Bubbles Whiting - Using Punch Cards - Hollerith and IBM

[@davidioanhedges]

"How quickly the mind goes" she says at 82 talking about her monthly wage at 14 ....

[@lztx]

*weekly :)

[@Apeskinny]

We can all aspire... wishfully...

[@americancitizen748]

I can't remember what I did last month...

[@itsmesb4399]

Yes but you’ve got to remember the mind is like a stack of books, it is harder for the book at the bottom to fall off then the one at the top of the pile.

[@thetroublewithtrebles1362]

@@itsmesb4399 Oh, that's so poetic.

[@desmisc9911]

My god she is an untapped historical treasure, her speaking and body language and face are hypnotic.

[@FB0102]

Jack hahah you little piece of shit

[@ArumesYT]

Most old people are untapped historical treasures, but you don't notice it because they don't have a camera and microphone in front of them. So they remain untapped.

[@Katchi_]

God? You ameritards and your gods...

[@paulk314]

If she wrote a sorting algorithm... It would be Bubbles'Sort.

[@KalimbaJammer]

Holy crap, yes!!

[@charliefaber]

I laughed pretty hard at this

[@Shock_Treatment]

Uh huh. You nerdy birdy.

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

bah dump tisssssss!

[@victorrice4549]

quality comment right here

[@gillablecam]

That was marvellous. And love the phrasing of "I go to many talks and lectures, and I never know a thing. I just listen and remember." What a phenomenal person

[@AltimaNEO]

Good advice, too

[@omalone1169]

​@@AltimaNEO5:00 how did she leave at 14

[@guerra_dos_bichos]

imagine this, you are a big shot director on a company watching this 50 years later and no one can remember your name or your companies name or even what you did, but the teenage drones that typed stuff on a weird machine are a piece of history worth remembering!

[@squeakonline]

I like this lady. "so I must tell them.. Which I did!" 😊 There is nothing better than listening to life stories from someone who has lived a life long before you. I miss my grandparents for this very reason. I would sit and listen for hours about what they did with their lives. What a fantastic interview.

[@virginiastock5518]

I worked on these machines in the 1960's and have had a bent middle finger ever since. It was a good job at the time and it was nice to see these machines again after all these years.

[@user2C47]

@Zero's Customs Why was an IBM computer used for this rather than an electromechanical controller?

[@acmild]

She has a great story-telling skills. The intonations and the spacing between her words are wonderfully soothing.

[@sevenalay]

That was just lovely. People don't talk, don't carry themselves like that anymore.

[@tylerdrainville1136]

sevenalay Bullshit.

[@electron8262]

I wish I could speak in such a calm and intriguing way.

[@Melophile74]

All people do now is speak over you. Excuse me, I was talking

[@nickfifteen]

People can still talk that way today. People also used to talk like crap back then too. The only difference between then and now is that the internet has made the crap talkers more visible. But being more visible doesn't mean anything has actually changed.

[@MS-Patriot2]

My dear old Mum Brenda was a punch card operator and later a verifier at the Prudential Insurance Company in London. In the 1970s I remember her using these machines at home. As a kid I used to collect the punched out pieces as material to shovel around with my Matchbox trucks and diggers. Bless you Mum.

[@k1773ns]

stumbled upon this and couldnt look away. hope bubbles is doing well!

[@TheCentreforComputingHistory]

+k1773ns Fantastic isn't she :) Thanks for watching :)

[@millomweb]

@@TheCentreforComputingHistory What's her e-address ?

[@frogz]

.....the year is 2035, bubbles is still healthy and alive and has now learned to use a comptometer from her jar

[@BlastinRope]

Bubbles had a run in with covid last month. Dont worry, Bubbles is fine but covid had such a rough go doctors predict we might see numbers dropping soon.

