The PC that started Microsoft & Apple! (Altair 8800)
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2016
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Today we take the personal computer for granted. Let's take a look at the interesting story of how it came to be.
Longer version (History of all computing): • The Greatest Story Eve...
Sources:
www.oldcomputers.net/altair-8800
www.computerhope.com/issues/ch... (to those that argue that the HP 9100A calculator or Francois Gernelle, Micral computer to be the first) The Xerox Alto was the first actual PC by far but was never released.
The Machine that Changed the World - WGBH Television of Boston, Massachusetts (1992)
Triumph of the Nerds - PBS (1996)
“Der Schweigende Stern" "First Spaceship on Venus” East Germany 1960
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebre...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_...
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I still have my Altair - complete with all its manuals, custom wire wrap I/O board, ThinkerToys 1.2 MB 8 inch floppy drive, and upgraded to a Z80 processor - and the SOL terminal computer I built for it's I/O device. Also still have my original paper tape copy of Microsoft's first commercial product - Altair 4k Basic! All amazing stuff back then!
I like how you showed a picture with Steve Wozniak when you said Apple instead of Steve Jobs.
Despite jobs creating Apple? Lol ok. Woz made the computer, jobs made apple.
Was just about to type this lol. Guy above me has a point as well!
Jobs just knowed how to sell the product not creat it
True
@@theunknowndarkpassenger5632 there would be no Apple without woz AND jobs. Its not binary both can be important at the same time
Gates wrote the 8080 machine language code for the BASIC language interpreter. Allen wrote an 8080 simulator on a DEC computer so they could test the BASIC source code before running it on the Altair. Both were critical contributions.
It was really John Kemeny. He wrote the Basic program to run machine language in 1963. He was a mathematical genius who was a professor by 27 years old and solved mathematical equations for Einstein. Gates modified the Basic program in 1975 so that it would run on the Altair 8800. So the comparison was a mathematical genius versus a 19 year old second year university student. Kemeny wrote Basic so that all students could program a computer and never wanted any commercial compensation.
@@doctorboy5892
The "machine language" Kemeny used was for a GE-225 system, generations different from the Intel 8080's instruction set. Nor was BASIC itself the same language by then, though very similar. I think you underestimate the effort in porting BASIC to a new system in the 1970s with different architecture and constraints/features. You couldn't just modify it, though you could use existing versions as a guide. (Having a compiler class isn't a bad idea, either.)
It's truly amazing how far we've come in technology in just a matter of a few decades.
Let's take a look at what is considered by many to be the first TRUE PC (i.e, not counting "desktop" calculators, unreleased or non-microprocessor machines) the Altair 8800. It's the computer that started a revolution and spawned both Apple and Microsoft.
talk about ASUS
after a stressful day I can finally watch a relaxing yet educational video
Please make a video about supercomputer plz plz plz!!!!!🙏🙏
hi dgogo love your videos...can you please make a video about quantum computing? or about future of computers after the end of Moore's law please
+Ayush Singh how about a quantum computer
When Coldfusion uploads a video... it's a good day!
I agree
true
+Aakash Kalaria it is a wonderful day
very true
IT'S A LIE BILL IS EVIL
:D I am glad that Xerox was mentioned in the description, they were truly ahead of their time, and Apple wouldn't have been where they are today without snapping up the talent. Heck they even eperimented with tech we are only started using in the mid 00's.
they had room sized pcs, and they were amazed by the results, now we have pcs in our pockets faster than the old room sized ones, and we fucking want more
In future we will become PC lmao
Because we still can't even simulate one square millimeter of quarks on it!!! And that is why we will get it. Technology can still barely do anything more than make better technology... we need to start solving HUMAN problems with it, instead of just more technology problems.
We might have had room filling mainframes but minis like the PDP 11 were refrigerator sized by this time and a PC is a personal computer did certainly not fill a room because they were based on microprocessors not discrete components.
@@coenraadloubser5768 . Yeah, that's what we should be doing with them.
