Season 5 (1970)

Hypercard
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January 1, 1970 • 30m

An introduction to Apple's Hypercard. Demonstrations include Hypercard 1.0, Complete Car Cost Guide, Focal Point, Laserstacks, and...Read more

Laser Printers
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January 1, 1970

Remember daisy wheel printers? Dot matrix printers? Ribbon printers? They largely disappeared when the early laser printers were i...Read more

Comdex Special (1987)
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January 1, 1970

Highlights from the annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Originally broadcast in 1987. https://archive.org/details/comdex_2

Local Area Networks: Part 1 - IBM Compatibles
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January 1, 1970

It didn't take long after the introduction of personal computers for users to want to network their PCs and share files and periph...Read more

Local Area Networks: Part 2 - Apple
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January 1, 1970

A look at early attempts to network personal computers. This show focuses on Apple products including Appletalk, AppleShare FileSe...Read more

Consumer's Buying Guide (1987)
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January 1, 1970

The annual holiday buyer's guide for computer products featuring geeky recommendations for cool new gadgets from George Morrow, We...Read more

Macintosh Business Software
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January 1, 1970

Most users thought of the PC as the business computer and the Macintosh as the creative computer. But you could also run your busi...Read more

Computer Games: Part 1
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January 1, 1970

A look at early computer games. Featured are Earl Weaver Baseball, Ferrari Formula One, Tower of Myraglen, and Shanghai. Includes ...Read more

Computer Games: Part 2
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January 1, 1970

A look at some of the leading computer games in the late 1980's. Demonstrations include Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, Ac...Read more

Decision Support Software
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January 1, 1970

In the heyday of artificial intelligence and expert systems, it was thought that computers could make human like decisions. This p...Read more

Imaging Software
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January 1, 1970

A look at the use of personal computers to digitize and process images. Demonstrations include the Datacopy 830 Scanner, MacImage ...Read more

MacWorld San Francisco (1988)
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January 1, 1970

On location coverage of the annual winter MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Big stories at this MacWorld were desktop publishing, ne...Read more

The New Amigas
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January 1, 1970

Before there was a Macintosh, the Amiga was the computer for the creative community. This program looks at the Amiga 2000, the Ami...Read more

CD-ROMs (1988)
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January 1, 1970

The advent of CD-ROM storage changed the way people used personal computers and opened up a whole new range of software applicatio...Read more

Tax Preparation Software
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January 1, 1970

A review of the latest tax preparation software packages including: MacinTax and TaxView from SoftView, Lasser's Your Income Tax, ...Read more

Shareware
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January 1, 1970

When the personal computer software industry was born in the mid 1980's, it was assumed that computer programs would be sold like ...Read more

The Commodore 64
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January 1, 1970

The Commodore 64 was the first computer for many families. This program looks at what you can do with the famous C-64. Demonstrati...Read more

Multitasking Operating Systems
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January 1, 1970

As operating systems grew more robust, one of the key new features was the ability to multitask, run several applications at the s...Read more

Business Graphics: Part 1 - Mac
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January 1, 1970

A look at how computers are now being used as graphics tools by business. Demonstrations include MacDraw II from Claris, Microsoft...Read more

Business Graphics: Part 2 - PC
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January 1, 1970

A review of business graphics products in the IBM compatible world. Products demonstrated include Energraphics, KaleidoView, Draw ...Read more

Input Devices
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January 1, 1970

How do you communicate with your computer? This program looks at various input devices for telling your computer what you want it ...Read more

Computers and Politics (1988)
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January 1, 1970

Episode 22 of Season 5 premiered on January 1, 1970

Laptop Peripherals
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January 1, 1970

So you've bought your laptop, but that's only the beginning. What else do you need to become the complete road warrior? This progr...Read more

Add-On Boards & Cards
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January 1, 1970

In the early days of PCs, you had to know how to open up the box and add the functionality you really wanted when you bought the c...Read more

Investment Software
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January 1, 1970

Personal computers level the playing field for individual investors, giving them access to research data that in the past was only...Read more

Personal CAD Software
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January 1, 1970

Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs are used by engineers and architects, but new simplified CAD programs have come out for perso...Read more