[@neilfurby555]

Lovely lady., I started as a computer programmer in the late 1960s, and was scared silly having to use a manual card punch to get my error riddled IBM assembler language programs into an IBM 360 mainframe. The card punch was an instrument of torture to the fingers and especially challenging when the symbols had rubbed off the keys! I was much relieved when our department acquired a card punch with a typewriter keyboard. Lovely job in those days, surrounded by dozens of youthful incarnations of Bubbles. Great interview/talk, thankyou.

[@omalone1169]

A 360? An assembler ?

[@rty1955]

I began as an assembly programmer on am IBM 1401, then later and IBM 360/30 with 16k main storage running BPS then later to DOS...moved onto a 370/135 with 2 Meg of real storage 16 Meg virtual running DOS/VSE. Even though it was a COBOL shop, I still coded in assembly Lang. We used punch cards until 1990

[@AndrewDobbie]

She should start her own KZbin channel. Wonderful speaker.

[@Chobaca]

She might be dead now

[@dwayne_dibley]

@@Chobaca I don’t personally know Bubbles, but I did see someone post a few months ago that she’s fine and recently recovered from covid

[@Chobaca]

@@dwayne_dibley 💓

[@hiqwertyhi]

1:52 "so don't chop it off when you're carving a joint" just marvelous

[@tind33p]

That was the moment I knew I would sit trough the entire video. so glad i did.

[@smada36]

My mum had a similar career path to Bubbles. Punch cards at the navel docks, then a telephonist at the gas board. I would enjoy hearing the stories of a time before I was born. Brought back some good memories.

[@JohnnyBareToes1]

Delightful. I could listen the "Bubbles" talk for hours. Great bit of history captured there :)

[@therealxunil2]

100% agree

[@ThoughtCrimeCriminal]

100% disagree i lasted 3 mins

[@OMGAnotherday]

Me and Bubbles have a lot in common, but years apart, I used to operate switchboards in London 1980’s. The one shown in this video is called a 10x50 dolls eye. (10 incoming/outgoing lines x 50 extensions), the dolls eye refers to the blinking (like a drop down menu) which would tell you who in the office wanted an outside telephone connection line. The 10x50’s could be connected side by side to double or triple the telephone two way traffic. Around about that time they brought out electronic switchboards which instead of cables with brass inserts to create connections they became switches, they were then called automatic switchboards but the weren’t really because they still needed an operator. But still the notion of an employee having their own outside line was rare, if you had your own outside line you were very important. 😊 even in the 80’s London. Also in those days the only telephone supplier was BTO (British Telephone Organisation) (state Monopoly) If you worked in London you also got luncheon vouchers to help with the extra cost of working in London. I felt very well off 😂

[@omalone1169]

​@@ThoughtCrimeCriminal5:35 difference between wage and salary ?

[@Travelinmatt1976]

Thanks youtube, you took 4 years to show me this and I've always been into this kind of stuff. What a sweet wonderful lady.

[@AllanSitte]

Our seasoned citizens have so many great stories among them. This is another one that we all can enjoy forever now. Thank you for capturing this. Thank you for sharing. Thank you Bubbles for all that you have done.

[@kd1s]

She tells a fantastic tale. I'm so glad you guys could get her to tell her story. It fills in detail that we otherwise would not have heard.

[@rogerbarton497]

Very wise words spoken there. A fair chunk of my past is in that room, I used to be a field service engineer and worked on the Burroughs version of the comptometer (they called it a calculator), the skill and speed of the operators was amazing. A local timber firm was still using a Comptometer in their office in the 1990s. I then worked for ICL and used those 80 column hand punches on occasion for punching individual cards (bulk punching was done by QWERTY keyboard machines by that time) and wound up running my own business as an official Amstrad service centre.

[@HarleyHerbert]

This was a joy to watch. More museums should do this sort of thing more often, it's great to learn about history directly from the people who actually lived it.

[@sergiogrima8331]

And that's how a little girl who "didn't know a thing but listened" grew up to be inspiringly wise. A big round of applause for Bubbles!

