Yup, so did I. Plated wire memory, Uniservo 6 tape drives, and even 8414 disk drives. I still have a 1/4 hp printbar motor from a 9300 on a grinder in my shop!
I worked at a typesetting company in the mid '70s, and they had a Data General Nova II with only 32K of memory(!). Four VDTs (Visual Display Terminals), two Trident T-50 50 meg disc drives, a paper tape reader, and a burpee paper tape punch ... yes, all in 32 K. We produced about 30 major monthly magazines on that system. Eventually, we upgraded to the DG Eclipse, with 64K of RAM.
I liked the way most of the executives were directed to act normally and relaxed. not all were perfect but this was cutting edge for "industrial" films of the era. Ditto the camera angles. Some were really cutting edge for cinematography as well. The lighting is typical of the era, and boy did the film stock back then! SInce they were shooting color, there is a good chance they shot on Kodachrome... a slow stock of only 25ASA in daylight and 16ASA with a blue filter for interior "tungsten" shots. If they used Ektachrome, the highest film speed was about 100ASA, still requiring tons of lights. I shot a number of these type films in the early and mid-70s, when we started converting to videotape. Compared to all the tons of lights we had to use, the digital cameras of today make us old guys think you could still get a decent image with the lens cap still on. I do scenes now with just a few dimmable, color changing LED units. AND when you walked to the set. it was uphill both ways. (Kidding). I really enjoyed seeing this particular film. I think they had a hell of a cinematographer who may very well have worked on major Hollywood stuff at the time or later. I wish I knew who he was, he'd have been a great guy to know. Very talented.
It's probably only guys like you who've had the experience of transitioning the two media who can truly appreciate the fine qualities of this film. Those experiences you've had, sadly are not easily conveyed widely to others in the digital world, except via the Comments Section. Perhaps you could reminisce and give examples of the differences you've experienced by making a TH-cam 'Special' and upload it on your own Channel. I'm sure it would generate a lot of commentary from your peers who worked in studios and on location during _The Good Old Days Of Film._ Periscope film just uploaded a Bell and Howell film of "How Film Moves and Talks", but didn't really discuss lighting requirements (or colour) as it was a rather superficial "Advertorial" for their camera/projection products and film library services, and too early in the 1930's for colour to be widely available.
@@BrassLock I know I'd sure love to hear (and see) the details of all these stories I've come to read from the previous generations in the comments section of youtube videos like this and of old tech based videos, all compiled into a documentary or something. TH-cam videos of their own would be just as good if not better! Just a bunch of older experienced and knowledgeable fellas talking the early days of tech, with some funny anecdotes from their life in general thrown in! I can't get enough of these old educational films. They literally do not make them like they used to - if they make any at all for actual education and not just on the internet. There's nothing I love more than seeing comments from guys like this telling their stories from experience throughout their lives! Especially on these old computer videos, there's always one or two of them to find down here in the comments!
My mother worked for Western Union as data processing manager on this, then later when I was in college I worked on one also a Burroughs things have changed so much.
About 198x Burroughs bought Speery Univac became Unisys, me an oltimer now, worked on these machines. Yep I now have more processing power in my pocket than we had in 1980. Western Union and Bell were some of our big customers. So nice to hear from a customer.
My Father was sales manager for southeast till 1980 when he retired and went to Siemens . I got to tour the dp center in Atlanta when I was in 3rd grade and it was soooooo big an area.
@@NorthRunner64 In 1973 I was one of many Insurance salesmen; we would be contacted by Pocket Calculator salesmen to buy their products for $75 each. I couldn't afford one in those days. Now the local Two Dollar Store has far more powerful ones for . . . Yes, $2
Eventually IBM put all of them out of business. Today it’s networking PCs that rule the world. Mainframes are used for the bigger tasks such as airline reservations, etc. I remember when I first started I wrote my first programs on an IBM 360 model 20, a 12k machine, 4K operating system 8 k program, no storage of data all cards. Things have evolved to where a laptop has terabytes of storage. Watso, IBMs huge mainframe can do many functions at one time. I think there’s only one Watson, all that’s needed? Interesting video thank you for posting.
It's crazy that there were still many businesses in the 90s that hadn't computerized.
Base model had 8K of memory, expandable to a max of 32K (with a second cabinet). I serviced many when I worked for Univac.
Yup, so did I. Plated wire memory, Uniservo 6 tape drives, and even 8414 disk drives. I still have a 1/4 hp printbar motor from a 9300 on a grinder in my shop!
@@guylavoie1342 Where did you work?
I worked at a typesetting company in the mid '70s, and they had a Data General Nova II with only 32K of memory(!). Four VDTs (Visual Display Terminals), two Trident T-50 50 meg disc drives, a paper tape reader, and a burpee paper tape punch ... yes, all in 32 K.
We produced about 30 major monthly magazines on that system.
