I loved it. I would only suggest a human narrator like your daughter would be
great. But I don't like the computer generated narration (I am right about the
computer narrator, aren't I?).
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From: Steve Lewis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 11:54 AM
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Subject: [cctalk] Re: on the origin of home computers
Adrian,
> There's a long tail to the video with no video and blank audio. After
> a while, a section of audio from the main flow is repeated.
Thanks, yeah that was a left over to compare an alternate ending. One
idea is to make it such that the video can "loop" seamlessly for continuous
play, at say a museum. And the plan is to put it under Creative Commons
since I'm told that's the best way to help ensure it can be re-used without
question.
The plan was to keep it to 10min - at one point we had it up to 30min!!
Minus the inadvertent excess, it'll be exactly 15min. A part2 might focus
more on the Z80 and 6502 lines themselves, or I was thinking a kind of bio on
the actual engineers involved ("the names and faces").
Canada is represented also :) And I just recalled, the "TK-80" (training kit
Z80 board) is also a "made in Japan" item (and led to the PC-8001 in '79), it
probably needs a flag (and I wanted to show a France flag for the Micral-N --
but in the effort to keep it closer to 10min, we just couldn't cover every item
to keep a reasonable tempo). So then we debated to not have popup flags at all,
but I felt it was important to note that there was international involvement
here.
-Steve
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:55 AM Adrian Godwin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Not really technical, but a couple of presentation points :
>
> There's a long tail to the video with no video and blank audio. After
> a while, a section of audio from the main flow is repeated.
>
> It seems to be common to consider Youtube videos more approachable if
> they're up to about 10 minutes long. You might benefit by splitting it
> into
> 2 parts.
>
> And even further off topic .. I see that the pictorial guide includes
> machines from GB and Japan (and I think a Sharp is mentioned in the
> description). Although GB was heavily influenced by USA machines it
> did have it's own distinct history and so, I think, did Japan. Russia
> also had clones of well known machines and their own designs. Did any
> other countries have a history that was more complex than picking the
> best known parts of the international trade ?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:24 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We're making final touches on a short history-video we've been
> > making
> about
> > home computers (my daughter, in middle school, has been helping).
> >
> > If anyone has time/interest to do a review, the draft listing is here:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9mgSVJZoFc
> >
> > Unless anyone spots a gross technical error, we're hoping to render
> > the final sometime this weekend or sometime this month.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> >
>
