1970's IBM vintage computer promotional film (original upload) IBM Mainframe, RAMAC
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- IBM Computer History: Mainframes: The following was painfully rescued from an ancient VHS tape, and enhanced to increase viewability. It provides a look at IBM promotional computer developments up to about 1970. Many early machines are touched on very briefly, ending with a mention of an IBM customer information and control system used by Houston Lighting & Power Company, as well as other material. Video quality is somewhat poor. Historical value rests mostly with the original audio narrator Norman Rose. Worth sharing for those who love early IBM history. Hope you enjoy. Film segment courtesy of IBM Archives. Runs 20 minutes. Computer History Archives Project.
Contains numerous vintage technical elements such as punch cards, magnetic tape, disk drives,
RAMAC, IBM 1401, DASD, IBM 2260 terminals, System/360, etc. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
after viewing this film, i'm really looking forward to the 1970s.
I can't wait until these new Concorde jets take over from the lumbering, slow 747s. We'll be flying around the world in less than half the time!
@@sparkie996 you know, when there are billions of customers instead of millions it happens
You mean looking backwards
Me too! Of course I didn't exist before then...🤪
Yeah man. 2020 has sucked so much. Hopefully 1970 will be better.
When I asked my father, chief of R&D at IBM what the flashing lights on the 360 were for he said "TO SELL COMPUTERS".
It probably didn't hurt sales but they weren't there for show. If you father was chief of R&D at IBM, he told you that to shut you up because explaining what those lights were for would be a waste of time. You wouldn't begin to understand it. Which is also why I won't bother to say more than, most of those lights were used by IBM CEs who serviced those boxes after years of training. Some lights were for users but not many. retired IBM CE 1968-98
read the registers
The lights showed how data was progressing through the computer helpful when diagnosing problems.
Das blinkenlights!
@@dimbulb23 it must've been amazing to witness the rise of computer technology. It's crazy to think that all of our devices we use everyday like our smartphones and gaming consoles and such, you watched start from giant motherboard computers and terminals.
In case anyone is wondering, the narrator is Norman Rose, a well-known old time radio actor.
Hi Bob, Yes, thanks very much for this info! There is also a great example of his narration on TH-cam at this link; th-cam.com/video/2ZAyLjJwwjA/w-d-xo.html
@@silentfilms7459 no
@@silentfilms7459 🤦🏻♂️This is the voice of a man in his 30's, let's say 35, narrating back in 1955. Math says he would be 100 years old in 2020.
He died in 2004, age 87. His voice was heard in MANY radio and TV commercials, and films like this.
I was not wondering... However I am grateful for the information 👍
Makes me miss my Dad, he worked for IBM South Africa from 60 to 94.. I remember going into their office and seeing all those machines.. In fact I still have some punch cards around in a box somewhere. Today we complain when the internet takes it's time or You Tube buffers.
Hi Richard, thank you for sharing your thoughts on the video. Hope it brings back good memories. ~ victor, CHAP
Meanwhile in 2020: "Hi, I'm 12 years old, is eight cores enough in this five billion transistor CPU to play my game?"
yes.
But the underlying technology hasn’t changed in the 50 years.... Just miniaturized...
No, you still need software, peripherals, electricity, customer service and accountants.
@DragonChasing Nonsense. Of course they had CPUs. It wasn't a CPU on a single chip but it they had a CPU. It might take a couple of dozen components equal in size to 20 PC motherboards but they had a CPU.
@Norm T The only people who know how much it's changed are the people like me who installed his first computer in in 1970 when I was an IBM CE, retired from IBM in 1998 and assembled my last one couple of months ago for my wife. An AMD 3600X box with two M.2 Samsung 970s. Processors are processors, storage is storage. Those machines damned well were the basis of modern computers. When Quantum computing gets going, they won't be to that specific technology.
I don't see this "disc storage" catching on. All anyone will ever need is a faster punch card reader.
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The computer that I was systems programmer for (7040) had a disk like pictured. It had 4 heads but data access still had positional and rotational seek time plus one read a record not the specific piece on info one needed. We also has 8? tape drives and card readers and printers like those shown.
