2.2 Programmed to Succeed

Not all pioneers of computing and video games were white and male.

Chapters

• 0:14 Junctions and gates
• 4:38 Calculator revolution
• 7:52 4004
• 10:47 Microprocessors are here
• 14:29 A personal computer?
• 17:17 NASA (G)Ames Research Center
• 19:42 Maze to MazeWar
• 26:47 PARC and Recreation
• 32:59 In need of a revolution
• 34:50 A rocket to Altair
• 40:51 Micro-Soft
• 46:02 From text to graphics
• 49:10 How to show off your video card
• 55:46 Homebrew revolutionaries
• 1:01:22 Schooled by MECC
• 1:04:14 Post it on a bulletin board
• 1:06:37 The awesome Jerry Lawson
• 1:13:50 A pet RAVEN
• 1:17:23 The Fairchild VES
• 1:22:43 A self-balancing opponent
• 1:24:19 Joyce Weisbecker makes some games
• 1:27:58 Atari catches up
• 1:31:38 Sprites
• 1:34:44 Racing the beam
• 1:37:50 The Video Computer System
• 1:41:48 The Odyssey, Part 2
• 1:43:51 Ed Smith: from traffic lights to consoles
• 1:47:29 Console or computer?
• 1:50:49 German game engineering
• 1:52:13 Back to Nutting
• 1:53:59 The first pro-gamer girls
• 1:57:06 A Japanese superhero
• 1:59:38 SPACE MONSTER
• 2:05:01 Invader mania
• 2:10:48 Wrap-up