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Good morning! Welcome back to the ValorosoIT channel and, for those who are here for the first time, welcome! We chat about vintage computers and electronics. I'm at Historybit - computer stories, together with Davide and Alberto Fornasiero. Nice to meet you David. Nice to meet you Alberto. Now Davide and Alberto show us all these computers and all these calculators. We talk about it directly with them, as we see them.
Silicon crystal, silicon wafer. Practically illustrated here is the process of creating a microprocessor starting from silicon crystal, which is a real mineral derived from the fusion of sand crystals. It is cut into discs, like the one you see on the right, on which reduced images of the microprocessor or other components are printed using a photographic process. Once the image is created, it is then cut into small sections and mounted on the chip, connected to the pins: whether its a processor or other electronic component.
Instead, below we see the ferrite core memories, which are a little older. They were the memories used in the 1940s and 1950s, but extended into the 1970s. They are ferrite core memories, here we see a larger ring. Instead in the tube we see smaller rings. It's too small, you can't see it, but let's imagine... They were mounted in frames assembled by female staff, due to the manual precision and patience required. Each little ring corresponds to a bit, on or off, or a 1 or a 0: the basic information of computer science. These rings were magnetized by an electric current. They are written with a passage of current through the ring, from the negative state it takes it to the positive, magnetically, and a third wire read the state of the ring to determine the bit.
On the right, we see the memory of a Russian computer, while on the left a small memory for a calculator, used as a buffer memory. This one on the left was from the calculator, this one on the right was from the Russian calculator.
In the lower part we see parts of IBM vacuum tube computers. Practically they are switches which, instead of being solid state like the previous ones with relays, here they have begun to use electronics and, in this case, the thermionic valve. They had the problem that they heated up a lot, consumed a lot of electricity and were very bulky. There is talk of computers that took away even 200 square meters of room. Ah, it was nice and full-bodied.
In this particular case, we see the spare parts of these computers, because, since the valves are like light bulbs and often burned out, it is said that a computer was turned on for an average of 5-10 minutes between one failure and another. So the parts were quickly changed and that's why they were made with handles and connectors, in order to quickly replace and turn the computer back on.
Down below, however, on the last shelf, we see the first IBM monolithic circuits. They are the first integrated ones, those little iron boxes: they began to put some components combined into one and to create an integrated circuit.
Is this a hard drive? This is a hard drive from an IBM model 36, 1980s computer. It is a fairly bulky hard disk and only stores 200 MB... 200 mega! Basically, nowadays there would only be one photograph. It weighed 44 kg and consumed a lot of electricity. Just look at the drive motor: it looks like a washing machine motor. It really looks like a washing machine! If we go to look at a disk today, I'll show you a 320 GB disk. Basically, this is a today's disk even if 320 GB is already exceeded.
Now we're talking about terabyte upon terabyte, in fact. However, if we look at the technology, it is very similar. To do this capability with that technology needed 1600 units of this size. I'll let you imagine if we thought of doing something like that at that time: it was impossible!
And this one looks more like a heater... what is it? I affectionately call it Enterprise, because it looks like the Enterprise line, but what is it? It's a USB stick from the era. Very comfortable! Where did you keep it, in your pocket? Basically, the programmer went around to customers… Look at the size! He went to customers to bring the data stored on this 5 MB disk. This is a portable removable disk. 5 MB… a good JPEG fits in there, come on! There is no need to go further, a nice photo can fit in here, perhaps a complex one. Exact!
Instead, below we see the first systems for introducing data into computers, which were done using punched cards, paper ribbons or the first magnetic cards, like the IBM one we see back there. Or, a very curious and very rare thing: this Olivetti mini disk, which is a magnetic disk, but which wrote sequentially, not randomly. The machine wrote as if it were a spiral: it started from the outside, went inwards and recorded all the information.
Below, however, the mass memories we see in science fiction films: the reels. These coils… beautiful! They make quite a scene when you see them at work. Yes, when they move one way or the other, always great.
Further down, however, we have spare parts for a hard disk, i.e. a hard disk head, because at the time hard disks could also be repaired. A big head! A big head, in fact, we see that it is the same as the one on the record in there.
There's a curious thing back there: it's a light pen. It was a system that was used some time ago, now forgotten, because it only works on CRT, which was used to introduce data by pointing on the screen. Now you can use the touch screen if you want. That's right, the touch screen!
