Those were such exciting days in the computer industry. I would go back in a heartbeat.

@Citrusautomaton

18 күн бұрын

I really don’t think you would.

Painful listening to (sound quality) but the content is so worth it. These guys invented the computers everyone takes for granted today. History in the making.

What a blast from the past. My first IT job was as a COBOL programmer on a System 80 in 1982. Good times.

So pleased this film was preserved. I worked at Sperry Univac Defense Systems Division in the1980's in Va. Beach.....a long time ago!

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Patricia, thank you very much for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed seeing the film. Your comments are much appreciated!

wow, i'm almost in tears now - on such a baby i learned programming 1980 ..... cobol ... thank you for that video :-)

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much... and thanks for watching!

Video reminds me of the films found in the TV show LOST on the island of 1970s instructional tapes.

It is wonderful that CHAP, has restored this and other gems from the past.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

5 жыл бұрын

Hi William, thank you very much for your support!. We certainly enjoy doing it.- Victor, CHAP

This is back when computers were computers, men were men and women were glad they both were. I remember Soviet era TV's which actually had plumbing...

I had no idea the Peanuts' parents held such high positions at UNIVAC...

@Haruki_Aikawa

3 жыл бұрын

Hence why you never saw them

Back in the 1980'S, My mother and I went thru the Univac and IBM systems engineering training course in nyc(We had both IBM and Univac computers in our service business), AFTER 2 WEEKS OF TRAINING WE WERE $400 PER HOUR SYSTEMS ENGINEERS!!!!!(THE WHOLE CLASS). IBM and Unisys both make most of their money from consulting services!!!!

I'm totally convinced now, I will take three please! :-)

@QuasarRedshift

5 жыл бұрын

maybe we can get a discount - lol

I started at Sperry Univac in 1981 and was with them through the acquisition by Burroughs in the late 80s and all the way to until 2005 as Unisys. Burroughs destroyed what was once a truly great American company. Such a shame.

I had to suffer with a Teletype keyboard for operator input/output in 1979. The video display would be a godsend back then.

Unfortunately, I found the audio impossible to follow in several places, but what I did understand (and see, of course) was fascinating. Hopefully, a better copy will be found in the future! (Or, since I see this was posted over six years ago, maybe it already has been found.). Thanks for posting it!

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

4 ай бұрын

Thanks very much. Yes, the audio on the original film was terrible. Some day there may be a better restoration available, or perhaps we can find a better copy out there. This film was kept in a non-environmentally friendly environment for 40 years. (!) ~ VK

I slept like a baby. Thanks!

Brings back memories. I serviced these in the 80's

It bothers me that 1979 was so long ago.

The transition from old and new audio is seamless :)

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew. The original film was a tough one to transfer. Films of the 1950-1981 time period are subject to degradation because of the material used. The original sound track was very poor in some places. This "remake" at least preserves the data for the future.

@GianmarioScotti

3 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject I am having serious difficulties understanding what the Marketing and Planning executive is saying.

@stephaneblondin2224

Жыл бұрын

But awesome work from our host.

Advanced computer, but will it play GTA? LOL. Seriously, Nice job in preserving this gem. People need to know about these pioneers.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

4 жыл бұрын

Franko Walker, thank you for the nice comments.~ Victor, at CHAP

Is it just me, or does this presentation seem like it was filmed in 1946?

Ha! Joined Sperry Univac in 1983, was trained as a Business Systems Analyst and trained in Mapper 4GL. Worked on a project on a system 80, must have been 1984

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

Жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, sounds like very interesting times. 1983 was just a few years before the big Sperry/Burroughs merger. Did you stay through that major reorg?

I maintained a few of these in the 80's

I think unfortunately this is lacking of hardware show :-) I was a Customer Engineer Support in Europe and Canada for Sperry Univac working on 1100 systems. Up to the 1100/94. Spent some times in Roseville and Dayton training Center. Very proud to work for such company. I noticed the decline in 1990 and left. Today nobody heard about Sperry Univac... Incredible...

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jean-marc, yes, it is interesting they did not show off more of their hardware in this film, even if they just used mock-ups. This amount of narrative would probably not fly today. - I bet your time with Sperry was quite interesting though, they had lots of horsepower at one time. Thanks very much for your info and comment! ~ Victor

Got an HPR9000 , need to reboot

From vacuum tubes to A11 Bionic, a great leap in technology and miniaturization, can’t wait to see what the future has reserved for us.

