Bits and Bytes (1983)
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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.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3jbNCCjok
Bits and Bytes Episode 2
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq9OYkI5ju4
Bits and Bytes Episode 3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQNjs68C2I
Bits and Bytes Episode 4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxJKjAjFK0
Bits and Bytes Episode 5
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ttw9ks05G4
Bits and Bytes Episode 6
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQIbZa7P80
Bits and Bytes Episode 7
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWcuh8QLlBc
Bits and Bytes Episode 8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxaMtW8UPA0
Bits and Bytes Episode 9
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8niBS1nrU
Bits and Bytes Episode 10: Music
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7JkqhrVa8
Bits and Bytes Episode 11
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJaPPsAEYc
Bits and Bytes Episode 12
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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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These are seriously classic. Talk about taking you back!
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These are very unfamiliar for me , thank you for your sharing , i got so much information about History of Computer
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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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The five year old is now watching the second episode! This thing is popular.
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@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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@Bill-Kindle wow. Lol
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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.