The little black box there, however, is a souvenir that comes from CERN: it was a backup system where they stored all the data from the experiments carried out at CERN. They were periodically replaced with newer technologies and, of course, the older ones were put up for sale as souvenirs.
On the top floor below, however, we see the evolution: what we saw before with tubes, transformed into transistors. That is, they are no longer those bulky pieces that heated up a lot, like the ones before, but have become small cards where those little metal glasses are actually transistors. Everything has been contained: space, energy consumption and the switching speed has been improved.
What we see on this table are mechanisms, keyboards, let's say, for inserting and punching punched cards. Naturally there is only the keyboard, the entire mechanism that perforated the card is missing. This one on the left, from IBM, is from 1948, while this one is from 1968. You can see the construction difference: that one really weighed a lot. 10,000 kg, while the other one weighs 5,000!!!
This other one, however, is very light. However, it is very curious to see the connectors for connecting to the computer on the latter. Clearly USB was still a long way from being invented... Enough hails.
Here in the center, however, we see a manual card perforation system. What does it mean? Let's assume that a municipality has 150,000 registered people: every time they have to search for something, they pass through all the cards. If one of these gets ruined, what happens? They don't have to reprint 150,000 ballots, but only redo the damaged one. In order not to put the whole mechanism and all the work back into the car, he drilled himself with this thing by hand. Then we went to read the old card and reconstructed the damaged one.
Here is a table with characters and numbers: you made a key combination and the card was automatically punched.
This, however, is a very curious thing. It doesn't seem like it, but it's a program! What does it mean? If I pull a thread from you, will I change everything here? You ruin the whole program. I don't do it, come on! Practically, there are all the various areas of the machine: the registers, the memories, the sectors, everything depicted on this panel. I, physically, tell him that instruction A is sent to the memory area of instruction B. Now you have changed the program, though! Yes, I make a configuration and move the information from one place to another, physically. Then I could tell him that the result of this operation should be sent to me on the printer with a third thread. I basically create all the data flow. Once I complete the program, what do I do? I take this card, put it in the car, insert it and... the program starts.
Can this card be inserted into the car? Yes, because these needles make contact. Ah, they're nice and long! They make contact with all the connectors. I imagine every time something oxidizes here... Ah, false contacts were the order of the day. It's a lot like a phone call, huh? In fact, he remembers it a little. Indeed, yes!
Let's get into the meat of computing machines a little bit, shall we? Right! These are practically the grandfathers of electronic computers, where it all began. Computer! Even the name is vintage!
Yes, because before calling it a computer, it was called an electronic computer, better yet in Italy it was called the electronic brain.
These are very old machines. Let's start with the oldest, which is the abacus, or abacus. This isn't electronic, though! It is said that the first examples of this tool were seen more than 2000 years before Christ. Even the Romans used it, and the Chinese still use it in the markets.
There is a curious thing: in 1946 or 47, they had a race between an American soldier and a Chinese postal employee. A competition to do mathematical operations. The operator with the abacus always won, except for just one operation: multiplication. Because on the electromechanical calculator it was faster.
Yes, I want to see a square root like you make me with this thing, though! [I really said it!!!]
Here we have two curious calculators: one is this one (Addometer) and the other is this one, hidden behind here. They are calculators from 1910-1920, which derive directly from Blaise Pascal's 1700 pascaline. What does it mean? They used cogwheels to do addition and subtraction. A mechanism that then reached the 1950s with Olivetti's mechanical calculators.
How did it work? Let's take an example of a sum: 7 + 5. We set the number 7 on the first unit wheel, then add the number 5. As you can see, at the end of the rotation of this wheel, the carryover to the next wheel is automatically triggered. So one wheel controls the other. This one commands that other, and so on. Units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc…
It's an adder. You can also do it the other way around, by subtracting. Ah, ok, if you go back with the wheel... the other wheel goes back too. Then it does the Plus and Minus operations.
Instead this other S&N adding machine used the same method, but using chains. Here there are still wheels with numbers, as we saw before, but they are mounted coaxially. To drive the wheels, the chain with the numbers was moved: that is, I select a number to set and, as you can see, the number clicks. Of course, it's the same mechanism here too: when the number exceeds a certain figure, it triggers the next figure.
The evolution of these machines that we saw before is this other system (Esacta), which always uses coaxially mounted cogwheels, but the numbers are set by moving the levers directly. Here there are two models: this model here and this other very curious model (Original Odhner), Swedish, from 1931. Then there was a certain evolution, until they invented these machines which have the keyboard, as they say, extended keyboard.