I prefer an abacus. So little to go wrong with it.
You spelled tape drive wrong.
Yeah, I want my MP3 collection on punch cards!!! Let's see...I'll need at least 1 billion punch cards, and a card tray 11 miles long. Completely do-able.
In 70 - 71 I was in an Explorer post hosted by IBM here in Huntsville. We were taught Cobol and Fortran and given time on the 360 to input simple programs we wrote.
integrated circuits just murder these old techs at computer development🤣🤣
I was in high school in 1981 and I remember seeing a Commodore Vic 20 and being so amazed at the possibilities. Times have changed.
I was high in school in 2001 and I remember seeing a Commodore Vic 20 and being so amazed at the possibilities. I put Doom on it. Times really have changed.
yeah computers has come a long way since the vic 200 but that's progress for you🤣🤣
I always enjoy classic computing informational video that show how technology has grown.
Also how presentation and narration and frankly optimism have declined.
But technology hasn't grown. It's shrunk. The smaller the media the more data it'll hold.
and now we have phones like the rog phone 3 with as much ram as a "giant" desktop computer at the palm of your hand with a 3ghz processor having much more raw power than a super computer from the 98s
I remember as a kid back in the mid 1970's when visiting my father's office he was a systems analyst. He showed me the computer room, cold big room, lots of people in there working. Machine took up the whole room. I was expecting hi-tech HAL 9000 but saw IBM with punch cards instead, plus it didn't talk. Needless to say I was very disappointed.
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2001 got AI so right. I Remember using punched cards and ticker tape as late as 1974, years after 1968 watching 2001
she rang the billing department with a question and go and answer in 7 mins with no computers. fast forward to now and you wait an hour to talk to a real person just for them to tell you in an accent you cant understand, that you are wrong that you were overcharged and that it was your fault that you didnt read the size 1 print at the bottom of your contract that said we can hike prices whenever we please.
We are not using computers to put a barrier between people and customer service. Something went wrong in the process when it was about improving customer service to now impeding it as much as possible.
Promotional period expired, please hold while we connect you to retentions (euphemism for billing dept.)
So a Texas accent is understandable?
@@nickv1008
Yep. Sounds perfectly natural to a native Texan like me living in Houston.
@@HighestRank That's why I cut cable TV --they kept using it to lure you getting that cable TV subscription. Well I got tired of that gimmick after seeing my bill going up and up after each promotion expired. No more calling customer service or billing.
Take note: THIS is how a narrator/announcer should sound! :) I wish I sounded like this guy.
Narration is an art that isn't for everyone, which is why I can't stand today's commercials.
I agree narration is becoming a lost art.
Absolutely- no distracting music either
Norman Rose.
Norman Rose
Thought in the 80's the guy presenting the movies had a good sounding voice, that wasn't narrating technically, but still.
My right ear really enjoyed this video.
A trivial fact I learned in my HS biology class in the early 1970s about those punch cards: Dimension size of them were based on the size of the US dollar bill currency. That biology teacher of mine was always coming up with trivia which kept his presentations interesting.
why this video has to be mono audio😭😭
I remember... Every IBM service tech was provided 8 white shirts per year and a black tie. That's not a joke.
I'm jealous. I don't even get a T-Shirt.
I don't even get paid
Now almost every IBMer gets a layoff (or Resource Action in IBM words) without severance.
Dont forget the song book. You need to memorize them as well.
I got booted after 15 years, with pension, severance (20K I think) and a 30K medical account. And, I was planning to retire that year, but fortunately, I hadn't announced it yet :)
He just said "go online" 😁 in 1970
Also listening to those typewriter noises coming from her keyboard. Really cool to see.
Old IBM beam spring keyboards actually had a solenoid device that made the typewriter sound on purpose!
Those keyboards were an absolute joy to use, just the right amount of pressure and the solenoid almost pulled the key down and gave a lovely click.
Those keyboards were greatly prized by their users. Digital tried to duplicate the feel, but IBM had a solid edge until 104 keys became necessary in the early 90's. By that time there were too many cheap models on the market. I still have my last IBM keyboard.
