Here are the Museum’s movies by theme/topic:

Narrated/Produced Pieces for Broad Audience

  1. False Dawn: The Babbage Engine [5:37]
  2. Human Computers [5:15]
  3. IBM Ever Onward [4:04]
  4. Who Invented the Computer? [4:55]
  5. Colossus: Breaking the Code [5:39]
  6. History of Databases [5:29]
  7. Digital Dark Age [4:21]
  8. Art of Writing Software [9:17]
  9. The Cray Way [6:01]
  10. The Silicon Engine [8:45]
  11. Artificial Intelligence  [8:53]
  12. When a Bit Became a Pixel [11:46]
  13. Story of SpaceWar! [4:14]
  14. Roots of Microsoft [5:38]
  15. Navigating Knowledge: Hypertext Pioneers [5:36]
  16. Birth of the World Wide Web [5:55]
  17. Dot Com Boom and Bust [9:30]


Calculators
  1. The Antikythera Mechanism [6:06]
  2. Texas Instruments and the Marketing of the Datamath Calculator, Charles Phipps [2:26]

Punched Cards
  1. The IBM Punched Card [3:01]
  2. Bill Worthington: What is a Punched Card? [3:14]
  3. Ellis D. Kropotchev Silent Film: The Punched Card [2:03]

Analog Computers
  1. Arthur Porter: A Great Educational Tool Differential Analyzer [1:27]
  2. The UCLA Differential Analyzer [00:48]
  3. Tim Robinson: Integration and Differential Equations [3:52]

Birth of the Computer
  1. John Mauchly: ENIAC Reliability [1:46]
  2. J. Presper Eckert: Little Pink Lights [1:34]
  3. Jean Bartik: ENIAC’s Programmers [2:16]
  4. John Brainerd: What is ENIAC? [3:32]
  5. Tom Kilburn: The Manchester Baby [2:13]
  6. Early Innovators: Konrad Zuse [1:35]
  7. Early Innovators: Howard Aiken [3:55]
  8. Early Innovators: George Stibitz [2:18]
  9. Universe of Numbers: What is the Stored Program [1:39]

Early Computer Companies
  1. Bob Beck: Bendix G15 Users [1:46]
  2. Harry Huskey: Designing the Bendix G15 [1:55]
  3. LEO: The Automatic Office [5:44]

Real-Time Computing
  1. Whirlwind: Making Electrons Count [1:58]
  2. Jay Forrester: Whirlwind’s Origins [1:42]
  3. Bob Everett: Whirlwind’s Applications [00:59]
  4. NASA Apollo 11 Highlights [2:17]
  5. Richard Egan: Who Worked on the Apollo Guidance Computer? [2:07]
  6. Eldon Hall: Where was the Guidance Computer in the Apollo Spacecraft? [2:06]

Programming
  1. Don Knuth: The Art of Programming, Recovering Errors [00:56]
  2. Jamie Zawinski: The Art of Programming, About Style [1:24]

Mainframes
  1. Gene Amdahl: The Amdahl Business Plan [5:50]
  2. Bob Evans: Clearing the Way for the IBM 360 [3:15]
  3. Fred Brooks: Birth of IBM 360 [7:07]
  4. Excerpts from RCA’s Decade of Difference, IBM Competitors [1:15]

Memory & Storage
  1. The Search at San Jose, IBM Disk Drive [1:47]
  2. Albert Hoagland: RAMAC Innovation and Legacy [1:45]
  3. Alan Shugart: About the Floppy Disk [1:44]

Supercomputers
  1. Introducing IBM Stretch [4:19]
  2. Gordon Bell: Three Phases of Supercomputing [2:05]
  3. Gary Smaby: Cray and the Cold War [1:23]
  4. Seymour Cray: The Challenge of Supercomputer Design [4:15]

Minicomputers
  1. DEC Digital: From the Beginning [4:50]
  2. The HP Way, All the People [2:00]

Digital Logic
  1. The Story of the Intel 4004 [3:08]
  2. Marketing Wars: Intel X86, 3 Stages of War [1:45]
  3. Marketing Wars: Intel x86 [00:57]
  4. Marketing Wars: Zilog Z8000 [1:34]
  5. Marketing Wars: IBM PC Decision [2:52]
  6. Microprocessor Stories: Four-Phase Systems AL1 [1:52]
  7. Microprocessor Stories: Motorola MC 6800 [1:57]
  8. Microprocessor Stories: Zilog Z80 [1:53]
  9. Microprocessor Stories: Advanced Micro Devices AM 2901 [2:01]
  10. From Sand to Silicon: Integrated Circuit Design and Manufacturing [5:11]

Computer Graphics, Music & Art
  1. Max Mathews: Computer Synthesis Sound [2:47]
  2. John Chowning: FM Synthesis [4:31]
  3. Harold Cohen and AARON: Ray Kurzeil Interviews [2:22]

Input/Output
  1. Chuck Thacker: Why The Xerox Alto? [00:31]
  2. Chuck Thacker: Dover Prints Anything [00:50]
  3. Chuck Thacker: PARC’s First Laser Printer [1:33]
  4. Chuck Thacker: Xerox Altos in the White House [00:20]
  5. Charles Simonyi: WSYIWIG [1:09]
  6. Adele Goldberg: About Smalltalk [1:00]
  7. Adele Goldberg: Bean Bags and PARC [00:40]
  8. Xerox PARC’s Commercial for the Ethernet Office System of the Future  [00:57]
  9. Doug Engelbart: Mouse Demo [2:12]
  10. Gary Starkweather: The Eureka Moment First Laser Printer [1:25]

Games
  1. Al Alcorn: Atari in the Beginning [3:26]
  2. Ralph Baer and The Story of Odyssey [3:05]
  3. Will Wright: Probability Space, Possibility Space [3:31]

Personal Computers
  1. Forrest Mims and the Altair 8800 [00:44]
  2. Steve Wozniak: The Homebrew Computer Club and the Apple I [1:13]
  3. Len Shustek, Lee Felsenstein: The Homebrew Computer Club [5:12]
  4. PC Software: Bob Frankston The Visicalc Grid [00:38]
  5. PC Software: Dan Bricklin VisiCalc [1:26]
  6. PC Software: Linus Torvalds and Linux [1:35]
  7. PC Software: Bill Atkinson, Andy Herzfeld About MacPaint [4:26]

Mobile Computing
  1. The Story of Palm: Donna Dubinsky [3:06]
  2. Jeff Hawkins: The VisorPhone Interface [3:40]
  3. The Story of Palm: Jeff Hawkins [2:07]
  4. The Story of Palm: Ed Colligan, One Button [1:05]
  5. Martin Riddiford: The Psion Organiser II Interface [3:58]
  6. Nils Rydbeck: The R380 Interface [4:04]

Networking & the Web
  1. Dave Boggs: Office Networks [00:58]
  2. Robert Metcalfe: The Naming of the Ethernet [1:40]
  3. Roger Scantlebury: Intro to Protocol Wars [1:39]
  4. Vint Cerf the Road to the Internet [1:02]
  5. Ray Tomlinson: The Early Days of Email [1:50]
  6.  Lee Felsenstein: The First Community Memory [2:26]
  7. John Kohler: Building on Mosaic User Base 
  8. Kevin Hughes: The White House’s First Website [3:31]
Searching for Profit: Gary Chevsky on Banners and Pop-Ups [1:45]


Enjoy

Dag
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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum

1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
dspicer@computerhistory.org