Extended because for each row - units, tens, hundreds, thousands - there are all the numbers from 1 to 9. So these are the units, tens, hundreds, thousands and so on. Same with the other car there: that's two Comptometers. This is much older and the total is also partial, that is, what does it mean? That I, once I set the numbers... there you have it, they go off automatically. And, as before, we also see the carryover mechanism here: I'm setting some numbers: five, every five... pass over there, pass over there... Wait while I try to put the two here: 2, 4, 6, 8... now it should click. Exact! Okay, it works.
Then, this had another totalizer where the subtotal passed. Oh yes? With this little wheel I passed that number from that column to this other one. Entertainment: from there he went away, from here he recovered. Yes, so I could redo other sums and then add the grand total again. So, if you made a mistake there, you didn't add it. I wasn't going to add here. This other machine is still a machine with an extended keyboard, but not so extensive because it is reduced: in fact, the numbers from 6 onwards are missing, because it was made to save on price. Okay, it's just five keys.
So, one might ask: But how do they add 5 + 7? Nothing could be simpler: 5 shows the number 5 on the display, then mentally you make 5 + 2 = 7, and it is added. Ah, so a little manual and a little mechanical! Yes. One must already be able to do the sums in their head. Plus 8 (5 + 3), and we get to 20. Yes. And here too was its reset.
These machines then evolved, transformed into electromechanical machines and added operations such as multiplication and division, always mechanically. Yes. Then, finally arriving at a Facit machine with a very particular keyboard, called the Dalton keyboard, because it is a keyboard already in a more modern form, in quotes. But the numbers were put like this: it's a keyboard that hasn't evolved that much, because they found it quite uncomfortable. So, after a short time from this innovation, the classic keyboard came out which still has this setup today. Yes.
A curious note about these keyboards is that the numbers 1, 2 and 3 start from the bottom, while if we look at our phone the numbers start from the top. I'm the opposite. Exactly. Why this? Because these are practically the evolution of those calculators that we saw before, where the low numbers were at the bottom, and therefore the keyboard configuration remained in this way. Like this here.
These are four quite important calculators, which are the first calculators made by Olivetti, by Natale Cappellaro, and it was the fortune and the launch of Olivetti back in the day. Further on, from here, we see the evolution of these machines which did more calculations, had memories, had electric drive, had many more innovations than the crank or the first electromechanical ones.
It is said that this calculator was Olivetti's golden goose, because practically a Fiat 500 cost around 500,000 lire at the time and this calculator cost 350,000 lire. Ah, like a car. And they produced it for around 10,000 lire, so you know... nice profit. Nice profit, yes.
To finish the overview, let's look at electronic calculators. The first electronics were very bulky. This Friden is very particular, because the display is made of nixie tubes. Nixie tubes, what are they? They are numbers in a glass vial, as if it were a light bulb, where each filament was a number. Yes, each strand has the same shape as the number. Yes.
Then, this is one of the first electronic calculators from Olivetti, where the Programma 101 printer was mounted and it had the magnetostrictive memory inside. And finally, this was the most advanced of Olivetti, to then arrive at these models here, which we have all seen on desks in offices. Yes, this one is quite common, famous, let's say.
And we also fall a little into the topic of the @ValorosoIT channel, because it is electronic, whereas up until now it was all electromechanical. In fact, it was all electromechanical.
These Burroughs are machines that were calculators, but were used to do accounting, invoicing. That is, this one was actually a calculator, but inside the cart there was a model where the invoice was set, with the items written to the right and left of the amounts; the amounts were printed in the center. Then the roll of paper was removed, the invoice was inserted and the sums were made, which were printed directly on the paper.
There's a display down there, I see. Yes, there is a display for the total.
This, in fact, is an evolution. It's the same thing, but in the same machine we see both the calculator and the typewriter, so then the descriptions of the various elements can also be written. This machine was calibrated for a company that sold fabrics, and we recognize it by this model of the body of the bill or invoice. This one is from 1950, while this one is from 1920. This one has been Italianized, in fact just look on the left: there are the months in Italian, such as January, February, March, April. The keys have been customized. Yes yes yes, localized. Localized.
Instead, the next one is no longer an accounting machine, but a TeleType, or rather a teleprinter, which has been modified to be able to write a program and transfer it onto the perforated paper tape. On the left side there is a perforator, where, passing the paper ribbon, it was perforated. Punched or even read, depending on whether I wanted to read or write, clearly. This machine was used by Bill Gates, who we see here in this image at 12 years old, together with Paul Allen, his friend who was a little older than him, to write the first Basic.
