Tuesday, December 06, 2005

TV Show - The Computer Chronicles - Circa 1984


This is a superb piece of computer history. I love when the presenter asks Trip Hawkins (then of Electronic Arts) if video games are fad. Check it out, it's well worth a look:

Internet Archive: The Computer Chronicles

4 Comments:

At 1:24 pm, Blogger Aline said...

ooohhh IBM licence the rights to produce 8086 and 80286 chips in order to compete with Apple Lisa.

Ahhh 21 years of swings and roundabouts!

 
At 1:30 pm, Blogger James said...

Cool, I shall certainly be watching that later.

I love reading and watching about old computer tech, makes one release just far things have come (in certain areas)

 
At 11:25 pm, Blogger James said...

I always thought he should have been called 'Tripped' Hawkins.

 
At 11:34 pm, Blogger James said...

Oh man, my grammer is so poor . . . obviously in my last but one post, I should have said 'realise' not 'release'. Duh!

 

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