplosionGoBoom an 'on' switch represents 1 and an 'off' switch represents 0. He was basically talking about binary code: 01010001

[DoublePines]

i pretty sure i watched this in grade school so long ago. i like cake

[runescaperealglitch]

you people making this video are all illuminati noobs

16:09 is illuminati

[ceaos]

13:55 Is that a gtx 580? :-"

[neonzion7]

@ceaos no i dont think the gtx 580 was released. It must be a gtx 480 :D

[UncleKornicob]

they make this look like its "The talk"

[jeremyfrancis]

the music from "the social network" is very similar to the music in this show.... I wonder if it was used as a temp score....

[jesshurun]

An Entire novel... Wow!

[LikeItDeep]

Harry Potter's sister made her acting debut in this.

[STeroidsnicca]

@ProggyDox lol

[SJism23]

6:52 ...always putting down the black man

[4real313]

The woman in the brown looks like Jennifer hudson

[Skyrodude]

I can't believe I watched the whole video, while I knew everything.

My mom was right, my life sucks. -_-

[Skyrodude]

their cpu is overheating.

[dylanfleck]

1:00 Not at my school can you play games. You get your account suspended for ever for playing games of any kind :( even at lunch. Good thing I got an iphone tho.

[avzeolla]

from this to youporn in 20 years. god bless america!

[mento1995]

wow when he held that floppy disk up and said it cold hold a whole book 0.o i broke out laughing picked up my 150g external hard drive and thought to myself i could fit 75,000 of those floppy on this thing. Wow i love progess

[Roflcopter4b]

@mento1995 And I picked up my 3 TB drive and said damn I could fit like 30 of those on this thing.

[Raikuaza]

@mento1995 oh 16 year olds...

[aids696969]

CHEKOUT THAT INTEL LOGO ROFL 

[Dalsir1]

Haha. What a scam! You have to read rather thick book to understand how 8bit processor works (I admit - I didn`t finish it :). I wonder how much we should read to fully understand all the processes inside the box. No offence, but too childish.

[Cookies4DaWorld]

id love to go back in time 20 yrs and show people the amazing godlike machine known as the ipod touch

[AmbientChong11]

I hope they grounded themselves before walking on the mobo.

[PivotAX]

11:39 :O

[Secretsofsociety]

LMAO

"that little floppy can hold a whole novel on it."

[mardurhack]

@Secretsofsociety :) I'm almost crying...Seriously...You look at the past and think "Wow! We're CENTURIES in the future!!" but you should also think that someone in the future will say the same thing about us... If you see the first Windows XP spot you'll think "WTF?!?!"...It was 2001...Almos TEN years ago....Time is so fast...

[Anae420]

the 80's!! lol

[shawnygz]

if only they could have imagined ssd's

[southwestmountains]

This video is cool!

[octowboy]

whats a floppy disk? j/k.

wow it can hold a whole novel!!!

[THE16THPHANTOM]

Track Pod ....wouw...

[WoZeR1]

Hi! Billy Mays here! I'm offering a new device that will change your life. The personal computer.

[DarkHalo242]

@WoZeR1 the track ball

[Default158]

omg, cave men!

[misterkrad]

no where in the tour do they mention THE ROM BIOS! without the ROM BIOS the computer couldn't boot from the hard disk!

[goInsoft]

@misterkrad

Not all computers have a ROM BIOS

Todays computers don't use a ROM BIOS, only IBM Compatible PCs have them still as Microsoft struggles to get Windows working on modern hardware design (EFI) that Apple uses on it's PC and is the reason for BootCamp for Mac Intel to run Windows natively.

So that is why no mention of the ROM BIOS as only IBM Compatibles PCs use the ROM BIOS.

[misterkrad]

@goInsoft

the walk through computer was made by intel, it was a 486, so its 100 % chance that it has pc compatible bios / firmware.

ur nitpicking if its bios or if its efi, they should of at least mentioned some kind of firmware

[ca6steven13]

really interesting how watching this video really made me understand more about the parts of the computer and what the functions are. Good job!

[heyandy889]

Love this. The cheese factor is high, but sweet boogans, I want to go explore the inside of a computer.

[ShadyMan01]

@heyandy889 High it is, anymore cheese and Elvis would have made an appearance.

[aidanm101]

I bet that computer could run Crysis!

[grofuss]

Ah the traditional schmorgesborg of cultures... break down those ethnic barriers, it's 1990!

[jmasterX]

Long gone are the days of compiling to binary (cough .Net cough).......

[amabii]

@jmasterX idiot, it does get compiled

[jmasterX]

@amabii idiot, it gets interpreted by the Just In Time interpreter...

[amabii]

@jmasterX idiot, did u not pay attention? everything gets translated into binary

[jmasterX]

@amabii Yes, it does, but that does not imply that it is COMPILED because TRANSLATED != COMPILED, because .Net is an interpreted language unlike Pascal or c/c++ which COMPILE a native binary

[NerdInHisShoe]

@jmasterX These days .NET uses Just In Time compiling, so there is no interpretation. Python is a better example of an interpreted langugae.

