Computer History Museum's YouTube Channel

Doctor-R writes "The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has created a new YouTube channel for videos of their lecture series. Newest is the Dec 10 panel on the 25th Anniversary of the Commodore 64. Currently there are 23 lectures available and the 7-minute Museum overview."

Next step

[Z80xxc!]

The next thing they need to do is take pictures inside the museum itself and make some of those quicktime 3D/360 degrees view things. I don't particularly like quicktime, but that is one cool thing about it.

Or, they could make an actual 3D museum, sort of like google earth, only inside. Now THAT would be awesome.

They're available in high resolution, too

[Tore S B]

If you view the Past Events on the Computer History Museum, you will see all of the talks, in quite high-quality WMV files.

http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?view=previous&section=calendar [computerhistory.org]

In addition, there is a website called http://archive.computerhistory.org/ [computerhistory.org] which apparently functions as somewhere they stash files that they don't mind being public, but don't care enough to yell loudly about. There are a lot of cool videos there! Highly recommended.

Also highly recommended is the Computer History Museum itself. It is an incredibly exciting place to go. It's about two or three stone's throws from the Googleplex, in Mountain View, in an old SGI building. Go there. Donations also recommended, because in short: They do extremely important work, they're the only ones who do it well enough, and they've got extremely skilled people there.

I am not affiliated with the museum, but I do wear the "Volunteer" shirt with some amount of pride. :)

Re:Commodore book On the Edge

[scottgfx]

It is a fascinating book. It's more than just about Commodore. It's about the entire personal computer revolution. Even though I'm a Apple user now, It is good to read some history that isn't Apple and Microsoft centric.