[torontocbm] Re: Commodore in the media #2
- From: "Mike Stein" <mhs.stein@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 23:27:12 -0400
Wow! IEEE488 tape drives? Any of those in the storage locker?
;-)
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From: "Ernie Chorny" <chorny@xxxxxxxx>
To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 11:04 PM
Subject: [torontocbm] Commodore in the media #2
In 1980 PBS ran a very successful series called "Cosmos" which was
presented by Carl Sagan.
Currently running on FOX and Global is the 2014 version of "Cosmos" now
presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The original had much better music - Vangelis!
The May 11 episode covered the life and works of Michael Faraday without
whom we wouldn't have things like electric motors, generators and
transformers. At about the 18 minute mark Tyson presents a montage of
the various things we have today that derive from Faraday's work - as
the video progresses we see a familiar sight - an original PET with
built in tape drive (there's also an early Mac).
Attached is a screen grab (camera) showing the computers. In the video
the PET shows the blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner and you
can see evidence of this in the attachment.
Ernie
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