Computer Chronicles - "Computer Graphics" 1984 (Part 1)

From archive.org:

Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution. It was broadcast for twenty years from 1983 - 2002. The program was seen on more than 300 television stations in the United States and in over 100 countries worldwide, with translations into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. The series had a weekly television broadcast audience of over two million viewers.

The series has been recognized for its journalistic excellence, winning a variety of journalistic awards including more than a dozen from the prestigious Computer Press Association. The series covered high-tech subjects around the world, having shot programs in such various locations as Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and Taiwan. Computer Chronicles was based in the Silicon Valley area of California.

Many of the series programs are distributed on video to corporations and educational institutions for use in computer training. Computer Chronicles program segments have also been bundled with various computer text books by major publishers.

In this episode, a review of computer art, graphics capabilities of computers and professional computer graphics systems.

Guests: Herb Lechner, SRI International; Don McKinney, Silicon Graphics; Michael Arent, Freelance Artist; Kevin Prince, MCI/Quantel; Ann Chase, Freelance Artist

Products/Demos: MCI Quantel PaintBox, Silicon Graphics 3D Animation, Apple IIe

I do not own anything in this video, it is uploaded for educational purposes only.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Computer
• Chronicles
• Graphics
• 1984

[kinmanyuen]

omg... so advanced in 1984

[kz1000ps]

1:27 look how long it takes the IIe to flood the background with red.......yowza!

[danbaumann84]

Nessa época Bill Gates quase morreu ao ver isso hahahah

[TheEsotericDesi]

thought this show sounds funny now, it's a great piece of history... shows how greater a leap mankind's made in computers w/in just over 2 decades...

[anwerthegreat]

Cool! Shows how far technology has come in the last two decades.

Thanks for uploading this!