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    Bits and Bytes (1983)

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    • scottalanmillerS
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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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        Bits and Bytes Episode 2

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          Bits and Bytes Episode 3

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            Bits and Bytes Episode 4

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              Bits and Bytes Episode 5

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                Bits and Bytes Episode 6

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                  Bits and Bytes Episode 7

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                    Bits and Bytes Episode 8

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                      Bits and Bytes Episode 9

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                        Bits and Bytes Episode 10: Music

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                          Bits and Bytes Episode 11

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                            Bits and Bytes Episode 12

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                            • scottalanmillerS
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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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                              • Reid CooperR
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                                These are seriously classic. Talk about taking you back!

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

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                                      • Bill KindleB
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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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                                        • scottalanmillerS
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                                          @Bill-Kindle wow. Lol

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
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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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