All games are good is so good

Oh I wish I had studied more math. My masters is in Information Systems, but we didnt do much counting in binary I'm afraid.

I wonder if there are any videos or material showing any Nazi intelligence officers/programmers in their old age…? They would be astounded to see the lengths that the Allies went to break their “unbreakable” coding system…to them they must have thought in hindsight there was NO way Germany could have won the war with all their codes being systematically broken down.

FGPA????

my c65 ist a horrible system! no software works and many bugs in the system...😞

I'm confused about the Dulmont Magnum being "the first truly portable computer with battery power." The earlier Epson HC-20 (HX-20 outside Japan) was unquestionably smaller, lighter, and ran longer on batteries. What makes it not a "computer"? As for the size of the Osborn's floppy diskettes, sheesh, kids these days. Those 5.25" ones are the _mini_ floppies; the regular size ones were 8".

The only computer designed by legendary rocker Ozzy Osborne.

I can remember using one of those in the 80's. It weighed a tonne.

Guy sounds like Paul Foot

Agree on the yodel concern ,they're useless

Dont share the nuk code😢

Ahh thats what RetroBytes looks like! The voice is immediately recognizable!

I have Sharp PC-1211 and printer as well. Bought from Tandy in Tottenham Court Road when it came out and programmed it to do spherical trigonometry for marine navigation when I used to drive ships for a living.

I wonder if that strange coating everything electronic once got about twenty years ago was a glue and silicone powder?

No Olivetti M10?

My dad had the Psion Organiser 2 from his work at BT. He'd sit for hours using it.

Put them in metal boxes with that fire foam stuff that pops when fire touches it.

What's the system with the "surprisingly good LCD panel for the time"? My dad's work computer for a while was a "luggable" not dissimilar to that; from what I remember it was pretty good for games.

I didn't see single Palm Pilot in the first 12 minutes, it's as if history has been re-written by the winners. [ shows at least 4 Apple products ]

Its series when the murder gloves come out.

i like how you nearly put your back out putting the "portable and light weight" think pad to one side

She is delightful!

True Legends 👏👏👏 how satisfying was it to shoot Dr. Doak, or being the first one placed to get the Golden Gun in Control on multiplayer 😂👌 I beat my bro 10 - 0 recently in Golden Gun Caves haha, never gets old.

I'm very happy that Christopher Curry go to Herman Hauser and make the computer with the team around.

I'm an American 63 and electronic engineer and watched this presentation for a 2nd time after 3 years. I am absolutely fascinated with WWII since my teams. I visited Bletchley twice in 2010, there for the debut of the Colossus in June and returned laterr for my 50th birthday. Your lecture is the perfect companion piece for the experience of at least standing next to this groundbreaking machine.

maybe Enigma is used today too

Love u❤

Good Heavens, I remember those games from school! 😂

So even great men had their stupidities, or at least narrow vision. If Churchill had not been so obsessed with secrecy - and so far into the future - Colossus could have been brought out in all its glory, and Britain may have been the greatest designer and manufacturer of computers in the world.

Branson bankrupted Railtrack because it could not deliver on its promised upgrades. Branson also had too much sway over the design of the Pendolino, a train that was not built with his money! It was tax payer funded. However the public has ended up with cramped airline style cabins.

Why can’t you show blue for oceans and waterways? Green? What’s the problem here. Simplify!

This may be a silly question or at least a tangent, but was the 1970 movie Colossus in any way connected to these devices? Inspired by rumors of a machine called “Colossus” with a mysterious purpose? Somehow a film with information about the actual machine and made to covertly share the information? or… was it just a coincidence that information about the real Colossus began to be available in the 1970s? Thanks.

You’re definitely best starting off making loads of tiny throwaway games regularly than spending an eternity trying to make the perfect game you always wanted to play. The hardest part in software development is starting and finishing. The bit in the middle is the easiest, and doesn’t need as much practice. And don’t go back to an old game you finished and try to make it better. Just make a new game that incorporates what you learned from that previous one, and add the improvements to that.

Loved watching this!

this was excellent! could have ended on a more positive note though!!!!!

I have never understood why we destroyed the early computers and effectively wiped them from history. We were ahead of the rest of the world and we broke them up and disbanded the teams that built them. I don't understand the politics behind that decision.

