Home Computers A Brief History
This is a guest lecture I gave earlier this yeah. Essentially is was a brief history of home computers.
However being 40 years squeezed into 30 minutes; there was no way of covering *everything*.
Also I don’t claim to be an expert, so reserve the right to get a few things wrong.
“Faculty of Science and Technology’s IT Manager Jason Weber presents a lecture to our first year, Introduction to IT students a brief history of the home computer.
Complete with examples of the hardware from the day from his own personal collection.”
University of Canberra: http://www.canberra.edu.au
This is a list of other (better?) videos I gave the students after:
The 8-Bit Guy
The Commodore PET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHbhH…
The Commodore VIC-20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg04G…
The Commodore 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpXFB…
Nostalgia Nerd:
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9dHI…
The Commodore Amiga: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws3DJ…
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXcy…
Modern Classic:
The Apple II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwPL…
Terry Stewart http://www.classic-computers.org.nz
Apple Mac Plus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_m2s…
Apple IIe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENno_…
Dick Smith System 80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMFh…
Tandy TRS-80 Model 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKWV…
IBM XT Personal Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUPv…
Kim Justice:
The IBM XT Personal Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trt5i… (this is a very good history on how, in the end, IBM “won”)
The Centre for Computing History
The Microbee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mp52…
and a very early promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0fM…
and a demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOiFi…
My Holiday Toy Haul
After starting this channel, I promptly went on holidays in Europe for 6 weeks.
But the holiday was put to good use, collecting up Action Man in his home country.
If you’re on Facebook and like Action Man; you need to be in these groups:
Action Man and his Foreign Friends: https://www.facebook.com/groups/19526…
Vintage Action Man Collectors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/vinta…
Raspberry64 – An in depth look
Following on from my previous video, I hope to answer some questions I was asked and cover some of the issues I faced.
Original Video: https://youtu.be/o8w5_OsMub8
Hardware:
HDMI and MicroUSB header cables from: https://tronixlabs.com.au
Pimoroni On/Off Shim: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/on…
Keyrah V2: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Keyrah_V2
Software:
Combian64: https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/combi…
Tandy Electronic TV Scoreboard
The Tandy Electronic TV Scoreboard dates from 1976. This is gaming from over 40 years ago. Take that into account and its pretty impressive.