I take it you don't know the meaning of 'on line' ? I guess you must be under 50 years of age.
@@jamesslick4790 I doubt that very much. The purpose of the solenoid was usually to release the keys - after the computer had read the key pressed. Non of this 'full key rollover' back in them days - one key at a time please !
This is the first TH-cam video I have watched from beginning to end without skipping bits! Thank you for posting it!!!!!!!!!
The 80s were mind blowing in comparison. Although, it must have been amazing to go from no computers in the 40s to what was available in the late 60s.
adam ford outer space was available in the late 60s, and it’s hard to top that!
Absolutely LOVE stuff like this. It's what makes TH-cam worthwhile :) Thank you so very much!
Jason P., Thanks very much. ~ Victor, at CHAP
I completely agree. 👍🙂
It blows my mind every time I watch a video like this. I can't imagine where we'll be 50 years from now.
At some point in the future, I see text as being obsolete.
@@millomwebIf you ask Ray Kurzweil, in less than half the time OP stated, humanity will be extinct by or before 2045 due to a supposed technological singularity that sees machines which are capable of constantly upgrading themselves without the need for human intervention, meaning they would see _us_ as obsolete and simply murder all humans. Just keeping it optimistic.
There is something cold and impersonal in these old computers... And for some reason I love it :)
Whoever runs this TH-cam channel is a genius and amazing person! 👌
Hi Djuro, well, I guess I cannot argue with that. : )
great work - it offers a great view into the state of the art of computers at the time, very interesting and thank you for rescuing this :)
Thank you for the kind words. Hope you will subscribe and check out our other videos too!
Thanks for loading this clip, it brings memories of the beginning of my career in computers! Regards
Glad you liked it. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks for this precious piece of corporate promo history. Nice rescue! Incidentally, did anyone else think "Robert J" an odd name for a woman? At least she got her electricity connected the same day by a man wearing a bow tie and a welcome to Missouri letter!
In those days the service would have been registered in the husband's name. Most people were married. He was off at work from 6AM to 5:30PM and didn't have access to a telephone most likely, so it was the wife's duty, as part of a two-person team operating the household, to deal with the menials. Yes, that is too politically incorrect to believe that it ever was or could have been that way. But it was.
@@lwilton Back in the day when the world was sane and helpful. Complete 'no go' today thanks to the data protection act.
My first full time job was a computer operator on an IBM 370 series installation. I loaded those disc packs, tape drives and punchcards. This was in 1978 at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa.
I did a post-grad year in high school (Monson Jr.-Sr. High School, Massachusetts!) and took night courses from Springfield Technical Community College, at Pathfinder Regional Vocational Tech. H.S. in nearby Palmer/Three Rivers, MA; on an IBM 360, "Computer Concepts" and learned BASIC programming. For a year, but kept it up, for decades! Very loud, even encased in plastic, printer!
"STCC" very cool! Visited there once. Thanks very much for your feedback.
I worked with pumched cards. And disks. And Assembler an COBOL languages. IBM S /360.
Jose Schuh pumched cards? I’ll bet you went through a lot of paper!
These are this most valuable, hard to put together and least recognized types of channels on TH-cam. Imagine finding these types of.films and collecting them all to watch before the internet
Tim, thank you for the kind words. : )
This video is just so amazing when you really think about it. I’m going to download it and save it to my own personal data archive so I can look back it again years in the future👍👍
Will you save it to tape or fast access media though?
All these advanced IBM computers shown in the video are now buried in landfills across the country.
Amazing nobody has dug them up yet.
Good point! I wish I knew where the old UNIVAC I and II machines were dumped. I might go dig up one myself!
VK, at CHAP
An absolutely very interresting video about computers,am astonished that even at the time they had online services and touch screen monitors aswell as advanced os systems.
Even at the time they were already talking about pico seconds, that really blows my mind.