[@theden0minat0r]

She is a national treasure, I say! Thank you so much for introducing her to the world. What an amazing woman.

[@doctordapp]

Thank you for telling this history lesson and also for sharing it. This is worth gold for the future, all this knowledge is almost forgotten except for the few bright minds from the past who remain. Thank you.

[@indyracingnut]

My God, this woman's knowledge of early computing should be archived for all time. I even sat up in my chair as I watched....like a little school boy. She was so good at her explanations of how it was done. Remarkable lady.

[@balaramkrishnahanumanthu5869]

here from standup maths, but should have been here sooner. YT algorithm failed me

[@hacker-7214]

ikr stupd utube always recommedning me finnegan fox videos or cat videos from 6 years old.

[@jk9554]

here from the youtube algorithm... I guess it just took some time to punch it in :p

[@ericwood3709]

She sure kept my attention the whole way through. What a delight!

[@GlennBroadway]

A stunning piece of documentary. And to think, our country (our world) is full of people like this who will take their stories with them to the beyond. A wonderful film and an amazing person. Thank you!

[@martynraynervlogs4820]

+Glenn Broadway I was the director on this film, Thanks for that endorsement Bubbles was great to film.

[@omalone1169]

​​@@martynraynervlogs48206:00 what is a shilling

[@rhydermike]

Articulate and fascinating, for any age.

[@jeffwads]

I could listen to her tell stories all day. Such a soothing voice.

[@SSmith-fm9kg]

Thank you for recording this moment in history. She is a treasure.

[@MicheIIePucca]

Oh my, I love this lady... and would love to hang around her to listen to all her incredible stories.

[@Brace67]

The collator that Bubbles mentioned did the following: sequence check a file to insure it was in correct sequence, merge detail cards into a master file, match merge, and select cards to be removed and others to replace them as updates to a file. The collator required a wired board or control panel to be inserted which told it what to do. I operated both the IBM 087 and 188 alphanumeric collators in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The antique punching machine Bubbles was discussing was eventually replaced with modern keypunch and verify punch machines.

[@MaryPegler]

I used these Hollerith machines and a verifying machine in the early 60`s when I worked for the Brooke Bond Tea Company in Cannon Street, London EC4. After a while we used a more automatic machine which I have not been able to find any mention of yet; it was an ITC machine, not IBM.

[@otto295]

I think you might mean an ICT (International Computers and Tabulators) machine. They later became ICL (International Computers Limited) before being taken over by Fujitsu.

[@timjackson3954]

I'm too young to have used a Hollerith punch, we used the electromechanical automatic card punches with a typewriter keyboard. But I did once get called upon to service one of the last card collating machines in commercial use. I had no experience on the machine, but they couldn't find anyone else with suitable skills. A fascinating piece of kit, so many moving parts. Turned out the tongues used to divert the cards would buckle after a while, and had to be carefully straightened. Got it running eventually.

[@Metatr0n]

2:03 That's one hell of a muscle memory. I thoroughly enjoyed her short lecture, her speech and body language is a really beautiful thing to behold.

[@skyrocketautomotive]

Listening to this amazing woman is like a warm hug, a national treasure from an amazingly exciting time. Thankyou for the presentation, Bubbles.

[@Lafayette_Ronald_Hubbard]

I'd like to commend the person who she came up to initially for seeing the potential. Great video.

[@cheaterman49]

So wise :-) thanks to Matt Parker for bringing me here, and thanks a lot to Bubbles for all her wisdom! Live long and prosper, as they say :-)

[@leeharvey8334]

what a lovely lady! she explained everything in detail but she put it simply! we want more interviews with this delightful lady! why can't we have more people like you! your a star! please do more interviews Bubbles! we love you! x

[@ConradBraam]

Excellent interview. Good simple explanation of what it really was like to be a punchcard operator. Marvellous story, really is. Thank you for sharing this journey.

