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@PeriscopeFilm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, donations like this help us rescue and post more rare and endangered films!

My dad was the best troubshooter from UNIVAC computers. He used to work in Southern California and would travel to New York and Hawaii to teach troubleshooting back in the day. He retired as a computer technician engineer for UNIVAC. Miss you daddy. He also fought in Normandy WW2 as a Tech 5 in the army.

@ZaydDepaor

4 жыл бұрын

That is quite a significant history in your family there.

@sbrechegno

3 жыл бұрын

@wendy clark so you are by all means a digital daughter..your dad's job should become either a film or a book..

@81wendyclark

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbrechegno Well my dad is in history book already from the computer

@omarcusihuaman4261

2 жыл бұрын

An american hero

@doppler3237

2 жыл бұрын

we had a Univac plant up in Ilion N.Y also where they made Remington guns. it's alllllll gone now, all the factory's are derelict. Really sad

Now you can fit 118 thousand Univacs into a single smartphone. Amazing how much technology has advanced.

@Ceelvain

Жыл бұрын

Yet, very little has changed.

Fantastic music in this film.

While on Guam in the 70's, I worked on a Sperry Univac computer. The modules were called "mist" cards and were very similar to what was shown towards the end of this movie. I also "shmooded" the torroid memory modules (shown towards the beginning of the film). Shmooing was adjusting the current to the two lines intersecting the torroid rings of ferrite. It could take hours to get the memory adjusted. And the memory was sometimes as high a 2K!.

@lawrencemiller3829

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard these magnetic core memories are read by pulsing a current to generate a magnetic field and detecting if the core was in the same polarity or different. Reading generated heat in the core and could lead to failure if the program read or wrote the same address repeatedly.

@lwilton

5 жыл бұрын

Core memory was destructive readout. You pulsed the core with a known polarity and detected if a switch occurred, but the result was that the core now stored the known polarity, no matter what it had originally. So the read cycle required two phases, one to read the data out, and a second to write the same data back. Thus reading was really no different than writing, except that you had to write the data twice on a read. I think I vaguely recall stories of memory failures as a result of cores overheating and losing their magnetism in the VERY early days of computing. By the 1960s core memory was rock solid stuff, and probably the lowest failure rate device in the whole computer.

@JavaRatusso

4 жыл бұрын

In the Navy 78 to 84, I repaired the Sperry Rand Univac 1218 computer along with Miltope 7 track Tape Drives, RD293B CRPI CARD Reader Punch and Interpreter, a Hetra high speed Chain Train Line Printer 1200 lines per minute. Also the Univac 1710 Keypunch machines. By then, the Univac 1218 had 4 bays of 4k core memory. We never needed to adjust the current. If I recall correctly there were 4 wires passing thru each iron core...Read, Write, Sense and Inhibit. A 4K memory module would have to be replaced if a failure was determined. I never saw one fail. We did have to troubleshoot the entire system to the Logic gate level tracking down the failure. After 30 plus years, I still know BINARY, OCTAL and HEXADECIMAL, and every Logic gate and truth table. It just got engrained in my head. All of the Univac equipment was 2nd gen discreet components making up the logic gates (no chips). The Mil Spec prints were every wire in and out of each logic gate. There were some 200 small wire wrapped circuit boards which we troubleshoot to the board and replaced it. We used a Tektronics O-Scope for most of the troubleshooting. It wasn't too bad but I do recall ONE TIMING circuit (NIRPIL) that circled back on ITSELF thru many pages.... which was a pain in the ass! Lol

@marctronixx

4 жыл бұрын

@@JavaRatusso This was amazing. Thank you for taking time to write this.

@PropaneWP

26 күн бұрын

@@lwilton They used that memory system for the Apollo guidance computer, which really says something about how trustworthy it was.

Ahhh, brings back memories of the Univac 1108 at CWRU in the early ‘70s! Spent many a late night in Crawford Hall pounding out cards with ALGOL code on the IBM 026 and 029 keypunches and feeding the 1004 card processors!😝

Buen material! Muchas gracias.