The 70's of scientists arebecome now our 70's.
johneygd A lot of "recent" tech concepts are not really all that recent, What is recent is the fact that we mere mortals can have our own! A system as powerful as my P.O.S. tablet is now, would've cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1970 and be bigger than my Buick!😀
Hundreds of thousands? Try billions of dollars. The going cost of an equivalent of 1MB of RAM in 1970 was $734k. Your POS tablet probably has at least 1GB of memory - a price tag of $734 million. Just for active memory - we haven't even covered storage costs or processing power.
oldtwins That is making me wish that there's a time machine, so I can bring my desktop PC with 4Gb of memory, two 1- terabyte hard disks, AMD A-10 Advanced Processing Unit (APU), 27 inch full-HD monitor, RGB keyboard and mouse, etc. and sell it to the highest bidder or big companies... Maybe by the time I get back to present time, I'd be so rich. Then I'd buy more computers and sell them to the past... Lucrative business, right?
I was right there !! Now a flash drive has more storage then a room full of washing-machine size disk-drives.
Older computer ads/infomercials like this really exemplify the original intent of these machines, to help people. I didn't pursue a degree in information systems because I thought I would be expanding the surveillance net, or designing automated policy to monitor private employee chats. I got into this field to help my users. Unfortunately these days I am an outlier.
We need "outliers" like you! Folks with good intentions help make life a little better. ~ Thanks!
You sound like Walter from Tron! I love it😊
Dad worked for IBM. Mom used to make Christmas wreaths out of the punch cards.
I first visited a computer center circa 1965 at Northwestern University with friends whose dad worked there. There were punch cards everywhere. On chairs, tables, floors. The staff gave us a few, telling us we'd look cool being the first kids on the block to have them. Anything to reduce their excess.
There used to be a printing shop in NYC, West Side (in the 50's or 60's streets) area. The windows were clear and we can see the computer run. This was as late as 1990's. We used to visit the place from CCNY and watch them in awe.
How are they walking around with wireless phone headsets!? I'm impressed!
Great video. I worked as a night computer operator on an RCA 3301 in 1967, got drafted, was an operator on. an IBM 1801 in Vietnam, then returned to LA and ran IBM 360s for City of La until I got my accounting degree. Those tape drives and chain printers were fun to run.
As I recall, the 1403 printer was a little NOISY. And you wanted to be kinda careful about closing that print chain housing right when changing forms, cause it could chew through anything in the way in a matter of milliseconds. Fun to run, indeed.
@@dougd321 Started as an IBM CE in 64. Doing pre school study before going to 1401 school. Reading how the 1403 printer emitter circuitry looked at a print position, tracked the characters as they moved by on the print chain (later train). It knew when the desired character was approaching the desired print position hammer and fired it to push the hammer into the ribbon and push the ribbon against the paper. It did this for all 144 print positions and could print up to 1,100 lines per minute. The chain/train never stopped but the form paper had to start and stop for each line.
I went to my manager and said that This had to be a test to see how gullible I was. Guess what, it was true.
I remember those. My worst dream was dropping a 15 inch long box full of punched cards.
This is the earliest I ever saw the terms "online" and "dos" used. Cool to see those words' origins. Also cool to see how our lives today of working monotonous call center jobs evolved from those technologies.
This is a VHS dub of a very very bad film chain transfer from a 16mm print. It is a lovely bit of history and it would be very worthwhile to look for a clean film print of this...
Flash forward to 2020: You can backup an entire company's data by a single 60 TB tape cartridge
I had to use punch cards during my Electrical Engineering schooling in the 70's. I didn't realize punch cars went way back to 1900.
'That's the way it used to be at Houston Lighting and Power." And that's the way it is almost every day when one calls to reconcile an account today. Progress!
Wow thats so cool that you can see and read the data stored on tape. Amazing technology.
Keypunches were invented for Jacquard looms early in the Industrial Revolution. The codebreakers at Blechly Park, UK and The Manhattan Project used vacuum tube computers in the Forties.
Jacquard - 1804. Nearly a century later, they were used to play music. Hence effectively the first record.
An unsung hero, Tommy Flowers got the idea of replacing mechanical relays with valves, but because of the secrecy at the time, he has only just been recognised as a pioneer.
I think in the year twothousand we will have 1Tb punchcards
Why would anyone need that much storage. I can see a large business needing120 megabytes at most, and maybe 64k of ram.