Ah, the first Basic program was made like this: it was practically a perforated paper ribbon.
The next one (Anderson Jacobson) on the other hand is practically a terminal. Saying terminal brings to mind a monitor with a keyboard, but here we were even before the invention of the cathode ray tube. And what did this machine do? Basically the data received from the computer was printed by the printer back here, and those that had to be sent to the computer were written directly from the keyboard. Then, keyboard and printer on the other side.
The latest one (Olivetti) is practically a bridge between the machines we saw before and computers. This was a billing machine, or rather yes, an Olivetti billing machine, where there were pre-set programs written in the BAL language, i.e. Basic Assembly Language, and it used magnetic cards, a bit like Programma 101 did. It had a pre-set program. At a certain point in the program, perhaps I was making an invoice to customer XY, he asked me for his slip with his personal data. I inserted it into the machine like this, pressed the Load button, the machine read the card and threw it out here. The sequence of lights showed me all the operations I had to carry out as needed. This printed both the continuous form templates and the roll for calculations, and the template on A4 format.
Oh, I see some computers now, am I wrong? These are computers from the late 70s, we are talking about '78-'79. This one is Italian built. Hazeltine Modular One. A company for which, unfortunately, I couldn't find any information, but when I opened it I saw that the characteristics are in Italian. It is a computer that certainly worked in CP/M because it had a Zilog processor: the Z80. Quite a curious computer, with a 5-inch floppy disk, a very bulky keyboard, it really weighed a lot. Yes, all metal, you can see it. At the time, plastic had not yet been invented.
Instead, these are American computers from Altos. This one even has a wooden panel. The panel is fake wood, because it's really metal anyway, and used two 8-inch units. It's giant, it's the size of a hand, really gigantic, but there was very little information in it. Oh. The evolution of this disc then transformed into the more common 5 inch. Above we see something curious: the grandfather of the modem. Telephone coupler… Acoustic coupler! Ah, I was wrong! Basically the number was dialed with a traditional telephone, in this case the classic SIP telephone that everyone had at home. Once the carrier was heard, that is the famous whistle that we also heard in faxes, the telephone was placed on it and communication began with the other computer which had the same device on the other side.
Ok, but here we are talking about just a few Bauds. Yes, 300 Baud, if I'm not mistaken.
This instead is a terminal, like the one we saw before, which instead of having the printer had a green phosphor cathode ray tube monitor. And here I see something a little more famous. Something from Apple. It was the first computer that broke into, let's say, families. Home computers began to arrive in families in America, and this was one of the most widespread. That's right, year '77, it's the year of the Commodore PET, the TRS-80 and the Apple II, right? In fact this is an Apple IIe, the evolution of the Apple II. This instead is the Apple III, a machine more aimed at companies. It was used for accounting, word processing and other serious things. It was certainly not a gaming computer, it ranged from 4300 to 7800 dollars, a good amount.
This is a thermal printer, and it's ridiculous to look at it like that. In fact, she's quite nice.
Instead, from here we finally arrive at the computers that made history. We are talking about the famous IBM personal computer, which dictated a standard that is still the same today. In this case, it is the famous XT, the one from the television advertisement with Charlie Chaplin in the bowler hat. This is the one with the hard drive. This is the model with the hard disk, but it was also sold with two 360 KB floppies. The evolution of this machine is this other one here, the 286, which goes from the Intel 8088 processor to the Intel 80286, with a notable change in quality, in speed.
This instead is a modem, the evolution of the acoustic coupler we saw before. The connection to the telephone handset has practically been eliminated, and the connection is made via RS-232 to the computer and direct telephone line with the plugs behind it. Here you go. That's right, RS-232 and then the ability to connect the phone line and also the phone itself.
I have this in my collection too! IBM PS/1. This last computer was a computer that was created partly to counteract the Commodore 64, that is, a computer that was supposed to enter families. But clearly, as we see from the price, it was a $1,000 computer versus the Commodore 64 which cost much less. Yes, but it also has an Intel 80286 processor compared to the MOS 6510 of the Commodore 64. It wasn't a very happy maneuver for IBM, in fact it didn't have much diffusion.
This one I wanted to rebuild a complete set of a Commodore 64, a classic configuration that was seen in homes in the 80s. Here you see the computer, its dedicated Commodore monitor, the joystick, the paddles, then the 1541 disk drive for 5-inch diskettes, and the legendary cassette drive, the famous datassette. The very slow one! The one that often had to be aligned with the screwdriver. Yes, then I have this too, I have this too, I have this too, not that one, I have the Commodore 803.
