HIGH SPEED DIGITAL COMPUTERS & DATA PROCESSING 1960s MAINFRAME IBM COMPUTERS 53034

The System Development Corporation presents “System Technology,” a circa 1960 color film featuring footage of “modern” computers and data processing. At mark 00:40 we see several large IBM computers, each about the size of a bookcase, as the narrator explains how technology marvels are able to handle vast computations and hold data. Data processing is involved in nearly aspect of daily life, we’re told, including transportation, insurance, banking, credit cards, and information technology. We are shown an automated oil refinery near mark 01:30 as the narrator continues an explanation of how computers are an accepted part of the work world. The Air Defense Command’s Continental Defense Network (mark 01:50) is also a user of such technology. At mark 02:17 we’re taken to the Santa Monica headquarters of System Development Corporation, a purveyor of such technology. Inside we see scenes of engineers at work drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, and various draftspersons. By mark 07:55 the film discusses how such technology serves the training needs of the US Air Force and other branches of the military. Via a mix of animation and meeting scenes, the film explains how personnel create detailed training exercises, each meant to achieve a specific goal. Much of that work is also automated, we are told at mark 11:45, as punchcards are shown making their way across the screen and are later used to create a detailed map. At mark 17:00, the film shows a simulated air raid shown on a cathode ray tube and at mark 19:00 learn more about how punchcards are used as system production tools, as its data is transferred to preprinted maps. Mark 22:00 touches on how the corporation has also been working with military defense systems for national security.
System Development Corporation (SDC), based in Santa Monica, California, was considered the world's first computer software company. SDC started in 1955 as the systems engineering group for the SAGE air defense ground system at the RAND Corporation. RAND spun off the group in 1957 as a non-profit organization that provided expertise for the United States military in the design, integration, and testing of large, complex, computer-controlled systems.
SDC became for-profit in 1969. With that change, it began to offer its services to all comers rather than only to the American military.
In 1980, SDC was sold by its board of directors to Burroughs Corporation. In 1986, Burroughs merged with the Sperry Corporation to form Unisys, and SDC was folded into Unisys Defense Systems. In 1991, Unisys Defense Systems was renamed Paramax, a wholly owned subsidiary of Unisys, so that it could be spun off to reduce Unisys debt. In 1995, Unisys sold Paramax to the Loral Corporation, although a small portion of it, containing some projects that had originated in SDC, remained with Unisys. In 1996 Loral sold Paramax to Lockheed Martin. In 1997, the Paramax business unit was separated from Lockheed Martin under the control of Frank Lanza (one of the original founders of Loral), and is now a subsidiary of L-3 Communications.
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[@thenmymindsplitopen]

And to think the power of PCU we have in our hands nowadays...wow...love these historic vids.

[@SimonBauer7]

yeah, to think a modern Smartphone cpu the size of a fingernail can do more than every single of these computers combined is pretty insane.

[@wesriver]

i love these!

[@farmerdave7965]

Lots of Dilbertesque jargon.

[@ForgottenMachines]

22:33 We shall study this IBM Typewriter

[@victoracunamendez7525]

No muy lejos, fall shurch, Virginia.

[@alo1236546]

This is how warcraft born

[@stepbruv8780]

But can it run crysis?

[@erincarson8998]

It can't even compile Crysis. It can't even render... the box art.

[@victoracunamendez7525]

Qué pasaría si una persona inventa un nuevo sistema para la seguridad del tráfico Aerio, pero está persona pone un precio de $0.50 centavos para comprar dulces. Una pregunta , El Gobierno le podría poner en pricion a está persona. Sera delito recording para la Air defense Comand.

[@rnb250]

What a freakn hassle 🤪