@@rickhunt3183 I can only imagine perhaps one such behemoth being needed for truly global data processing. Perhaps it could be housed at the United Nations, and governments could share its use.
Which all comes crashing down due to hanging chads. 😁
Rick Hunt who needs RAM when there is plenty of memory on the magnetic platters to swap processes into the background. Remember, the distance an electron has to travel is now inconsequential!
Back when there was no tech support, because if you could work one of these machines, you WERE the tech support! This is where the "nerd" was born!
The stuff I go for is mainly 80's and 90's vintage, but some of the older guys in the local retro computer club really go for this stuff!
I'm very jelous that you have a retro computer club
I first learned FORTRAN IV in Southampton College of Technology, UK back in 1967. The computer was a main frame one, IBM360. We used cards at that time. I still love those selectric Typewriters.
This is fabulous! Thank you!
Thank you! Glad you like this vintage material. It's hard to find and compile, but it's worth the effort!
Having names&adresses in one card stack, service type and history on another and billing on the third card stack would drive me insane... so much potential for aunty patty with one cat and no refrigerator to end up with a $300 bill.. Gah.... the introduction of tapes would have been heaven for me.
Solid logic technology. Definitely the step between transistors with wires and full-on integrated circuits. Very cool!
There were integrated circuits before this was made. Fairchild semiconductor and Texas Instruments pretty much came up with them at the same time (c. 1959).
En 1956, IBM lanzó el IBM 350 RAMAC, el primer ordenador con disco duro. FUe el 4 de septiembre, y el apodo RAMAC proviene de Random Access Method of Accounting and Control., o en español "sistema de almacenamiento y control por acceso aleatorio".
The future looks so bright!
13:54 I used to be a customer of Houston Light and Power Company back in the early '70's. Now it's Reliant, until a hurricane comes into Houston.
I just love this stuff, i use a "Lenovo" desktop PC, which used to be - "IBM" - i remember the mainframe computers of the 70s,
Love your TH-cam channel, Cheers, from Australia 😂
Simon, thank you for your kind words. Glad you enjoy! ~~ Victor at CHAP
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject - My pleasure, Cheers 👍
I was so pissed when Apple removed the punch card slot on the iPhone and made me go buy a stupid dongle adapter.
You missed your chance, in the early 1980s most home computers saved /loaded data via audio cassette through standard mic/headphone jacks...
41 bytes per second I/O speed, people. That was state of the art at this point. Still more fun to watch it work, though.
I live in the Houston metro area. HL&P morphed into Reliant Energy, and good luck getting service like this! These courteous ladies (notice how all are white BTW) have been replaced by minutes and minutes of prerecorded telephone options that take longer than these ladies did. Progress, indeed...
Awesome ty!
Wow , from 100 operations per second to billions of operations per second, and from 1 second to pico seconds; if it would took an old 1950’s computer 300 years to perform the same calculations as a 1970’s computer could do in seconds, that would be really mind blowing.
And to think we can virtually fit all of that now, and more, on a desk now
Thank you, Holorith was amazing at that time, my father worked with it
Great video. Very interesting historical perspective.
Hi Mike, Glad you enjoyed it! ~ Victor, at CHAP
Nice! A blast from the past.......... I wonder what the producers of that film would make of today's technology,
Thanks Richard. Yes, I wonder. Especially with the spread of drones, 3-D VR, and other amazing stuff.
Wow this makes me look forward to the 1970s. Whoops, we are already past that wonderful era in American history.
I'm all excited about my Univac laptop!
The Punch cards had been used in France on Jaccard Loams way before Hollerith.
Wonderful.
The FAA ARTCC’s had the IBM 9020.. Three IBM 360’s two of which concurrently ran NAS and the other for offline jobs. Card punches, card readers, disc drive platters, and the IOT at the command console. Any box, CE’s, IOCE’s, PAM’s, tape drives could be configured in or out of the system while NAS was up and running without any detrimental effects. Triple redundancy to keep NAS running and never lose data. NAS - National Airspace Operating System was a reengineered IBM operating system maintained by the FAA. The computer elements took up nearly the entire first floor of the Automation wing. Another complete huge computer system was in the basement that did nothing but write the graphics on the radar scopes. It took write orders from the IBM 9020. In the mid eighties, when the FAA transitioned to the IBM 3083, the floor space needed was cut by a fourth.