This Commodore MPS 801 is a unidirectional printer, that is, it printed in only one direction and made a hell of a racket. It was dot matrix, therefore impact, and printed on 80-column continuous modules. It was good for doing ASMR! He did both type and graphics.
And here we move directly to the competition: Sinclair. There was a merciless war between Sinclair and Commodore. Let's look at the main exponents: the ZX81, which was a computer sold both as an assembly kit and already assembled, and had a very competitive price. We're talking about £49.95 and £69.95, while the Commodores cost much more. The evolution of this computer, which was monochrome and only had 1K of memory, was the ZX Spectrum. Here come the colors, the memory has been increased to 16K. This is the direct competitor of the Commodore 64. It was lucky not because it had better performance than the Commodore 64, but because it had a better price. It was a much lower price than a Commodore 64.
This is the Sinclair storage unit, which used not floppy disks or cassettes, but microdrives. Microdrives were small cassettes that contained magnetic tape. This computer evolved into this other model, the ZX Spectrum Plus 48K. Then we have the 128K version, which had the built-in recorder. And finally Sinclair's latest computer, the legendary QL. I don't have this. I have the others, but not this one. The QL had two microdrives built into the computer.
This is where you can feast your eyes! There is the Commodore 8-bit family, starting from the classic Commodore 64 cookie, the VIC 20, the C16 and the Plus/4. The latter two, unfortunately, were not successful because they were not backwards compatible; the Commodore 64 software did not work on these machines, and the cartridges and joystick connectors were also different. It wasn't a happy choice, but Commodore took action with the Commodore 128. The Commodore 128 was a computer that was backwards compatible and had three modes of operation: the C64, the C128 and, to top it off, the CP/M operating system with the Z80. It had two processors. This is my favorite computer.
It was a machine that, way back in 1985, allowed you to connect two monitors to display different images. I made a video where I connected two monitors to the Commodore 128. Instead, the one on the left is the same computer in a cabinet version, more for the office: the Commodore 128D.
Then we have the evolution of the Commodore 64, with a different chassis, more compact electronics, an optimization of space, but, despite everything, the Commodore 64 continued to sell. It was one of the best-selling computers in the world, with millions of units sold.
This is the pride of the collection: the Commodore 64 in transportable version, the Commodore SX-64.
Everyone knows I miss the keyboard! Now I'll take her and take her away.
Ah, please don't touch! I didn't think it applied to me... but... yes.
This was the first transportable computer with a built-in color monitor. It was 100% compatible with the Commodore 64, it had an integrated disk drive. The only difference with the Commodore 64 is that it was not possible to connect the famous datassette, because the port for the cassette recorder was missing. When you turn it on, the screen has a different color, to allow better reading on a small monitor.
We also have here a computer produced by Texas Instruments, the TI-99/4A, released shortly before the Commodore 64, in fact this is from 1981. I remember that this computer, despite being older, has a 16-bit processor. Yes, and it had the characteristic of having very particular expansion modules, like a module that made the computer speak, it had a vocal synthesizer, basically.
I should have it in my collection, however, since my computer has a broken video cable, I haven't been able to get it to work yet. Sooner or later we will also see it on video.
Instead, here we have an Atari 520, which is somewhat of a rival to the Commodore Amiga. This was around the time Jack Tramiel left Commodore and went to Atari, and the result was a computer very similar to the Amiga. So much so that we competed with each other, even though the Amiga was clearly a step ahead.
Here we see an attempt by Olivetti to make computers for home use. Yes, the PC1. I have it with only one drive, rather than two like yours. This ran MS-DOS 3.20.
Instead, here on the right, there is a curious computer: the Toshiba T1000. It is believed to be the first laptop in history, because it is a computer with a liquid crystal monitor and only had a 720K floppy disk drive, without a hard disk. So it was used with diskettes, changing them constantly.
So as not to do Apple an injustice, we also put one of the most recent iMacs, what they call the lamp, which looks like a chandelier, a lamp… a chandelier, I don't know how to define it!
This is the legendary Amiga 1000, the first computer of the Amiga series, which was powered by the Motorola 68000. It was released in 1985 and was defined as a computer from the future. Why? Because back in the day, on a PC there were four colors or at most 16 colors if there was an EGA card. PCs had a sound that was little more than a beep, there was no Sound Blaster yet. Here, however, there were already 4,096 colors, stereo sound on four channels. We're talking about 1985.
