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    Bits and Bytes (1983)

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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

      I've been looking for this for years (not knowing the name didn't help) and finally found it. It is a Canadian show that we saw in NY via PBS when I was young. It aired in 1983 and introduced many of the most popular computers of the era (8bit era pre-Mac and pre-Amiga.). I used to watch this with @SonshineAcres and my mom in the years before we owned a computer at home. A very influential, but silly, show for me.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_T5mvuguw

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3jbNCCjok

        Bits and Bytes Episode 2

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq9OYkI5ju4

          Bits and Bytes Episode 3

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQNjs68C2I

            Bits and Bytes Episode 4

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxJKjAjFK0

              Bits and Bytes Episode 5

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ttw9ks05G4

                Bits and Bytes Episode 6

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                • scottalanmiller
                  scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQIbZa7P80

                  Bits and Bytes Episode 7

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWcuh8QLlBc

                    Bits and Bytes Episode 8

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxaMtW8UPA0

                      Bits and Bytes Episode 9

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                      • scottalanmiller
                        scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8niBS1nrU

                        Bits and Bytes Episode 10: Music

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7JkqhrVa8

                          Bits and Bytes Episode 11

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                          • scottalanmiller
                            scottalanmiller last edited by scottalanmiller

                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJaPPsAEYc

                            Bits and Bytes Episode 12

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                            • scottalanmiller
                              scottalanmiller last edited by

                              I'm actually watching through these again. Watching these now I realize just how much I probably originally learned from these. While silly and horribly dated it really teaches a lot.

                              It would actually be good for many younger IT people to see this to get some context on where we have come from.

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                              • Reid Cooper
                                Reid Cooper last edited by

                                These are seriously classic. Talk about taking you back!

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                                • osmanErdi
                                  osmanErdi last edited by

                                  These are very unfamiliar for me , thank you for your sharing , i got so much information about History of Computer 😉

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                                  • scottalanmiller
                                    scottalanmiller last edited by

                                    I'm watching one with my five year old daughter right now. She is enjoying the show. She thinks that it is really cool.

                                    My wife thinks that this is hilarious.

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      The five year old is now watching the second episode! This thing is popular.

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                                      • Bill Kindle
                                        Bill Kindle @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller And Billy was learning computers by playing games! lol

                                        ironically, that's sort of how I got started......my Aunt and Uncle introduced me to Mario Teaches Typing on a Packard Bell system. I was hooked.

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller @Bill Kindle last edited by

                                          @Bill-Kindle wow. Lol

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller last edited by

                                            I want to try teaching my daughter by using some eight bit machines. These things made me love computers when I was her age.

                                            I wonder how much growing up at the same time that computers grew up influenced my love of them.

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