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27 Episodes 1993 - 1994
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
A visit to the Middle East to see the booming high-tech industry in Israel. Featured are Intel and Microsoft R&D centers plus many local Israeli companies doing work ranging from network communications to speech recognition and natural handwriting recognition. Also demonstrations of technology spin-offs from the Israeli military.
Episode 2
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
A review of computer programs for baseball fans. Includes Intelliplay Baseball, APBA Presents Baseball for Windows, Baseball's Greatest Hits, Al Michaels Announces Hardball III, and Tony LaRussa Baseball II.
Episode 3
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
Stewart Cheifet looks at the state of the art in personal digital assistants, or PDAs, in 1993. Products demonstrated include the Apple Newton Message Pad, Casio's Zoomer, AT&T's EO 440 Personal Communicator, Sharp's PI-7000 Expert Pad, and the HP 100LX.
Episode 4
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
A look at the first generation of Pentium based personal computers. Included are demonstrations of new Pentium PCs from Gateway, Compaq, and ALR (Advanced Logic Research). Also a visit to Intel Labs to see how Pentium chips are made and a visit to PC Week Labs to see their evaluation process for new Pentium PCs. Guests include Ken Lowe of Dataquest and Jim Louderback of PC Week.
Episode 5
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
The big news in 1993 was Microsoft's new version 6.2 of MS-DOS. Demonstrations include MS-DOS 6.0, MS-DOS 6.2, Stacker 3.1, Norton Utilities 7.0, and IBM's PenDOS. Featured are visits to Microsoft DOS labs in Redmond, Washington and the Ziff Davis test labs in Foster City, California.
Episode 6
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
Coverage of the annual European Technology Roundtable Exhibition from Barcelona, Spain. Guests include Bill Gates, Esther Dyson, Michael Rogers, Philippe Kahn, Mark Eppley, Alan Ashton, Peter Sprague, and Masayoshi Son. Product demonstrations include Windows NT and groupware applications.
Episode 7
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
Episode 8
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
Microsoft's Windows OS grew up a little bit with the release of Windows NT in 1993. This program looks at the new operating system. Included are demonstrations of NT's application integration and SQL server. Also featured are a new NT based graphics program from Altsys called Virtuoso and a new NT CAD program from Bentley Systems called MicroStation. This program also includes a visit to the NT test and development lab in Redmond, Washington and a comparison between NT and Unix.
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
The 1993 annual holiday season review of cool high-tech gadgets and the latest computer goodies. Products featured include Sim City 2000, Creative Writer, Myst, CyberPuppy, Crystal Crazy, Rock Rap and Roll, The Tortois and the Hare, Imagicard, The Memphis, NHL Hockey, CyberMan 3d Mouse, VideoShow Presenter, AXIS the Gamecheater, Morphman, and Mac-in-DOS. Guests include Gina Smith, Paul Schindler, and Tim Bajarin. Also a visit to an Amiga store for cool new Commodore products.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
Consumer advice on how to buy a new computer in the nineties. Features tips from Andrew Reinhardt of BYTE, Wendy Taylor of PC Computing, Rik Myslewski of MacUser, and Galen Gruman of MacWorld, Owen Linderholm of PC World, and Marty Jerome of PC Computing.
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
Highlights from the 15th annual fall COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas. More than 75 products are reviewed in the categories of peripherals, portables, PDAs, PCMCIA cards, wireless, operating systems, business applications, CD-ROM software, communications, networking, and multimedia. Originally broadcast in 1993.
Episode 15
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
The digital revolution changed the practice of journalism. This program looks at how journalists are using computers and the Internet. Segments include CNN Newsroom Global View, the San Jose Mercury's Mercury Center on AOL, Prodigy's Journalist application, Newsweek Interactive, the JFK Assassination CD-ROM, a visit to the MIT Media Lab, and CNBC's Private Financial Network (PFN) online service. Guests include Michael Rogers of Newsweek.
Episode 16
Sun, Jan 24, 1993
The availability of reasonably priced color printers changed the way people and businesses used computers.
