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The Dream Machine(1991)

Documentary
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First Air Date: 1991-11-17
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 5

A five-part series about the origins, history and impact of the computer, a machine that changed the world.

Keywords

computercomputer technology

Top Cast

Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs
Self - Narrator (voice)
No Photo
Lesley Judd
Self - Narrator (voice)

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 5
E01
Giant Brains

Air Date: 1991-11-17

57m

Englishman Charles Babbage conceived the basic idea of a computer about 150 years ago, as a machine that would elimin...

E02
Inventing the Future

Air Date: 1991-11-24

58m

Forty-five years ago a few brave souls risked everything to prove that computers were destined for more than just the...

E03
The Paperback Computer

Air Date: 1991-12-01

57m

The manuscripts of the Middle Ages, available to only a select priesthood, turned into the paperback book. How close ...

E04
The Thinking Machine

Air Date: 1991-12-08

58m

By the 1960s, a computer could do university-level calculus and play chess, but the search for a true thinking machin...

E05
The Passing of Remoteness

Air Date: 1991-12-15

58m

The tens of millions of computers in the world have begun talking to one another. This "networking" has allowed all s...

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