Lack of gratitude -_-. But i agree.
Does this bring back a lot of memories!!!
My very first computer was a "Digi-Comp I" that my Grandmother bought me when I was 10 at the Museum of Science and Industry's gift shop. I think it was 5 or 10 dollars...a lot of money for a "toy souvenir" back then, but since I had begged her to take me to the museum to see the Univac Display in the first place, she gave in. She knew I could put it together as I could build complex plastic models before I could even read. ...and she knew all I talked about were computers! When my dad saw it, he said, "what are you going to do with that piece of junk?" I told him build a computer!!! He would fix TVs (vacuum tube TVs) in our basement for people. I told him we should somehow connect a TV to a typewriter and make our own computer. We should somehow make it so you could type on a TV Screen and get the thing to do logic and math. I told him then that someday everyone would have a computer (this was 1964). He laughed at me!!! ...then called me an idiot!!! He said computers were only going to get bigger and bigger!!! ...that they would take up whole buildings and more power than an entire neighborhood block!!! ...and they would cost millions of dollars!!! I said, "No! They will get smaller and smaller and someday they will fit in your pocket or be wearable on your wrist like a 'Dick Tracy' video, wrist, radio!" Again he laughed and told me what an idiot I was! He said, "You're ignorant!!!" ...which to him was the worst thing you could call someone without being vulgar or using bad language! At age 10, I gave him the idea of a lifetime and was labelled ignorant. I wished he had lived long enough to see my first iPhone! He developed a brain tumor when I was in 8th grade and they finally did surgery on him when I was a Freshman, but he was never the same. He never got to play with any of my computers.
Then I remember using a slide rule in math classes in high school! My senior year (1972), I was the first person (and the only person) in the school to have a TI SR-10 Calculator! I was forbidden to use it over the slide rule for tests in math and physics and was told it was a "passing fancy!" Mostly, I think the instructors were jealous! It was faster and more accurate than a slide rule!!! I would bring it to school every day to check the instructor's "work" compared to the slide rule. It became routine for the instructor to ask..."what did you get?" LOL
I built an Altair 8800 for a friend in 1976! I got the job having built my very first computer on a bread board using a 4004 chip and he was impressed. I later upgraded my bread board computer to the power of an 8008!!! I was also working with PDP11s and PDP16s at work (I hated bootstrapping them! I eventually had to have management keep women from wearing "Nylons" to work as they would create electrostatic fields that would "wipe" the memory of a PDP 11 or a PDP16 when they would walk by and I'd have to reprogram it from scratch). In 1977, Processor Technology came out with the very first "everything" in one box microcomputer called the Sol 20. I bought one to build in 1978. The most amazing thing about the Sol 20 was the personality module which allowed the computer to self bootstrap (YAY!!!). Turn it on and it was ready to install Basic (via a cassette tape) and then load your programs! I still have that computer. While I was an advocate at work for the 8080 and the Z80 Chip, my supervisor and an engineer in our Production Test Equipment Lab at work were building a SWTP (SouthWest Technical Products) 6800/2. We argued about which system would better serve the range of Production Test Equipment that we were going to build for the company's high volume production (50,000 units per week). I lost out to the Engineer and my supervisor since I was only a technician and had only built and debugged 4 microprocessors before they had started even one! It did force me to learn machine code for the 6802 and later the 6502. In those days, there was a lot of competition of ideas and hardware. The 8080 and Z80 were using a fairly standard (for the time) S100 bus. Very little was organized in the 6800 and the 6500 processor market until the "Big 4" came along...Apple, Atari, Commodore, and Radio Shack (with an honorable mention to Sinclair).