In this very particular configuration there was a sidecar connected (sidecar, like the additional component on the motorcycle, is mounted on the side), which contained all the electronics of an IBM XT. So I could use two operating systems on the same monitor. I had overlapping windows: one for the Amiga and one for the PC. I could have AutoCAD together with an Amiga painting program, on the same screen, alternating windows. It was really on another level, definitely.
These, however, are professional computers for video editing or high-level graphics: Silicon Graphics. They were very expensive, this model cost 35,000 dollars when released, it had a RISC processor and the operating system was practically UNIX. The last one on the right is a reinterpretation done by us with a Commodore Amiga 4000, which we modified to make it similar to Silicon Graphics, both in color and in the slightly whimsical shapes. So is there an Amiga in here? There is an Amiga 4000, with a GVP 040 accelerator, a RAM expansion, a SCSI controller, and video and audio acquisition cards, plus a TBC for stabilizing the television signal.
This is a video editing station from the 90s. Today you can make videos using a mobile phone. Exactly, how I do them. Instead, in the 90s you needed a camera that cost 25 million lire, a computer that cost 5 million lire and a video mixer that also cost 5 million lire. Doing a quick calculation, we understand that this was certainly not within everyone's reach.
The process was very laborious, because there was no real timeline. A video mixer was used to fade between one channel and another, video overlays, or open a picture-in-picture, i.e. all manipulations were done completely electronically.
Then, with this computer from Draco (Drac), a German company if I'm not mistaken, which took the Amiga project and made a clone of it, where it was possible to run a video editing program. But this is the same case you used, right?
Yes, yes, they also had the same idea as us.
On this table we wanted to reconstruct the legendary photograph of the Amiga Family, where all the computers of the Amiga line were displayed, unfortunately except for the legendary 4000 Tower. You miss that. You suffer a lot! I appeal: if anyone has it in some attic... Unfortunately, here we can also see the action of time and the sun; This computer has been exposed to the sun a lot and has yellowed. There are modern procedures, using oxygen, which can bring it back to its ancient splendor or, in the worst case scenario, it is even possible to paint it with a very thin paint.
But it must also be said that, all things considered, yellowing is part of the history of computers, so... yes, it can happen! In fact, this central one here, the Amiga 600, has always been in the box: it's unsold, a warehouse fund, we only took it out on this occasion, so it has never seen the light. And here we see the color as it was originally. Yes, yes, it's really new. The color is really different.
Here there is a very particular computer, which was the CDTV: in reality it was an Amiga 500 housed in a video recorder cabinet, because it worked as a CD player. That is, I put my CD in the living room, listened to my music and, moreover, being a computer, I could also put multimedia encyclopedias inside.
What does it mean? I saw my encyclopedia, it explained to me perhaps the water cycle, it showed me the animation of the water that started from the evaporation of the sea, the clouds, I actually saw the animations, the videos graphically... and we are talking about the years 1991!
Commodore's last machine, the CD32, basically an ancestor of the PlayStation, is a 32-bit machine, it had a CD drive. Unfortunately he had no luck. From there Commodore then went bankrupt and closed.
So, a curious note regarding this computer, which was the first of the Amiga series, precisely the Amiga 1000, is that if we go to uncover this computer and look inside the cover, we discover that there are the signatures of all those who participated in the project of this computer, including the mascot, which was a little dog.
It was a very important project, so much so that it is said that it was offered for sale to Apple Computer, to Steve Jobs, but he refused to buy it because he considered it too complicated a project.
Oh, thanks so much for the explanations, then! Please, subscribe to the channel, activate the notification bell! But, last question... that is, before we say goodbye, eh! Last question: but how did this Historybit thing come about? I mean, what was the idea that inspired you? There are so many of these computers, they are all beautiful!
So, Historybit was born from the idea of a museum concept, not a collection. That is, what we want to do with Historybit is to maintain a memory of the evolution of technology, of the computing machine, of information technology, etc. Because it's nice to see where we started in history to arrive at the technology we have in our pocket today. Therefore, keeping alive the memory of all these machines, of the evolution that has taken place, in our opinion is a fundamental thing.
Yes, it's absolutely interesting! Then, oh well, also on my channel @ValorosoIT... you know... the computers are turned on, they are programmed... So maintaining memory is certainly fundamental for me.
Thanks so much again!
Thanks to you, pleasure! Thank you! And see you next time!
Ciao!