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Computer Chronicles, Retro Tech-TV Available on BitTorrent

torrentfreak.com — Software piracy in the 80s, the early days of the Internet, the war between Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0, it was all covered by the Computer Chronicles. Invaluable, and most of the time hilarious historical documents, are now available for free on BitTorrent.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 13, 2008

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  • engmar, on 01/13/2008, -0/+20They've been available for at least 3 years, at the Internet Archive.
    http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles
  • MFPOCKETS, on 01/13/2008, -1/+20they couldn't stop us for 30 years. and they cant stop us now
  • metalica77, on 01/13/2008, -0/+13Finally Mininova is getting some decent stuff on there feathered list
  • UNL1M1T3D, on 01/13/2008, -0/+12This picture is priceless:

    http://torrentfreak.com//images/frankie_mouse.jpg
  • tingrin87, on 01/13/2008, -0/+9pretty cool...
    and legal?!?
  • TheDarkTipper, on 01/13/2008, -1/+10Damn, I thought there was gonna be some old TechTV shows on there.
  • Jerky1312, on 01/13/2008, -0/+8The internet archive has many more episodes available than on Bit Torrent...
    Internet archive:
    http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%28collect ... (1 through 50 of 557)
    Mininova:
    http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=Computer+Ch ... (1 through 52)

    The internet archive should upload all of their content using Mininova's Content Distribution system.
  • AndrewDB, on 01/13/2008, -1/+9Man, watching the one on games is hilarious. "This is a gamers dream machine.. a three thousand dollar pc, it has a 133 Pentium... a 1.8 gig hard drive.."

    Rofl. Memories. :)
  • Sparticuz, on 01/13/2008, -0/+7like chickens?
  • BassHead, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6 Lock up your daughters :p
  • masterc, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5That's okay, TorrentFreak just wanted some hits.
  • ninephoenixes, on 01/13/2008, -2/+7Me too :<

    Someone hook a brotha up with some Screensavers torrents.
  • Unterland, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4Frankie Mouse FTW! What a bad-ass, excellent.
  • kindrobot, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4***** beards.
  • badenglishihave, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4One usually doesn't see the word "Pirate" in quotation marks anymore when it's being used to discuss a software pirate. Probably part of the RIAA's plan to make us out to be bloodthirsty swashbucklers. Yar!
  • antdude, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4Yeah, and legal too.

    I miss that show. I used to watch it all the time!
  • shadowofdeath15, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4I just watched this and can't stop laughing about Frankie Mouse
    browsing a BBS and d/l'ing a guide to cracking then saying this
    would be a lot faster if i had brought my 1200 baud modem with me.
  • DevilSpawn, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4any chance of an all-in-one?
  • diggmc, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3What a blast from the past that was. Seeing the guy talking about floppy disks while waving an 8" disk... hilarious (and frightening... I use to use 'em).

    Anyone one remember Bits & Bytes with Bill Van and Lubba Goy ?

    G++
  • Arcnite, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3yep... sure is
  • dupswapdrop, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Oh yes remember C/PM, cleaning edge card connectors and the magnet trick with floppy disks. And don't forget your phone line quick disconnect switch!
  • bubba9999, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2This show was the best. I watched it every week on Saturday afternoons on our PBS station. It's probably as responsible for my current occupation (and lack of a life) as 80-Micro magazine.
  • AgentAce, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2This is great. I remember watching this every week.
  • jbeaudry, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Has anybody come across a complete bundle of all episodes? I know I could get them one by one, but I am lazy and would love to get them all at once if somebody already did the foot work. :)
  • kingofinternet, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2stewart cheifet gives me a boner
  • SuperJason, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1This one: http://www.archive.org/details/StorageD1984 talks about perpendicular recording. It's from 1984. Interesting.
  • MikePricee, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1Sound is interesting to investigate and use it.

    http://www.unlockcomputers.com/
  • ShyGuy91284, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1I remember when Ryan Seacrest was just a computer show announcer on Sci-Fi (along with that guy with the black blue hair...) It's amusing to see how people's roles change.
  • torrentfreak, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1Yes ;)
  • Lynxpro, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1He was the proto-Leo Laporte but without good hair...
  • doshindude, on 01/13/2008, -1/+2*their.
  • bbqribs, on 01/13/2008, -1/+2FInally, some legit content bittorrent that's worth downloading.
  • snurfle, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1Awesome! Another 'Young Frankenstein' reference! I LOVE digg!!!

    There Wolf. There Castle.

    God, Marty Feldman was hilarious!
  • drewpopo99, on 01/14/2008, -0/+0I heard this news earlier at another place. A celebrity guy mentioned this in his blog at Richromances.com yesterday. Many guys are discussing it under his blog
  • doctechnical, on 01/13/2008, -8/+2"Us", kid? WTF were *you* pirating in 1978?
    Me, I loaded T-Bug high and punched out system tapes at the local Rat-Shack...

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