DATA PROCESSING AN INTRODUCTION 1972 KEY PUNCH COMPUTER & MAGNETIC TAPE EDUCATIONAL FILM 99424z

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This color educational film is about data processing. This was made in 1972 by Coronet. It introduces the field of Data Processing, with scenes of electric adding machines, IBM System/360 model 65 mainframe system, IBM 2401 magnetic tape machines, Control Data Corporation (CDC) image scanner; Burroughs Punch Tape Reader and MICR/OCR, CDC 160 computer and much more.
Guide to many of the vintage machines we identified in this film:
00:10 Burroughs adding machine
00:24 Paper filing methods
00:37 IBM Selectric Typewriter
00:47 ADDO-X paper tape calculator (by AB Addo)
00:50 Automatic Page Collating Machine
00:57 Xerox 2400 Photocopier
01:07 IBM 029 Keypunch Machine (card punch)
02:06 IBM Card Sorter
02:38 IBM Model 188 Collator of 1961
03:20 IBM 602A Calculating Punch Machine
04:28 IBM Accounting Machine Model 407 ?
05:24 IBM System/360 model 65 mainframe
05:38 IBM 2401 Magnetic tape machine; disk unit, printer
05:54 IBM High Speed Card Reader
06:30 Computer Memory (inside computer)
07:01 IBM Plug Board Panel (Hardwired Program)
07:14 Rack of multiple Plug Board Programs Pre-wired for use
07:43 IBM 2401 Mag Tape Machine
07:49 Computer Light Panel (blinking)
07:58 Operator adjusting IBM tape machines
08:05 Computer Room view (tapes, disks)
08:14 IBM keyboard input to system
08:20 IBM typewriter Type ball in operation
08:33 IBM High Speed Card Reader
09:29 Disc Pack Unit
09:57 High Speed Printer
10:21 CDC Optical Scanner
10:33 Paper Tape Punch/Reader (Burroughs)
10:44 Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) (Burroughs Corporation)
10:57 Remote Access Terminals
11:17 Views of the Data Center and Personnel
12:19 Electrical Power Station Control Center
12:23 {possibly a wave or signal monitoring station ?}
12:28 IBM Tape Units and input keyboard
12:32 CDC 160A Console and tape drives
12:36 (possibly telecommunications tracking/reporting center?)
Summary: Opening titles (:06-:07). Data processing is gaining more employees. Various machines exist - typewriter, copier, etc. (:08-1:06). A woman punches holes in each card on her key punch machine. This is a hard machine to learn but well worth it. Sorting data on a machine is much easier than be hand (1:07-2:36). A collating machine saves time. Calculating cards takes time to set up in the machine but can do multiple functions once set up. Accounting machines like the Addo X assist in converting machine talk to people talk (2:37-5:01). Unit record accounting records are fast and reliable and explains why it is widely used. An electronic IBM computer is best for computing data, all of which is done within the system. Data is stored electronically within the computers memory (5:02-6:50). Punch card devices (machines) are explained and information provided. Programming a computer may require days of preparation (6:51-8:31). A card reader converts card punches into electrical impulses which can be placed into a computers memory. Other ways of using a computer is explained. Magnetic tape and magnetic discs are explained (8:32-10:04). Other units for feeding data into and out of computers include optical scanners, paper tape punchers and readers, magnetic character recognition devices, etc. Women type data into computers (10:05-11:15). A paper tape punch reader is shown at 10:34. Many jobs have to do with operating this equipment and being able to manage it. Computer programmers are in high demand (11:16-12:00). People work all around the computer office. Data processing is a rapidly growing and changing field and qualified people are needed to navigate these changing times (12:01-12:34) End credits (12:35-12:49).
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Some of the punch card scenes were filmed at the Statistical Tabulating Corporation (“STC”) a large computer data processing service bureau during the 1960’s-1970’s. STC later sold its business to Automatic Data Processing (“ADP”) in 1980.
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[@Volkslady]

My husband worked for IBM for 30 years, and these were some of the main machines he worked on from the 60s on up. Neat to see them; he passed away a year ago, and this reminds me of many of the head-scratching issues he told me about dealing with!

[@captainkeyboard1007]

In 1972, I worked on the IBM 026, the 024, and then the 029 and 059 machines in 1973. Learning key punch was somewhat easy for me because I was an avid typist who could typewrite without looking at the keyboard. Data typing seemed to be a new occupation after I began my first job as a typist in 1970. This show is right up my niche.

[@adirondacker007]

The technology we have now would have amazed them. We, however, would not impress them. They were smarter than their tools. Now our tools are smarter than we are.

[@tribemaster101]

the computer scene was more exclusive

[@jamesslick4790]

10:36 49 years later and my HP inkjet would take 40 minutes to spit out the amount of text that this 1970s printer did in 4 seconds!

[@erickrobertson7089]

Those punch cards bring back memories. As a kid, I had difficulty in learning math so my mom made math flashcards for me out of discarded computer punch cards from the plant where my dad worked. Now, I hate math AND computers.

[@madchiller123]

The phone you're watching this on has more processing power than all the computers in the world when this video was made.

[@SFsc616171]

My USAF career started out as a 647x0, Material Facilities Specialist/supervisor. The job required each of us to be able to do warehouse duties, AND, keypunch and computer operations. This was BEFORE the world of Data Processing/Computer Technology/Information Management began (1970). The Univac 1050-II (room monster) was the machinery involved, and not a hard drive in sight! Everything was magnetic tape, reels of metal punched ribbons, and punch cards. The printed output was on very wide green striped multiple copy paper, which had to be separated by another machine.

