Chords for Harry Forbes theme song ( E ) Patterns of ( D ) light ( D ) on the ( A ) video ( E ) screen, ( repeat chord sequence ) Images bright flowing an endless stream, ( A ) Bits of infor- ( E ) mation ( D ) Logic black and ( E ) white ( A ) Bits and bytes of ( E ) information ( D ) turning ( A ) darkness into ( E ) Light.
I remember the Bits And Bytes shows. Computers have changed a lot since. However some aspects have stayed the same like how the basics of computers are still a CPU, Input/Output and Memory, and how you have to define every exact detail when you create a program.
1:36 "OH! THAT'S what they call that.." "How do you make it go up??" LOL I remember having to do this on my old C64... Just MOVING a god-damn cursor around was a pain in the ARSE!!
Oddly Modern PCs don't have ROM anymore in the sense of this video, our "ROM" is stored in flash memory, and in fact it is writeable with updates and BIOS changes, so ROM is no longer the true word for it.
BASIC 4.0 on the Commodore PET, created by Microsoft. Microsoft created most BASIC's for 8bit computers back then. You can grab a program for your PC called QB64 which is a modern version of QuickBASIC which used to be for DOS computers in the 1990s and do something similar. Or grab DOSBOX emulator and find BASICA for it online, it uses the same old BASIC which should work the same. There's probably a Commodore PET emulator out there as well. There's emulators for all the old computers they show here.
My computer teacher in the '80s called computers "high speed idiots". They only do what you tell them to do. If you tell them to make a mistake, they will make it faster than you can. ;)
Because those days are now gone, and they were the best days in computing in my opinion. The youngest children in this video are now pushing 50, the girls in their 20s in this are in their 60s now, and the senior citizens and many of the people that worked on this program and computers back then, are all gone. I lived through it all and it saddens me a little. Times were simpler and to me, computers were more interesting back then.
@@NeilRoy know what you mean as it's the same with practically everything nowadays. If I was interested in this sort of thing when I was younger maybe I would have learned to code and appreciated it. Learning to code in this day and age isn't very appealing to me and quite off-putting actually. Don't even know why I'm watching this video really as I'm clearly never gonna do anything with the information.
@@robertmcmillan3638 I have never lost interest in programming, it's just my motivation to create anything has gradually dwindled as programming gets more convoluted, overly complex and less enjoyable. Lately I found some simple software I have been messing with to create a sort of visual novel with. It uses a form of the Python language (a scripting language). Visual novels (games) mostly have stories with changing still background images and you read the dialog of the characters and select choices where it will go. A format I have really enjoyed. I looked into how to make them and they use free software called "Ren'py" which is surprisingly simple to use. If you enjoy story driven games (more like visual novels) than this is a nice option. The language to make them is super simple. I just need to come up with a decent story before I make something. ;)
@@NeilRoy correct! I remember one of my most satisfying projects as a young kid was writing a program to make a realistic 3d rendition of a side-lit moon or planet, in monochrome, by dithering. It would be years later that school finally covered the trig functions necessary for this and years more after that until I got to uni and the principle of dithering was taught. We didn't need to be taught - we just figured it out. There is no incentive for that now. Why would anyone bother when now you can display any image you like on a computer with the click of a mouse? Those days are sadly gone. A computer is now akin to a washing machine.
@@NeilRoy or here's another one - I made my own software additive synthesizer. Man, I had forgotten about that one. I can't even remember the details now. Did the Sega SC3000 or the Commodore 64 have the capability to play multiple sine waves at the same time or was that later when I got a PC and a Soundblaster card you could just feed a sample stream to? How did I even find out that a periodic signal can be decomposed into harmonic components? It was years later that I learnt about Fourier transforms and there was no google then. Either way - this again is the sort of thing we did, whereas now why would you bother when you can just stream any music you want or install someone else's software synth?
Nope, it's a program. It's no different than any other program, it's just not compiled into machine language instructions ahead of time. BASIC is what is called an Interpreted Language. It stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". Definitely a program. As you enter the program, the computer doesn't store entire words like "PRINT", it stores a single byte opcode in memory which represents that command. The commands themselves were hard coded in ROM in most of those old computers.
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I watched this TV series in Brazil when I was a kid... today I am a software engineer/program manager... thanks to this show.
Witch channel broadcast it? (Let me guess, Cultura?)
Não sabia que isso tinha passado aqui
@@thaismagalhaes5928 sim.. TV Cultura.. todo sabado as 7 da manha
@@user-ug5ry2su5s provavelmente voce nao era nem nascido LOL
What do you think of ChatGPT? Is it true AI?
I honestly love how ancient this is, it shows how passionate you had to be to get into computing. Now its just a way of life.
I loved this series when it first came out. I was around 17 or 18 at the time. I really miss those days.
You're beautiful Neil ☺️
@@Bone74838 Thanks a lot, so are you. 🙂
I would have LOVED this show in 1983. Sucks I missed it.
+Boo Norton I feel the same way, how I wish I could born 10 years earlier, lol.
I saw them all i loved the computer chronicles as well, great shows. My first computer was an Apple IIGS
This and Computer Chronicles.
Someone should seriously make a modern computer show
@@bucminster9172 heck yah but even though these shows precede me, they are so relaxing.