In 1980 I graduated to an Apple II Plus (which I also still have) with dual 5 1/4" floppies. At the time, I had considered "Apple I" & "Apple II" toys and I had to do a lot of reading to convince myself that an Apple II Plus was the "best" (at the time) investment for a usable "Home Computer. It was also one of the most expensive! I had to get a job teaching Night School at the junior college in electronics to make enough to buy one. The wife wouldn't hear of it otherwise!!! LOL That computer had to last me until about 1991 when I could finally afford a Zeos 486-50. ( I was busy starting both a family and a business! ...cash was tight.) That unit lasted several mother board, memory, and hard drive upgrades until I bought a WinBook Si (which was stolen) and then a WinBook Si2 (still have and use).
Finally, in 2008, I bought a MacBook Pro that has served me very well for 8 years. At the time, I bought the fastest and most powerful processor they had knowing it might be awhile before I could buy another computer (kids, college, weddings, etc...you know how life can get in the way of having a good time! LOL) Memory and Hard Drive upgrades as well as the advent of "Parallels" for the Mac to allow Windows to operate on my Mac has been a real "boon." I'm not a huge fan of Windows, but sometimes business requires its use to "get along." Thus has been my life in the field of computers and Microprocessors! Many of you probably have very colorful histories as well when it comes to computers!!! It has been a very interesting half century!!! I'd love to hear your stories!!! :)
Lol your dad was wrong nce story btw
MineCraftFanaticHD No fooling!!! LOL
+Robert Green That was a good read, thanks for that one Robert.
+Robert Green Nice story. Mac OS9 is great.
+Robert Green wow some story
im only 21 so dont have much to say but i do remember my parents spending over £1000 on a windows xp machine (that we still have) pentium 4 1.6Ghz 52mb of ram (needless to say its got more now)
but before then we had a very old windows 94 machine no idea what it was but wow the xp was quick even now with a fresh os its fine for word processing (although internet is next to useless)
i may make a home sharing network thing out of is one day)
Man this brings back fond memories. I never owned an altair 8080, but I eventually did own an Imsai one of their competitors (with cooler switches). :) It was an exciting time to grow up in.
I thought I heard 100 switches for 100 instructions, I think it would have been more than 900 switches, 8 for each instructions + 100 loads+ starting address + run + .... I actually used a similar machine (back then all computers had switch and light consoles for debugging and loading boot strap programs, really fun to see how far we have come in such a relatively short time.
This comment took me 16,472,801 switches.
I don't get it🤔🤔🤔
every character would need about 10 switches to use.
Hilarious
You must have one of the latest Altairs, eh? This comment took me 33,554,432 switch closures.
*Longer version (history of all computing):* ua-cam.com/video/A2wG0sXbMhw/v-deo.html
Was just about to request for this haha
do you also consider the Olivetti programma 101, 'cause it was the first pc in history...
Olivetti made the best PCs in history. I had an M380-40 years ago. It was really cool, like pretty much all their other PCs were.
I still have my original Altair, and the SOL personal computer I used as its terminal device. I eventually upgraded mine to have a Z80 processor, 56K of memory, and a 1.2MB (8 inch) floppy disk. Originally 4k of memory cost $264 - big bucks in the mid-70's! I also still have my original paper tape copy of Bill Gate's "Altair 4k BASIC" interpreter too. As its name implies, it would run as the operating system in 4K of memory - and still allow you 750 bytes for your BASIC program. We've come such a long way, most people nowadays just have no idea!
warp00009 I like hearing about what it was actually like to compute before my time, thanks for sharing! I have a bit of a strange obsession with z80's...
The Z80 was an awesome upgrade from the Altair's original 8080 chip. It only required a single voltage power supply (+5v vice the 8080's +5v, +12v, and -12 volts), a single phase clock, had the quickly software swappable register sets, and had the memory refresh register - that I sometimes used to help generate pseudo- random numbers. As I recall my first Z80 upgrade was twice the 8080's clock speed too (4MHZ vice 2MHZ). Until a few years later when the original MITS "S-100 bus" became the IEEE 696 standard, the bus was a radio frequency mess with no active bus termination and lots of compatibly problems cause just by excessive radio noise.
