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    Bits and Bytes (1983)

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      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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      • RamblingBipedR
        RamblingBiped
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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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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @RamblingBiped
          last edited by

          @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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            My seven year old is starting computer class today. We are starting with this!!

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates
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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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              • RamblingBipedR
                RamblingBiped @scottalanmiller
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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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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  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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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    Watching episode two with my seven year old right now.

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                    • tonyshowoffT
                      tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          My daughter requested three episodes today!!

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                          • s.hacklemanS
                            s.hackleman
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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.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              I watched SEVEN episodes with my daughter today!

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                              • s.hacklemanS
                                s.hackleman @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

                                I watched SEVEN episodes with my daughter today!

                                I am still working on identifying ear and eyes with my daughter, but one day I will probably be sharing these with her as well.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  My five year old watched a bit but is not picking it up like the seven year old who loves these. I watched all of these when I was seven with my dad, so this is very nostalgic for me.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    Just finished these with my daughters. They are five and seven and loved going through this series!

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                                    • OsvaldoO
                                      Osvaldo
                                      last edited by Osvaldo

                                      Hey, I watched some of these videos with my friend years ago when we were 5, it remind me of my old commodore 64 and making my first program and taking it apart and getting grounded!!! funny times!!

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                                        Scott Banned
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                                        I used to watch this show too!

                                        Had a TI 99/4A and an IBM PCjr.

                                        Other kids on the block had Commodore 64, VIC-20, Timex Sinclair 1000.

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                                        • brianwinkelmannB
                                          brianwinkelmann
                                          last edited by scottalanmiller

                                          I've never seen a computer using a cassette in my whole life, this is new for me! so amazing, I started with Floppy Disks, so the first episode was so interesting!!!

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @brianwinkelmann
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                                            @brianwinkelmann I started using computers in 1979 and it was a cassette almost identical to that!

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