[@michaelogden5958]

My hat is off to this lady, and I won't pretend to have anything close to her skill and mental acuity. When I was in college in the mid-70s I took an Advanced Physics course in holography and laser interferometry. My project required a crude (this was undergrad stuff) matrix analysis and BASIC (I wasn't a math or computer science major) was the tool I had at hand. My Prof walked me through the math and I cobbled a BASIC routine in a notebook. The college mainframe was in the basement of one of the buildings and I had to make an appointment to get into the "data entry" room. What they had was maybe a generation newer than what Bubbles had, but it was still a crude keyboard with no display. It was a matter of "chunking" holes in punchcards, one character at a time, reading from my handwritten notebook. At the end of the session I had a shoe box kind of thing full of cards. Then I went back to my dorm and did my best to check the cards against my handwritten program (not knowing if my program was even functional). Another appointment and I handed my cards to someone who fed the cards into the mainframe. A few days later I would get inter-campus (paper) mail saying that I could pick up a (tractor-feed green bar, paper) read-out. Over a period of about a month of appointment-needed and painstaking card (code edit) replacements, I was able to get the program to run end-to-end with no errors. The project failed to yield significant results (although I got an "A" in the course ) but it was a key factor in establishing my respect for programmers and future computer savvy.

[@cnault3244]

Reminds me of the computer science course in high school in 1975. Learned to program in Fortran using punch cards....and the only computer we actually got to see in the entire course was in a movie the showed on day one. The actual computer was in the community college (apparently it only required one room!!!) & the programs we punched out in our high school & the other schools would be picked up & couriered there each evening to be run & printed out. We'd find out in a couple days if our program worked. The other drawback was the school only had 2 punch card machines, & everyone had their time for it scheduled... when we didn't have access to the machine,we had to use the cards & a dark pencil to code in the data.

[@therealdonnawagner]

She reminds me so much of my Grandma, who was from England and who sadly passed 13 years ago. She speaks and even looks a lot like her, and my Grandma used to love to tell me stories of what she used to do as a young lady. Truly a beautiful video. Bubbles is a treasure and brought tears to my eyes remembering how much I miss listening to my Grandma. 😭😭😭❤

[@ctoforhire]

One of the best intros to a tech talk ever.

[@zaprodk]

Bubbles is amazing! - I could listen for hours!

[@avikbangalee]

Who else is wondering about the people who disliked the video? One of the best of contents I have ever watched in my life. She just filled me up with warmth. Respect for her all the way from Bangladesh.

[@christinedoolan1437]

Oh my this was my job also in aprox 1965. I loved it. So many memories.

[@ivanbraidi]

What a fantastic historical preservation. This lady is an absolute treasure.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

And inherent in this video is another lesson - always take time to talk with, and really _listen_ to your seniors, respectfully and as a friend. They have a whole lifetime of fascinating experience over you. And if you aren't going to be the one to drink that in, carry it forward for other later generations to come, and benefit from it in your own life, then who will? Oh, and be careful when naming your babies. One day, with any luck, they'll be 81 as well... and causing idiots like me to wonder if they have sisters named Blossom and Buttercup ;) I'm curious about those keyboards, now. They have four symbols marked on each key, one number and three letters (plus I assume, one full stop or other punctuation mark). How do you encode those? Presumably you don't just hit the one key and it does for whatever of those symbols you meant, like on a phone keypad, because how do you decode them after? Is that what the 11 and 12 keys are for - strike a number without them and it's just a number, but in combination of one, other, or both, it stands for one of the letters?

[@JohnHollowell]

It seems like for the buttons at 0:54, the top 3 buttons indicate which quadrant on the grid is selected and then you press that button. So every letter/number is 1-9 on the main keys and one of the top buttons.

[@andymcl92]

Buttercup isn't a new name. There's a whole song about it by Gilbert and Sullivan :p My guess is that simply pressing the key gives the number. Pressing one of the top keys first switches alphabet (or quadrant) and then the key press selects the appropriate letter. E.g. if you press key 2, you get a 2. If you press one of the top keys then 2, you get a B, K, or S.

