| COMPUTARIUM LCD |
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| Library: MOVIES (click here for books, PDF's and DVD's) |
The mp4 files are conversions from the original YOUTUBE files made using
http://en.savefrom.net.
Contents:
1. Movies from
Computarium members, LCD students and Luxembourg public broadcasting
2. Movies from Museums and other
Institutions
| 1.
MOVIES from COMPUTARIUM members, LCD students and Luxembourg public
broadcasting. |
| YouTube | A restored MERCEDES-EUKLID Mod.30 (Stopdivision variant) makes a stopdivision |
Video (7:08
) showing the stopdivision in action when calculating 355/113 By Francis Massen |
| YouTube | Restored Burroughs Class1 (or maybe Class2) heavy printing calculator from ca. 1926 works again after possibly 80 years of resting. |
Video (8:18 )
(no frills, quick and dirty) By Francis Massen |
| YouTube | A Burroughs Class 5 keypunch calculator from 1925 works again. |
Video (3:43 )
showing how the carry runs from right to left. By Francis Massen |
| YouTube | Two Burroughs P-machines from 195x |
Video (5:11)
showing two restored Burroughs portable calculators from 1953 and 1954 (a
hand driven and an electro-mechanical model). On the latter a quick test to
check correct operation is shown. By Francis Massen |
| YouTube | A TI-30 works again |
Video (1:59)
showing a restored TI-30 donated by E. Lacoste to the Computarium, running
again.. By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube | ASR-32 vintage TTY Telex (1963) reads "Die Glocke" |
Video (3:06)
showing the restored ASR-32 Telex from TTY Corp. reading a tape with the
first lines of Schiller's "Die Glocke" poem, and sending the text to a
laptop, via a Baudot (RS232 interface built by C. Baumann. By Francis Massen (link updated 30Nov2023) |
| YouTube |
Short division on a Mercedes-Euklid M21 electromechanical calculator from 1939 (2021) |
Video (5:01)
showing how to make a short division ("Kurz-Division") on a Mercedes-Euklid
M21 electromechanical calculator from 1939. By Francis Massen.(link updated 30Nov2023) |
| YouTube |
New Years 2021 greetings (2021) |
Video (6:58)
of greetings made using vintage Compaq Deskpro50m, HP plotter 7475A and Sony
MZ-1 minidisc player. By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube |
Minitel1 plays original videotex pages, and others (2019) |
Video (3:13) of a vintage 1986 Minitel 1 (by Telic Alcatel) playing back
original Minitel videotex pages and new ones made with Christian Quest's
online "miedit" editor. By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube |
DUFFING chaotic oscillator (2017) |
Video (7:20) of the simulation of a simple electronic circuit which goes into chaotic behavior with very small changes of an input parameter. The results are shown using the Multisim simulator with a virtual oscilloscope. By Francis Massen.(new version with improved audio). |
| YouTube |
HELIOS calculator using the adaptive segment mechanism (2017) |
Video (2:21) showing how the segment rises out and is retracted again into the rotating cylinder of this rare mechanical calculator (made at the Italian island of Elba!). By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube |
Creating SSSD Osborne CPM disks (2016) |
Video (7:26
minutes) on how to do create Osborne CP/M diskettes from Single-Side-Single_Density
images , using Teledisk. By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube |
Strange multiplication on the Everest Multarapid
calculator (2016) |
Video (5:58 minutes) on how to do multiplication using the dial wheel of that vintage Italian calculator from 1958. By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube | Two videos of a restored vintage line-tracking robot, the MOVIT 913B (2016) | Video 1 (easy track, 1.35 minutes), video 2 (complicated track, 2.49 minutes). By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube | The Heathkit EC-1 analog computer (2016) | Video (6 minutes) on the operation of this restored vacuum valves driven analog computer from 1960, outputting to an XY Heathkit plotter from 1980. By Francis Massen. |
| YouTube |
Solving the differential equation of a damped oscillator
using a vintage analog AMF665D computer (2014) |
A step by step instruction how to use this 1970 analog
computer to solve a classical 2nd order differential equation. By Francis Massen. video (8 minutes) |
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YouTube
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COMPUTARIUM, Eng Reportage (2014) |
A small team of students of the "Option Audiovisuel" of
the Lycée classique Diekirch (LCD) made a reportage on the Computarium
during the last term of school year 2013/14. video (5 minutes) |
| YouTube |
HAMANN Automat S (2014) |
Division on the Hamann Automat S electromechanical
calculator from 1954. By Francis Massen. video (2 minutes) |
| YouTube |
Calculations with the FACIT ESA0 (2014) |
Calculations on the electromechanical FACIT ESA0
calculator from 1953. By Francis Massen. part 1 part 2 part 3 (every part less than 3 minutes) |
| YouTube | A VALIANT Logo Turtle from 1982 comes back to life (2014). |
A LOGO turtle used with the BBC micro computer executes
Logo commands. By Francis Massen. video (2 minutes) |
| YouTube |
COMPUTARIUM: A repaired bubble jet BJ300 (2014) |
A CANON BJ300 bubble jet printer from 1991 prints out. By Francis Massen. video (2 minutes) |
| YouTube | A vintage NISA PK5's jumping division (2013). |
