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Levy plays computer chess with a robot in 1979
"David Levy led with e2-e4. The game data went to Control Data Corp's headquarters in Minnesota via geostationary satellite, where a Cyber ​​176 ran Chess 4.8 by Larry Atkin and David Slate."
The game took place in Hamburg for the television show Schach dem Elektronenhirn (Mensch contra Maschine)
via HNF blog (uploaded here for transcoding convenience)
blog.hnf.de/schachtuerke-und-industrieroboter/
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The Transputer - Parallel Processing, Unparalleled Potential
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Inmos transputer promotional demonstration. "At last, it's a whole new ball game." Featuring IMS T414 32-bit transputer, butterfly animation and Newton's cradle with Mandelbrot fractal animation. Video published as PW/424 in June 1986
Ceres PC and Oberon demonstration by Niklaus Wirth at ETH, 2011
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Wirth demonstrates Oberon on the Ceres-3 computer with a drawing program and a circuit design program. The machine is described here: www.cpu-ns32k.net/Ceres.html This is a fixed up version of the video "HD: Niklaus Wirth steuert Ceres-PC mit Oberon @ETH, 27. Mai 2011" found at ua-cam.com/video/AT7HpDCAPw4/v-deo.html
Wireless World Computer 1967
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Brian Crank's home movie of the transistor-based computer he designed and built in 1967, as published in Wireless World. For more see forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2333 Re-published here with permission and thanks.
Tomorrows OU world (1979)
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Computers in teaching: the UK's Open University in 1979. Excerpts from Open Forum 42: Tomorrows OU world. "The programme considers the possible role of the following computer-assisted learning systems in the OU: Home Minicomputers, Cyclops, Prestel, Teleconferencing." Four setups described: central timesharing system; micro compute, in the form of a PET; cassette and videotext and modem in a sy...
Differential Analyzer 3D animation
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Differential Analyzer solving a second-order differential equation. Three-dimensional modelling of Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer by Vitaliy Pereverzev. From Dr. Kent Lundberg's page at web.mit.edu/klund/www/analyzer/
6502 runs Turing Machine in Conway's Life
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Here's a Beeb with a 64MHz 6502 running 6502Life by David Banks, showing off the Turing Machine pattern designed by Paul Rendell. To run such a large pattern, there's a memory banking system in play. The Matchbox Copro is a £50 second processor board for Acorn's BBC Micro, offering 2Mbyte of RAM and a variety of CPUs. Acorn's operating system is architected to deal with any and all second proce...
Conway's Life on a 250MHz BBC Micro
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With a cheap Raspberry Pi and a couple of chips, you can add a 250MHz 6502 second processor to your BBC Micro or Master - see the PiTubeDirect project. Here I run a benchmark and some work-in-progress Life programs. At 250MHz, which is presently the top speed: - Listlife (BLIFE) which is a 32k x 32k universe, a port by David Banks of Tony Finch's version from dotat.at/prog/life/life.html - BLIF...
HP-65 Training (all 3 parts) [1974]
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"Learning to use the HP-65" training videos produced by Hewlett Packard in 1974, converted from U-Matic format and made available on hpmuseum forums by Mark Hardman. "The HP-65 is the first magnetic card-programmable handheld calculator. Introduced by Hewlett-Packard in 1974 at an MSRP of $795." Mark Hardman notes: 9/25/2016 This project has taken several years to complete. No fewer than four c...
The Flexipede (1967, computer animation)
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Produced 1967 by Tony Pritchett on the University of London Atlas computer and shown at the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition. "Tony recalls that he wrote it in FORTRAN IV on the London Atlas1 computer, and used the GHOST package to transfer the output to tape. He then took the tapes to Culham Laboratory to film it using their Benson-Lehner plotter and microfilm recorder." "In the mid-1960s, a ...
Falcon 9 landing reversed (SpaceX)
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Time reversal of SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage landing video ua-cam.com/video/ZCBE8ocOkAQ/v-deo.html
Reviving a computer system of 25 years ago - Wirth, 2014
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Project Oberon is an open source top-to-bottom computer design, from GUI to FPGA. It builds on the Oberon System, the latest iteration from Niklaus Wirth of his teaching systems which start with ALGOL-W. via www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2014/wirth Slides at wirth-symposium.ethz.ch/slides/wirth.pdf "Niklaus Wirth was a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, from 1968 to ...
Our Computer Arrives QMC 1968
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1968 delivery of an ICT 1905E to Queen Mary College, London See also www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res59.htm#g From vimeo.com/77387308 uploaded by Library Services
Mandelbrot in BBC Basic (RISCOS, Raspberry Pi)
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Fractal plotted in mode 1 - colour dithering is by the OS. Can run up to 1920x1080 with 32bit colour but that would be slower and less retro. RISCOS Pico boots to a Basic prompt in about 6 seconds. Free to download at www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico Mandelbrot program derived from the code at rosettacode.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set#BBC_BASIC
Robert Tomasulo speaking at UMich
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Robert Tomasulo Jan 2008 Out-of-order processing - History of the IBM System/360 Model 91 (Transcript at gist.github.com/BigEd/4fa7fec9305b595e84dc) via www.regis.org/2014/multimedia/tomasulo.cfm which says: """ Computer architects realised one of the snags with performance was that compilers did not have enough information to deliver instructions in the right order-they could not know when dat...
Computer Animation Linear Hash Table (with sound effects)
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Computer Animation Linear Hash Table (with sound effects)
Computer Animation for OU Maths
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Computer Animation for OU Maths
Computer Animation - Tomorrows World (early 70s)
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Computer Animation - Tomorrows World (early 70s)
HP Origins ft HP-35 Death of the Slide Rule
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HP Origins ft HP-35 Death of the Slide Rule
HP-35 35th Anniversary "The power of a shirt pocket" (1972-2007)
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HP-35 35th Anniversary "The power of a shirt pocket" (1972-2007)
Thomas Fowler's ternary calculating machine (1840)
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Thomas Fowler's ternary calculating machine (1840)
IBM 7090 from the Mercury program
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IBM 7090 from the Mercury program
Un ordinateur mécanique
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Un ordinateur mécanique
Sinclair Scientific Calculator c1974
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Sinclair Scientific Calculator c1974
MindCuber light shroud
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MindCuber light shroud
MindCuber display on bricxCC
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MindCuber display on bricxCC
David Gilday's MindCuber
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David Gilday's MindCuber