[@HiddenWindshield]

@@andymcl92 Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are the names of the Powerpuff Girls, which was a superhero cartoon from the early 2000's.

[@andymcl92]

@@HiddenWindshield I know, but Buttercup is the name of a character from HMS Pinafore, a show which has been popular to varying degrees since the 1870s.

[@andymcl92]

@@HiddenWindshield Also, I preferred Fairly Odd Parents!

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

Every bit of what Bubbles addresses here is good knowledge. I have just been picked from a courier job, to being a desk jockey, processing updates for the company. There are still plenty of manual verification of data to have a full working day, some of the work process could be improved. -Her advice of admitting to not know everything in advance, is spot on.

[@caru547]

What an excellent historical video. Thank you Bubbles for your memories and how these machines were used. I’m trying to find a video of a compto meter in use.

[@omalone1169]

I'm here from the Edwin Black video

[@LeoStarrenburg]

My first summerjob at 15 years of age (1971) : stock inventory at the Dutch plant of the AT&T company, converting the tally sheets into punchcards. 1st week getting used to the job followed by 5 weeks which got more tedious/boring by the day. Lovely lady and great video, thanks !

[@radscientist]

How quickly the mind goes... The hands still remember. The pride she shows in the work she's done is amazing.

[@K3NnY_G]

Kinda crazy to see in her hands how when she's interacting with the machine a certain direct-ness and accuracy comes back about her. Operating that thing is part of her being.

[@JoeSnuffie]

My dad worked for NCR in the 70s and I would go to the office with him and watch him feed stacks of punch cards into these large machines then I'd get to play with the discarded cards. He runs his own software company now and has one of the old punch cards on his desk as a reminder of how far things have come.

[@WonderzStevey]

Pleeeease give the full interview, she's a great nanna I would love to get her entire point of view

[@lordpitnolen2196]

I remember these card punching machines being installed in our office in the mid 60s. They were operated by girls from the new Computer Department of our local council. As our department, Rating, had the largest financial by "customer base", it was decided that the first job for the ICL computer was calculating the rates bills. I recall that the lasses would leave around 4pm and we would sneak into the 'new' machine room to see the machines. On occasion we would punch holes in the cards to make 'real words' by punching holes to spell Happy Birthday" etc. etc.

[@JSchroederee]

I’d love it if Bubbles Hosted/narrated a full length documentary.

[@Robinzano]

What a wonderful woman. I could listen to her speak all day. She speaks so highly of everyone. She must be an absolute gem to know!

[@pixiepianoplayer114]

Her stories and herself are gifts. She is the living history behind the technology and experience. Thank you Bubbles , truly a precious and qualtiy a person you are.

[@itsmesb4399]

Bubbles very much reminds me of my own Grandma. She often used to tell me not to know, and I have listened every since, and I have learnt many things thanks to that.

[@pgronemeier]

My dad was a computer programmer, and worked for IBM in Chicago in the 50s-60s. When I was a kid, he'd take us downtown and let us punch our names etc on those cards. Then take them to that other machine and it would sort them. I was just a kid, but I remember seeing those rooms with the big computers with reels that started and stopped. We had millions of those punch cards at home. I would make pathways and my brother would draw on the back. I forgot all about that until now. But 50+ years is a long time ago. Oh well..LoL

[@1738Creations]

At 14 I remember sitting in school in some class I had no interest in, not learning anything and wishing I were anywhere else. Many wasted years in school. The education system could learn a lot from this amazing lady and her experiences.

[@omalone1169]

John Gatto explains it cannot do this

[@dcny69]

What a lovely woman. Proper, classy and the best voice ever. Thank you so much for this video.

[@KarlHamilton]

What an amazing woman. Could listen to her stories for hours!

