How the Computer / Word Processor works. Program distributed by Team Program Pacific. From Secret Life of Office Machines series.

The Secret Life of Office Machines - 6 Program/2 DVD Series

Word Processor / Computer - 25 mins
The program begins with footage of early typewriters in a museum. 1875 first QWERTY typewriter built. in 1900 there were typewriters in offices. Early commercials about these. But how to erase typed words? Program shows inside a PC - computer. Chips. Each made of transistors. Each letter of alphabet has a different digital code. Archive: Hollerith's early computer machine. Scissors cut open floppy disk - has tracks to store information. Hard disk and read head shown. Archive film of first computers. 1959 Pegasus computer with 1800 valves. Programs written and stored on punched tape. First computer with a monitor / screen in 1969, allowing text or lines of code to be edited on screen. Start of word processing. How spell checkers work. Amstrad word processor enabled every office to have computer for word processing. Printers: dot matrix, daisy wheel, ink jet (demo). Excellent introduction to this technology.

Program 1: Fax Machine
Program 2: Photocopier
Program 3: Lift / Elevator
Program 4: Electric Light
Program 5: Computer/Word Processor
Program 6: Office

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The Secret Life of Office Machines covers office machines and has been on TV around the world - USA, Australia, UK, Britain. It is a 6 program series, and is very similar in style to the Secret Life of Machines series (12 programs), which primarily deals with household machines. Using analogies, illustrations, animation, working models and extraordinary experiments, Tim Hunkin explains machines used in the modern office.