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Vintage 1970 Computer Data Center Social Security Office, IBM 360

6,744 views • Nov 4, 2019

Computer History Archives Project

Vintage 1970: A tiny excerpt from the film “After the Applause” … a nostalgic look back at an IBM System/360 mainframe installation in a 1970 Data Center, at the Baltimore Social Security Office.

(Educational/Historical) ..Hope you enjoy.

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1970 - IBM Vintage Computers Promo Film - Historical Data Processing

11,484 views • Dec 4, 2017
11K views - 3 years ago

IBM Computers, vintage film. Painfully rescued from an ancient VHS tape, we present a vintage IBM promotional film on computer developments up to about 1970. Many early machines are touched on very briefly, ending with a mention of an IBM customer information and control system used by Houston Lighting & Power Company, and other material. Historical value rests mostly with the original audio narrative. Worth sharing for those who love early IBM history. Hope you enjoy.
Film courtesy of IBM Archives. 20 minutes, w/sound.
Uploaded by the Computer History Archives Project.

Topics include:
punch cards
magnetic tape
disk drives
Harvard Mark 1
RAMAC 1401
DASD
IBM 2260 terminals
Customer help desk
Sys/360

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F-16 Advanced Fighter Technical Integration Digital Flight Control System Avionics Computer (Pt. 1)

638 views • Apr 5, 2021
638 views - 5 days ago

Part 1 of the F-16 Advanced Fighter Technical Integration (AFTI) film (vintage 1984) describing the Digital Flight Control System designed by General Dynamics for the USAF and NASA. Shows the modifications made to a special F-16 test aircraft and how the Digital Flight Control System worked.
The specially designed F-16 use a TRIPLEX Computer System by Bendix Corporation and many significant modifications to bring high-technology to the F-16 Fighter line. Great info.
This one is uploaded in two parts. Part Two is here:-- https://youtu.be/WOoewDt_d4w​

Sources include:

NASA : Development and Experiences with Digital Flight Control System (Paper 2857)(1988) https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p…​

NASA Technical Memorandum 84920, AFTI/F-16 Flight Test Results and Lessons, October 1983. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p…​

Images and Film Courtesy of

  • United States Air Force (USAF), and
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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PART TWO F-16 Advanced Fighter Technical Integration Digital Computer Flight Control System 1984

881 views • Apr 5, 2021
881 views - 5 days ago

Part 2 of the F-16 Advanced Fighter Technical Integration (AFTI) film (1984) describing the Digital Flight Control System designed by General Dynamics for USAF and NASA. Shows the modifications made to a special F-16 test aircraft and how the Digital Flight Control System worked.
Very good info here, great description of the F-16 modified version! Part One is here —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CLNB…​

References:

NASA : Development and Experiences with Digital Flight Control System (Paper 2857)(1988)
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p…​

NASA Technical Memorandum 84920, AFTI/F-16 Flight Test Results and Lessons, October 1983.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p…​

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Images and Film Courtesy of

  • United States Air Force (USAF), and
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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1946 ENIAC Computer History Remastered FULL VERSION First Large Digital Electronic Computer

114,901 views • May 14, 2015
114,901 views - 5 years ago
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9 minutes 37 seconds audio-visual.

ENIAC Computer History, an educational film: The First Large Scale, Programmable, General Purpose Electronic Digital Computer ~ ENIAC - original 1946 announcement film, restored & new narration. ENIAC, “Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer”, was designed by J. Presper Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly. ENIAC used 18,000 vacuum tubes. This rare film shows the ENIAC in operation in February 1946, when it was first announced to the public. Features the designers Dr. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, and the U.S. Army liaison Herman Goldstine. Film shows many of the women in the ENIAC computing environment, as programmers, analysts and operators, configuring ENIAC for computational problem solving.

Co-inventors and designers of ENIAC, J. P. Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly, founded one of the FIRST companies founded expressly to build electronic business computers: “Electronic Control Company”, which was later incorporated as the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (“EMCC”) in Philadelphia. EMCC became part of Remington-Rand in 1950.

Eckert and Mauchly also designed and built the BINAC (1949) and the famous UNIVAC I (1951) computers. Their pioneering work was instrumental in the rise of the early electronic digital computer industry.

In 1997, six of the women most involved in the programming and operating of the ENIAC were inducted into the “Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.” They were Kathleen McNulty Mauchly (Antonelli), Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Synder Holber, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence and Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum.

This 9 minute film gives you a unique view into some of the very earliest days of large scale electronic computing. Modern narration has been added to the film, which was originally silent. Restoration/editing-- Mark Greenia; Modern Narration-- Patrick Phillips.