Division on an electromechanical Nisa PK5 calculator from
1965. By Francis Massen. video (5 minutes). See also here. |
| YouTube | Dancing Compurobot II (2012) |
A very primitive robot from the 1980's executes some
preprogrammed dance. By Francis Massen. video (3 minutes) |
| YouTube | ZX81 vintage computer printing out (2012) |
A Sinclair ZX81 computer from 1981 prints on a diminutive
spark printer. By Francis Massen. video (2 minutes) |
| YouTube | TTY ASR-33 on OSI 500 computer (2012) |
A restored TTY ASR-33 drives a single board OSI computer
from 1978. By Francis MASSEN. video (2 minutes). See also here and here. |
| YouTube | HEATHKIT EUW-20A chart recorder (2012) |
A beautiful 1967 chart recorder from Heathkit comes back
to life. By Francs Massen. video (1 minute) |
| YouTube | HEATHKIT multi-speed chart recorders (2012) |
Two vintage 1971 chart recorders from Heathkit are
plotting a sine wave. By Francis Massen. video (2 minutes) |
| YouTube | HEATHKIT equipment in action (2012) |
An audio-generator's signal goes through a prescaler, is
counted by a frequency counter and the amplitude measured by a digital
multimeter. All equipment from Heathkit: Audio-generator (1962): IG-702 Frequency prescaler (1971): IB-102 Frequency counter (1973): IB-1103 Multimeter (1971): IM-102 By Francis Massen video (2 minutes) |
| YouTube | A vintage NORISAN violet wand (2013) |
A German violet wand from 1931 has been repaired and is
back to life. By Francis Massen. video (3 minutes) |
| YouTube | A vintage MBLE FM tuner and amplifier |
A MBLE kit from 1964 of valve-based tuner and amplifier
from the Belgian company MBLE is back to life. By Francis Massen. video (2 minutes) |
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2. MOVIES from
Museums and other Institutions |
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| HEWLETT-PACKARD | HP-65 Training | A vintage 3 part training video on how to use the HP-65, the first programmable scientific pocket calculator of the world, introduced in 1974. Video (YouTube, 54 minutes, all 3 parts together) |
| ULMANN | Analogrechnerprogrammierung |
Presentation by Prof. Bernd ULMANN at the the VCFB
(Vintage Computer Festival Berlin) 2015 (88 minutes). Original CCC-TV link. Copy at the Computarium library. |
| ULMANN | Analogrechner im 21ten Jahrhundert |
Keynote speech by Prof. Bernd ULMANN at the VCFB (Vintage
Computer Festival Berlin) 2015 (14 minutes) Original CCC-TV link. Copy at the Computarium library. |
| HISTORY Channel |
Quando Olivetti invento il PC (2011) |
A history of Olivetti's Programma 101, the first desktop
computer in the world (1965). Many scenes shot at the
Technologic@mente Museum in Ivrea. Italian spoken. video (YouTube, 53 minutes) |
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Computer Pioneers - Pioneer Computers
(1996) |
part
1 (YouTube, 53 minutes) part 2 (YouTube, 54 minutes) |
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The Atanasoff-Berry Computer in Operation |
video
(YouTube, 12 minutes) |
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The EDSAC Replication Project |
1. The Replication Project (mp4, 659 MB, 55 minutes) 2. Recreation overview (mp4, 119 MB) 3. Meet the trustees (mp4, 125 MB) 4. First volunteers meeting (mp4, 390 MB 5. Computer Organization and Architecture (mp4, 12 MB) 6. Replication start (mp4, 17 MB) 7. EDSAC chassis (mp4, 119 MB) 8. EDSAC mercury delay lines (mp4, 58 MB) 9. EDSAC add 4 numbers (mp4, 3 MB) 10. EDSA - OXO (mp4, 10 MB) |
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Cold War Computing - The SAGE System (195x) |
The SAGE (Semi-Automatic
Ground Environment) System, was designed and built in the 1950s to
defend against the threat of Soviet bombers attacking the
continental United States. |
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The Secret History of Silicon Valley |
World War II, the Cold
War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and
explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley |
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The Computer CSIRAC (1965) | |
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The lost 1984 video: young Steve Jobs introduces the MacIntosh | YouTube, 8 minutes |
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Computers at NASA (1960) | YouTube, 19 minutes |
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Moon Machines: Apollo Guidance Computer |
part 1 (YouTube, 15 minutes) part 2 (YouTube, 14 minutes) part 3 (YouTube, 15 minutes) |
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Computer for Apollo An M.I.T. report from the 1960's on the Apollo guidance computer and its construction. |
(YouTube,
28 minutes) |
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Triumph of the Nerds (1996) |
The story of the personal computer part 1 (YouTube, 60 minutes) part 2 (YouTube, 60 minutes) part 3 (YouTube, 50 minutes) |
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Mechanical Computers (1953) Basic mechanisms in fire control computers. |
A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Explanations of mechanical summers, differentials, gears and much more. |
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How the CURTA works (2013) |
A video showing exploded inner workings of the Curta I
calculator, and details of carry, 9th complement subtraction and other
clever features. Look also here. |
last edit: 27 Mar 2024