@johneygd

5 жыл бұрын

Next thing will be the quantum computer.

This really brought back some memories! I'd long forgotten about ESCORT & RPG. I was in a group specifically hired by the Sperry UNIVAC LA Manufacturing branch in 1980 to install all of the new System 80's they were going to sell. Unfortunately our branch didn't sell any, but did give one away free to a customer. We eventually were moved to other platforms. The ESCORT & RPG training did come in handy later when I had to support some of our BC-7 customers. The System 80 sure seemed like a good system to me, but customers didn't think it was cost effective.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ben, thanks very much for your comment and info. I wonder what a full system actually cost back then. It was just 6 years later that Burroughs acquired Sperry Corp.

At the time of this film I was a grad student at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California setting up my punch cards for a run. Ah those were the days.

80s technology filmed in 40s Equipment...

i love the opening featruing their developemental stages .:)

Fascinating but the dialogue is impossible to follow carefully - is there a transcript available?

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Clive, does not appear to be a transcript, but will look into it further, and post the results here. Thanks! ~ Hunter

I love how absent von Neumann is from the commentaries.

I worked for Sperry Univac in Europe for many years. Fantastic company. My career goal was to become CEO of Sperry. Burroughs messed that up.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Maryn, I bet that would have been a heck of a job. ;)

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

5 жыл бұрын

What was your job at Sperry/Univac Europe?

@docd-monik4380

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather worked for Sperry Univac back in the late 70s thru some time in the 80s. That was the most well-off my family ever was. When the company went down the shitter, he took a major financial hit and never recovered.

@lance8080

3 жыл бұрын

Why would you want to be a CEO ???

@4Cabin

11 ай бұрын

Burroughs destroyed a great American corporation.

A great restored footage but the first part was mostly all about economy and the sound is still just sooo horrible,i can berally hear what those engineer saying,because the audio is very clipped, my suggestion is ,,, use izotope RX7 wich is able to futher enhance the audio by removing clipping and noise,also pseudo stereo and high pass filter will help to make mono sound sounding more clearer,, THX for showing this.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

5 жыл бұрын

Johneygd, thanks very much for the tip. That's something we may look into. Thanks!

@johnpierson8398

2 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Yes, Izotope RX7 can greatly improve the quality of the audio. Thank you for this awesome history video!

Now, it's these companies: Intel Corporation Advanced Micro Devices ARM Holdings Qualcomm Broadcom IBM Corporation (PA-RISC)

@stephaneblondin2224

Жыл бұрын

Missing NVidia

Germanium transistors if used, had some problems too.

Watch with subtitles, most of the audio is severely degraded.

Did the UTS 80 work station come along with the system 80?

@MartynInEurope

5 жыл бұрын

The UTS was around at the same time, but if I remember rightly, it was introduced earlier.

I was born in 1979.

Ah, my past, Maintaining the system 80, UTS Terminals and 90/30 mainframes!. If IBM had not been allowed to steal all Univac's patents, Univac would be the world computer power today. But IBM got away with it. (money, bribes)

The second guy should have cut his presentation in half.

can you program in Cobal ?

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

4 жыл бұрын

P Caetano, yes, but so rusty as to be very dangerous. ~ : )

@kc5402

2 жыл бұрын

* * COMPILATION ERROR - Line 001 ** Unrecognised verb "Cobal" ;-) (Started my working career straight out of school in 1978 with an insurance company. They trained me to be a COBOL programmer on their Univac 90/70 mainframe.)

System 80 still in use in a few places.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I wouldn't be too surprised. They are probably running some applications that are costly to migrate to a more modern platform.

@garyz4465

6 жыл бұрын

I am curious - where?

@videosuperhighway7655

5 жыл бұрын

DoD Process, There also an IBM System/1 in use as well.

Amazing video the closed captioning is way off at locations however.

At the time they might have known a lot about computers , but the audio is shockingly bad for that period in time.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Vidtech, yes, not so good. The original 16mm film was quite damaged. We hope to get a better copy of the film and redo this one in the future. Thnks! VK, CHAP

6:29 Don't worry, Bob. Inflation will abate and prosperity will return after OPEC collapses, the result of the Iran/Iraq War.

This was typical in the 80s. Bunch of stuffed shirts talking to themselves. And by the way I wanted to see the computer with it’s connected items. Pretty lousy marketing, they don’t even show that.