When I built my original Altair in the spring of 1976 (if I have that year right), the chip alone cost something like $250 (way more than MITS was actually paying them for) from Intel - so handling it, to get it in the 40-pin DIP (Dual Inline Package) was stressful to say the least. A couple of years later, the prices for a better Z80 chip were down to $27! Rumor was that Zilog was founded by some Intel engineers who left because they didn't like the non-generalized way that Intel had done their assembly language mnemonics. The Zilog assembler made it a little easier to understand which part of the op codes were referencing particular registers...
In the old days, everyone had to be their own hardware tech - something that was possible because any hardware you purchased came with a full set of schematics for it. Everyone made countless hardware improvements to the boards they had purchased, and there was a niche market for hardware fix kits. Before I upgraded to my Z80, I brought a "Clock Fix Kit" from "Parasitic Engineering" for something like $15, that had a small daughter board with a new clock generating chip - that you hacked into the original MITS circuit. It worked! Many of the original MITS designs for particular circuits and stuff like their original 4k dynamic memory cards were pretty bad, and not hard to improve on with a very basic knowledge of TTL electronics. It was a great way to spend college years! No one would have the patience for debugging hardware like that now!
warp00009 That sounds awesome!! I'm working on a design for my own z80 computer. I find computing more interesting closer to the silicon.
II remember that issue of popular mechanics well. I was already breadboarding with a 6800 and knew I had to have this machine. I picked mine up at the Computer Shack in Albuquerque. I went back to visit a few times as well. They contacted me when Bill’s OS came out and asked if I wanted a copy. I of course did. That made all the difference. Those were the days. Thank you MITS, thank you Bill and thank you Steve and Steve. It took my life in a whole new direction. 👍
Damn, barely out of high school and those two changed the world forever.
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This channel is so awesome! So glad I just found it.
You forgot to mention Robert Albrecht, the man who proved to IBM and Control Data that BASIC was a programmable language by teaching high school students how to program with it. Wosniak was in second grade when Albrecht was writing the 30+ books to teach regular joes how to use BASIC and the Altair at his People's Computer Company - probably the first 'computer cafe' for public use. He was a co-founder/mentor of the Homebrew Computer Club and is the "obbs" in Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics. He was an inspiration and mentor to Jobs and Wos when they were boys. It was Albrecht who said in 1958, "someday we will all have computers the size of a typewriter" and “Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people, used to control people instead of to free them; time to change all that - we need a … People’s Computer Company!”
You might want to broaden your research because Bob Albrecht and Irving Hoffman started the PC revolution when IBM and the other big shots pooh poohed BASIC. Not Gates, or Wosniak or Jobs. And it began in the high schools of Colorado and Minnesota, not California.
I think I just got some tears in my eyes. This is so impressive to watch and indeed it makes you thankful that now we can do the things we do on our PC's! Keep up the impressive work, always looking forward to your videos.
7:37 Man i just love your videos and music that u pick ^^ Keep up the good work :)
+FPS DuLe (FPSDuLe Official) the music is very good
I find this amazing, those youngsters from teens react to need to learn these before they make any nasty comments about old electronics
I must confess that I owned one of these machines and designed S100 boards.
How terribly strange to be 70.
Dagogo, your works are an inpiration! Those stylish intellectual videos combined with the music you put up on Bandcamp - what a talent! Keep it up!
Loved how he shows "Steve Wozniac" instead of "Steve Jobs" when he calls out Apple !
They show the guy that didn't create apple when talking about apple, yeah makes sense lol.
@@theunknowndarkpassenger5632 he made the apple 1 so it makes sense lol
Fascinating story and not very well-known. Thanks for this bit (no pun intended) of history :)
December 1974 - I was eight years old and living in Tennessee.
1978/79 - I was twelve and thirteen years old and living in Arizona. I tried various ways to obtain a computer, including building my own. I checked out a book from the Mesa Public Library titled, "Build your own 16-bit computer and save a bundle." Somehow, at a time when we didn't have money for food, gas or rent, I managed to talk my mom into buying most of the components needed for the power supply. I also checked out a computer science book and learned the Hollerith Code. I used to spend hours in my bed, fantasizing over a Radio Shack catalog and daydreaming of what I could do with a TRS-80 Model III.
