IBM Comedy 1970: Bob Newhart - A Call From Herman Hollerith
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- Film featuring Bob Newhart who receives a call from a Herman Hollerith, who tries to get support from Bob representing the Acme Product Company, for his new invention to record the 1890 U.S. census figures on punched cards. The skit wasn't a standard part of Bob Newhart's repertoire, but something commissioned specifically by IBM for the launch of IBM System 370. It might be one in a series of maketing spoofs IBM used to have with Bob Newhart on the evolution of early mainframes.
The movie was found in 2003 on a 16 mm reel in the IBM Sweden library archives in Stockholm and showed at their 75th year anniversary the same year. Thus the Swedish subtitles.
(In 1896, Herman Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention. It was renamed International Business Machines Corporation - IBM - in 1924: en.wikipedia.or...)
I’m a graphics designer and I would design those 80 column cards back in the late 60’s to 70’s with company logos etc. This is a great sketch. I love it.
80 Column Ascii Art ... ;-)
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I saw this years ago... IBM 370 probably 1969-70, Rolled with laughter. I have wish I could see it again now... Go TH-cam!
My Senior year of HS my business class partner and I were given a project using an IBM punch card reader. We wrote a program to compare property values and the percentage up or down in valuation with the new value. Saved the town alot of money. We got 5 (100)'s added into our grade for that semester.
...I wrote LARGE engineering programs in FORTRAN IV on punch cards on the IBM 360-67 at Washington State University starting in 1966. We ‘found’ a teletype machine and got it working in the dorm, and moved on to punched tape. My FIRST personal computer was mounted in an Air Force step van, a PDP-11 using a Teletype machine to load the program from punched tape in 1975! By 1977, I had an Apple ][ with a floppy disk and a thermal printer!
Back in the '70s I studied Fortran IV computer language which contained Hollerith "write" statements, I assume these write statements were named for Herman.
The joke was that Hollerith invented the punched card tabulator for the 1891 census, but 75 years later (and for less than 5 years after this skit) it was still the basis of state of the art computer data processing.
You want to see what he's talking about? See the 1966 film Our Man Flint for a whole sequence of data card punching, sorting and collating. It's a whole lost universe.
Our Man Flint...In Like Flint...James Coburn...
In university I used punch cards for projects in my programming classes for Fortran, COBOL, PL/1 and IBM assembly. I kept one deck from each class for a long time just for nostalgia. I still remember the sound of those machines, and how frustrating it was to make a mistake and have to duplicate a card up to the mistake. I also used the programming sheets to write up the program design for class.
I worked for a major high tech company and we were using IBM cards until the mid 1970's.
For a large computer program, the weight of the cards required was considerable.
We used a cart to carry them to and from the central computer room.
As much as I love Newhart I really clicked here to learn who Herman Hollerith was
One of the Most Funny Comedians of our time! 😂. All of his shows along with his stand up routines are the best. Thank You for your Great Talent Sir! 😁
I used punch cards for my computer classes in the late 70's. The turn-around time was often over an hour, sharing time with a IBM 370. My young colleagues could easily channel this routine listening to one of my stories.
Bob Newhart is still very much alive and active even though he has had a few health challenges.
Wow! I have been looking for this video for years. I saw it when it was first released. Thanks so much for providing it.
I worked with IBM 407's and 1401's, then on up to the Univac 1050-ii. We told people we could sort by color - they never figured out we faked it with numbers. Glad they made PC's.
In 1976, I took a 2-year computer programming course and they started us out wiring these machines (we also had a 64K Univac). The principles we learned in wiring the accounting machines are the same today.
@@GreatDataVideos Using plugboards was something I was glad to see go away. But you're right, accounting hasn't changed for a long time, debits left, credits right. PL/1 was the first computer language I sort of learned, much easier than a board, especially if you're color blind.
In the 1970's I was a technician for Remington Rand and was a specialist on the machines that punched the Hollerith cards. At that time these cards and paper tapes were the ways data was fed into a computer. I was also a specialist on the machines that made the paper tapes too. Magnetic tapes and discs came next, then the microprocessor with cheap memory wiped that all away.
This guy is so funny and he still has it appearing on the Big Bang Theory one of the best BBT
This is a treasure... in so many ways! Thanks for posting!
Of course the point he didn't make was . Sorting the information by hand was taking more then ten years . So by the time they did it , by hand it was out of date . The other point was as more and more people were born, they simply could not keep up ! But presumably he would not know that , making it a very funny conversation !
IBM employee Bob LeBlanc came up with this idea, scripted it and hired Bob Newhart to record it. Bob was a very creative guy. I'm sad to say he died on Sept. 7, 2015, at age 88.
Bob Newhart is still very much alive and active even though he has had a few health challenges.
Presumably Bob LeBlanc died on Sept. 7, 2015 at age 88; Bob Newhart is very much alive and well at age 91 (August 15, 2021).
It was a great day at the British Army Royal Army Pay Corps site at Worthy Down in England. I was a young programmer. IBM announced "tomorrow today" - the IBM 370. In the announcement meeting they announced the 370, played this video and discussed floppy disks which were marketed as "foil wrapped in packet of 3". That was the playful IBM.
correction, "foil wrapped, self lubricating in packets of 3"
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I worked on these machines in the 60s for a bank in New Tork City, earning $80 a week!
PROFESSOR PROTON!
Does anyone have a copy of The Submarine Commander?
It's on You Tube, the U.S.S. Codfish
huh?
He was responding to the question above, about Newhart's submarine commander speech.
weird without laughs
Genocide architecture
Useless without a live audience, even if dated.
WRONG!