Computer chronicles - the Amiga 3k & software

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The Computer Chronicles is an excellent show. It holds up really well in a historical sense. :thumbsup:

Heather
 
We didn't get shows like this , we had BBC shows at first detailing the 8bits and then mostly games shows for the 16bit and consoles..

The Disney program looks great :-)
 
For me it was on are PBS channel Public broadcasting system I think
this was the first computer show ever till ZDTV aired and then you could
only get it on Satellite then Cable picked it up...

:coffee:
 
The uk was behind in tech terms for years , we had no PBS or common multi channel tv until the late 80s ( early 90s?) when sky tv came along.

We had 4 , then later 5 tv channels and that was it. So apart from the bbc show ( with the owl? What was it?) that was pretty much it until the Kids shows of the late 80s with Amigas playing mega blast 2 and custard fights! Sat morn tv.

Later we had games master and other kid based stuff but very little grown up , serious stuff.

Mike.
 
Ahhh that's it :-)

Thank you, micro live oh dear
 
I don't know that clip, but then I've only seen a few. I don't actually remember them on tv..
 
I believe the computer chronicles was far mor important than most people give it credit for.
It has to be the longest running Computer show ever in North America. Even Canada could not escape its PBS Broadcasts.
It was co-hosted by Gary Kildall who (as you should know) created CP/M and Digital Research, GEM, and the BIOS.
If you look on the archives,you will find tons of interviews with computer founders like Jack Treimel. My favourite is an Episode with John Dovorak tearing apart an IBM PS/2 and Kildall and Cheifet are looking very Nervous. Here
 
Damn I don't have a stop watch to test my Amiga :-(
 
Seeing that video takes me back to university days... I lugged my 3000 into the computer science labs to give a presentation using Scala, including an animation rendered on Lightwave and a morph of our head of department from a 20 year old photo to his current photo... "The changing face of IT".

People could not believe what was possible on the Amiga. And we were using SGI Iris Indigo workstations in the labs!
 
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