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SGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995

2.2M views · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

Teletype Model 19 - Part 1: A Teletype Arrives for Restoration

33K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone (Full Documentary)

1.7M views · 3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

Oral History of Chuck Peddle

Computer History Museum

42K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

The 3D-Printed Curta Calculator

Adam Savage’s Tested

2M views · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

Why is Japan So Weak in Software?

968K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

BBS the Documentary [Full HD]

92K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

Leap Technology

25K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

Altair 8800 - Video #7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype

144K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984

AT&T Tech Channel

994K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

National Security Agency

180K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

Quick Start, Episode 7: Crimes... And Felonies.

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD

236K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II

1.4M views · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)

2.8M views · 2 HN recommenders · 2011–2021

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

2.9M views · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser

The Centre for Computing History

48K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

Megaprocessor Tour 1 - (fixed audio)

479K views · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)

2.8M views · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2026

Douglas Adams - Hyperland

UJ ObscureMedia

55K views · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2020

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

794K views · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2023

Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)

4K views · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2021

Where GREP Came From - Computerphile

1.3M views · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2020

The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)

Technology Connections

2.9M views · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2025

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979

19K views · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2024

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)

9K views · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2026

Oral History of John Backus

Computer History Museum

18K views · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2026

Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)

UC Berkeley Events

59K views · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2026

Amiga Story | Nostalgia Nerd

1.7M views · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2022

AT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step Switch

AT&T Tech Channel

774K views · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2023

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Computer History Museum

17K views · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2025

Amiga Boing Ball

171K views · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2026

The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

15K views · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2025

Grace Hopper on Letterman

448K views · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2018

A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick

882 views · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2023

Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

Computer History Museum

1.6M views · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2024

Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

Computer History Museum

31K views · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2025