Season 5

episodes

1. 1. Hypercard 1987-10-28 30 min An introduction to Apple's Hypercard. Demonstrations include Hypercard 1.0, Complete Car Cost Guide, Focal Point, Laserstacks, and National Galllery of Art. https://archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard
2. 2. Laser Printers 1987-11-04 Remember daisy wheel printers? Dot matrix printers? Ribbon printers? They largely disappeared when the early laser printers were introduced. The first laser printers sold for more than $100,000. So it...
3. 3. Comdex Special 1987 1987-11-11 Highlights from the annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Originally broadcast in 1987. https://archive.org/details/comdex_2
4. 4. Local Area Networks: Part 1 - IBM Compatibles 1987-11-18 It didn't take long after the introduction of personal computers for users to want to network their PCs and share files and peripherals. This program looks at some early networking technologies incudi...
5. 5. Local Area Networks: Part 2 - Apple 1987-11-25 A look at early attempts to network personal computers. This show focuses on Apple products including Appletalk, AppleShare FileServer, and MacLink. Also includes a look at Apple networks in use at Ar...
6. 6. Consumer Buying Guide 1987-12-02 The annual holiday buyer's guide for computer products featuring geeky recommendations for cool new gadgets from George Morrow, Wendy Woods, Paul Schindler, Gary Kildall, and Stewart Cheifet. Products...
7. 7. Mac Business Software 1987-12-09 Most users thought of the PC as the business computer and the Macintosh as the creative computer. But you could also run your business on a Mac. This program looks at several business applications des...
8. 8. Computer Games: Part 1 1987-12-16 A look at early computer games. Featured are Earl Weaver Baseball, Ferrari Formula One, Tower of Myraglen, and Shanghai. Includes a visit to Electronic Arts customer support department and an intervie...
9. 9. Computer Games: Part 2 1987-12-23 A look at some of the leading computer games in the late 1980's. Demonstrations include Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, Accolade's Mean 18 golf game, Apache Strike, Beyond Dark Castle, The Oth...
10. 10. Decision Support Software 1987-12-30 In the heyday of artificial intelligence and expert systems, it was thought that computers could make human like decisions. This program looks at several early examples. Products demonstrated include...
11. 11. PC Imaging 1988-01-06 A look at the use of personal computers to digitize and process images. Demonstrations include the Datacopy 830 Scanner, MacImage 2.0, TrueForm from Spectrum Digital, Image Studio from Fractal Softwar...
12. 12. MacWorld San Francisco 1988 1988-01-28 On location coverage of the annual winter MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Big stories at this MacWorld were desktop publishing, new color computers, HyperCard, and PC emulators. Guests include George...
13. 13. The New Amigas Before there was a Macintosh, the Amiga was the computer for the creative community. This program looks at the Amiga 2000, the Amiga 500, Photon Video Cell Animator, Music X, Video Toaster, and Interc...
14. 14. CD-ROMs 1988-02-24 The advent of CD-ROM storage changed the way people used personal computers and opened up a whole new range of software applications. This program looks at several examples including Microsoft Bookshe...
15. 15. Tax Preparation Software 1988-03-02 A review of the latest tax preparation software packages including: MacinTax and TaxView from SoftView, Lasser's Your Income Tax, Tax Preparer from HowardSoft, TurboTax from ChipSoft, Tax Partner from...
16. 16. Shareware When the personal computer software industry was born in the mid 1980's, it was assumed that computer programs would be sold like books or records. But software was different and some innovative progr...
17. 17. The Commodore 64 The Commodore 64 was the first computer for many families. This program looks at what you can do with the famous C-64. Demonstrations include The Wine Steward, Skate or Die, Strike Fleet, the Koala Pa...
18. 18. Multitasking Operating Systems As operating systems grew more robust, one of the key new features was the ability to multitask, run several applications at the same time. This program looks at some new approaches including Concurre...
19. 19. Business Graphics: Part 1 - Mac A look at how computers are now being used as graphics tools by business. Demonstrations include MacDraw II from Claris, Microsoft's Excel, Cricket Presents from Cricket Software, Adobe Illustrator, a...
20. 20. Business Graphics: Part 2 - PC A review of business graphics products in the IBM compatible world. Products demonstrated include Energraphics, KaleidoView, Draw Applause, Freelance Plus, Harvard Graphics, GEM Graph, Presentation Te...
21. 21. Input Devices How do you communicate with your computer? This program looks at various input devices for telling your computer what you want it to do. Demonstrations include various mice from Microsoft, Logitech, M...
22. 22. Computers and Politics
23. 23. Laptop Peripherals So you've bought your laptop, but that's only the beginning. What else do you need to become the complete road warrior? This program looks at several add-on options including Lap Link and Battery Watc...
24. 24. Add-On Boards & Cards 1988-05-04 In the early days of PCs, you had to know how to open up the box and add the functionality you really wanted when you bought the computer. This program looks at some of the upgrade options including A...
25. 25. Investment Software 1988-06-01 Personal computers level the playing field for individual investors, giving them access to research data that in the past was only available to large money managers. This program looks at several inve...
26. 26. Personal CAD Software Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs are used by engineers and architects, but new simplified CAD programs have come out for personal computers that let individual consumers use the power of CAD softw...