[IceDelight]

Cheesy, bad acting, but I guess thats because it was made for kids. At first I thought this was really dumb, showing a giant keyboard and trackball, I was thinking, how is that explaining anything? But then when they're in the PC, it's pretty good. Good show. LOL Mark is the "cool dude", idiot. I like the cheesy sound effect every time they show the CPU. Edwin and Edweena?! Haha. This is useful, most ppl have no idea how computers work.

[wallysboyfriend]

Even if this over 20 years old, it still beats howstuffworks's explanation.

[sjj500]

@wallysboyfriend that's true they kinda did a dicky job! just read it.

[njwfunmaster]

Track Ball :D

[eyeassault]

That guy Damien with the flat top looks so familiar...its the guy from house party!

[onpon4]

lol, people were weird in 1990... XD

[lemonrind]

I thought the guy with the leather jacket was wearing a beret. Nope, that's his hair!

[lemonrind]

The late 1980s and early 1990s was the greatest period in human history (unless you were in an unpleasant war-torn country).

[lumaix]

great explanation. im trying to teach my sisters programming and computer systems and this is a great aid

[detubator]

This video really has more to do with sloppy art than computer education... bad acting too.

And I wonder how much the whole model thing cost to make :)

[DeadlyMACD]

All these sub creatures disappoint the human race.

[camgere]

They should just be honest that this video doesn't tell you how computers work. Maybe it can't be done. They state a bunch of out of sequence facts about computers. Computers have an Arithmetic Logic Unit, a Memory Address Sequencer and a Memory. The ALU can perform boolean and arithmetic instructions. The Memory Address Sequence can increment by one or do (conditional) branches. With additional hardware it can do subroutine calls. Memory can hold instructions or data.

[IceDelight]

@camgere It does tell ppl how computers work, just on a simple level. Not everyone knows what things like subroutine calls are.

[xXJOEYBOYXx85]

lol 30pin SIMM ram

[ThoseWhoOppose]

this video is older than me :(

[markcumbriauk]

OMG this is so retarded lol

[kdawn181]

nice headband mark! very good video!

[daniel1982]

"How much faster, Dave? :D" Best @ 12:50

[MechWarrior324]

OMG I remember watching this in keyboarding class in middle school.

[semo2010]

@MechWarrior324 how old are you >.>

[MechWarrior324]

@semo2010 18, why?

[semo2010]

@MechWarrior324 18 ? i thought u would be older seeing the production of this documentary seems scary old ... thats just me :P

[MechWarrior324]

@semo2010 I know it was made in 1990, but they still used it later to show gow the basic computer works. lol

[electroscheme]

this is correct

[joeheuft]

"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...

[89lovely89]

hahhaha the floppy disk can store whole!!!! novel!! soooo bad!!

[Wilyes]

@89lovely89 And 20-30 floppies to store a game.

[nokuhobune]

and also you can watch porn with computer :D

[chinchonchinchon]

@nokuhobune

naughty boy!

[nokuhobune]

quite high tech pc there i see

[rathalospwnr]

Now i know thank you computer history!

[mitch019850]

terrible acting

[420y2k]

lol science correspondent.. is that like a failed scientist

[martinzopetazo]

hey....no gloves.....anti staic wrist???

intel will never hire them

[stargater94]

"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*

[gonnabagates]

very very old....

[simtwo2007]

its the breakfast club

[dagger86]

I remember watching this when I was little. Wow, nineties!

[RandomXUsr]

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.

[nascar51523fan]

lol and now theres crysis

[azkeyz]

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.

[Celiecinema1]

Shouldn't this have commercial breaks?

[lostinxlation]

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.

[SuperBeachgoer]

this is 1990! now we have hp touchsmarts and macbook pros

[murumiq]

Do you have to get the trackball registered as a weapon nowadays? That thing looks like a murderous cudgel that is designed by Apple.

[iTeaze888]

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..

[deadmetalbr]

@11:28, holy moley, look at the size of that... what'd he call the hard drive? a hummer? i've never once heard that.

[Blongers1]

We are only just seeing how micro-processing technology has helped end the world. Its so unhuman, it seperates us, it makes all jobs the same, it turns people into cabbages.

[isophist]

thank you for your opinion. I'm sure I'd never have read it without whatever it is you're trashing.

[LemonInYourEye]

Maybe you should delete your youtube account then. :)

[dragonheadthing]

Wow, I have been looking for this since seeing it years ago in elementary school. Thanks for the upload!

[barbarash]

Trackball lol.... it didn't quite catch on did it!

[darkalyn]

lol

[lookman373]

no but thay make sum

[robert0joe]

Quotes from the Past

1981 640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates)

1982 I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. (C A R Hoare)

1983 No one knows what to do with 7 windows at one time (PC Week magazine)

1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want us these things. (John Dvorak)

[chinchonchinchon]

@robert0joe

L0L, I guess Gates must use a 1 Therabyte today.

[THE16THPHANTOM]

@robert0joe Where did you get all these quotes. would like to read them all from a to z. specially the first one and the last one.

[robert0joe]

@THE16THPHANTOM Peter Norton, the founder of Norton Anti-Virus even said that "Viruses is an urban myth". Found it from our Computer Book.

[PonguigPeopinn]

Abolish computers!