@@BeatMax2023 Actually in a way it's still true. Cannot run iPhone apps on Android. Or Windows software on IOS. The only thing that has happened is every other competitor computer has died leaving Microsoft and Apple. Seventy four percent of world PCs are MS based.
@@JayD-im7fn Yup - but now we have emulators and virtual machines and trickier things like Wine. None of them really great, though. VMs probably come closest. Java was meant to fix this once and for all by essentially creating a standardized virtual machine. Didn't really pan out lol.
I never heard about this program before, came here by accident, this was filmed long before I was even born. Yet still I'm mesmerized with the pace and the content. Nicely explained, the spoken English is neutral enough so my non native ears can fully understand it without a weird accent or fast talking. I think I'm going to watch em all
This was on TVO, which is a provincial government channel in Ontario, Canada. That's why it's very neutral and the wording and such is presented in such a PG manner.
Key point is made early on about how at this point the computer industry had not yet standardized, because the industry was too new. But clearly, lots of consumers wanted there to eventually be a standard. This explains Microsoft's monolithic dominance in the 1990s and into the 2000s. There was going to have to be a standard, in order for consumers (either in home or office environments) to do the things they wanted to do with predictability and compatibility. And Microsoft was the company that won it. Other companies like Commodore, Sinclair, and Acorn disappeared from the space, and Apple was just barely surviving for a while. (Acorn lived on in a different fashion, as the mighty ARM processors.) Of course nowadays we do so much of our work online, and across both PCs and phones, the Web is itself the standard! This opened the field back up to Apple, both with the Mac and iOS, as well as Android/Linux - and oddly enough, Microsoft failing to break through with a platform for phones. But when computing was confined to the confines of the box on your desk, there had to be a single company to win out there, and to wipe out nearly everyone else who wasn't in the tent.
I'm pretty sure there's a continuity error at 19:55 - Billy presses the "ESC" key but the jump edit then shows him pressing it on what looks like an Apple ][ keyboard.
This definately is a long way from when this show aired. Just for the record. I did enjoy playing those MECC games on the Apple IIe computer. Though...I hated having to do the program called the Fredwriter then in second grade.
The contents of the learning room Billy Van (rest his soul) was in must easily be worth possibly millions of dollars as collectibles in this age. Truly a great era to be alive in if you could afford all these luxurious ground-breaking technologies.
Strange that though the video resolution is improved, the audio quality seems to be worse than the earlier version of this episode. Seems it may be like that for the whole series.
Most program still need to be compiled for a specific machine and OS. This is true for mobile phone too. Even script in Python or Java has to be careful of the OS specificity.
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The sound of the keyboard clicks is music to my soul.
"You can not transfer programs between microcomputers, it may be possible one day but it hasn't happened yet."
OMG. That is awesome.
A prediction that was very correct!
So true. At that day it was science fiction what is now reality.
@@BeatMax2023 Actually in a way it's still true. Cannot run iPhone apps on Android. Or Windows software on IOS. The only thing that has happened is every other competitor computer has died leaving Microsoft and Apple. Seventy four percent of world PCs are MS based.
@@JayD-im7fn And here I am running Windows based programs on a Mac, things still are changing. ;)
@@JayD-im7fn Yup - but now we have emulators and virtual machines and trickier things like Wine. None of them really great, though. VMs probably come closest. Java was meant to fix this once and for all by essentially creating a standardized virtual machine. Didn't really pan out lol.
I could watch these for hours, they're so interesting!
I never heard about this program before, came here by accident, this was filmed long before I was even born. Yet still I'm mesmerized with the pace and the content. Nicely explained, the spoken English is neutral enough so my non native ears can fully understand it
without a weird accent or fast talking.
I think I'm going to watch em all
This was on TVO, which is a provincial government channel in Ontario, Canada. That's why it's very neutral and the wording and such is presented in such a PG manner.
Key point is made early on about how at this point the computer industry had not yet standardized, because the industry was too new. But clearly, lots of consumers wanted there to eventually be a standard.
This explains Microsoft's monolithic dominance in the 1990s and into the 2000s. There was going to have to be a standard, in order for consumers (either in home or office environments) to do the things they wanted to do with predictability and compatibility. And Microsoft was the company that won it. Other companies like Commodore, Sinclair, and Acorn disappeared from the space, and Apple was just barely surviving for a while. (Acorn lived on in a different fashion, as the mighty ARM processors.)
Of course nowadays we do so much of our work online, and across both PCs and phones, the Web is itself the standard! This opened the field back up to Apple, both with the Mac and iOS, as well as Android/Linux - and oddly enough, Microsoft failing to break through with a platform for phones. But when computing was confined to the confines of the box on your desk, there had to be a single company to win out there, and to wipe out nearly everyone else who wasn't in the tent.
ah, the begnning of the computer revolution. Bits & Bytes will be found in museums one day.
I'm pretty sure there's a continuity error at 19:55 - Billy presses the "ESC" key but the jump edit then shows him pressing it on what looks like an Apple ][ keyboard.
wow...that trs-80 clicking took me back...that was my first computer
Really great bits and bytes
My grandfather had a TRS-80 computer!
Interest rates were sky high in the 80’s ... 16% interest, OUCH!
I LOVE BITS AND BYTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This definately is a long way from when this show aired. Just for the record. I did enjoy playing those MECC games on the Apple IIe computer. Though...I hated having to do the program called the Fredwriter then in second grade.
peek and poke my friends :-) I'm hoping the RCMP doesn't bust me for the pirate Commodore 64 BBS I had in the 80's.
The contents of the learning room Billy Van (rest his soul) was in must easily be worth possibly millions of dollars as collectibles in this age. Truly a great era to be alive in if you could afford all these luxurious ground-breaking technologies.
can i use intro song.. for my youtube videos
Why the fuck did everything have to be a song in the 80s?
Strange that though the video resolution is improved, the audio quality seems to be worse than the earlier version of this episode. Seems it may be like that for the whole series.
My nostalgia horn is hard right now.
rooneye LOL..that really made me laugh out loud. Great sense of humor. = )
4:05 Cool math program. But can the computer run Tetris?
Indeed, now everything is standardised!
Mayukh Biswas programs are still not standardized.
Most program still need to be compiled for a specific machine and OS. This is true for mobile phone too. Even script in Python or Java has to be careful of the OS specificity.
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Oh wow I totally remeber playing that game with the spaceship at 15:00
My God, Luba looks so young!
Copyright information "not meant to be read"...
yeah like for real just wasted like 50k in college tuition :(
Hey, bad news. What happened?
Neon Lights esque music by Kraftwerk?
Literally neon lights just uncredited
look at all them graphic
Yeah,beckthem there were so many different types of computers,but used the same type disc or cassette tape to operate,haha lol.
Oh wow, you really are everywhere!
Wtf 2024
Sorry ... but we ALL know that TRS stands for 'trash' ;)