"THE IBM 2770 DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM" 1969 IBM MAINFRAME COMPUTER SALES FILM XD47474
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“The IBM 2770 Data Communication System” (1969) is a color, IBM sales film announcing the IBM 2770 Data Communication System. Throughout the eight minute film, the narrator describes each piece of hardware and the various systems and machines that the system can be combined with to meet the needs and demands of different professional settings. The 2770 utilized bisynchronous communication protocol, which provided access to multiple input-output devices and was often used in conjunction with the operating system 360 and/or the disk operating system 360 mainframe or other large computers. The 2770 was developed by IBM's General Products Division in Rochester, Minnesota.
Title page, narration begins (0:13). Various forms of data communication: Punch cards (0:19). Punch paper tape (0:22). Magnetic tapes (0:24). Manual keyboard entry, perhaps IBM Elastic Diaphragm encoded keyboard (0:25). Printed text on continuous stationary (0:28). Displays: monitor of IBM 2270 (0:31). MICR checks (0:33). Illustrated diagram depicting the devices that the IBM 22779 Data Communication System operates with (0:36). IBM 2772 multipurpose control system on desk; Close-up of console and keyboard (1:02). Card oriented IBM 2770 System; IBM 2502 Card Reader Console beside system on desk (1:48). IBM 2213 Model 2 Printer (2:01). IBM 1018 Paper Tape Bunch Console (2:20). IBM 1017 Reader (2:33). IBM 2213 Model 1 Printer (2:40). IBM 50 Magnetic Data Inscriber attached to IBM 2772 Control Unit; Camera zooms in on the IBM 50 Magnetic Data Inscriber (2:41). IBM 2265 with Model 2 Display; Camera slowly zooms out to reveal the other consoles that can be paired with the device: IBM 2502 Card Reader, IBM 545 Output Bunch, IBM 2213 Printer (3:04). IBM 1255 Magnetic Character Reader (ideal for banking customers) (3:30). Exterior of IBM Research Triangle Park North Carolina Manufacturing Facility (3:56). IBM 2502 Card Reader at manufacturing facility, narrator details new technology implemented in machine “magnetic reluctance reading” (4:13). Demonstration of printing operational speeds, speeds of line spacing on IBM 2213 (4:34). IBM 2265 Model 2 Display with new format control feature; Demonstration with several field headings displayed on screen (5:31). Demonstration of IBM 2265 Model 2 receiving vertical barcodes on the screen (6:43). Closing words, montage of machinery discussed throughout film; Final shot of all machinery accompanying IBM 2770 on desk (7:08). Closing credits (7:50).
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I can just hear that printer working away. Clack! Click! Clackitty, click! Etc... I used to sit by one. It was loud with the cover housing closed. When people came to get their prints, some of them would stand waiting with the cover open. It was deafening. We started telling them to keep the cover down. Office Space memories.
My uncle worked for IBM for 30 years. When he interviewed with them in 1970 he thought they were a trucking company!! Computers were super exotic and rare then.
Now you know why computers were mind-bendingly expensive then. Ironically this breadth of range is why IBM were Kings at the time.
Awesome upload!
This film "computes" very well indeed
It’s fascinating how unfriendly computers were before the late 1970s and even beyond. I can’t believe anyone was able to figure out how to use these for everyday business problems!
The IBM 2770 would still buffer my internet even with the 256 character store.
What a wonderful age we live in.
Wrote programs to print forms, the vertical tab function speeded up the printing instead of counting the number of line feeds. The printer printed 300 lines per minute faster than the ones in this film.
Really cool. 👏👏👏👏
Batch processing was still king
Imagine losing it all, and having to start again from the basics.😮
It looks terrifying. I want one.
Cool!
I guess it's time to reread "The Mythical Man-Month".
march of 2024, I'm impressed with this computer. Be nice to know the cost for the whole thing
Line spacing... We would have customers complaining about the cost of wasted paper.
Not if the printer was filling out a preprinted form such as checks or invoices.
This looks fantastic and I will take four please! What fashionable colors does the 2770 come in?
Haha in '69 I was 10.....6 yrs after this I was trying to learn Cobalt and Fortran ...... with very limited success lol
Yeah, you didn't even know how to spell COBOL.
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How much for the machine that goes 'Ping'!
5:39 But wait … there’s more!
"Transmitted to central processor"...
4,7,11,17,59,277.
277 is the 59th prime number, 59 is the 17th prime number, 17 is the 11th prime number, 11 is the 7th prime number, 7 is the 4th prime number. Just sayin'.
lol, the laptop i watched this on is probably 100,000,000 times more powerful than that computer, and yet costs probably 1/10,000th as much. 🤣 still, you gotta walk before you can run, *respect.* 🫡
Perhaps, but they probably did a million times more useful work than has ever been done with your laptop
@@PRH123 lol, wrong! 🤣