January 1981 - I was fourteen years old and had just arrived in Albuquerque, just missing Microsoft by about six years.
June 1981 - I came up with the idea of optical computers, using light instead of electricity.
1983 - I was seventeen years old when I got my first chance to use a computer. I wrote some simple BASIC programs on my Gifted and Talented teacher's Commodore 64 when I could get access to it. I went to a U.N.I.T.E. camp and spent a week programming graphics using Logo. I tried to make the graphics animated, but discovered that the turtle was just too slow.
1984 - My high school science fair project was on Optical Computers. I didn't have much to show, but my presentation was good enough to win a few awards at the State level.
1985 - I was nineteen and working in the Navy. I signed up for NRI's Microcomputer Repair course by mail. It would include an actual computer near the end of the course. I wondered how I was going to store it in my locker aboard ship, but I was discharged before I got my computer.
1988 - I finally received and assembled my first computer, a Packard-Bell XT clone. I spent a lot of hours typing documents on it. I still have it, and it still boots.
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Coldfusion thanks for everything.
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+ColdFusion Wow! Your comment means a lot to me. Thanks for that aswell :D
All for a small loan of 1 million switches.
I hope you never stop making those unique awesome videos. thanks a lot for all the efforts.
Thanks a lot for making these videos. I really appreciate all the efforts you exert.
I believe this to be incorrect...
The World's first computer is Antikythera - Around 200 B.C.
Search for Antikythera.
+YouPlantTube This was about the first PC, not computer.
+nimrodery From the beginning of this video until 3:00 minutes it refers to computers and not just the personal computer, for computers 0:34 back in time to mid twentieth century, why start there? And yes the video is about the PC and not just only..
YouPlantTube It's called "the story of the first PC." It refers to computers, but that doesn't mean that's the topic.
The Antikythera _mechanism_ is an ancient Greek _analog_ computer used for the _specific_ purpose of predicting astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance. The Altair is widely recognized as the first commercially successful _general_ purpose personal digital computer that ignited the microcomputer revolution. The Antikythera mechanism is not a digital computer. It is not a general purpose computer. And it did not ignite the microcomputer revolution.
Where are you getting all this old videos from?
And laser disc.
this is actually my favorite you tube channel and has been for a long time, i never miss an episode, you guys are awesome, congrats on the ted thing. keep it up
First computer I ever used! We had a model B in our secondary school in Kent UK from 77/78 and I later became a programmer and analyst. Very nostalgic ❤ That actual computer now lives at Bletchley Park in the National Computer Museum
Why did the video get uploaded. Set private, and then unprivate again?
+TurtleSpice Pressed "save upload settings" on another open tab and was set to private on that tab. Derp
+ColdFusion I literally waited an hour and then re-opened it :D
+ColdFusion By the way, a sneak peak on the project I am working on as a hobby (I mentioned it to you earlier this year) Is an Operating System. It is based on Linux, but different from a normal linux OS. Here is what I mean:
Just a sneak peak (I am gonna show some of them as older version so that I don't ruin the surprise as much :D. I will only show 3 apps as well and not the full desktop!)
File browser: screencloud.net/v/t4Xx and screencloud.net/v/8Ook
Music Player: screencloud.net/v/pZ10
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+ColdFusion I probably should have made a new comment instead of replying here, but too late now :P
+Anesu C why not upload a video with a sneak peek at your OS.
Can you upload videos maybe 3-4x a week?Im so bored watching vlogs and gaming videos,i like facts like yours...Yes there are other videos that upload facts,i also watch them sadly some of them cant pronounce some words clearly..That's why i want more videos from you🙇
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+Questionmark Is used to form a sentence I'm thinking of doing some shorter format videos, so we'll see! Cheers for that comment.
na then the videos wouldn't be high quality. Like most youtuber who lost their video quality because of the demand for quantity rather than quality by youtube.