I was watching this video while laying down in bed along with it’s enjoying music but just when i was about to fall into sleep, those 2 ringing sounds kept me falling into sleep lol😀

Dear Periscope: I enjoy these trips down memory lane. [not sure if it's _core_ memory or not, though]

Very nice and inspired movie....In Mexico I worked in sperry Univac, known as american Division. I was a field enginner working with 1100/60, 100/80, 1100/90 and 2200/2400 series. Nice experience.......regards

All digital devices are base on four logic functions, AND, OR, EXCLUSIVE OR and NOT Functions. These functions can be combined in an infinite number of combinations. I used to design RISC computers using TTL Logic. Application specific Reduced Instruction Set Computers. Based on EPROM Instruction Decoders. These were a type of mini-computer. You could go to school for a long of time to learn how to design with Transistor-Transistor Logic. Alternately, you could read chapter 3, of the 1972 Fairchild TTL Data book. Then came microprocessors and microcontrollers. In the 1970's they said 32MHZ was the fastest a microprocessor could go and the maximum addressable memory size was 1,048,576 bytes.

I remember the Remington typewriter....back in the 70's....

Paul K. Do you remember washing machine size disk drives that you adjusted by hand with a torque wrench. 1970's computing by the ton. 2020 computing by the ounce. I made a living tweaking hard drives with 20 heads and platers with 450Mb of storage. This type a hard drive was a big advance of the drum memory with 132 read / write heads and a 4.55Mb capacity. The drum memory ran on 3 phase 440VAC and weighted up to a ton or so.

"...has been able to package more than 100,000 components into a cabinet no larger than a refrigerator!" Imagine what they would think if they knew today we carry over 118 thousand of those refrigerators in our iPhones!

@typograf62

2 жыл бұрын

How many refrigerators can stand on the tip of a needle?

@josephgaviota

Жыл бұрын

Such a great point, @sfperalta

@jaminova_1969

Жыл бұрын

@@typograf62 How big is the needle?

I worked with the UNIVAC 1050-II and later the Sperry 1100 in the 80's USAF. The punch card interpreter and the card sorter would have taken up most living rooms today.

This is what i learned about computers when i went to school lol. Even the used diagrams and schemes to program were the same.

Although I wasn't in that department, on the U.S.S. Norton Sound (I was on it 1968-1970) I believe the MK86 fire control system used a Univac 1219. It was my understanding that a Univac 1219 (or perhaps a similar Univac) was involved with the early testing of the ring laser gyroscope on that ship (had roll, pitch, and yaw lasers for not only navigation but for keeping radars and directors level). It was used to make the dead reckoning corrections that must also be done with a mechanical gyroscope. If you sailed around the world on a great circle route, for example, the laser would tell you the ship pitched 360 degrees (rotated all the way around on the long axis). Or if moving along anything other than a great circle, yaw would be seen turning left or right even though your heading in degrees was constant. I guess it took a lot to handle the calculations - therefore - the computer.

If my memory serves I'd Swear the gentleman who narrated the film was Lorn Green

Even in 2020 the boolean logic circuits and binary data handling are largely the same, just smaller, faster and more efficient

@MrXminus1

2 жыл бұрын

“In a space the size of a refrigerator “. How big would that be today with integrated circuits?

@CATech1138

Жыл бұрын

@@MrXminus1 late to reply, I know, but I can run a CNC machining center with a credit card sized training/hobbiest class micro controller called an Arduino... 25 years ago a repaired the refridgerator sized tape reader for a machine that had fewer abilities....I do process digital serial data on a postage stamp sized device called a Digispark. there is also a KZread channel where a mini version of a Space Invaders type game is running on a chip that is about 1/3 the size of a grain of rice known as an ATtiny10.....the catch is that all of these designs are all over a decade old and very cheap, the baords are in the $5 each range and the tiny10 can often be had for $1....I actually use them in radio controll and model train applications

8:26 very lovely swings

had a univac 1110 in university late 70s. oh the horror -- 1's complement 36-bit words! funny I don't remember having to suit-up to program the thing.

Core memory was hand woven and could be repaired by hand. DEC PDP11 series was a good example of 1970's mini-computer with core memory.

