[HN Gopher] The Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002)
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The Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002)
Author : Merem
Score : 21 points
Date : 2020-08-24 10:32 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| protomyth wrote:
| The HyperCard episode was fun to watch
| https://archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| My lockdown project has been organizing these episodes. The full
| resolution versions are in an annoying format (interlaced
| MPEG-2), there's a bunch of duplicates caused by some of the
| recordings being from repeated episodes, and many of them are
| incorrectly tagged.
|
| I'm actually pretty much finished now, I just need to re-upload
| the new versions back to the archive.
| betamaxthetape wrote:
| Wow, that's an amazing effort! What a generous thing to devote
| your time to - I'll look forward to the results.
|
| I'm not sure how you're planning to upload them back to the
| archive, but be aware that the command line tools[1] sometimes
| have issues with uploading larger files. I've found that the
| command-line tools are more reliable (supporting more retries
| by default) than the direct Python API.
|
| Also, by default, archive.org will "derive" the uploaded video
| into a variety of different formats (this is normally a good
| thing, but I'm mentioning it since you might have already re-
| encoded them yourself and may want to avoid the system from
| "messing" with them). You can turn off derivation with a
| command line flag "--no-derive" to the "ia upload" tool (or a
| "queue_derive=False" parameter to internetarchive.upload() if
| using the Python API).
|
| (source: I'm currently uploading thousands of local government
| videos, many of them 3+ hours long, to archive.org. With this
| many videos, I have scripts checking the hashes of uploaded
| videos to make sure the process worked before deleting any
| source files on my machine.)
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| [1] https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/
| bluedino wrote:
| Loved this show as a kid. The annoying thing about now is,
| because of the format of the show, they only get to spend a
| couple minutes on each demo. I would be fine watching a whole
| half hour of the latest piece of hardware or newest application.
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| One great thing about the show was that it covered more than
| Windows and DOS, the most exciting episodes to me were the ones
| that showed UNIX workstations
| the-dude wrote:
| I haven't clicked the link, but some are on YT too, featuring the
| coolest guy in the industry : Gary Kindall
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
| gbolcer3 wrote:
| "total size of requested files (105 GB) is too large for zip-on-
| the-fly"
|
| Bummer, I was going to download and watch offline using a USB in
| my TV.
| corysama wrote:
| https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive
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| https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/
| corysama wrote:
| In the days before the Internet, a new episode of Computer
| Chronicles was a big deal to a young me. It was the only source
| of personal computing news at the time besides going to the
| library once a month to read the new magazines.
|
| Fun moment in retrospect: Someone from Blizzard demoed a preview
| of Diablo on the show. In the live demo, the first monster he
| kills drops a Book of Identify (permanent ability). Before the
| game shipped, they removed that item and made buying and carrying
| Scrolls of Identify (consumable) into a rather annoying gameplay
| mechanic.
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