# 1982 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FILM "DISCOVERING COMPUTERS" EARLY PERSONAL COMPUTERS 59054

This is a 1982, color movie is called Discovering Computers. It is a Paul Burnford Film written by Zelda Burnford. The movie opens with footage of children laughing and rushing off to their computers at school (these appear to be Apple II personal computers). The film is about Discovering Computers, 1:00. Heart scan shows computerized image of a heart pumping blood, 1:30. Animated sequence of Voyager 2 in orbit around Neptune, 1:47. Dazzling computer artwork, 2:12. Rapid montage of photos of people using computers in daily life, 2:45. NASA control room, 3:07. Cavewoman counts on her fingers and toes, then uses sticks and stones to count; our “first computers”, 3:35. Abacus is used, 3:43. Child pretends to be Pascal inventing his gear driven adding machine, 3:45. Child pretends to be Charles Babbage inventing his calculating machine, 4:05. Pocket calculator is shown, 4:25. Children working in a classroom, 5:00. Hardware section of the video; shows computer terminal – a “dumb” terminal, 5:45. (The computer at 5;21 appears to be a Tandy TRS-80 Model III which was first released on July 26, 1980.) Human hands input data into the computer, 6:00. Floppy disks and cassettes are shown storing data, 6:10. Animation showing how computer information is stored, 6:40. Showing the CPU of the computer, 7:10. Computer solves simple problems using toy trucks as example, 8:00. A microchip is shown in a person’s hand, 9:22. Kids using computers, 9:39. Boys use simulation to demonstrate how a…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/59054-discovering-computers)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader states a Creative Commons licence, but that it is the rights holder's is not shown: its record does not date the work from 2002, when the licences were first published, or the work is another's (an older work under a later date, or a video set to another's song), and nothing else the site holds shows where it is free. Unclear is not offered.