[@jerrykew]

I used a Hollerith card punch daily 76-78. Last one I saw in action was 85, only for job control decks then. I design web hosted systems running on AWS today, remote desktopping from home as I write. The pace has been extraordinary.

[@jitterbuba]

Great story and insight. Mrs Bubbles speaks so soft and articulated.

[@swiftfox3461]

She's such an amazing lady. It's a privilege to hear about these times and the way this equipment was operated from someone who was there, and told with such kindness.

[@omalone1169]

What brings you here ?

[@cyclenut]

I was born in the early 60'''s in the US. I remember seeing lots of punch cards. I know Sears, hospitals and some time schools used them. In high school I learned to type on an IBM selectrict. I almost learned key punch, but for some reason I didn't.

[@atariboy9084]

As a teenager she had her house bombed by the German plane and all she was upset about is missing out her sausage and chips for dinner. God I love her.

[@mpccenturion]

Oh my - Thank You, Mrs Whiting. When I was 17, I took a High School PC course. We learned fortran - and we used the same keypunch cards. We had boxes of programs, and had to go to the University - to run them. Others were there too, running their programs. IBM 3070 was the machine. This was around 1977. I really wish I had learned typing back then. Cheers

[@loewenherz1977]

Thank you, Bubbles!

[@MisutaaAsriel]

This video is so endearing and warming. I could listen to stories from her for hours. Wish her well and many years ahead of her!

[@nucksfordacup]

I'm fascinated by the evolution of what are now computers, and have been scavenging and reading up on a lot of things. Thank you for uploading, and send my regards to Bubbles!

[@edgeeffect]

We had one of those key-punches at school in the 1980s but sadly it was seized up and nobody had the wherewithal to fix it... so it's nice to see one in operation at last.

[@stevebishop9468]

She is simply delightful....a wonderful living link to the past...bravo!

[@FruitMuff1n]

I love her and I love the idea of this as a series! The series being: people explaining, with the original hardware, how they used these machines and what they thought of them.

[@skellygirlx]

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. Bubbles, you are an amazing human being! Thank you for sharing your story!

[@Ianjcarroll]

Thank you Bubbles for parting with such truly wonderful knowledge.

[@willharry6791]

My first training with IBM as a Customer Engineer (CE) was on the keypunch, verifier and sorter. Later moved on to servicing large 360 mainframes and associated I/O equipment.

[@jersey-dude]

When she was 14, her “computers” were mechanical punch card systems and IBM mainframes (1st edition). Now, at 82 (in 2016) she could own a smartphone. Incredible technological progress. When I was 14, my computer was an 80286 IBM compatible home computer. What on gods earth will I see at 82?!

[@gabrieleorioli1760]

She is a treasure. I am thankful for having found this video.

[@TheOneAndOnlyOuuo]

13:30 This is real wisdom. I work in IT and this is always the first thing I make our trainees learn. If they keep telling me how they "know" something(even when they clearly don't have a clue), I deliberately let them bang their head into the wall until they are ready to ask for advice. This way I never have to appear imposing or arrogant when I in-fact do know something they don't, and it teaches them to listen/think before acting and avoid doing any real harm. Only once they understand how little they know can we move on to "real" work.

[@helmaschine1885]

Maybe they're terrified of being cursed out or belittled for not knowing something. Maybe don't cause people pointless stress when it's not necessary. You just sound like an arrogant bastard, mate

[@gabegarcia6425]

Bubbles is awesome. Also really glad I found this channel. I really love computing history.

[@mrembeh1848]

Greetings from Grant (and Matt :D )

[@F.E.Terman]

Got here because you told me... Glad you did! Marvelous.

[@SKY11211213]

what a lovely lady. so polite and sharing her stories

[@calebsavage4631]

Bubbles is a star! I wonder if she's still with us?

[@thetroublewithtrebles1362]

In about 1970, I was a keypunch operator, but we had full keyboards, and the cards were stacked automatically by the machine.

