As a retired technical writer/editor who consistently worked with engineers in trying to use the correct word, I would like to suggest that the title should be The Tyranny of Large Quantities because the word Numbers implies billions/millions/thousands/hundreds when in fact this video is about Quantities, as in A Lot of Components being built.
@@thcoura yeah kinda sums it up in the first sentence of narrative. The fantasy of superfluous resources needs to be studied. Things take time, and ironically, other resources.
The video is to educate common folk who wouldnt differentiate number and quantity. Not only that, you are watching a video made by ppl, all of whom are now most likely dead, so changing the title is an insane proposition. As a developer, go to sleep my friend. Tomorrow is a new day.
This film packs a lot of information into 15 minutes. The photography and narration are excellent. You get a really good picture of the state of the art in electronics at the time. The technology is dated, but the reasoning and the principles are just as valid today. We have a newer buzzword for some of it: scalability. That's the crux issue, having more makes things different.
Processes like this are fascinating to watch, and to consider that it's all controlled by a computer far less powerful than even what's in a smartphone now. Also, we get to see some pictures of the infamous Librascope LGP-30. ;-) (Though not sure if that's the actual computer driving the manufacturing process, or if that's just stock footage.)
Wow, LGP-30 computers, Nike Zeus missile defense sites, telephone switching... quite a few things that really put you into the era of technology.
As a retired technical writer/editor who consistently worked with engineers in trying to use the correct word, I would like to suggest that the title should be The Tyranny of Large Quantities because the word Numbers implies billions/millions/thousands/hundreds when in fact this video is about Quantities, as in A Lot of Components being built.
Abuse of superlatives
@@thcoura yeah kinda sums it up in the first sentence of narrative. The fantasy of superfluous resources needs to be studied. Things take time, and ironically, other resources.
The video is to educate common folk who wouldnt differentiate number and quantity.
Not only that, you are watching a video made by ppl, all of whom are now most likely dead, so changing the title is an insane proposition.
As a developer, go to sleep my friend. Tomorrow is a new day.
@@_ruddegar What's wrong with making a valid observation?
@greenatom tbh. Everything what understood untill yo had a probelm. Maybe you should look elsewhere for your solution
This film packs a lot of information into 15 minutes. The photography and narration are excellent. You get a really good picture of the state of the art in electronics at the time.
The technology is dated, but the reasoning and the principles are just as valid today.
We have a newer buzzword for some of it: scalability.
That's the crux issue, having more makes things different.
I thought, "What a strange title for a Western"
beep bop boop beep. standard soundtrack for computers of the day in film
"Ive just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit." - HAL 9000
Processes like this are fascinating to watch, and to consider that it's all controlled by a computer far less powerful than even what's in a smartphone now. Also, we get to see some pictures of the infamous Librascope LGP-30. ;-) (Though not sure if that's the actual computer driving the manufacturing process, or if that's just stock footage.)
7:36 LGP-30 Librascope's vacuum tube desktop computer
This is one of the reasons why we beat the USSR during the Cold War! Also why we were able to put a man on the moon! Great Video!
Which makes it all the more sadder some idiots discount these facts 😢
2:02 wire wrapped components
In this situation the numbers DID add up!
The narrator sounds like Rod Serling 😺
WARNING! DANGER!... 10,000,000 OHMS!
thumb 👍
We’re still mad like hatters.
They took our jobes!!
They built resistors by hand that way?!?!?! It's almost like craftwork, except maybe the most boring job in the world.
Damn computers n' robots! They TOOK MAH JOB!! 🤣
Ante gamisou novibet
What a bunch of nerds
And it's through the efforts of those nerds that you can sit in your basement, yet broadcast your ignorance to the world. Isn't technology grand...