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The Machine That Changed the World (miniseries)

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31: 222: 100:(1992) (broadcast the previous year under the alternative title "The Dream Machine" in the UK, with different narration, content & editing) is a 5-episode television series on the history of electronic digital computers. It was written and directed by Nancy Linde, and produced by 283: 278: 259: 60: 127:
through desktop microcomputers. The pre-history of such machines is examined in the first episode ("Giant Brains"), and includes a discussion of the contributions of
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The first three episodes deal with the history of fully electronic general-purpose digital computers from the
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Video resource guide at American University Computing History Museum
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Synopsis of Episode 5, "The World at Your Fingertips", at waxy.org
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Synopsis of Episode 3, "The Paperback Computer", at waxy.org
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Synopsis of Episode 4, "The Thinking Machine", at waxy.org
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Synopsis of Episode 2, "Inventing the Future", at waxy.org
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Charles Babbage
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Alan Turing
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Frontline
Will Lyman
The Machine That Changed the World
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Video resource guide at American University Computing History Museum
Episode synopses at Virginia Tech
Synopsis of Episode 1, "Giant Brains" at waxy.org
Synopsis of Episode 2, "Inventing the Future", at waxy.org
Synopsis of Episode 3, "The Paperback Computer", at waxy.org
Synopsis of Episode 4, "The Thinking Machine", at waxy.org
Synopsis of Episode 5, "The World at Your Fingertips", at waxy.org

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