"It's not like Gogglebox"...is that because you guys have more than the single digit IQ required as an average Gogglebox viewer?

Old video, but I totally disagree with you about tape loading. I love loading from tape. My favourite was Daley Thompson's decathlon 128 on the ZX Spectrum. I think it took around 10 minutes. But I love it even more on the emulator I use which is spectaculator because you can actually hear the loading music. Which makes tape loading for me even better. Whenever I download games for my speccy emulator or the BBC emulator I use, I always see if I can get the tape versions over the disk versions. It's makes the whole experience 100% better.

We had a Taxan 775 hooked up to the family 286 PC for years. I keep looking to see if I can find one again but there seem to be very few of these monitors out there. It had a pretty good image quality but the screen was pretty small.

0:53 - No one is their right mind would call Lua a "version of C", perhaps he misspoke.

The first Aes systems were not sold as home systems they were sold to places like hotels to put in lobbies,and that is way the system was different from the arcade versions the MVS . As the aes was cheaper back then bad the MVS was more expensive so to stop arcades buying the cheaper aes machine the two machines were deliberately made incompatible. But after some of the hotels started removing them from their lobbies SNK trying to stop loss sold them as a home console. Jap first and later a north American version.

I was a Herman Hollerith punch card operator after leaving school. The careers lady had asked me what I wanted to be when I left school. I said I was going to be a punch card operator. She asked me what that was and I told her I didn’t know yet but my dad had told me that’s what I’m going to be.

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This desk computer is thousands of times slower/smaller in memory than your tiktok running phone.

There is a classified advert on page 22 of the Cambridge Evening News in the 15 October 1980 edition: "AGENTS Full or part time required to sell 'Galactic Invaders'. Cash in on the craze that is sweeping the nation. Demonstrate this compulsive plug-in TV game to your friends and neighbours and earn over £100 per week for only 5 successful sales. Martin Covill BRANDVANCE LTD” (I should say the advert stated a Mildenhall telephone number to respond to but KZbin wouldn't let me post my original comment if I included it!) At the time of the advert, Martin Richard Covill was managing director of Duoscan Ltd at 12 Hampstead Avenue, Mildenhall. Duoscan enabled other companies to buy packages of furniture, computers, copiers, typewriters, and other equipment with the payments spread over a three or five year period. Around 1985, Duoscan moved to the Cambridge Technopark at Newmarket Road, Cambridge. At this point, Duoscan was a subsidiary of Mid Anglia Group and was still active in 1998.

Does anyone know where I can donate a load of my old computer stuff. I have a BBC B and monitor, Commodore Amiga and C64 Floppy disk drives etc…?

I cannot believe what this woman has been through. I teared up at some of the things she said, just imagining if that was my son. It is such a tragic loss she suffered. My heart breaks for her. She tried to sound the alarm and nobody listened. Even her own ex husband basically blamed her by saying she didn’t let him know it was still a threat. News flash buddy, it isn’t her responsibility to let you know about your own son. You should have known what was going on with him. You should have been actively helping her call the police and talk to parents and get this predator out of your son’s life. You should have known how he was going to get to Tom’s house and questioned why he was taking a taxi and who was paying for it. I seriously don’t know how this woman did not lose her mind after what happened to her son. All the same things she said she thought afterwards, I would have tortured myself with. That kid must have been so scared and thinking my mom was right, I wasn’t as clever as I thought I was and she knew better. I think Daynes did purposely do it on her birthday bc that’s what sadists do, try to cause the most amount of destruction. That’s one person we all would have been better off with his mother aborting. The fact this woman doesn’t wake up with rage for all that has happened to her is amazing and it probably is bc she had three other children she had to be there for.

I worked at GEC Avionics as a software developer in 1990 and I can confirm that people did smoke in the office... in fact, an amusing Welsh colleague of mine who self-proclaimed himself to be 'shit' at development and also a bit of a pot-head would roll 21 skin rizlas and stick these to the top of his VT-100 terminal with Blu-Tac and smoke it. Even in the 90s, when I worked for Nomura you could still smoke in the canteen around 1996-97 so I think smoking in the office carried on for longer than people care to remember. Definitely in the early 80s, for sure.

Fred Harris is the sort of man you'd like to go with on a log cabin holiday to de-stress.