The first major upgrade to Windows was the 3.0 version, launched in 1990. This program reviews Windows 3.0 , some competitive products, and it looks at some Windows add-ons designed to make it work ...

Back when Apple's first Macintosh computer was introduced, there was an explosion of interest from not just geeks and nerds, but "the rest of us" too – that's what this television program explores.

The Computer Chronicles was an American television series, broadcast during 1981-2002 on Public Broadcasting Service public television, which documented the rise of the personal computer from its ...

Remember when microcomputers were the size of your face and everyone who used a computer was called a hacker? I don’t, but that might actually be what makes this 1983 holiday episode of The Computer ...

Computer Show is a spoof of 80s computer TV shows, specifically Computer Chronicles, which was actually an excellent program (see below for more on that). "Gary Fabert and co-host Angela Dancy welcome ...

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia. Cheifet created ...

In 1979, the MIT Computer Museum was founded, and in 1983 the television show Computer Chronicles TV went to visit. The tour highlights the early computers, like card punch calculators and the rare ...