CCR SPECIAL 6 — THE WOMEN'S COMPUTER LITERACY PROJECT

In an early third-season episode of Computer Chronicles that I previously covered, Wendy Woods presented one of her remote segments from the Women’s Computer Literacy Project, a San Francisco-based computer school run by Deborah L.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 51 — GROLIER'S KNOWLEDGEDISC, INFOTRAC, DEC UNI-FILE, AND ISIDOS

Gary Kildall was not just the co-host of Computer Chronicles. He also co-founded and ran two software companies, Digital Research and KnowledgeSet (originally Activenture).

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 50 — THE CEMAX-1000, POISINDEX, PUFF, AND THE EXPERT SYSTEM

This episode of Computer Chronicles from November 1985 returned to a favorite topic of the show: artificial intelligence and expert systems.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 49 — SOLON, BOB CARR, ED ZSCHAU, AND F-15 STRIKE EAGLE

Many Computer Chronicles episodes to this point have discussed, or at least mentioned, the influence of politics on the tech industry.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 48 — ETHERMAC, TOKEN RING, AND TOPS

IBM was not having the best year in 1985. In October, Big Blue reported its third consecutive drop in quarterly profits.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 47 — THE WELL

A “Random Access” item in the last episode discussed a 1985 bill introduced in the United States Senate, S.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 46 — KRON-TV, USA TODAY, KCBS RADIO, AND THE AURORA/75 GRAPHICS SYSTEM

Few industries were transformed more by the rise in computer technology than the media.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 45 — THE OKIMATE 20, IBM QUIETWRITER, HP LASERJET PLUS, AND ADOBE POSTSCRIPT

The Macintosh never lived up to the hype of the infamous “1984” Super Bowl ad.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 44 — THELMA ESTRIN, JUDITH ESTRIN, ELIZABETH STOTT, KAY GILLILAND, JAN LEWIS, AND ADELE GOLDBERG

There’s a telling comment from the previous Computer Chronicles episode that helps set the stage for this next program.

COMPUTER CHRONICLES REVISITED 43 — TRIP HAWKINS, JOHN MERSON, BEN ANIXTER, AND RICHARD O'BRIEN

This next episode continued the previous discussion about the noticeable slowdown in the computer industry during the summer of 1985.