Retro Video: UNIX on The Computer Chronicles
In honor of UNIX time displaying 1234567890 tomorrow, here's the episode about UNIX on Computer Chronicles from 1985. Notice: they didn't warn us about the temporal rift!
If you aren't familiar with the Computer Chronicles series, click as fast as you can to the Internet Archive and check it out. Good times, great oldies.
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Vandalous said 12:10PM on 2-13-2009
Ack - it autoplays!
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scott b said 4:35PM on 2-12-2009
autoplay!?
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Victor Agreda, Jr said 4:56PM on 2-12-2009
Yeah, sorry about that should be fixed. Sadly the IA video player lacks a freeze frame preview, so it looks awful sad and blank like this...
Mark said 7:31PM on 2-12-2009
I love these old computer shows. You can download this episode and several others from archive.org in mpeg4 format (or a few others I think). I have them burned to a DVD now, fun to watch. :)
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Mark said 8:59PM on 2-12-2009
I love these old computer shows. I downloaded this episode and several more of the Computer Chronicles from archive.org in mpeg4 format. I've got them on a DVD now so I can watch them on TV.
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WolvenSpectre said 8:02AM on 2-25-2009
I like in the end, the news stories sound the same as todays except for the Pr0n showing up at CES for the first time, now its its own sub expo!!
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