[HN Gopher] My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
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My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
Author : fallingsquirrel
Score : 105 points
Date : 2024-06-08 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| germinalphrase wrote:
| Let's not forget Mighty Machines.
| thanatos519 wrote:
| I watched all of Mighty Machines with my kid recently and
| learned so much!
| victor106 wrote:
| where can you watch them?
| germinalphrase wrote:
| There are some available on YouTube.
|
| One of the first shows that we let our kid watch. The
| trucks have voices (sort of of) but mostly it's just a
| narrator describing what machines do while they calmly do
| machine stuff.
| victor106 wrote:
| thank you. I found it on YouTube
| acheron wrote:
| My oldest kid loved Mighty Machines so much when he was little.
| jszymborski wrote:
| Shocking to see Luba Goy presenting a serious show about
| computers! I think most Canadians know her as a sketch comedian
| from her work in the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
|
| https://youtu.be/eRDTCE7DEMY
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I went to a filming as a kid. They're all naturally hilarious,
| but especially Goy and Morgan.
|
| Also here's my favourite. The look on Morgan's face when he
| delivers the punch line of the sketch is one of such supreme
| satisfaction.
|
| https://youtu.be/67-GeNYShbc?si=SlvGmFnZ9akGiD7M
| jszymborski wrote:
| An amazing skit.
|
| Happens to be that Abbott and Fergusen are alumni of my high
| school (where they met).
| cmcconomy wrote:
| small world - me too!
| thanatos519 wrote:
| As part of the generation who grew up along with computers (that
| is to say that computers were _also_ growing up) I am concerned
| that this level of understanding is no longer common. What
| happens when not enough people remember how the foundations of
| our towers of abstraction work?
|
| I've been shopping for a C=64 for my kid.
| rbanffy wrote:
| I would recommend the TheC64 Maxi. It's a replica, but very
| faithful, and can be setup to start as a C64 would (disk and
| tape are emulated from USB sticks, but that's a minor
| compromise).
| vunderba wrote:
| The same thing that happens with every level of technology that
| eventually becomes ubiquitous enough to be considered a
| household appliance. How many people understand the internal
| workings of a combustion engine, how a telephone works, or how
| a microwave heats up their food?
|
| Here's what happens, society chugs along just fine until a
| catastrophic event like an EMP which effectively drops them
| back into the Stone Age, except even worse because many people
| have jobs with skill sets that don't really serve a purpose
| outside of the modern capitalistic economy.
| ulrischa wrote:
| In Germany: WDR Computerclub
| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR_Computerclub
| elfrinjo wrote:
| And they (well, one of them) are still active
| https://www.youtube.com/@computerclubzwei
| ulrischa wrote:
| Yes that is cool. I think the other guy is already dead
| binarysneaker wrote:
| I'd love to watch all of them. Does anyone have a torrent?
| timbit42 wrote:
| YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bitsandbytestvo
| timbit42 wrote:
| Jim Butterfield was a consultant on this video series.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Butterfield
| localfirst wrote:
| wish i could watch YTV again online like netflix
|
| all my old favorite shows: little hamster show, wishbone,
| whatamess, dragonball z , gunda wing, uh-oh (my friend was a
| contestant), video arcade top 10
|
| and the most iconic of all: The Zone
| vhodges wrote:
| https://www.stacktv.ca/ Has YTV (probably not older shows
| though) and Stack is a bit pricey in my opinion.
| demondemidi wrote:
| I loved this show. I taught me the difference between a compiler
| and an interpreter a decade before the web even existed, when our
| school had one commodore PET. Core memory: I was in 7th grade and
| I got teased mercilessly for mentioning it during science class
| once. Ironically, the kid who teased me the most went on to
| become a founder of a very successful internet company in the
| late 90's and then retired in his early 30's and just flies
| around the world teaching people to surf. Grrr...
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| For me it was Dotto's Data Cafe (1990s Canadian TV show):
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1wEOoCDNmg
| brandon272 wrote:
| Me too!
| qwll wrote:
| He has his own youtube channel as well:
| https://www.youtube.com/@dottotech
|
| Fantastic show for sure.
| 31337Logic wrote:
| Oh my god, thanks for the memories! I grew up watching this, just
| across the border in Buffalo!
| vhodges wrote:
| http://www.davidstringer.ca/index.htm Is worth a mention too
| deskamess wrote:
| History Bites was another good one.
| louthy wrote:
| In the UK we had The Computer Programme [1] (with Kraftwerk -
| Computer Love as its theme) and Making the Most of the Micro [2]
|
| [1]
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtimvwAoYtnCtLiLspq_Gnng...
|
| [2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtimvwAoYtlWZdX-
| MgnHrr-G...
| thomassmith65 wrote:
| You may already realize this, but the backing track and
| production of the "Bits and Bytes" theme slavishly borrow from
| the song "Neon Lights" by Kraftwerk.
|
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbARvOyyjUI
| coin wrote:
| Jim Butterfield Commodore 64
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WnHuGjZ38
| rbanffy wrote:
| This show was aired in Brazil while I was growing up. Dubbed, as
| it was common in TV back then. IIRC, it aired in my state's
| educational channel.
|
| It was weird to see computers we didn't have access to (most
| Brasilian ones were TRS, Sinclair, and Apple II compatibles. No
| PET and no PCs just yet. And no Xerox 820 either.
| rbanffy wrote:
| For most people here I imagine Computer Chronicles is already
| known. It's on YouTube and on the Internet Archive, and one of
| the presenters is the guy who was the Bill Gates we needed, not
| the one we deserved.
| macote wrote:
| There was also a French Canadian version of this show called
| "Octo-puce".
|
| https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octo-puce
| type0 wrote:
| > Richard Feynman on explaining technical matters to the average
| person
|
| Richard Feynman lecture on computing
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
| koolba wrote:
| Every time I've watched that video I wonder what it would have
| been like to be in the audience and correct Feynman that 8x7 !=
| 16.
| ChumpGPT wrote:
| I met Luba Goy at a comedy show many years ago. I also knew Billy
| Van, when Billy Van was moving to California in the 70's from
| Toronto, he gave me his German Shepard called Lobo. Kind of weird
| to see a post with those 2 people....
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