Bits and Bytes (1983)
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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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I watched SEVEN episodes with my daughter today!
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@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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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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Just finished these with my daughters. They are five and seven and loved going through this series!
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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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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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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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@brianwinkelmann I started using computers in 1979 and it was a cassette almost identical to that!
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@Osvaldo said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
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!!
Couldn't have been five, the show shouldn't have come out in Canada until you were seven.
I saw them on the original broadcast because they were from my local TV station.
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It is so interesting that those decades programs can just run in specific computers, I think that now it depends on the OS, but anyway programs can be emulated or now come multi platform.
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jejeje I remember been super young and curious!!! so long ago... wonderful times
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@brianwinkelmann said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
It is so interesting that those decades programs can just run in specific computers, I think that now it depends on the OS,
It's the same. If you compile nothing has changed. Compile some C code for your AMD64 PC. It can't run anywhere else, like on a Raspberry Pi.
This is actually one of the important lessons from the series... each of those computers had its own processor architectures. That still exists today, just newer procs like Itanium, AMD64, Sparc, MIPS, ARM32, ARM64, IA32, etc.
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@Scott said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
Had a TI 99/4A
If anyone has one of these to donate to a collection...
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I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
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@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.It was awesome for it's time.
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@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.
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@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.
I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning. -
@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
@scotth said in Bits and Bytes (1983):
I used to have an Atari -- it was a white keyboard that I hooked up to a TV and a tape player. I don't even remember anything else about it. I made a lightening bolt flash on the screen with thunder.
I thought it was cool at the time.Sounds like the Atari 400, I would guess.
I honestly don't remember. I got it as a gift and learned to do a little coding from the user manual. I'm not even sure what language it used when I wrote the code (copied from the manual). Hell, for all I know, the wife could have it sequestered away from me in a closet.
I'm pretty sure that I have a color Panasonic 24pin dot matrix printer somewhere. I'll have to do a search & destroy this year for spring cleaning.
