William Blair wrote: That would be a lot of links, since the entire Computer Chronicles series was donated to the Internet Archive. Rather than go through all of them, I've been searching their Moving Pictures archives for subjects that interest me (and inevitably a few Computer Chronicles episodes show up). -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:42 AM, William Blair <wbblair3 at yahoo.com> wrote: As a Unix bigot, I had to watch the two episodes on Unix (1985 and 1989), and I've got to say that seeing those took most of the fun out of it. Mostly repeating "But what about Unix's difficult user interface, and the reliability problems?", as though their own favored bitty boxes didn't store their data and operating systems on floppy disks and run without memory protection. And calling a minicomputer a "mainframe" is not a good way to earn credibility. Also, I wish they'd do something more than show off paint programs... Still, interesting bits of history--thanks! John "Bitter Bastard" Floren -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn