We replaced our single punched paper tape data entry station with cassette on our NCR Century in a frozen food distribution company, and at another job replaced punched cards with a multi-station data entry system that wrote 9-track tape for our Unisys 1100 for an automotive component supplier. Ah, the days (50 years of this and still learning) of punched cards, wired program boards, sorters, bursters and decolators

What a neat little system.

Amazing, all of this just to enter data. Great music and color quality. Congrats on 10 years!

I used to punch Hollerith cards 🤔🤫

Back in school , they've touched base with Thomas Edison invention of the light bulb but I wish they would have touched base with who actually discovered generating electricity that is usable , Of course Thomas Edison needed electricity to power his light bulb but when did they actually start mass producing it

Lovely stuff. I especially like the whopping 22 THOUSAND characters of data on one cartridge, and read into the system in only 60 seconds. My oh my how things have changed!

I've never seen(or heard of) these machines until watching this video, not bad for 1968. The archival pictures at the end of every video are always a sweet added bonus, always cool to see. Great video as always CHAP

This is the WORST film I've ever seen. I was an electrician in the Navy. First of all, you never have to lay down rubber matting to add dielectric value to 115/120V. I could understand such matting once you get around 400V. Secondly, drilling into an electrical conduit with a proper ground connection, and he still gets electrocuted makes no sense. Thirdly, this was back in the days when every electric appliance had a steel casing. The ground wire attached to the steel body was there to direct electrical current away from the person towards the path of ground. Nowadays most power drills, saws and such are only 2-prong without the ground connection, because the casing is plastic... no need for it.

Congratulations on 10 years! I've always enjoyed this channel and wish you another 10 years! 🎂

Never saw one of these ever. Seems more like we went from cards to terminals. I wonder if any of these devices (inscriber or reader) are still in some museum somewhere....

I have seven of these cartridges here in a box. I have never been able to identify them! Thanks! I knew they were 16mm data tapes. Also, that they were IBM because its printed on the shell. I assumed they were 9 track and low density. But, had no further data. Anyone interested enough in these should be able to track down my email. Two of them would make nice book end. Drop me a line if you want one of these (for a handling fee and postage).

Looks like you put the tapes all in a row and you get a Time Tunnel. Mystery solved 😀

In 1968, I was a high school freshman. The IBM Model 50, 2495 System/360 was better than the punch card systems. Fortunately, I began typewriting in 1965. My first experience using an IBM machine was the Card Punch 026 and the 024 Card Verifier in my first job in 1972. You really have shown me what I have been missing. These International Business Machines appliances interest me very much.⭐

AI in infancy 😂

This channel makes KZbin great!

omg, I may definitely hate this device, but the operator's armless chair is probably the best prop in this video :-))) Anyway, we are seeing pre-CRT terminals era experiments with data entry, and I don't like it at all. Looks like it costs no less than the paper TTY device.

Thanks for bringing out such an wonderful video which brought back my yester years very close to me. I assembled a superheterodyne vacuum tube receiver with five tubes, without a cabinet which gave a long sevrice of more than 30 years from 1972. I felt that I was giving my audio for this video. Excellent work. P.Karmagam from India.

Tnx 🇵🇱 Warsaw.

You do not compute , we do not compute .

As a kid, I use to rewire outlets and overhead lights without shutting off the electricity. 🫨⚡ No my parents never stopped me and I'm still alive. I got really good at it , really quick. Could never figure out which glass fuse did what, so I just did it anyway. Shocking isn't it.

I used to work on tape drives like that in 1979. They were awesome machines! The rewind speed was 750 inches per second!

White stilettos seemed mandatory. Not sure what the random flower arranger was about, but such is life. Fascinating video 👍

Kinda Cool To See The WMATA Metro System in 1970's! My First Time Riding The Metro Was 2010

It is still going today!

Electrical & computer engineer here. Honestly: better explained then, than it is now.

My first experience with 120 v AC was when I was 2 and jammed some staples in a floor electrical outlet in a department store. Burnt fingers and traumatized mother. I've been in electronics my whole life and never forgot that day 😅😅

That man 'Died' so many times! 🤣🤣🤣👍

We used an earphone and a long wire.

I was in trade school in 72. Electronics and radio. We watched this video then.

ABSOLUTELY A GREAT FILM THAT COVERS THE SUBJECT 100% ACCURATELY! THIS FILM IS VALID NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.

smoking is bad for you!,im sure that was my dad! im 67

I was in the Navy is the '90s and everything looked exactly like this with only a few differences crazy.......

Aloha.

My goodness, the Americans seem terribly paranoid considering the UK uses double the voltage.

I know a retired television engineer. Back in the day I would watch him operate the two RCA color quad machines that the station had. He made it look like child's play! Then -we got our ENG equipment. Sony "U"-matic machines. Absolutely loved them.

Thanks for posting this video.

I watched my granddaughter stick a fork in a toaster - I yelled at her! She survived. 😊

This was 2 years before the first micro processor (Intel 4004).

It's cool where we are now.

Behold, FireTV. Your predecessor. You HD smart sets came from the ideas of CRT TV’s, and computers.

1000 violinists were used in the making of this movie

The narrator’s voice reminds me of the robot from Lost in Space.

👍👍

Why do the inductors have metal shields?

When RadioShack opened in Long Beach California in 1964 my dad took me there and bought me a crystal radio kit. I was fascinated! I went on to become an electrical engineer.

We've come light years ahead in electrical safety over the last 65 years, from requiring ground wires in all AC circuits in every home and commercial establishment beginning in the mid 1960s, GFCI protection in wet areas beginning in the early 1970s, the phase out of open front plugs ( the terminals in front of the prongs were dangerous when used with metal faceplates, the cardboard insulator that was supposed to slip over the prongs and cover the connections is all too often lost or never installed) AFCI protection in the early 2000s, tamper resistant receptacles since 2008, SPGFCI (Special purpose Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) designed for use in circuits exceeding 150 volts to ground, such as the familiar 480Y/277 volt system used in commercial/industrial situations with lighting and 3 phase motor loads, first required upon the adoption of the 2023 NEC for swimming pool pumps.

A more hopeful and less cynical time.

Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.

Very good. Thanks for sharing this

🤔 Conclusion: The electricity was a Soviet agent. 😁