I got teary eyed hearing the intro to this show
Chords for Harry Forbes theme song
( E ) Patterns of ( D ) light ( D ) on the ( A ) video ( E ) screen, ( repeat chord sequence )
Images bright flowing an endless stream,
( A ) Bits of infor- ( E ) mation ( D ) Logic black and ( E ) white
( A ) Bits and bytes of ( E ) information ( D ) turning ( A ) darkness into ( E ) Light.
It's basically a cover of Neon Lights by Kraftwerk
I remember the Bits And Bytes shows.
Computers have changed a lot since. However some aspects have stayed the same like how the basics of computers are still a CPU, Input/Output and Memory, and how you have to define every exact detail when you create a program.
Probably highest quality of these available
I've said it before, but, DAMN, Luba looks so young in this!
1:36 "OH! THAT'S what they call that.." "How do you make it go up??" LOL I remember having to do this on my old C64... Just MOVING a god-damn cursor around was a pain in the ARSE!!
15:10 Sure it may have took 20 years for that to happen, but it certainly did.
4:37-5:06 The end credits to Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
Starring
BILLY VAN
BILLY VAN
BILLY VAN
etc, etc
The good old days
Yup, I miss those days. I couldn't get enough of learning, programming etc. Now I find it difficult to be as motivated.
14:59 This lady blue cardigan Predicted the fucking future...
Oddly Modern PCs don't have ROM anymore in the sense of this video, our "ROM" is stored in flash memory, and in fact it is writeable with updates and BIOS changes, so ROM is no longer the true word for it.
I love the videos
Where does the program run from? The HHD or RAM?
It is loaded from the hard drive/floppy drive/cassette (back then) into RAM where it remains and is executed. So it runs from RAM.
old is gold, now I known why ?..
which programming language is this?
latish H.I.M. BASIC
BASIC 4.0 on the Commodore PET, created by Microsoft. Microsoft created most BASIC's for 8bit computers back then.
You can grab a program for your PC called QB64 which is a modern version of QuickBASIC which used to be for DOS computers in the 1990s and do something similar. Or grab DOSBOX emulator and find BASICA for it online, it uses the same old BASIC which should work the same. There's probably a Commodore PET emulator out there as well. There's emulators for all the old computers they show here.
1955
"The computer understands nothing." NICE ONE!
My computer teacher in the '80s called computers "high speed idiots". They only do what you tell them to do. If you tell them to make a mistake, they will make it faster than you can. ;)
Why does this intro song sound so sad xD
Because those days are now gone, and they were the best days in computing in my opinion. The youngest children in this video are now pushing 50, the girls in their 20s in this are in their 60s now, and the senior citizens and many of the people that worked on this program and computers back then, are all gone. I lived through it all and it saddens me a little. Times were simpler and to me, computers were more interesting back then.
@@NeilRoy know what you mean as it's the same with practically everything nowadays.
If I was interested in this sort of thing when I was younger maybe I would have learned to code and appreciated it.
Learning to code in this day and age isn't very appealing to me and quite off-putting actually.
Don't even know why I'm watching this video really as I'm clearly never gonna do anything with the information.
@@robertmcmillan3638 I have never lost interest in programming, it's just my motivation to create anything has gradually dwindled as programming gets more convoluted, overly complex and less enjoyable. Lately I found some simple software I have been messing with to create a sort of visual novel with. It uses a form of the Python language (a scripting language). Visual novels (games) mostly have stories with changing still background images and you read the dialog of the characters and select choices where it will go. A format I have really enjoyed. I looked into how to make them and they use free software called "Ren'py" which is surprisingly simple to use. If you enjoy story driven games (more like visual novels) than this is a nice option. The language to make them is super simple. I just need to come up with a decent story before I make something. ;)
@@NeilRoy correct! I remember one of my most satisfying projects as a young kid was writing a program to make a realistic 3d rendition of a side-lit moon or planet, in monochrome, by dithering. It would be years later that school finally covered the trig functions necessary for this and years more after that until I got to uni and the principle of dithering was taught. We didn't need to be taught - we just figured it out. There is no incentive for that now. Why would anyone bother when now you can display any image you like on a computer with the click of a mouse? Those days are sadly gone. A computer is now akin to a washing machine.
@@NeilRoy or here's another one - I made my own software additive synthesizer. Man, I had forgotten about that one. I can't even remember the details now. Did the Sega SC3000 or the Commodore 64 have the capability to play multiple sine waves at the same time or was that later when I got a PC and a Soundblaster card you could just feed a sample stream to? How did I even find out that a periodic signal can be decomposed into harmonic components? It was years later that I learnt about Fourier transforms and there was no google then. Either way - this again is the sort of thing we did, whereas now why would you bother when you can just stream any music you want or install someone else's software synth?
This show would have helped me learn about programming, but it’s a generation gap for me.
3:35 hahahah !! the woman is badass
I no inderstend
Technically, he's writing a script here... not a program.
A script is interpreted, a program is compiled/executed. So that's a program
Nope, it's a program. It's no different than any other program, it's just not compiled into machine language instructions ahead of time. BASIC is what is called an Interpreted Language. It stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". Definitely a program.
As you enter the program, the computer doesn't store entire words like "PRINT", it stores a single byte opcode in memory which represents that command. The commands themselves were hard coded in ROM in most of those old computers.
I like the statement "Dim witted computer." I'm so sick of the term AI, such a load of baloney.