Comments on: Computer Chronicles, Retro Tech-TV Available on BitTorrent

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:33:24 +0000

Steve…

You are SICK MANÂ……

By: Peter Griffin

Peter Griffin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:28:48 +0000

What the hell is an al gore and who is this Internet guy.

By: 3z3

3z3 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:34:59 +0000

I remember stumbling on Computer Chronicles at Archive.org a few years ago, and was instantly transported into a world of nostalgia and computer history. It’s a great series, and whenever someone mentions something about PC’s from the 80′s and 90′s I always refer to the archive.org page.

I think I’ve downloaded most of the episodes available, and do remember being amazed at even back in ’82, they were able to do 256 color graphics (albeit with $20K machines). Retro Tech FTW (imagine d/l that through BBS @ 1400 baud :P)

By: lukas2k

lukas2k — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:24:45 +0000

Here’s a link to the Computer Chronicles Collection on http://www.archive.org

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3A%22computerchronicles%22

By: Mark R. Brown

Mark R. Brown — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:11:14 +0000

Hey! That’s me acting as spokesmodel for Netscape! I don’t know exactly why, but nobody from Netscape wanted to appear on Computer Chronicles, so they asked me. I was the author of the book “Special Edition: Using Netscape Communicator”.[quote comment="263084"]Hey! That’s me acting as spokesmodel for Netsape! I don’t know exactly why, but nobody from Netscape wanted to appear on Computer Chronicles, so they asked me. I was the author of the book “Special Edition: Using Netscape Communicator”.[/quote]

By: Mark R. Brown

Mark R. Brown — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:09:56 +0000

Hey! That’s me acting as spokesmodel for Netsape! I don’t know exactly why, but nobody from Netscape wanted to appear on Computer Chronicles, so they asked me. I was the author of the book “Special Edition: Using Netscape Communicator”.

By: hiro81

hiro81 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:17:25 +0000

[quote comment="261981"]I think the piracy episode shows how the issues we are dealing with today are nothing new. Hell, 1985 was 23 years ago and they bring up the same points and issues everyone talks about today: price, backups/fair use, etc. Great episode, thanks for pointing it out.[/quote]

Some of us have been at this a looong time… :P

Anyways, if y’all are nostalgic, check out The BBS Documentary by Jason Scott (probably also available by illegal torrent.. there is a single chapter from the thing available for free, but otherwise it’s a commerical product).

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

By: DK

DK — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:22:11 +0000

“I would buy the product if the manuals and the support is sufficiently good”

Frankie Mouse nails it 20 years before the free software business model (service fees) starts gaining traction.

By: Spanky69

Spanky69 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:07:24 +0000

Anybody up to the challenge of putting all the episodes in the right order and creating 1 big .torrent?

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By: none

none — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:49:28 +0000

1 the best posts iv seen for agess!! iv never seen any of them programmes and they look good! should keep me busy for a while…. thanks

By: zZ

zZ — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:34:57 +0000

sounds like good stuff..started late with computers and internet around 95 -good to see some neards back in the 80s

By: Fingerless Bob

Fingerless Bob — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:31:42 +0000

dearest Matt

however will I ever endeavour to know when I am ever able to understand. will it e ver ?

a wish maybe, a whole, something I can feel something eh? did u hear that! ha! ! .

By: Fingerless Bob

Fingerless Bob — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:19:01 +0000

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By: Kaptain Skrunch

Kaptain Skrunch — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:31:39 +0000

I found it the hair style pretty hillarious. The justification of theft was amazing, breaking the law for ‘review’ copies. Notice how Mr. Mouse didn’t tell them that they tossed the software. And how Mr. Mouse showed the source code as if it was cake on a wedding day present. There is no answer to morality, other than Man’s law. In the end it all fails, and we end up with pirated birthday presents to show for our hard day at work.

By: turnkit

turnkit — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:38:01 +0000

you can get all these legally from archive.org – doh

By: Mookey

Mookey — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:27:24 +0000

I think the piracy episode shows how the issues we are dealing with today are nothing new. Hell, 1985 was 23 years ago and they bring up the same points and issues everyone talks about today: price, backups/fair use, etc. Great episode, thanks for pointing it out.

By: AnonymousChicken

AnonymousChicken — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:25:47 +0000

All of this is available via http://www.archive.org as well. Using bittorrent will likely be nicer to their servers, but any TCP port in a storm. :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:56:47 +0000

[quote]What the fuck is the internet?[/quote]

Dunno, something that some guy named Al Gore invented.

By: I>U

I>U — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:30:14 +0000

What the fuck is the internet?

By: lawofbob

lawofbob — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:17:16 +0000

retro piracy

By: KungfuTornado

KungfuTornado — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:59:07 +0000

Oh god.. This brings back memories.

By: Connor

Connor — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:52:25 +0000

From the “Piracy”

Gary Kildall says “Well Stuart, It’s a very serious issue. The problem is as a software producer you can’t tell how much your going to sell versus how much is going to be stolen. As a result the prices just go up to take care of that difference. Now if we can control piracy, we can control the customer base we’re working with and we know how many we’ll sell and the industry will stabilize at probably a low price level much like the record industry.”

Yeah….Right. Because it worked out soooo well for them. :)

By: blie dvd745

blie dvd745 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:25:38 +0000

I am just really shocked that vlc can’t play it vlc can handle almost anything encluding other mp4 files

By: logos

logos — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:43:16 +0000

simple solution… get MPC

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:36:27 +0000

[quote comment="261612"]I can’t get any of these to play with VLC, ffdshow, or even QuickTime.[/quote]

Some of the .torrent files are corrupted, I’ve replaced them with a link to the archive.org download page.

Update: all the video files play fine with VLC now!

By: orly

orly — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:34:31 +0000

soem ftp link with working encodes of piracy vid

ftp://ia300141.us.archive.org/3/items/Software1985/

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:03:11 +0000

I can’t get any of these to play with VLC, ffdshow, or even QuickTime.

By: Gozza

Gozza — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:48:11 +0000

Franky’s picture says it all :)

By: _

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:09:11 +0000

computer-chronicles_HardDisk1985_256kb.mp4 won’t play in VLC/mplayer :-(

By: TonInter

TonInter — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:01:28 +0000

Downloading it. :D

By: /o\

/o\ — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:06:52 +0000

old Skool
1st ^_^