About Retro Computer TV

Retro Computer TV makes documentaries about the machines people used to own: computers, consoles and the chips inside them. Each film asks how something actually worked, then shows it working, on the machine or in an emulator, with the real code on screen.

Research comes first. Every fact in a film is tied to a quotation from a source: manuals, magazines of the time, the designers' own words, disassembled code and our own measurements. Each film's page lists its published sources, and where we wrote programs or ran experiments for a film, the code is on GitHub for you to read and run.

This site is the companion to the YouTube channel: every film with its chapters, sources, code and full transcript, so you can look something up without scrubbing through a video.