(1of5) The Machine that Changed the World: Giant Brains. 1992 480P Documentary

[maykleyton]

ae preciso da tradução para portugues desse video, ou de algum comentario ou documentario escrito sobre ele, para fazer um trabalho sobre a historia da computação

[Wayfarer515]

Fa fa fa fa fascinating

[workingstiff76]

Great video! When this was made in 1992, the ultimate PC system probably would have been a 486DX-33 with a 250 meg hard drive and 8 megs of Ram. If you dropped some serious coin you might have gotten a 17 inch CRT. This rig probably would have cost about $3500 in 1992 dollars.

[billhicks8]

@workingstiff76

You could have got up to an Intel DX2-50 from what I've looked up. Whatever the case, I just remember you needed it if you wanted to run the first System Shock game properlu only a couple of years later, even worse it demanded a minimum 8mb of Ram!

[workingstiff76]

@billhicks8 And that would have been at $40 per meg of ram at the time, or maybe $50 in 1992. I remember a few years later when I was in community college and heard about some guy who had 32 megs of Ram in his computer, which would have cost about the same as a small car.

[Fetcha200]

This video just inspired me to learn computer programming.

I don't know where to start! C++?

[BoxxyBrassin]

@Fetcha200 Python then C++. Find some Free Software projects

[fcycles]

those videos should be put in Computer History as well.

[GabrielKnight636]

Best computer science documentary ever. I wish they make a 1992-2010 "second part", or an updated whole new one for that matter :D

Thanks for the upload TTV, this vid is unattainable on VHS/DVD nowadays.

[f0ofyBunny]

There goes the hope that my son will be a computer when he grows up. Sheesh. I guess the world needs ditch-diggers too.

[wolfflower1895]

I bought all the video footage of this program from Boston GMBH in 1994.

It is so regrettable that the "Giant Brain" episode didn't come with closed captions.

[ajriveraruiz]

10/08/2011

Sirs who invented the machine,

that changed the world.

@Youtube.

Dear Sirs:

I am writing with reference to been a longtime subscriber to being alive. The world it's kind of fucked up right now, so could you please make another machine that changes the world?

An early reply would be appreciated / I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Yours faithfully,

AJ.

[SuperRiguy]

You can check up on your income tax lol what a grate prediction

[davidsdiego]

I remember watching this in middle school in 1994. Even then I thought it was fascinating.

The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it’s become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries or in the homes of fans who dubbed the original shows when they aired.

[deamon002]

Thanks for putting this up. I love how when it was made, many of the pioneers of computing were still alive, so we can hear them tell the story in person.

[PaisRui801]

does any one know where i can find subtitles for this documentary? ^^

Thx

[gfc777rmc]

Thumbs up if your doing this for CSS1. Best quote Konrad Zuse "I was too lazy to calculate so I invented the computer" XD

[pretendosse]

that brilliant man committed suicide because he was accused of being gay??? what a shame just shows how unwelcoming the world was back than.

[Dougger2006]

Had to watch this for for college.

[missingboy21]

greet ko lang si raudah calalagan, sheila llano, quennie pasa and bianca malbas.. LOL

[yyzllp]

Recorded this off of PBS onto VHS back in the day...Great that it's here! They should make a part 6 to bring it up to date.

[dmooresatx]

Anyone know where I can buy CDs or DVDs of this series? They are not available in the PBS store.

[1gwenfan]

Thanks for upload, had to watch this for homework for technology.

[MisterEvasion]

Turing was indeed ahead of his time. He had in is head the simple yet brilliant concept of IF this is true THEN do this ELSE do this. Programming basics that are still used in the here and now. It is really amazing the genius he had for Boolean data types in an era where such things were otherworldly and very hard to get other people to understand. To this day his ruminations have set new problems for computer scientists to investigate with the Turing Machine model. A remarkable human being.

[MsPoitras]

My teacher asked me to watch this serie.

Aghiles pu et simon aussi!

[IceFritzLanger]

Great video , Thanks =)

[TTVRewind]

@IceFritzLanger You're welcome, I love this documentary as well.