Dirty Hobo, Fascinating stuff! Thanks very much. (PS, I had to look up "Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC)" Learned something new. : ) ~ Victor, CHAP
An elegant system from a more civilized age
Right until you pay your monthly IBM service contract bill. 😁
Leased vs. owned equipment.
I was in high school in the 70s and I took a computer course and we had a test how to read punch cards times have changed
Yes I know me too just missed out the computer age of the 80s and 90d
Forget about on line billing. Post an inappropriate comment on TH-cam, and the computer algorithm can spot your wrong think in mere seconds and dispatch a facial recognition murder drone to your location faster than you can say "George Orwell's 1984 was NOT an instruction manual!". BTW, it was nice knowing you....
Now that's what I call a hard disk drive!
PS--in 1960 the Boeing 707 was already traveling the world, including one with President Eisenhower on his multination, multicontinent trip that year. Douglas was getting ready to release the DC8. Lockheed had already introduced the Jetstar, the world's first corporate jet. I don't like distortions and misrepresentations, surprised that IBM would make that error.
In 1960 there were very few jet aircraft in operation; there were only 176 707s and 112 DC-8s in service by the END of 1960, The comment stands because most domestic flights were still made on prop-driven aircraft like the Douglas DC-6 and -7, the Convair CV-240 series, the Martin 4-0-4, and the Lockheed Electra/Super Constellation/Starliner series.
I had a good one with one of our suppliers. They said: "sorry but we can't enter your order number into your account. Please help us with the format".
The old hardware is fun to watch but girls of 1960's are the best.
Fascinating…
IBM wanted controled developments/business , and Steve job’s became as marketing strategist.
At 10:40 in, he fans the card deck before putting it in the reader. I did that many times...
Memories of batch processing on IBM 360/95's and Univac 1108'sat NASA
One day we might all have a computer at home. We will probably use it for business, entertainment and possibly communications if they can make them small enough and cost effective for the average person.
It was early 80s when I had a computer at home. It only lasted about a decade. Today, I've 7
Monsanto in 1955? In the UK the Lyons company had the world's first commercial computer in 1950!
Since this is IBM made film, I believe the reference was to the first IBM business computer installation only. In just one medium sized US city alone (Pittsburgh,PA) there were already 2 Univac installations for business (at U.S. Steel & Westinghouse Electric) by 1954. Univac had already been installing digital computers in US Government agencies since 1952.
17:48 Dat sweet solenoid sound!
This is awesome. The upside to things back then though was people had a wealth of better paying jobs to run all those machines and perform all those functions, not including the other business like paper factories and printing companies to make those cards and forms and more.
Thanks. One might also that it took more skill to run those big computers than it takes to run newer machines today. Early software was less sophisticated and the operator had to do much more.
I watched this on my state of the art on-line [real time] data processing unit!!! Thanks for uploading this. I especially loved the clips they had of the SSI component fabrication "...enabling us to fit half a dozen components in a very small space." Now that is cool! Very different from the LSI process just a decade later. In fact I would say their SSI process is pretty much like a modern day pick and place machine, but instead of 0402 components and SMD, it is the actual carbon and doped silicon oxides themselves going on top of the wafers with printed circuits on them. Really neat!
Is there a video just about that process somewhere??? Also have you got one on core memory manufacturing??
A video on core memory manufacturing would be great! I am always looking for such vintage items. If we get one like that, will certainly post. Thanks for your feedback!
Some electrical engineers on TH-cam occasionally tinker with an old core memory board and try to get it going.
[13:17] _Realtime means the computing results come back within seconds..._
Say this to a nowadays gamer! 😁😮😁
Fascinating. I hold in my pocket a device that is billions of times more powerful than a system that used to require multiple rooms to function in a company. Amazing.
You are totally right! Now, just what do people do with all that portable computing power? Facebook? Angry birds? What will we all be doing with this power in another 10 years?
