今天是 2020年7月1日。
從接近一百年前的 IBM 使用手冊，參透到一些組裝電腦的大智慧。
All parts should go together without forcing.
IBM User Manual, 1925
You must remember that the parts you are reassembling
were disassembled by you.
Therefore, if you can’t get them together again,
there must be a reason.
By all means, do not use a hammer.
相比其他的學科，ICT科的記錄片不多，所以iGardener老師幾經辛苦，除了早前介紹 BBC的虛擬革命 和 Nerd1, 2系列之外，今次找到一套有關電腦歷史的記錄片，叫 The Creation of the Computer。
這是 Modern MarvelsW® 2005年的製作，影片會展示電腦之父Charles BabbageW的維多利亞式「票機」的機械計算機如何解解決數學問題，和 IBMW 是如何通過推出打卡機加速1890年的人口普查。
在此觀看48分鐘的的記錄片吧！（2018年更新了YouTube 連結）
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjvb_V0aYo
The machines at the center of the information age have revolutionized our lives and digitalized our world, making previously unthinkable tasks automatic and linking people from around the planet.
Modern Marvels® presents a fascinating exploration into the history of the computer. See Charles Babbage’s Victorian “counting machine,” a mechanical computer that produced perfect results for any mathematical problem of six figures or less, and discover how IBM was launched through a punch-card counting machine built to accelerate the 1890 census.Trace the technological advancements that led to the first modern computers and witness the rapid progress that allowed them to shrink from room-sized monsters to the desktop units that revolutionized life in the ’90s.
The Creation of the Computer journeys into the fast-paced world of technology and innovation to expose the phenomenal history of the most influential invention of modern times.Source: Modern Marvels
