My dad worked for IBM and later ran the data processing center of a bank. Sometimes he would take me with him on the weekend to hang out if he was working. I was a little kid. The machines were bigger than me. It was incredible to see these beasts working. My dad died over 30 years ago but seeing the old IBM computers makes me feel closer to him.

@Datan0de

4 ай бұрын

That's fantastic, and I can somewhat relate. My dad worked for a company that specialized in radar and electronic warfare components, and a few times I got to go with him when he had to do work on a Saturday. The whole place was like a wonderland to me! He'd set me up at a CP/M terminal with an 11" floppy that had Colossal Cave Adventure and a couple other games on it and if have a fantastic time. I work in IT now, and I'm certain that seeing where Dad worked was a huge influence on that. RIP to both of our dads.

I am so old. I was running those patch panels when I was 18 years old.

@asbestosfiber

4 ай бұрын

they looked like a nightmare.

It's really crazy how much computing has changed. You can buy a hard drive with 4 million times more storage, and assuming 5 years of operation, for 5000 times cheaper, weighing 2000 times less, and probably uses 1000 times less power.

@PRH123

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Captain Obvious :)

@jasoneverett

4 ай бұрын

@@PRH123 you're welcome Captain Ass Hat.

@Datan0de

4 ай бұрын

You're probably*understating* the magnitude of how much computer technology has advanced. It really is mind-blowing! The phone I'm typing this comment on isn't just more powerful than the giant AN-FSQ7 building-sized computer. It's more powerful than the entire SAGE defense network!

@PRH123

4 ай бұрын

@@Datan0de that of course depends on how one defines “powerful,” the overall actual capabilities of that sage mainframe system were much greater than that phone of yours…. Those mainframes could support thousands of connected terminal users simultaneously, running applications in parallel for all of them…. That’s not something your phone can do…

@artlewellan2294

4 ай бұрын

@@PRH123 Hey. Ya know what "scientists" are now saying? They're sayin, "the longer for whatever reason we stare at our smart phones, the greater the danger of becoming a zombie."

The future was so much better back then.

When I started working people were still filling out sheets of paper that was sent to keypunch where operators punched the information into the mainframe. We then transitioned to workstations hooked to the mainframe. We had to run batch jobs at night, printers were pin printers with tractor feed. WOW that was a long time ago!

@PRH123

4 ай бұрын

We still use an IBM mainframe. We use a green screen terminal emulation (3270) program now on PC's instead of the terminals themselves. Output is still sent to a pin printer address, although that is changed into a TXT file and either downloaded or sent to email. The mainframe processes billions of records per day, and front line employees interact with it via browser interfaces. A large part / most of corporate operational data is still on the mainframe. For years they were telling us it was going away, but at some point the decision was made to keep it. They have some positive characteristics. Immunity to viruses, very stable, unlike other systems that are often vulnerable and unstable.

I just refuse to believe that any living being sat through that 305 RAMAC film, and then walked away knowing what the hell it was supposed to be about.

@VictorianMaid99

4 ай бұрын

I know because I WORKED ON ONE LIKE IT !

@fredblonder7850

4 ай бұрын

I will explain it very simply. It’s a spreadsheet. Really. That’s all it is, a spreadsheet implemented in hardware.

Studying for a math test tomorrow, and I need this to keep me cool and calm. Right on time!

“PanAm is always happy to have passengers come up to the cockpit’ How times have changed.

@andyg208

4 ай бұрын

Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

@RT-qd8yl

4 ай бұрын

"United is always happy to break our passengers legs"

@tachyon8317

3 ай бұрын

@@andyg208 Have you ever watched a gladiator movie?

@franciscodanconia4324

3 ай бұрын

I actually got to go up to the cockpit as a little kid in the early 80s. Still have TWA, Eastern and PanAm pins in a memento box somewhere.

I think I may have an issue…. I can’t stop watching these “retro-future” videos. I don’t know, maybe it was their over optimism, their eagerness to propel technology or the fact that 95 percent of what was predicted still hasn’t happened or came and went in a relative blink of an eye.

@tachyon8317

3 ай бұрын

You're not the only one. I binged this channel when I first found it. I even have an entire "Cold War" playlist with stuff like this. I'm in absolute LOVE the 1950s/Atomic age aesthetic. Agreed, it's largely in part with the unbridled, limitless optimism of the time, SO many things that could've been back then, and made even better when refined with current tech. I may be worse off than you since I feel nostalgic about the atomic age. A time and place I'll never know. The feeling even has a name - Anemoia. Maybe that's why I like the Fallout game series so much - the aesthetic never left in that universe

Oh! This super machine reminds me of The Avengers. The 1960's show, of course.

That access arm was working OT it’ll be needing a raise. The mechanical parts of old computing machines are stunning are stunning in their complexity. Not to mention if you weren’t a computer scientist the operating systems were too complicated for the average Joe

Quote "Two floors above the great computers" from DreamCore, "Your magnetic ink."

Yes, we're going to put a computer on an AIRPLANE !!

How tf did anyone figure this out back then??

@futureproof.health

3 ай бұрын

YES!! In many ways we are still using the basic principles of computer systems figured out then. We haven’t done anything profoundly different. Random Access Memory is still used.

$2.00 for a golf ball? Man that’s expensive!!!

Good Video J

“A machine whose compact and integrated construction” = size of large bedroom Now this can be done in Quickbooks on a phone the size of a pack of cigarettes.

yep 🤠

"Here is our fancy new defense computer, this is the place it's located, and here is a picture of the building it's in. Oh and here is how it works" You suppose the Russians gave away info like that?

@RT-qd8yl

4 ай бұрын

It's not any information that the Russians didn't already have. It was public info if you tried hard enough..

Shot in the dark, but does anyone happen to know what music is playing during the mid video “you’re watching sleepcore, pleasant dreams” bumps? It’s a slow electric organ, sounds like it’s part of a bigger song and it has eluded me for years every time I hear it. I would love to be able to find the whole song somewhere.

@picsnportraits

4 ай бұрын

When the Organ Played at Twilight by Guy Lombardo

It's mostly mechanical but they had figured out at that point not only random access memory but had predetermined ROM and an address register to deal with the bus they were using.

this is so primitive it looks like an alternate universe

@More_Row

4 ай бұрын

It was an alternative universe. Our world split in 2012. The Mayans were right but not in the way most people thought.

@brandongovreau9218

4 ай бұрын

@@More_Row if you try and prove it I have a fear of government silencing I'm saying they would not me

@brandongovreau9218

4 ай бұрын

@@More_Row I'm a smart guy that said he wanted to work subconsciously for the SCP foundation a secret government organization that pretends to be a fictional story

@More_Row

4 ай бұрын

@@brandongovreau9218 unexpected answer. from you there. Well , did you feel that life felt different after 2012? Massive shifts in how things work , did your luck change? My life completely changed into something lifeless and different.

@brandongovreau9218

4 ай бұрын

@@More_Row look up SCP 5180

RAMAC is more powerful than the WOPR imo

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Good job as always! A little suggestion: items could be categorized with differents colour schema (background or icon border) then you could show some category filters to show only a category to better find what you need. Always giving the option to revert to uncategorized (show all) view. The color scheme should be used also on the quick toolbar.