Dotto on Data
Added 2024-09-28 03:23:52 +0000 UTCI realize a Canadian show about computers from the 90's sounds interesting, but this is great! The corny presentation is endearing and the use of the Macintosh is now a nostalgic look-back. Derek from MacFolklore Radio uploaded these to the internet Archive.
From his description:
"Originally broadcast 1994. Source tapes purchased in 1994 directly from the Knowledge Network/Open Learning Agency (R.I.P.) in Burnaby, British Columbia. Digitized by Mac Folklore Radio 2005-07-28 using a Sony SLV-595HF VCR connected to a Sony DCR-TRV120 acting as a composite video-to-DV (sorry) converter.
Intro and credits only preserved on Episode 1.
This was Steve Dotto's first public television series, quickly followed by "Cruisin' The Internet" and "Dotto's Data Café".
Preserved because it was unusual to see the Macintosh on TV, let alone for a whole series, and one that was produced locally."
Comments
Wow. I sometimes watch Computer Chronicles ever since seeing clips of it in your videos and only wish I had access to / had the wherewithal to watch that stuff or stuff like it (such as this Dotto program... not that I would have had access to it in California where I grew up) when I was younger. What a fun and kitschy take on a tech learning program! Thanks for sharing it. Although I hear all the time about how Macintosh was the platform for desktop publishing, it's really only through programs like this and others where I get a sense for how that actually was achieved. If I may, have you listened to any of "The Famous Computer Cafe," a recently archived radio show about computers from the 80's? might be worth a listen. I especially enjoyed the interview with Douglas Adams ("For heaven's sake get on with it!" :-D) https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/19/archiving-the-famous-computer-cafe/
Corbin Johnson
2024-11-21 04:32:01 +0000 UTCI had forgotten the show as well until Derek mentioned that he had uploaded the shows.
65scribe
2024-10-01 23:47:09 +0000 UTCWow, I used to catch Dotto's Data Cafe once in a while... if the antenna signal and my life schedule happened to align :) Completely forgot about that show! Dotto on Data is such a great time capsule. Just a goofy Canadian dude in a poorly built shed who starts with the dictionary definition of "data", seamlessly transitions to a 5-minute monologue on how the underpinning of our civilization is fundamentally changing due to technology, and then makes fun of the neighbourhood teens and does some Desktop Publishing (TM). Fantastic.
iiiDIY
2024-10-01 13:20:27 +0000 UTC
