COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 62 — APPLE CLASSROOMS OF TOMORROW, INFORMATION LABORATORY, VOYAGE OF THE MIMI, AND THE FACTORY
The fourth season of Computer Chronicles premiered in September 1986 with a two-part look at educational software.
CCR SPECIAL 8 — MORROW DESIGNS
Morrow Designs, Inc., the company founded by George Morrow and his wife in 1979, was part of the early wave of small manufacturers that produced microcomputers for the business market.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 61 — THE FPS-264, ELXSI 6400, SEQUENT BALANCE 8000, AND THE WARP PROJECT
Since the mid-2000s, just about every personal computer made contains a multi-core and/or multi-threaded CPU.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 60 — HEALD COLLEGE AND DECWORLD '86
Alexander “Sandy” Astin was a longtime professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, best known for creating an annual survey of college freshmen.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 59 — TELLSTAR, HALLEY, AND THE LICK OBSERVATORY
In 1705, Oxford geometry professor Edmond Halley published a paper, A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, which proposed that comets observed from Earth in 1531, 1607, and 1682 were in fact the same comet.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 58 — MIND OVER MINORS, RELAX, AND THE THERAPEUTIC LEARNING PROGRAM
“Expert” systems were all the rage in the late 1980s, as demonstrated by a previous Computer Chronicles episode on their use in law enforcement.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 57 — QUOTREK, SPEAR SECURITIES, SIGNAL, DOW JONES INFORMATION SERVICE, AND THE TELESCAN ANALYZER
The major theme for this season of Computer Chronicles has been, “Why would anyone actually buy a personal computer?
CCR SPECIAL 7 — BRAINBANK, CBS SOFTWARE, AND MURDER BY THE DOZEN
In the studio introduction for the 1986 Computer Chronicles episode on computers and law enforcement, Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall looked at an educational game, Murder by the Dozen, running on the Macintosh.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 56 — SHURLOC, OCIS, AND PROBE ONE
During this third season of Chronicles, there have already been several episodes dedicated to the impact of computers on specific vocations, including the media, politics, and medicine.
COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 55 — NATURALLINK, PERSONAL CONSULTANT, AND Q&A
As enthused as Gary Kildall was about many tech products, notably optical storage, he could be equally grumpy about other subjects, such as artificial intelligence (AI).