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Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Larry Tesler, 1992
Part of From the Vault. Part of Considering Our Tech-nostalgia.
01/01/1992
Full-length interview with Larry Tesler. Portions of this interview were featured in episodes from the WGBH/BBC Series, The Machine That Changed The World. The Machine That Changed The World was a five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. The program traced the history of the development of the computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. There was a focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Larry (formally Lawrence Gordon) Tesler is a computer scientist who has worked at Xerox PARC, Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc. & Yahoo! Inc. He was at Xerox PARC from 1973-1980 where he implemented the Copy and Paste feature. While at Apple Inc. in the 1980s he worked on the Lisa team, the precursor to the development of the Macintosh. Select metadata for this record was submitted by John Campopiano.
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- Series
- Machine That Changed The World, The
- Title
Interview with Larry Tesler, 1992
- Series Description
Five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. Program traces the history of development of computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. Focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Featured participants include J. Presper Eckert; Thomas Watson, Jr; Steve Wozniak; Steve Jobs; William H. Gates; Marvin Minsky; Mitchell Kapor. Narrated by Will Lyman.
101: Giant Brains; 102: Inventing the Future; 103: The Paperback Computer; 104: The Thinking Machine; 105: The World at Your Fingertips. Series release date: 1992
- Duration
01:45:15
- Asset Type
Raw video
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Tesler, Larry (Lawrence Gordon)
- Computer software developers--United States
- Information Technology
- Xerox Corporation
- Microprocessors--United States--History
- Apple computer--History
- Computer software--Development--History
- Macintosh
- Computer software--Development--United States
- Lisa
- Xerox PARC
- Personal computers
- Apple Computer
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Technology
- Contributors
- Tesler, Larry (Lawrence Gordon) (Interviewee)
- Publication Information
- A WGBH Boston/BBC TV co-production in association with NDR Hamburg
- Citation
- Chicago: “Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Larry Tesler, 1992,” 01/01/1992, GBH Archives, accessed April 18, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_68EC0BDF4C59474F80F6A9E7222A5943.
- MLA: “Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Larry Tesler, 1992.” 01/01/1992. GBH Archives. Web. April 18, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_68EC0BDF4C59474F80F6A9E7222A5943>.
- APA: Machine That Changed The World, The; Interview with Larry Tesler, 1992. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_68EC0BDF4C59474F80F6A9E7222A5943