Bits and Bytes (1983)
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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.
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Although the format made me laugh and they are incredibly outdated, the videos really do explain everything in easy terms.
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@Dominica said:
Although the format made me laugh and they are incredibly outdated, the videos really do explain everything in easy terms.
I think that the old 8bit era made learning concepts so much easier.
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Should watch it later at home
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It's amazing how educational this show is, even today. I think especially for those who are younger, like yourself, this is an amazing way to learn about computer history and a lot of theory that is often lost due to the abstract nature of computers today.
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I hope to soon start using this as part of my daughter's home school regime. It's been a couple of years now since I last watched it so I am looking forward to watching it again myself.
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These are fantastic! I don't know how I'm going to keep myself from putting these on our Wiki at work and flagging them as mandatory training for all the engineers...
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@RamblingBiped said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
These are fantastic! I don't know how I'm going to keep myself from putting these on our Wiki at work and flagging them as mandatory training for all the engineers...
Have you seen them before now? These are my favourite computer videos ever made. I grew up on these.
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My seven year old is starting computer class today. We are starting with this!!
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"I'm afraid computers don't do anything on their own" Until judgment day, then we'll start getting computers with Austrian accents.
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@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@RamblingBiped said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
These are fantastic! I don't know how I'm going to keep myself from putting these on our Wiki at work and flagging them as mandatory training for all the engineers...
Have you seen them before now? These are my favourite computer videos ever made. I grew up on these.
I had not seen them before you posted them. I would have been 2 years old when they originally aired.
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My five year old ended up watching it with us too. She is the age that I was when this show first aired.
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Watching episode two with my seven year old right now.
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@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Watching episode two with my seven year old right now.
I downloaded all of the Computer Chronicles, I do the same.
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@tonyshowoff said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Watching episode two with my seven year old right now.
I downloaded all of the Computer Chronicles, I do the same.
Those are awesome, too. I watched most of them a few years ago.
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My daughter requested three episodes today!!
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I decided to check these out last night while my wife (non-technical) was in the room. I may have drank a glass of rum, and watched 3 episodes back to back. Then I got really excited while explaining modems to my wife. Thanks @scottalanmiller for sending me down this rabbit hole, I have to watch the whole series now.