Episode 17
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
For some people, tax preparation software was reason enough to buy their first personal computer. This program reviews several early tax preparation and personal accounting programs including Intuit's Quicken, Andrew Tobias' TaxCut, Kiplinger TaxCut, Parsons Personal Tax Edge, and ChipSoft's TurboTax. The program also visits the IRS to see their transition to electronic filing and the Washington offices of the accounting firm of Delloit Touche.
Episode 18
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
New color monitors created a market for whimsical add-ons like screen savers and wallpaper. Covered in this program are Crystal Walls, Marvel Comics Screen Posters, the Snoopy Screen Saver Fun Pac, the Jurassic Park Screen Saver, Microsoft Scenes, Matinee (the first video screen saver), PFS Power Album for Windows from Spinnaker Software, Pixel Play, and Second Nature Software. Guests include Gina Smith.
Episode 19
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
Highlights from the 1994 annual west coast MacWorld conference, shot on location in San Francisco. This was the tenth anniversary of MacWorld where the Power PC and Newton applications were introduced. Also featured clips from the famous 1984 Macintosh SuperBowl commercial. Guests include Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies, Rik Mislewski of MacUser, Jim Gable of Apple, Mark Zimmer of Fractal Design, and Paul Brainerd of Aldus.
Episode 20
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
The availability of low cost business applications for small businesses helped level the playing field for new budding entrepreneurs. This program looks at Business Plan Toolkit, CA Simply Accounting for Windows, MYOB for the Macintosh, ClarisWorks 2.0 for the Mac, Lotus SmartSuite, and ClienTrac.
Episode 21
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
One of the biggest drivers for selling new home computers was a parent's desire to get a computer for their kids. This program looks at several software programs aimed at children including Club KidSoft, Zurk's Learning Safari, Forever Growing Garden, Yearn 2 Learn Snoopy, World Discovery, Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure, Student Writing Center for Windows, and The Cruncher, a talking animated spreadsheet for children. Guests include Gina Smith.
Episode 22
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
Expansions slots and local bus technology allow computers to handle more data like video and faster internet connections.
Episode 23
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
Highlights from the 1994 annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Products covered include Accolade's Hockey, Activision's Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Atari's Jaguar, Advanced Gravis Virtual Reality, Simon Personal Communicator, Amiga CD32, Compaq Presario 425, Video Blaster FS2000, Cyberdreams' CyberRace, Forte VFX-1 3D Head Mount, General Magic, Heartbeat Personal Trainer, Logitech Cyberman 3D Controller, Star Wars Screen Saver, Maxtor MobileMax 1.8" Drive, Microsoft's Dinosaur, Nintendo's Project Reality, Philips Playboy Massage CD-I, City Streets for Windows, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spectrum Holobyte's Star Trek: The Next Generation, 3DO's Jurassic Park, Time Warner's Aegis, Ultratech's Mortal Combat, World Cup USA 94 Soccer, and Videonics' Digital Video Mixer.
Episode 24
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
In 1992 the EPA launched the Energy Star Computer Program to encourage the production of environmentally friendly computers. This program looked at several approaches including PC Ener-G-saver, Green Explorer, the Macintosh LC 575, the LaserJet 4L, and the Compaq Presario 425. Also featured are visits to a computer recycling center in California, a computer recycling center in New Jersey, and Greendisk, a company in Seattle that recycles floppy disks.
Episode 25
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
As business migrated from the standalone PC to the networked PC, a hot new application area became groupware, enabling collaboration within a company.
Episode 28
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
The advent of faster processors and digital storage drove the new field called Multimedia.
Episode 29
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
The advent of optical storage and CD-ROMs changed the rules for software applications and opened up a whole new generation of programs.
Episode 32
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
Episode 37
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
The sixth annual Computer Bowl contest pitting East coast techies against West coast nerds to see who knows more about computer trivia.
Episode 38
Mon, Jan 24, 1994
The conclusion of the sixth annual Computer Bowl trivia game between high tech types from the east coast and the west coast. This was the All Star edition with MVPs selected from the first five Computer Bowl games. Contestants included Bill Gates, Bill Joy, Mitch Kapor, Bob Frankston, Neil Colvin, and Pamela McCorduck. The questioners were Andy Grove and Stewart Cheifet.