@sa3270

3 жыл бұрын

My digital electronics professor in college said they hired women to knit them.

Did they expect, that one day, people would watch this video on their... computers?

Fascinating history

Who would have guessed the important role computer would have in the future like watching porn?

@sfperalta

2 жыл бұрын

When man has a dream, he will work tirelessly and relentlessly to make it come true! 😂

@josephgaviota

Жыл бұрын

What a stimulating idea!

This is probably the last film on the subject that didn't include "transistors".

I have got a beautiful book from 1974 that states by the year 2000 computers maybe small enough so that each home may have one that is place in a cupboard or under the stairs. Missed the micro-processor by just a little.

@jonathanvillalobos7994

Жыл бұрын

@David Lees Too bad,it never came true.Imagine having computers small enough to put in your pocket?That would be the day,huh?😉

@worldcomicsreview354

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanvillalobos7994 I remember reading circa 1995 that we'd soon have a "credit card sized terminal" in our pockets. Remarkably accurate, though perhaps they meant "terminal" in the sense that it would still need to use the mobile phone network to "call" your main computer at home. They couldn't imagine it would BE the computer (and vastly more powerful than a 1995 desktop, at that).

@CATech1138

Жыл бұрын

hmmmmmm....1974 I wonder how well known,and if known how well thought of, Moore's Law was at the time....in 1987 I was working at Intel in Sant Clara CA (changing light bulbs as a temp) and over heard some one state they wished Moore had kept his mouth shut....the oddness f the statement caught my attention and i remembered it for that....5-6 years later i realized i needed "computer knowledge" if i were to remain employable even at my own low level of attainment so i better see what i can learn about these Personal Computer things....add a few more years and thanks to The Internet and the Wiki concept...I realize said noisy person was complaining about job security...

Clack, clack, went the Univac.

Ah, Univac. I worked with the 1219B a long, long time ago.

Did this guy do the voice over for every old video?

@ronjon7942

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Exactly. And isn't it bazaar when a different face is matched. It's like, no way, his lips are moving, buuuut...

Funny they counted "gambling" as a form of income. Recreation maybe. Expenditure, definitely. But 9 times out of 10, gambling is a net loss, not income!

@jlwilliams

4 жыл бұрын

AmazingArends In the US, if you receive income from gambling, the Internal Revenue Service definitely wants to know about it! Advantage of reporting it: you can deduct your losses, up to a point...

@PerryCodes

4 жыл бұрын

I had the same response when I saw "gambling" on the infographic! ... I just can't fathom a society where gambling is so normalized that edu-tainment, promotional videos for computers list it as form of income!! Opioids have hogged the headlines for several years now, but gambling has the potential to become seriously addicting as well. Among the most common addictions (alcohol, drug, food, gambling, etc), gambling has the highest suicide rate!

@sfperalta

2 жыл бұрын

@@PerryCodes When this film was produced, gambling, excessive alcohol consumption, and smoking were considered "vices" - a lesser form of character flaw. That we take these conditions/addictions/obsessions more seriously these days is a sign that maybe we've developed a tiny bit as a species.

@Dhirajkumar-ls1ws

2 жыл бұрын

ask stock market HFT firms.

@noscwoh1

7 ай бұрын

Nope, we've just embraced other character flaws instead. @@sfperalta

This film was released in 1960. There was also a later version made in 1969.

"The intelligence and judgement of man will not be assumed by a cabinet full of electronic components" AI: Hold my beer.

thanks but still mind blowing

More than $10,000? Somebody goofed!

The machinery, type of punch cards, and clothing would indicate this is actually an early to mid 1950s film

@steveneumeyer681

2 жыл бұрын

I saw magnetic core and drum memory, then I knew it was old

@ronjon7942

2 жыл бұрын

Ugh, then I'm truly old.

@albertpatterson3675

Жыл бұрын

There was one statement that would indicate the 1960's: The Titan ICBM missile wasn't launched until the 1960's.

With all this going on in a computer and it getting increasingly complex as years go by, what could possibly go wrong?

This is excellent, but they should have added the slide rule, as an early form of computer.

8:25 ❤

I must have this font.

