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Tech. i can introduce you to the commodore pet and the north star horizon, some of the earliest computers. and the sinclair zx 80, the first affordable home computer. for is context, my phone, 32 million times more memory here than in one of those. and in this case, a replica of the original apple. not the original because if you have one of those they are worth half £1 million. if it looks like a hoarder is collection than a museum this is how it started out, is a collection. joe, at what poin...

And all the previous episodes — on bbc sounds. they said it might be back in some form in the future. when the first home computers and gaming consoles were launched in the 19705, it all felt very futuristic. they looked futuristic. now theyre being exhibited in a new museum. more on that in a moment but first lets take a look at a couple of dates. computers were developed for research in the 1930s but it was the altair 8800 which sparked the home computer era in 197a. after its success as an ...

Legal requirements doj before it invites people has to be confident that it ca both obtain a conviction that it can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that it can sustain that conviction on appeal the evidence congress provides very important here but doj conclusions will be its own. >> again, all of these tha have been released there is no claw back. there is - new congress can do nothin with that which has been presented before the new congress actually is sworn in. >> thats right. that...

Day of the Devs is celebrating its 10th anniversary and the return of an in-person indie showcase this week, and has just wrapped up this latest digital

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>> the mushrooming industry gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park, and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. >> there was these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> it was a time when there was a lot of social ferment in and around the bay area. t...

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Worked at intel. basically it was an observation that the computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computing power of a computer chip every 18 months or so. >> and this was what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s. because every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. >> you could basically get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. so you had smaller, which led to faster, which led to cheaper. >...

Will be on the market next year. >> your first cell phones look like soviet army field telephones. theyre just these huge lunch boxes you hold up to your head. >> this is just the birth of this industry. all inventions start out in a very rough state. whether its computers or cell phones. it took a while to refine them and make them into something that all of us use. >> you look at the bottom of your screen, it says "please press return" or -- >> the computer has become a national mania, and wer...

If all goes according to plan, "columbia," this nations first space shuttle, will fly like a skylark next march. >> if the shuttle program works the way its been designed to, it will be a technological feat rivaling americas visit to the moon, a major moment in the history of flight. >> the space shuttle had new systems, new technology. the primary thing is the fly by wire system. which is you dont have pulleys and cables, its all done by electronics. all the commands go through a computer. >> i...