The very first computer I programmed was a 1401; the program was written in autocoder to fit within 4k of storage. That's 4,000 bytes and there was no hexadecimal then, but real decimal addresses. Then onto 360 assembler and PL/1.
Hi Paul, interesting times! One had to have pretty good math skills back then. : ) ~ Victor, at CHAP
IBM the computer-enterprise with excellent futuristic vieuw of technology
"We want a machine that will do x and y." "Sorry, can't do it, bud, you're just going to have to be patient. It will have to evolve."
Strange man. What about a,b,c,d....etc. as well ? Oh and then numbers ?
@18:09 , Mrs Bush, Huston area ..... can it be ??
Probably not I think George H W Bush was still in government work so he might not have been living in TX in the late 60s.
George H W Bush was a congresman from 67-71.
The man at 3:36 appears to be the actor Joel Fabiani (from Department S fame).
Pity at the end of the film, a message on screen doesn't say "Hit any key to continue."
"Where's the 'ANY' key?"
This would be more pleasurable to watch if the mono audio was properly mixed into both left and right channels. Also, mono audio sources are usually put into the left audio channel when using stereo recording equipment, if the mono signal is not sent to both left and right channels.
But I agree with everyone else and appreciate the ability to learn so much computer history for free on TH-cam.
My left ear didn't like the video... It didn't ear anything...
Your comment doesn't show on TH-cam but it appears in Google+. I never got into the Google+ ecosystem, and I guess this artifact shows how the dis-integration of Google continues.
Kinda droll, Seńor. Espanol o Portugues?
Punch cards were economical. You could use "100 CONTINUE" Fortran-card forever in new programs. Always wondered why they did not make those cards from steel.
They talk about how fast their computers are back then. I think about back in the late 90’swhen my dad bought the family our first computer it had 512mb of ram and 20 something gig hard drive. He actually had it built by the very small privately owned computer store That was next to this little hole in the wall restaurant on the end of this very small strip mall. I remember friends coming over and saying how fast our computer was. One of my friends was like damn dude Ive never seen a computer that had 512mb of ram the highest he had ever seen was 256mb of ram. So back then this was considered a decently fast computer. Now I have a cheap 220 dollar quad core Asia’s laptop that Had 4g ram but was so slow u could barley run windows so I added 8g ram so it has 12g, added a solid state drive and a 5g usb WiFi adapter now this laptop works like something you would spend 1500 bucks on. I have a refurbished dell desktop for work it has a 5 core processor so it’s not the latest and greatest but has 16h ram, solid state drive, my internet speed is 460mbps. The computer is so fast it doesn’t matter how many screens you opened up or how many programs you have opened up or what u are downloading there is never any lagg it’s completely over kill for what I need but that works out because I don’t need to worry about the computer crashing or anything. Also since It has a solid state drive if I had to restart the computer it took just seconds so the customer isn’t waiting. My lap top would be damn near frozen before the upgrades it would take damn near 5-10 minutes to boot but after the upgrades my laptop goes from off to password screen to on and ready to use in under 15 seconds. If the world seen on of my computers back then they would never use the word fast with their computers again and man If the reverse engineered my computer back then imagine what computers would be like today.
Back to these days when it took serious skills and patience to work in IT
That's for sure. Back then we needed math skills, coding skills, and hopefully the ability to write well, and maybe even type a bit.
I was born in the 80's, but I feel nostalgic for this period. Is something wrong with me, or is it right to feel frustration at kids these days not knowing how their own gadgets work?
Processing depended upon sorting and merging of data sets. The techniques are still quite efficient.
Was that the Concord? It can fly across the Atlantic ocean in three and a half hours, imagine what they will be able to do in the year 2000. Thank God for computers, in the year 2000 there won't be people to make all those mistakes, computers will handle it all quickly and error free.
I wonder how much of this was filmed in Poughkeepsie NY. There's various places in the basements of bldgs 2, 3 & 4 that *still* have that fake paneling from 1970. All unused now.
Hi James, fascinating. Someone should do a documentary of the various IBM sites and how they grew huge and shrunk back over the past 60 years. ~ Victor, at CHAP