In case anyone missed it -- the History Channel tonight aired "How William
Shattner Changed the World" which includes a 15-minute segment featuring
Bruce Damer / DigiBarn. He's on 45 minutes into the first hour of the
two-hour show. It's on again tonight at midnight EST. More details from
Bruce's announcement:
Dear DigiBarn News subscribers,
Here is your brief Winter 2006 newsletter (#16). 2005 was a wonderful year,
finishing off with our Homebrew Computer Club 30th birthday
event at the Vintage Computer Festival in November. We now have some cool
audio, video and pictures of the event below (including Woz
telling some great stories, and Altair expert Erik Klein playing "fool on
the hill" on an original 8800). Read all about this wonderful and inspiring
event at:
http://www.digibarn.com/history/05-VCF8-HomeBrew30/index.html (for
movies, audio, pics, Altair, Woz and more!)
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Breaking News:
HOW WILLIAM SHATNER CHANGED THE WORLD (the DigiBarn is featured on this
show!)
Sunday March 12th (5 and 8pm) and again all week including Friday March 17th
(8/7 central US time) and Saturday. Check Local Listings
for your region/country or the schedule at:
http://www.historychannel.com/
Starting tomorrow the DigiBarn and curator (yours truly) Bruce Damer will
appear on the History Channel on a cool segment (in the first
hour) of a show called "How William Shatner Changed the World". This is a 2
hour special on how Star Trek (well, Gene Roddenberry and his
writers) came up with many gadgets and ways of working back in the 1960s
which have become reality today. This show is Captain Kirk at
his best, with Bill Shatner in an off-the-wall performance you won't forget.
Details of the show including the DigiBarn excerpt are at:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/05-11-DiscoveryCA-Shatner/index.h
tml
(originally produced by Discovery Channel Canada, video excerpted with
credit). See the History Channel pages on this show at:
http://www.historychannel.com/ and direct to the show:
http://www.historychannel.com/space/verizon/