[@CTCTraining1]

Wow, that brought back memories. I used a card hand punch Algol and Assembler programs in the early 70s at secondary school. Card packs were sent off to the Chelmer institute to be run on their mainframe and a week later you got back a page of chainprinter output saying something like “Syntax error on line 34”. Great fun. Although not quite as exciting as when someone managed to drop a whole deck of cards. ... the only time I regretted not choosing a language with line numbers!

[@calebfuller4713]

I never worked with punch cards but my father did when he was at university. My understanding is it was a good idea to draw a diagonal line acros the stack of cards with a texta, maybe write the name of the program too, so if it was dropped you had some visual guide to get it back in order.

[@Jonjammin]

This is from a time before photocopiers. So in order to copy an invoice a clerk would have to sit at a typewriter and type the whole thing out a second time. Then this machine came along and a clerk could rapidly input the important details from the invoice to a card and a second machine would rapidly generate an invoice copy using those details (as many copies as you wanted)

[@disposablebasterd]

She’s so sweet! I’d love to hear her tell stories about her jobs and past

[@moodberry]

What a charming and classy lady! I really loved her words of wisdom. "Don't say "I know"." Truer words never spoken. When I was in high school (California) in the late 1960s, we were taught Hollerith code. I remember it to this day. Anyway, the only "computer" the school had was a punch card collating machine. In order to "program" the machine, you had to access the back panel and there were a host of wires that needed to be plugged in the right holes. This caused the machine to behave differently depending on where you put the wires. The analog to today's computing is correctly matching the inputs to the outputs, depending on what you wanted the machine to collate. Of course, everything today is digital (ones and zeros), but the same principle applies today as it did then - matching inputs to outputs! The only difference is that now you program using codes on a screen that translate to actions inside silicon chips, routing electrons to their correct destinations, eventually winding up as an output (something printed, something that shows on a screen, or some other machine being digitally controlled) To be properly educated on computers I believe young people today need to know how it all started, just like this woman explained. If you do understand it, you will be better situated to extrapolate out and invent the next big thing in computers. In my opinion, that next big thing will be quantum computers. If you don't know what that is, check it out. But basically, instead of ones and zeros, you will have an infinite range of possibilities between one and zero. Programming such things will require a new way of thinking, and those who know how will be set for a job for life. Good luck next generation!! We pass the torch to you.

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

Wisdom personified. God Bless you Bubbles! You inspire us all!

[@Geenimetsuri]

Absolutely wonderful video! What a charming person! A treasure trove of stories!

[@howHumam]

The last segment is such a sweet twist with the sounds of Mario being played in the background. Bless this lady. I love her similarities to Eliza Doolittle.

[@devttyUSB0]

What lovely lady, Bubbles Whiting. Thanks, Bubbles! For sharing this piece of computer history.

[@phil4977]

What a great lady and a wonderful story. Great advice at the end too.

[@SMGJohn]

What she said at the end is right, I cannot get a job in my city because all the positions that are available has either something to do with IT or programming. Now when I educated myself they told me to pick whatever I wanted and they said our future would be bright, now how little I realised back then but at age of 15 or 16 I realised that unless we educated ourselves towards the jobs THEY wanted, not what we wanted our lives would be better or at least our wages would be. So I started to learn the computer, how to repair it, I got good with solder iron and even caught up programming but then the reality hit me that no one will hire you unless your papers are in order, I met people who had high paying jobs who did a worse job of repairing or programming than even I could do and yet they had the job and I did not. It finally hit me that it matters not much about how good you are, it only matters that you can speak well for yourself and present some documents that also backs up what you are saying, no longer do you need to prove anything to get a job, just need papers.

[@mrfashionguy1]

Thank you Bubbles for laying the groundwork for us. -A 22 year old CS engineer

[@sushifornico]

OMG the way she speaks is just amazing! Love her big time! thanks for the upload