Eventually, we upgraded to the DG Eclipse, with 64K of RAM.
He's smoking a pipe in the machine room! 😱
I think he's an owner, so yeah.
At 3:45 that original Muscle car 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I noticed that too, the 1969 Ford Mustang.
I liked the way most of the executives were directed to act normally and relaxed. not all were perfect but this was cutting edge for "industrial" films of the era. Ditto the camera angles. Some were really cutting edge for cinematography as well. The lighting is typical of the era, and boy did the film stock back then! SInce they were shooting color, there is a good chance they shot on Kodachrome... a slow stock of only 25ASA in daylight and 16ASA with a blue filter for interior "tungsten" shots. If they used Ektachrome, the highest film speed was about 100ASA, still requiring tons of lights. I shot a number of these type films in the early and mid-70s, when we started converting to videotape. Compared to all the tons of lights we had to use, the digital cameras of today make us old guys think you could still get a decent image with the lens cap still on. I do scenes now with just a few dimmable, color changing LED units. AND when you walked to the set. it was uphill both ways. (Kidding).
I really enjoyed seeing this particular film. I think they had a hell of a cinematographer who may very well have worked on major Hollywood stuff at the time or later. I wish I knew who he was, he'd have been a great guy to know. Very talented.
It's probably only guys like you who've had the experience of transitioning the two media who can truly appreciate the fine qualities of this film. Those experiences you've had, sadly are not easily conveyed widely to others in the digital world, except via the Comments Section. Perhaps you could reminisce and give examples of the differences you've experienced by making a TH-cam 'Special' and upload it on your own Channel. I'm sure it would generate a lot of commentary from your peers who worked in studios and on location during _The Good Old Days Of Film._
Periscope film just uploaded a Bell and Howell film of "How Film Moves and Talks", but didn't really discuss lighting requirements (or colour) as it was a rather superficial "Advertorial" for their camera/projection products and film library services, and too early in the 1930's for colour to be widely available.
@@BrassLock Wow, I'm very complimented by your kind words and will take the idea of a TH-cam video.
@@BrassLock I know I'd sure love to hear (and see) the details of all these stories I've come to read from the previous generations in the comments section of youtube videos like this and of old tech based videos, all compiled into a documentary or something. TH-cam videos of their own would be just as good if not better! Just a bunch of older experienced and knowledgeable fellas talking the early days of tech, with some funny anecdotes from their life in general thrown in!
I can't get enough of these old educational films. They literally do not make them like they used to - if they make any at all for actual education and not just on the internet.
There's nothing I love more than seeing comments from guys like this telling their stories from experience throughout their lives! Especially on these old computer videos, there's always one or two of them to find down here in the comments!
My mother worked for Western Union as data processing manager on this, then later when I was in college I worked on one also a Burroughs things have changed so much.
About 198x Burroughs bought Speery Univac became Unisys, me an oltimer now, worked on these machines. Yep I now have more processing power in my pocket than we had in 1980. Western Union and Bell were some of our big customers. So nice to hear from a customer.
My Father was sales manager for southeast till 1980 when he retired and went to Siemens . I got to tour the dp center in Atlanta when I was in 3rd grade and it was soooooo big an area.
@@NorthRunner64 In 1973 I was one of many Insurance salesmen; we would be contacted by Pocket Calculator salesmen to buy their products for $75 each. I couldn't afford one in those days. Now the local Two Dollar Store has far more powerful ones for . . . Yes, $2
Merry Christmas 🕯🕯🕯🕯🐾🐾😻🕯🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Ordering my Univac 9300
Eventually IBM put all of them out of business. Today it’s networking PCs that rule the world. Mainframes are used for the bigger tasks such as airline reservations, etc. I remember when I first started I wrote my first programs on an IBM 360 model 20, a 12k machine, 4K operating system 8 k program, no storage of data all cards. Things have evolved to where a laptop has terabytes of storage. Watso, IBMs huge mainframe can do many functions at one time. I think there’s only one Watson, all that’s needed? Interesting video thank you for posting.
How many of us are watching this on a handheld device with more computing power than this monstrous machine?
All of us. My Kindle would blow this monster away. We are very fortunate.
Guy filling a paint can ... if only he knew that the computer could be filling that paint can and take his job lol
the narrator's accent and cadence is exactly the same as the late Leonard Bernstein's
I was thinking Mike Wallace. From the same geography (Wallace from Brookline MA, Bernstein born in Lawrence, schooled in Boston)
3:45 That's a 1969 Mustang.
8:25 Looks like Paul Oakenfold, Sr.
OMG at 3:40 with the machine that burns off the beaks of baby chicks...
It's either that or they peck each other to death larry.
Remember, they're in the food business, not the poultry business.
No kidding! I think that's the last thing I'd put on camera is burning the beaks of chicks while dead chickens are whizzing by on a conveyor belt.