23:53 sadly they did not foresee the sh*t that Apple will pull with their anti repair crap

@ZorlacSkater

Жыл бұрын

People who buy Apple dont deserve it otherwise

Why does that distracting PF# thing have to be on there?

everyone working at assembly language level of programming

Nice! No transistors!

Figure out "Home Office" using a UNIVAC in your own house.....

@whirledpeas3477

2 жыл бұрын

lol. I can't

... and three wives.

As it would turn out... our brains are closer to a computer operation than the narrator knows, or rather knew... the base functions for humans are atill stored in memory, but more like ROM instead of RAM... or maybe even like a partition on a Hard Drive. Infact maybe we designed a computer lile our mind, because of nature. Like how spiders make web patterns. Or how all iinds of shapes are constantly appearing in nature. Similar to how leaves look like lungs. Or the similarly between Nebulas and brain neurons firing. So maybe our brains are in binary. At the end of the day something either is, or isn't.

1:49: "that an electronic digital computer is a brain is a common misconception largely due to a lack of knowledge about the functions and abilities of a computer but what actually is a computer what does it do how does it work." ChatGPT: "Hold my beer."

I see unnecessary background music is not a new thing

19:15 I guess they rode backwards on planes then...

@jlwilliams

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, a lot of long-haul planes in the '50s and '60s had a lounge area with face-to-face seating. If you were flying the Super Constellation to Paris, you'd sit in the lounge after dinner sipping a cocktail while the attendant converted your seat into a sleeper berth. Super expensive but very luxurious...

@jn1mrgn

4 жыл бұрын

@@jlwilliams I had no idea, I guess now that you mention it I marvel at the amount of space coach passengers have in old movies.

@jekanyika

Жыл бұрын

I think that is a 707 and you can see the intakes of the jet engines, the angle of the wing is a bit weird though.

1:31 it is impossible to take a world in which a car that overstyled exists seriously.

@noscwoh1

7 ай бұрын

What, the '56 "Forward Look" Plymouth? Quite elegant and tasteful for 1956, and it was the "budget" level car.

이거 알고리즘 뜨는 이유 아시는 분....?

Did you know that the colors in this film are false?

Should of bought tech stock back then.

" Berlin " building 🤔

3 wives 😂

@AllAroundBang

Жыл бұрын

Based

5% of 2000 | 20% of 10000 to measur the bite hurt of taxtation the saving the employee may had is key

@ChristophTungersleben

4 жыл бұрын

loan acceptans to ajust the result

Can you imagine the fit people making $10000 today would throw if they had to pay 20% in taxes?

@simjans7633

2 жыл бұрын

The taxing program is far from accurate. The tax bracket amounts aren't accurate nor is the way the taxes are applied.

@ZorlacSkater

Жыл бұрын

In germany we pay about 40% taxes on the wage and also 19% if you buy something

@noscwoh1

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, but that's about $111,000 in today's dollars. The marginal tax rate is 24%, so, not that different really.

Unicorns 🦄

That demonstration of "if income is over $2,000 do this, if income is over $4,000 do that, over $6,000 do the next" ... is (as any programmer knows) FATALLY flawed logic. If you make $200,000 you'd evaluate TRUE for the _first_ test ... yes, over $2,000. In Real Life, these tests would have to be "less than $2001," "less than $4001," etc.

"three wives" lmao

no there are 3 types of computers: analog, digital, mechanical

@PerfectInterview

3 жыл бұрын

No, mechanical is a type of computing technology. Electronic is another technology type. A mechanical type computer is generally analog, they do not count in discrete quantities of zeros and ones like an electronic computer, they count via revolutions of gears or incrementing notches.

@unguidedone

3 жыл бұрын

@@PerfectInterview i have seen the computer batteries on the iowa and are aware of how they work. they were also accurate enough that they did not need to be replaced with digital computers for targeting.

@trainliker100

2 жыл бұрын

@@PerfectInterview Actually, mechanical might be analog or digital. The many mechanical adding machines and comptometers of the past are considered digital as they deal with discrete digits.

@AA-ke5cu

6 ай бұрын

Wrong; you forgot biological; and soul captured.