[@yuvegotmale]

I was in communications in the Navy in the late 60s...early 70s. At NavComSta Philippines we hada Unicav computer....the 1050 sounds familiar...it used punch cards.We got our pay one night and a few of us decided to put our pay checks into the card punching machine and make a few changes to our checks...thinking we might get more money. Next payday we got pay amounts that looked like $1/?.1p.....took about a month for disbursing to fix it...we did not do that again.

[@steve-ph9yg]

I love how the new technology in this film was the older technology when I started in data processing 17 years later. The high speed line printer was replaced with a high speed laser printer. I missed the punchcard by a few years but I still used mainframe dumb terminals before they were replaced by PC’s.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

I prefer the [modern] microcomputer technology because the software makes using the hardware as the computer, the printer and the scanner easier to operate than working with old-fashioned equipment and methods.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

Steve, your comment makes perfect sense. If anyone does not like what you typed, they had better get with the program. The format is fine.

[@JosephSmith-ix5il]

1970's and this kind of work gave women so many opportunities to finally excel on the workforce. Great decade and great times....

[@captainkeyboard1007]

"There were no times like those times."

[@steveb9151]

12:00 I believe this music was also used for the second film in this double-feature, "Introduction to Psychodelic Drugs".

[@lauradent5420]

I graduated from high school in 1979 and one of the classes I took as a senior was keypunch. Haven't seen one of those machines in years!!!! Fun fact: You can make groovy Christmas wreaths by stapling those punched cards on a circular piece of cardboard.

[@NMad-kp2bu]

Energy-efficient, lightweight, handheld, fast mobile computer to process large amounts of memes

[@Mark_Ocain]

Gosh...what ever will they think of next LOL

[@stephenduffy5406]

“Jeepers! The future’s gonna be swell!”

[@albertpatterson3675]

I worked for the Burroughs Corp. in the late 60's in San Francisco as my first job out of college. I can honestly say that the management team was the finest that I ever had in my forty years of employment: period. Looking back, they set an impossibly high bar for all management that was to come. A special shout out to the late O. W. "Jock" McNutt, simply THE best!

[@rogerbarton497]

Me too in the UK

[@marmaly]

Hooray for Jock McNutt!

[@jamesslick4790]

12:18 - 12:24 Oh, No! Windows 68 SE is updating itself AGAIN! I'm gonna go smoke a "Lucky", BRB! 😂

[@Oliverdobbins]

Yeah, it’s all very clever. But I really don’t think these “computers” are going to catch on.

[@jamesslick4790]

Dang right they won't! My Burroughs 10 Column "portable" adding machine has MORE than enough "horsepower" for my bookkeeping! 🤔Now get off of my lawn! 😜

[@toddsmith5715]

Well, I actually HAVE held onto my old Smith-Corona typewriter just in case.

[@repawnd1]

5 computers is all we will need.

[@dwightl5863]

And when there was a thunderstorm, and the lights blinked, there was a very good chance something either quit working or data was compromised. Phones then started to ring!

[@ptyptypty3]

here's a comparison, in my opinion, Today's home computer is a Corvette, The computers in this video are MODEL T's ...

[@dace938]

I look forward the future - say, the year 2021 to see what's next.

[@dariowiter3078]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@albear972]

11:55 that early electronic music sounds so sinister. Maybe it was a cool MOOG synth back in the year I was popped out. But it sounds wrong to my old modern ears.

[@orgami100]

SDC system development corporation. . 1972. Hopefully I've forgotten about this..

[@ptyptypty3]

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were still about 4 years into the Future when this 1972 film was made.

[@woodhonky3890]

Very inclusive for 72. Depicts different races and genders, and refers to everyone as people.

[@scratchdog2216]

Burroughs was on Pitkin St. at E. Hartford, CT and Royal Business Machine off Day Hill Rd. at Windsor, CT.

[@mrflamewars]

A fun use for time travel would be to show up with an ordinary desktop PC with like 16 GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD and be all BEHOLD THE SPEEEEED. They'd just refuse to believe you when you told them the specs until you powered it on like "- F- you no it doesn't! "

[@secretsquirrel6718]

Girls!

[@c.g.3931]

Shit’s ancient

[@grantwong9491]

SSIIGGGNATTUREEEE INFORRRMAATIIIOONNN . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. ...

[@BaccarWozat]

These are great films, but the titles are sure doing a lot of shouting

[@hatuletoh]

Holy Phrygian mode! What was up with that weird, dissonant soundtrack at the end? It was more "Invasion of the Punchcard Snatchers" than happy, corporate fluff movie.

[@alexstewart8097]

This shows companies , in and out of government, could read and infer from their compiled data as back as 1972, and their responsibilities must have included contingencies to make things much better...But obviously they didn't do too good of a job (no wonder they want socialism; with a record like theirs, that is the only way to keep their job), and apparently now, those who failed for more than 50 years, have the gall to blame those opposing their loonie leftist solutions, which just looking at their own record, will not work (nor have any other place)... So the question is, what really happened? Were these data readers , really dumb and clueless or all along arSONists playing firefighters making the whole thing worse , with at best, very improvisatory social engineering skills, that got US to today's Seattle and Portland, like their over seas friends got them hellish socialist Cuba and Venezuela? Apparently , they also did not SEE the data showing 90000 of Americans dying of drug abuse yearly for decades, or the 60 millions of Sanger induced, aborted babies, and millions of Jews and Europeans dead in WWII, because a little wolf took a fancy to her writings, just like today's egotistical elites, all having been born, and lucky for them , like President Reagan so wisely noted...It seems this bunch in charge , never really cared for the data. is that right, or is it left now? DOWN BOYS! GET OUT OF THE WAY, LET THE FOLKS BE, AND LET GOD HEAL THE LAND!!!...Shema!!!