Quality > Quantity
ColdFusion yay:D
Hands down my favorite channel ever. Keep up the good work man!
Fun to watch how the computer came to be. And the music you use is amazing! :)
Please do one on Linux/Unix! :)
+Igor Rebenko There is already a documentary (several really) on Linux and Linus Torvalds as well as Richard Stallman and the Open Source community. Also there is an entire AT&T history of Unix and Bell Labs engineers who created that brilliant platform. Search them out on UA-cam
+David Dupoise I know that. I want Degogo to do a dodo on it.
That fkng penguin .
Before I watch a ColdFusion video, I give it a like, his content never disappoints.
Great clip. This is now one of my favorite channels. Keep it up.
As allways, you prove why your're the best content creator on UA-cam Dagogo! Glad to see your subscriber base has really grown :) Remember when you only had like 20k subs, and thinking "why the heck isn't this channel more popular?!". Keep up the good work, and I'm looking forward to all your future videos!
FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING FANTA DRINKING PANDAS ON MARS PLEASE TO A HOW BIG IS SONY
LOL you ignored what Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did totally!
+Rich Gilbertson Already covered that in detail (click the "How Big is Apple" card) : ua-cam.com/video/eRsF1aZdAto/v-deo.html
+ColdFusion you forgot Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
made in the 1700s and was actually the first computer
CB is called the father of computing
Edit- Just realized, you said PC not Computer, ignore the above
Great video otherwise , takes alot of effort to make these I guess !!
Jordan Sinn true but his research etc was correct, it was never completed thanks to internal conflicts
Woz was everything, Jobs did nothing.
Red Leader Woz wanted to give everything for free
Steve was a good marketer and businessman
Another great video! I love the early photos of Stephen Wozniak, B. Gates, and others. Very informative and nostalgic! Thanks for doing these.
Amazing work as always! Thanks for the content!!
2:43 Why would an East German movie have actors cast entirely by Indians/South East Asians?
+CoWinkKeyDinkInc cast experiments? ha ha :D
+CoWinkKeyDinkInc The actor looks like Nehru (prime minister of India during early 60's). Can someone name this movie ?
In case you are still interested, First Spaceship to Venus. I think you can find it via archive.org
Actually it's "First Spaceship *on* Venus", but this movie has an enourmous amount of varying titles as can be seen here: ssl.ofdb.de/film/11546,Der-Schweigende-Stern
One of the English language uploads to archive.org is in very good quality actually.
I'm so proud, that Polish blood flows in Apple, thanks Woźniak! :)
I give Woz a Polish salute. I bet he did a lot of saluting, designing the Apple.
Dont thank Apple. Its a overpriced hipster brand. Microsoft, IBM or other companies are ten times better than Apple. But Altair Computer is cool
Thanx for making this !
I used these Altair systems where I worked, and it was the biggest PITA computer I've ever used. They were replaced with a couple of TRS-80s from Radio Shack with dual floppies, and life was wonderful.
But can it run minecraft?
John Sadak the other way around is more likely
Nothing with Microsoft has changed since then. They still say that they have software that does not yet exist. Once written, they release it without fully testing it. Their speciality is code that is 'good enough' but not truly 'good'.
+mike klaene Their speciality is the drug dealer's strategy. Get them hooked for free, and then make them pay, forever.
Pretty sure that's apple
Found the idiots..
Thanks for another awesome video!
Dude you deserve like 10 times more views, you put so much effort and design and thought into this stuff, I only see it in you youtubers with millions of subscribers and years and years of experience, you've got a good path ahead of you man.
I wonder if Bill Gates has ever made a comment on you tube?....
Of course he has, UA-cam is the most popular website on the Internet.
You are awasome as always.
As always moving and inspiring. Thank you.
