Hosted by Stewart Cheifet (with co-host Gary Kildall in the 1980s), Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution. It was broadcast for twenty years from 1983 - 2002. The program was seen on more than 300 television stations in the United States and in over 100 countries worldwide, with translations into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. The series had a weekly television broadcast audience of over two million viewers. Gary Kildall standing in front of his car. ...
The series has been recognized for its journalistic excellence, winning a variety of journalistic awards including more than a dozen from the prestigious Computer Press Association. The series covered high-tech subjects around the world, having shot programs in such various locations as Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and Taiwan. Computer Chronicles was based in the Silicon Valley area of California.
Many of the series programs are distributed on video to corporations and educational institutions for use in computer training. Computer Chronicles program segments have also been bundled with various computer text books by major publishers.
External links
Archive.org - Where some Computer Chronicles episodes are hosted on today for free viewing and downloading
Agony Booth - Where a 1985 Christmas Special is poked fun of
At the end of each set of ComputerChronicles examples and ideas, there is a button to make it easy to return to the general description of the Learning Circle phase.
Computers and computer networking are very efficient tools for the task of creating a newspaper.
Computers do not evaluate the quality of a student's writing, nor do they deal with the human emotions that are a vital part of the writing process.
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