The guys glasses indicate to me this video was made before I was born, but it did a way better job explaining this than any of the new videos I've seen.
I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid in the 1980's. I was about 7-10. It was on a station in Winnipeg called "VSP-7" run by the local cable company that carried special educational programming.
The first time I saw this show I was 12 years old in my grandmothers living room. The second time is now, on a 32" LCD, Quad 2.4Ghz CPU, downloaded via an optical isp in a high-tech computer graphics company. :)
Wow! I'd almost forgotten this show. Living in Atlantic Canada too, I always watched this show. Brings back many memories. I was 11 when this aired. Luba's certainly made a good career for herself. I was sadened to hear about Billy's passing some time ago.
This series originally aired in about 1983. Even though it was for the novice computer user, it goes into remarkable detail about the inner workings of computers.
Thanks for posting these, eh! Used to love this show as a geeky child back in the 80's. I tried contacting TVO a while ago about possibly getting my hands on an episode or two of this series, but they never got back to me about it.
Also, this ROM and RAM lesson still applies to today's computers, basically. You still have a ROM chip that tells the computer how to start up (though these chips can usually be erased and re-written now), and the RAM chips still lose their contents when the power is off. (These days you can use Sleep or Standby mode which keeps the RAM chips powered up)
How relevant your computer remains depends on you the user or programmer. Remember that these computers that are sold in stores today are yesterday's supercomputers.
What I love about these old shows is that they assume you've never used a computer before. And then they teach how everything works, even how to write a small program of your own. You can't really make a show like this anymore.
Actually, SSDs are Flash which is based on ROM, but provides a hardware interface to allow you to reset and reprogram the "switches". And of course even with an SSD backing store for swap, more RAM is always better and RAM is cheap enough to make upgrading cost-effective.
I remember this show!! Too bad the series isn't available somewhere. I suppose its too dated for todays machines though. I guess it would still be useful for the basics though.
Thanks for the education, to be honest I dont know much about SSD's. Yeah I know how they work for the most part and how in concept they work but I am more famillair with older style drives. Obviously the people who made this vid could not even conceive of a SSD, hell they were still getting out of the age of ticker tape
Hard drives did exist, but home users did not have them. The video you just watched would have filled up a whole hard drive costing $2,500 (about $5,000 today adjusted for inflation).
@manoelramon Lembro muito bem deste programa mas este e mais antigo do inicio dos anos 80 o 1°. O que você viu foi o dos anos 90. Você ja encontrou o programa dos anos 90 ?
Anymore ROM and RAM seem not to matter much in the days of high capacity HDD's and SSD's, sure having more RAM does matter considering what operating system you use but on linux it seems that ROM and RAM are just buzzwords on how it uses both ROM and RAM. Especially where SWAP is concerned.
These kind of old videos are the best, today explanatory videos or blogs assume we know too much :)
The guys glasses indicate to me this video was made before I was born, but it did a way better job explaining this than any of the new videos I've seen.
This brings back so many memories. We used to watch these in computer class in public school.
I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid in the 1980's. I was about 7-10. It was on a station in Winnipeg called "VSP-7" run by the local cable company that carried special educational programming.
They make it so EASY to understand, I love it!!
Yup
I love when videos are recorded on VHS.
Why teachers doesn't show this videos. So easy to understand and it only took 4 minutes, in class it takes 40 minutes.
Oh my goodness! I got my Atari 800 in the summer of 83, and used it almost daily until 1990... This is great to watch! I love both Billy and Luba!
Here in Atlantic Canada, Bits and Bytes aired in 1983 on our local CTV affiliate, ATV (now CTV Atlantic). I never missed an episode.
The first time I saw this show I was 12 years old in my grandmothers living room. The second time is now, on a 32" LCD, Quad 2.4Ghz CPU, downloaded via an optical isp in a high-tech computer graphics company.
:)
Wow! I'd almost forgotten this show. Living in Atlantic Canada too, I always watched this show. Brings back many memories. I was 11 when this aired. Luba's certainly made a good career for herself. I was sadened to hear about Billy's passing some time ago.
God I loved this show when I was a kid.
This series originally aired in about 1983. Even though it was for the novice computer user, it goes into remarkable detail about the inner workings of computers.
I used to LOVE watching this show on PBS as a kid in the 80s. I knew it'd look ancient but damn!
Watching this in 2015
And me watchin' ur comment In 2020
Thanks for posting these, eh! Used to love this show as a geeky child back in the 80's.
I tried contacting TVO a while ago about possibly getting my hands on an episode or two of this series, but they never got back to me about it.
Also, this ROM and RAM lesson still applies to today's computers, basically. You still have a ROM chip that tells the computer how to start up (though these chips can usually be erased and re-written now), and the RAM chips still lose their contents when the power is off. (These days you can use Sleep or Standby mode which keeps the RAM chips powered up)
Do you have any more of these? I would really like to see more clips. Thanks again for what you have posted!
imagine pulling out a chip the size of a fist with BASIC language on it straight out of a computing unit
How relevant your computer remains depends on you the user or programmer. Remember that these computers that are sold in stores today are yesterday's supercomputers.
What I love about these old shows is that they assume you've never used a computer before. And then they teach how everything works, even how to write a small program of your own. You can't really make a show like this anymore.
Actually, SSDs are Flash which is based on ROM, but provides a hardware interface to allow you to reset and reprogram the "switches". And of course even with an SSD backing store for swap, more RAM is always better and RAM is cheap enough to make upgrading cost-effective.
Good times, good times...
Hello random guy who is using RUclips around 14 years
@aartie Ha! Small world. I bet she hasn't seen these shows since they were made, but clearly people are still seeking them out and enjoying them.
mmmmmmmmm the man
Nice !
Did they not have hard drives back then or something? This is so retro lol.
I remember this show!! Too bad the series isn't available somewhere. I suppose its too dated for todays machines though. I guess it would still be useful for the basics though.
Thanks for the education, to be honest I dont know much about SSD's.
Yeah I know how they work for the most part and how in concept they work but I am more famillair with older style drives.
Obviously the people who made this vid could not even conceive of a SSD, hell they were still getting out of the age of ticker tape
Hard drives did exist, but home users did not have them. The video you just watched would have filled up a whole hard drive costing $2,500 (about $5,000 today adjusted for inflation).
There is no official DVD release, though there are probably bootlegs out there. Some people trade & collect these things.
Also, Luba lives next door to me, so it's all very weird.
ATARI!!
@manoelramon Lembro muito bem deste programa mas este e mais antigo do inicio dos anos 80 o 1°. O que você viu foi o dos anos 90.
Você ja encontrou o programa dos anos 90 ?
Who else here in 2020?
i keep my memmory in my hard disc
anyone know where to get these episodes?
i have all episodes of this and party game. transfered from beta
neat. what are the show hosts' names?
Anymore ROM and RAM seem not to matter much in the days of high capacity HDD's and SSD's, sure having more RAM does matter considering what operating system you use but on linux it seems that ROM and RAM are just buzzwords on how it uses both ROM and RAM.
Especially where SWAP is concerned.
DO WAT??? lol
PERMANENT?!HA!
If we hire Bill Gates nothing will be permanent!
XD
Maybe errors though... XDD
jajajaja el ruco que sale esta bien cagado
rumpack
no sound that sucks