Interesting YouTube videos

[garfield]

Video about the ARM chip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1-6yRAGk0

[paulb]

Video about the ARM chip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1-6yRAGk0

Nice renderings. We've probably exhausted the discussion about the details of the Electron's history on here already, but with regard to the Thumb enhancements for ARM, someone making these kinds of videos probably needs to look into the SuperH architecture to get some additional historical context.

Also, although the AT&T Hobbit comes up in the context of the Newton, it was used in the original BeBox, so it wasn't the kind of failure suggested, just commercially unsuccessful. The CRISP architecture that was the basis of the Hobbit also has some intriguing elements with the way it has a variable instruction length but employing regular encodings for each kind of the parcels comprising the complete instructions. Those parcels are 16 bits wide, and so the concept of having shorter instructions for a 32-bit architecture dates from 1986 in terms of actually produced silicon.

[baz4096]

Great video on "why Rifas fail":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5FL3vziko

[joachim]

Acorn Electron ad that I don't recall seeing before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyFRJSwQOWc&t=2461s

[garfield]

Acorn monitor from the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1OYT_asXc

[6funswede]

More audio.

Trying out a rare 1984 UMI-2B (an early MIDI Sequencer and Interface) for the first time coupled to a 1983 BBC Micro Model B … The UMI-2B was famously used by Vince Clarke in his early years and no doubt played a part in his trademark style. The UMI-2B was a very direct and easy to use sequencer/MIDI interface for the BBC Micro with what appears to be rock solid MIDI timing!

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/ ... -umitest-1

Answer in May 2023: I have posted a new YouTube video about two of the UMI 2B's in Norway:


https://youtu.be/rAZEu5OegGw


User manual for the 2B:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G9lHhF ... p=drivesdk

[Andrew_Waite]

A nice video on running BBC BASIC on the Agon Light eZ80 based single board computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75MTDGiehLs

[paulb]

OK, so this is not exactly interesting as a video, but...

"Samsung Thinko Kids Computer commercial korea"

The Acorn connection is this:

"An educational experience", Acorn Times Spring 1998, page 3.

[baz4096]

Teletext Doom:

https://youtu.be/rIgQV4ClmQ0

Surprisingly high framerate too! (Sorry, no Beebs involved)

[Andrew_Waite]

Adrian's Digital Basement with a donated BBC Master 128.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_KFcSZaLs

[Artemis]

Adrian's Digital Basement with a donated BBC Master 128.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_KFcSZaLs

Thanks for sharing that link. I subscribe to Adrian’s channel, but at time of writing this video is not showing up on the iPad YouTube app.

[vanekp]

Adrian's Digital Basement with a donated BBC Master 128.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_KFcSZaLs

Nice to see he has received a BBC Master be interesting any follow up videos he makes on it though it could take a while as he never did any on the BBC micros he got either.

[cmorley]

An interview on Jeff Geerling's channel with Eben Upton. The Pi supply & demand figures are especially interesting.

[Andrew_Waite]

Jeff Geerling visits the Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqkZIdzkG0

[cmorley]

An interview with Eric Schlaepfer about the Monster 6502 on Zero To ASIC Course youtube channel.

https://youtu.be/upF-8q-hRlw

[Louis.m]

Ethernet (50th Birthday) - Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOVgkcrvbg

[SteveBagley]

Ethernet (50th Birthday) - Computerphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOVgkcrvbg

Even has a (very brief, blink and you’ll miss it) mention of Econet.

Steve

[cmorley]

Even has a (very brief, blink and you’ll miss it) mention of Econet.

I thought you were going to say all the computers in the Ethernet network diagram graphics are Beebs!

[Louis.m]

I thought you were going to say all the computers in the Ethernet network diagram graphics are Beebs!

They look more like ⌨ Atoms to me

[Andrew_Waite]

Jeff Geerling with a great video on making Raspberry Pis at the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C4lbbIH0c

[Andrew_Waite]

The second part of Adrian's Digital Basement's refurbishment of his BBC Master.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSvSkaxkZDQ

[Multiwizard]

I ran into this interesting video about optical storage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TcsOgy9weg

[algenon_iii]

Final part of Adrian's Digital Basement's BBC Master renovation - upgrading the BBC Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sgleturods

[chrisn]

Ian Waugh talking about the game music he made for the Beeb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Vn3_7VzuY

[cmorley]

Interesting talk by Geri Ellsworth on her background and career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ib9305iP4E

[wmd]

Here's a couple of rare / early Archimedes demos I just captured from Arculator:

Clares Sound and Graphics Demo by David J. Hoskins 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR98lmARCAo

Render Bender Animation Demo by David J. Hoskins 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJ1Inz48AE

Even with Windows 10 set to output 50Hz, the scrolling is still sadly not as smooth as it is on real hardware. The first demo capture is missing the intro text screens as I could not get the font displaying correctly.

[BigEd]

Plenty of cheese wedges and some probably-recognisable Acorn people in here

Acorn Computers - Business Promo Video - Circa 1984

Cued up to a 16032 demo screen. Also some shots of the Acorn building on Newmarket Road, which seems to have been demolished perhaps some 20 odd years ago.

[Louis.m]

HAL 9000 and the Sexadecimal Mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15pGjS3jrT4

[BigEd]

A history of ARM which includes a bit of Computer Literacy Project, Sinclair, and a fair bit on Acorn. Including Archimedes sales forecasts (optimistic! 20k in '87, 120k in '88, versus actual sales of 14k by mid-88.)

(Not sure the accuracy of the fact-checking is all it could be, in this case. But it's only 25mins.)

via Darklord.

[Louis.m]

A history of ARM

Viewing that video suddenly I realized the following:
Anyone using a mobile phone picks up an arm full of risk