There is ample evidence of people doing personal computing before the
microprocessor was invented. There was a whole terminal/time sharing scene
in the late 60s, plus people who did personal computung by using the
machine at a school, work, or library. There were also people whonowned
surplussed minicomputers who used them at home. I think you should
consider mentioning this somehow.
Really, your video is about personal computers with a microprocessor
installed.
A person from the 70s would not look at computing the same as we do today.
The larger consumer of "home computers" were doing engineering type work,
not so much playing games. Even the apple/tandy/commodore users.
Bill
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 1:43 PM Tarek Hoteit via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> Yes. I second that. Having the daughter as a narrator is perfect. No
> offense, Steve.
>
> Regards,
> Tarek Hoteit
>
> > On Mar 8, 2023, at 10:09 AM, W2HX via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I loved it. I would only suggest a human narrator like your daughter
> would be great. But I don't like the computer generated narration (I am
> right about the computer narrator, aren't I?).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Lewis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 11:54 AM
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> > Cc: Steve Lewis <lewiss...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [cctalk] Re: on the origin of home computers
> >
> > Adrian,
> >
> >> There's a long tail to the video with no video and blank audio. After
> >> a while, a section of audio from the main flow is repeated.
> >
> > Thanks, yeah that was a left over to compare an alternate ending. One
> > idea is to make it such that the video can "loop" seamlessly for
> continuous
> > play, at say a museum. And the plan is to put it under Creative Commons
> > since I'm told that's the best way to help ensure it can be re-used
> without question.
> >
> > The plan was to keep it to 10min - at one point we had it up to 30min!!
> > Minus the inadvertent excess, it'll be exactly 15min. A part2 might
> focus more on the Z80 and 6502 lines themselves, or I was thinking a kind
> of bio on the actual engineers involved ("the names and faces").
> >
> > Canada is represented also :) And I just recalled, the "TK-80"
> (training kit Z80 board) is also a "made in Japan" item (and led to the
> PC-8001 in '79), it probably needs a flag (and I wanted to show a France
> flag for the Micral-N -- but in the effort to keep it closer to 10min, we
> just couldn't cover every item to keep a reasonable tempo). So then we
> debated to not have popup flags at all, but I felt it was important to note
> that there was international involvement here.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:55 AM Adrian Godwin via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Not really technical, but a couple of presentation points :
> >>
> >> There's a long tail to the video with no video and blank audio. After
> >> a while, a section of audio from the main flow is repeated.
> >>
> >> It seems to be common to consider Youtube videos more approachable if
> >> they're up to about 10 minutes long. You might benefit by splitting it
> >> into
> >> 2 parts.
> >>
> >> And even further off topic .. I see that the pictorial guide includes
> >> machines from GB and Japan (and I think a Sharp is mentioned in the
> >> description). Although GB was heavily influenced by USA machines it
> >> did have it's own distinct history and so, I think, did Japan. Russia
> >> also had clones of well known machines and their own designs. Did any
> >> other countries have a history that was more complex than picking the
> >> best known parts of the international trade ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:24 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <
> >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>> We're making final touches on a short history-video we've been
> >>> making
> >> about
> >>> home computers (my daughter, in middle school, has been helping).
> >>>
> >>> If anyone has time/interest to do a review, the draft listing is here:
> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9mgSVJZoFc
> >>>
> >>> Unless anyone spots a gross technical error, we're hoping to render
> >>> the final sometime this weekend or sometime this month.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>
>
