How Computers Work - Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer

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[Recorded 1990] How Computers Work: A Journey Into The Walk-Through Computer is an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through The Computer Museum's one-of-a-kind, two-story working model of a desktop computer. The Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts was the predecessor institution to the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California since 1996. Sadly, the walk-through computer did not move to California with the Computer Museum's collection, but as you can see from this video, it was a very engaging exhibit.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: February 25, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Author: ComputerHistory

Length: 0:26:31
Rating: 4.50
Views: 18,437

Tags: Computer History PC Personal Education desktop exhibit

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Video Comments:
wowninja86 (Monday 17th of November 2008 09:02:47 PM)
wow this is hilarrius high like watching the magic schoolbus
jasonithompson (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 09:56:48 AM)
Everything made big! What was the point of that? Waste of money,what genius came up with that?
Nuclearman2 (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 05:35:44 AM)
"Yeah, I'm game!" 01:40 God, I can't believe I've been made watch this in 2008, for college. Jesus...
ZildjianMan1023 (Saturday 18th of October 2008 06:13:54 PM)
aye, i remeber seeing this in 6th grade. GAH how old and outdated this is
KEVINVZ69 (Thursday 16th of October 2008 07:20:36 PM)
edwin and edwina lmao
darkalligator (Thursday 16th of October 2008 12:46:21 PM)
The intel pentium -10 hahahaha
darkalligator (Thursday 16th of October 2008 12:39:57 PM)
The track balala hahahaha :) humans!! we have unlimited creativity. The computer from the video isnt as powerfull ad my cell phon hahaha. And my actual computers will be in the same way on a future no so far.
blueblob4 (Saturday 18th of October 2008 05:57:02 PM)
WOW! Well Said! You should be a philosopher! LOL
younghifi (Monday 13th of October 2008 03:02:45 AM)
Something wrong with that? If this were shot 4 or 5 years later they would probably say the program's stored on the CD :) 5 years earlier though, I guess they would've shown the old "big" 5.25'' floppy ;)
kreeddem (Monday 13th of October 2008 04:18:45 AM)
Just makes me laugh when he says it like that. like the floppy disk was big.