Uploaded by Computer History Archives Project (CHAP).

{The Computer History Archives Project is an independent educational research project dedicated to the research and sharing of vintage computing technology.}

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Alan Kay

He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.

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Early life and work

He is also the architect of the modern overlapping windowing graphical user interface (GUI).

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Tweak

In 2001, it became clear that the Etoy architecture in Squeak had reached its limits in what the Morphic interface infrastructure could do. Andreas Raab was a researcher working in Kay’s group, then at Hewlett-Packard. He proposed defining a “script process” and providing a default scheduling mechanism that avoids several more general problems.[14] The result was a new user interface, proposed to replace the Squeak Morphic user interface in the future. Tweak added mechanisms of islands, asynchronous messaging, players and costumes, language extensions, projects, and tile scripting.[15] Its underlying object system is class-based, but to users (during programming) it acts like it is prototype-based. Tweak objects are created and run in Tweak project windows.

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The interim Dynabook GUI (Smalltalk-76 running on the Xerox Alto)

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User interface and interaction design

Designing the visual composition and temporal behavior of a GUI is an important part of software application programming in the area of human–computer interaction.

Its goal is to enhance the efficiency and ease of use for the underlying logical design of a stored program,
a design discipline named usability .

Methods of user-centered design are used to ensure that the visual language introduced in the design is well-tailored to the tasks.

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The graphical user interface is presented (displayed) on the computer screen. It is the result of processed user input and usually the main interface for human-machine interaction. The touch user interfaces popular on small mobile devices are an overlay of the visual output to the visual input.

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Vintage Computing 1982 - BBC’s The Computer Programme Episode 1

90,355 views • Mar 7, 2016
90K views - 5 years ago
Salamanda UK
7.55K subscribers
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24 minutes 44 seconds audio-visual.

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This result could change physics forever

347,204 views • Apr 9, 2021
348K views - 1 day ago
Physics Girl
1.83M subscribers
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12 minutes 51 seconds audio-visual.

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IBM CONTROL PROGRAM OF OPERATING SYSTEM/360 (Full)

54,459 views • Jun 20, 2013
54K views - 7 years ago
Sam Knutson
219 subscribers
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58 minutes 39 seconds audio-visual.

Full film IBM B&W film introducing OS/360. The title is IBM CONTROL PROGRAM OF OPERATING SYSTEM/360. IBM’s System/360 mainframe turns 50 soon and since YouTube now allows much larger uploads here is the complete introduction to OS/360. Preserved thanks to Michael Stack http://kcats.org​
Wonderful historical material but its hard to watch the whole thing even with beer and popcorn. Enjoy my geeky mainframe friends!

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Computer History: Origin of the UNIVAC 1103A Scientific Computer (1953, 1956) ERA, Sperry Rand

3,270 views • Dec 21, 2020
3.2K views - 3 months ago
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16 minutes 16 seconds audio-visual.

UNIVAC: This presentation explores the history of the UNIVAC 1103A SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER, the most powerful scientific computer of its time. Used by the U.S. Navy, Air Force, National Security Agency, NASA and many others. Rare films and high quality photos show the development of the machine from its early predecessors in 1950, to its first release in 1953. Designed to meet government cryptologic specifications, the 1103A was modified for commercial use as well as continued military use. The 1103 was a product of Engineering Research Associates (ERA), Division of Remington Rand UNIVAC. Run time about 15 mins. Presented by the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP)

Presentation
0:01​
Image Gallery
11:26​
Acknowledgements
14:48​

With Special thanks to the Dakota County Historical Society (DCHS) for rare, high-resolution photos of early UNIVAC and ERA machines.
Dakota County Historical Society
South St. Paul, Minnesota
Matt Carter, Executive Director https://www.dakotahistory.org/​

Also, special thanks to The VIP Club: Information Technology (IT) Pioneers; Retirees and former employees of Unisys, Lockheed Martin, and their heritage companies;
VIP Club
P.O. Box 21903, Eagan, MN 55121
http://vipclubmn.org​
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-Lowell Benson
-Don Weidenbach
-Keith Myhre
-Ron Q. Smith
-Harvey Taipale

Tony Buglione, Senior Manager, Industry Marketing and Communications UNISYS Corporation
http://unisys.com​

Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
Dag Spicer, Senior Curator
http://computerhistory.org​

Other UNIVAC photos courtesy of
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
http://hagley.org​

Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
(oral history interviews re: ERA 1103)
http://www.cbi.umn.edu​

Ed Thelen’s Computer History Web Site
and BRL Report, Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems, BRL,
1957, 1961, etc. Weik, Martin H.
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist​

Unisys History Newsletter by George Gray
Volume 6, Number 1, January, 2002

Sperry Rand’s First Generation Computers, 1955-1960: Hardware and Software
October-December 2004, pp. 20-34, vol. 26
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing;
Authors :George T. Gray, Ronald Q. Smith

Original ERA and UNIVAC 1103 manuals and documentation, from:
Bitsavers Archive online (Al Kossow)
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stutt…​

U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Additional film clip credits:
Film Clip: UNIVAC Scientific (male console operator), stock footage
by Periscope Film
http://periscopefilm.com​

Film Clip: UNIVAC Scientific (female operators),
courtesy of U.S. Government and
Unisys Corporation

Film Clip: U.S. Air Force (BOMARC missile launch)

Additional References:-- VIP Club (Unisys legacy computers) references
http://vipclubmn.org/Computers.html​

History and Evolution of 1100/2200 Mainframe Technology (UNISYS) http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/1…​

History of NSA Electronic Digital Computers (1964) declassified https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/docume…​

A Brief History of Navy Cryptanalysis (Naval History and Heritage Command)
https://www.history.navy.mil/research…​

UNIVAC 1103A Customers List
https://sites.google.com/site/compute…

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1951-1968 Early Computer Magnetic Tape Units- History IBM, UNIVAC, RCA, AMPEX - Educational Video

29,443 views • Jun 4, 2018

An educational, hopefully enjoyable, brief look back at Early Computer Magnetic Tape Units (1951 to 1968). Vintage photos & film show a variety of early hardware, including IBM 726-729 Tape Units, IBM NORC, early AMPEX drives used by GE for ERMA, NCR and other systems. Also mentioned in the Gallery are Honeywell 800, Philco Transac, CDC 6600 and others. A Computer History Archives Project (CHAP) video production, production/editing, Mark Greenia.

Approx. 20 min overview and 6 minute Image Gallery.

    • Please Help us provide more content for you. A small donation will help greatly as we search for and rescue/restore vintage material. Please click on the Paypal link below. Even $2 or $3 will greatly help. Thanks!! (CHAP) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr…​

Acknowledgements:

Sincere thanks to those who provided much needed valuable input to date. Here are some Acknowledgements and Recommended References:

IBM ARCHIVES
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/​

SRI International Corporate History
https://www.sri.com/about/corporate-h…​

Articles: General Electric Computer Dept. from the bottom up, 1961–1965, by Ed Thelen
http://www.ed-thelen.org/EarlyGE-Comp…​

Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications & Computation, Ed Sharpe, Archivist
http://www.smecc.org/​

VIP Club Information Technology Pioneers
http://www.VIPclubmn.org​

Al Kossow’s Online Software Archive
http://www.Bitsavers.org​

ATLAS Computer at Chilton, UK
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/a…​

LEO Computers Society
http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/links…​

Glenn’s Computer Museum
http://www.glennsmuseum.com/ibm/ibm.html​

General Electric Company History
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/e…​

MAG TAPE SPECIFIC REFERENCES: DC Video (Conversions and Great Web Site),
https://www.dcvideo.com/videotape-ide…​

Magnetic Tape Data Storage
https://wikivividly.com/wiki/Magnetic…​

Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording (Good info on AMPEX and others)
http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording…​

AMPEX Corporate History
http://www.ampex.com/ampex-history/​

YouTube Video:
VIDEO: 1951 UNIVAC UNISERVO TAPE DRIVE - Computer History Archives Project, # CH-013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KuoZ…​

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Additional References: Paper: “Fifty years of IBM innovation with information storage on magnetic tape,” by R.
Bradshaw, C. Schroeder, Published in IBM Research and Development, Vol 47, No. 4, 2003
http://ibm-1401.info/history-of-tape.pdf​

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“Digital Magnetic Tape Recording Fundamentals,”
Training Manual, 1962, (originally by Ampex Corp.)
http://worldpowersystems.com/J/magtap…​

additional thanks to Jeff Quitney’s vintage videos, YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/webdev17​

Professional Narration: David Melvin (GE Narration- Joel North)

Uploaded by Computer History Archives Project - CHAP

Click on the link below to see more Computer History Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyJ…

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12. - At 19:45, 2 hours later :
https://twitter.com/_ItsMeOni/status/1380643992631709703

Wow

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