VERY excellent little documentary. Great job
There was another PC system available in the mid 70's. It was the IMSAI 8080 and it competed with the Altair. The Altair was cheaper but the IMSAI had better quality parts. I know this because my father (an electrical engineer) bought a IMSAI 8080 kit in 1975 and over the next year we built it. The IMSAI had switches on the front as well and yes that was how the boot strap was loaded , one sequence at a time. Most of this info was in a magazine called BYTE. Good video - thanks.
I also had an IMSAI and I have every paper issue of Byte magazine on the shelf behind me. I bought the first 3 issues in person from the original publisher, Wayne Green, at the 1975 Radio Society of Ontario convention in Ottawa, Ontario.
I truly love all your videos!! Keep up the good work !
Always full of knowledge. Awesome and thank you! :)
So a computer built out of desperation kick started the modern computing world...
Yeah... Lol that must have saved their business xD
Lots of stuff happens out of desperation, Look at how many advances in computing (and electronics in general) were the result of the desperation of World War II.
Awesome production quality!
great video as always!
Your videos are so interesting. Keep them coming! :)
greetings and salutations? Dagogo, cant tell enough how much i appretiate ur work!! 😃👍
I've only just found your channel. Great stuff! Computing history is such a fascinating topic! Subbed.
Amazing video like always!
Thanks for the excellent content.
i always get amazed when i get notification and watch video.u rocks dogogo....
Love your videos! keep it bro!
Excellent video! Thank you!
I really enjoy your content and always look forward to your next videos. More than any other channel I subscribe to!
Stop saying "and a thumbs down if you didn't [like it]" because your videos pretty unbiased and there's no reason to dislike.
I remember that era and had hobbyist electronic magazines that featured those early micro computer kits.I had a friend whom also had an Altair 8800.Both he and I had Hewlett Packard programmable calculators at the time.He had the earlier HP-65 and I had the 1976 HP-67.
The Altair 8800 was very interesting,costly especially with the needed peripherals,clunky if it worked and impractical whereas the programmable calculators were mass produced very practical portable computing devices with software libraries that spanned dozens of fields especially engineering,scientific and mathematics and even had hundreds of gaming titles too.
There were probably 5,000 software titles developed for the HP-65/67 many of them by users in the user group.Also the later HP-41 could use many of these same programs too.
The programmable calculators also spawned the microcomputer age that is when they became practical and had useful software for them.
The first practical microcomputer that was mass produced in my opinion was the Apple 2 though the TRS-80 and Commodore PET came out shortly.The Apple 2 was the best and most practical for a few years.
this channel definetly deserve that million viewers
As always great video! keep up the great work!
sooo cool bro :-D I really check your channel from day to day to see If u have uploaded any of your interesting things.good luck.
when I first saw tour channel I really thought that it had few subscribers in comparison with its interesting content. :-)
Great work Coldfusion!
Another awesome video. Don't know why I didn't subscribed earlier. You deserve much more attention.
Thanks for the info, learned a lot, keep it up :D
this is exactly what type of video i was looking for
thanks alot mate you earned a sub :)
Brilliant vid as always!
Man you are amazing...Great contents and good presentation . ...Keep it up.
Nice work brother!
Another great video.You are great buddy
Crikey, I am soooo old that I still remember the Altair 8800 personal computer.
It sure is amazing how computers have advanced in the intervening years :) .
This is one of the best channels on UA-cam...less than 1 million subscribers is shocking
It really is amazing to see how the industry has remained so different, and yet so much the same.
i love your choice of music
a channel full of knowledge 😍
So much errors and misunderstandings that I don't know where to start...
Fantastic. Absolutely amazing.
Definitely in my top 5 favourite ColdfusionTV videos!
Subbed, amazing evidence and footage
@Dagogo, I just love your production of each and every video. You are too good at it and also your voice :) Thanks a lot for all the education you are giving on various technologies and histories. I wanted to know if you edit all your videos on your own ? How do you add that animation in the middle of the videos ? That is very very good :)
Amazing Video as usual
thanks to computer scei./discovering different translatives past and futures.Every best!