Synopsis
Many good stock On the development of an early warning aircraft simulation system. Mainframe computers, credit cards, information technology, aerial of System Development Corporation headquarters, engineers at work, drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, women draftspersons, electronic typewriters, women office workers, in-basket, keypunch stations, tabulating cards (IBM cards) being punched, card sorters, magnetic tape libraries, mag tape drives, computer operators, film recorders, early computer graphics, paper tape punches, wiring computer frames, computer printers, printouts moving by camera, women technicians, pegboard with pegs tied together by cords to diagram project management,
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- Running time
- 26 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★ · Yeah, but can you play minecraft? · Spuzz · 2014-05-14
Fun film showing how computers are advancing processes, mainly military, to new frontiers! My computer nowadays, so they say, could likely do everything those computers could do twice over. Its just so amazing to see these mammoths at work with their tapes, punchcards and what have you. Here, a routine simulated attack is formulated. Much discussion with all sorts of people is shown, from logic scientists, mathematicians, to the computer programmers to figure it all out before it goes into the computer. Nowadays, 90% of that workforce is not needed. Kinda scary, but hella interesting! Highly…