High Tech Israel
A visit to the Middle East to see the booming high-tech industry in Israel. Featured are Intel and Microsoft R&D centers plus many local Israeli companies doing work ranging from network communications to speech recognition and natural handwriting recognition. Also demonstrations of technology spinoffs from the Israeli military. Originally broadcast in 1993. http://archive.org/details/episode_1109
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Episode 2
Baseball Software
A review of computer programs for baseball fans. Includes Intelliplay Baseball, APBA Presents Baseball for Windows, Baseball's Greatest Hits, Al Michaels Announces Hardball III, and Tony LaRussa Baseball II. Originally broadcast in 1993. http://archive.org/details/Baseball
Episode 3
PDAs
A look at the state of the art in personal digital assistants. Products demonstrated include the Apple Newton Message Pad, Casio's Zoomer, AT&T's EO 440 Personal Communicator, Sharp's PI-7000 Expert Pad, and the HP 100LX. Originally broadcast in 1993. https://archive.org/details/episode_1113
Episode 4
Pentium PCs
A look at the first generation of Pentium based personal computers. Included are demonstrations of new Pentium PCs from Gateway, Compaq, and ALR (Advanced Logic Research). Also a visit to Intel Labs to see how Pentium chips are made and a visit to PC Week Labs to see their evaluation process for new Pentium PCs. Guests include Ken Lowe of Dataquest and Jim Louderback of PC Week. Originally broadcast in 1993. Copyright 1993 Stewart Cheifet Productions. https://archive.org/details/episode_1114
Episode 5
DOS 6.2
The big news in 1993 was Microsoft's new version 6.2 of MS-DOS. Demonstrations include MS-DOS 6.0, MS-DOS 6.2, Stacker 3.1, Norton Utilities 7.0, and IBM's PenDOS. Featured are visits to Microsoft DOS labs in Redmond, Washington and the Ziff Davis test labs in Foster City, California. Originally broadcast in 1993. https://archive.org/details/episode_1149
Episode 6
ETRE Barcelona
Coverage of the annual European Technology Roundtable Exhibition from Barcelona, Spain. Guests include Bill Gates, Esther Dyson, Michael Rogers, Philippe Kahn, Mark Eppley, Alan Ashton, Peter Sprague, and Masayoshi Son. Product demonstrations include Windows NT and groupware applications. http://archive.org/details/episode_1106
Episode 7
The Internet
It was being called the Information Superhighway then. This program looks at the earliest stages of the Internet including Aladdin Systems SITComm, a Macintosh communications program for Internet access, and the WELL (Whole Earth Lectronic Link), an early online community. Also featured is a visit to the former Bell Labs in New Jersey (now Bellcore) for demonstrations of internet based teleconferencing, video on demand, ISDN, and optical network technology; a preview of the World Wide Web as used at NASA; a visit to where it all began, ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency in Virgnia; and a look at the Internet Multicasting Service in Washington, the first Internet radio station. Guests include Brendan Kehoe, author of "Zen and the Art of the Internet", Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community", Dr. Robert Kahn, former found of ARPA, and Carl Malamud, author of "Exploring the Internet". Originally broadcast in 1993. http://archive.org/details/episode_1134
