[Recorded 1990] How Computers Work: A Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer is an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Nei...
[Recorded 1990] How Computers Work: A Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer is an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through The Computer Museum's one-of-a-kind, two-story working model of a desktop computer. The Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts was the predecessor institution to the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California since 1996. Sadly, the walk-through computer did not move to California with the Computer Museum's collection, but as you can see from this video, it was a very engaging exhibit.
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The computer really doesn't know, but that's what the output looks like. For example, if that letter, or group of 8 bits, is stored in RAM, then if a program (or 0's and 1's) calls out those specific bits or letters and tells it to be written on-screen, the graphics processing unit will get a picture of the letter "Q" and draw it on-screen.
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.
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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.
Trackball; try Wolvenstein 3d with that one!
(WE HAD TO!! AAAARG)
Thank god for mice.. uhm the mouse..
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.