"I've Got a Secret" - Woman plays a Christmas Carol on a 50s era computer

One of the reasons I like IGaS and the 70s color "What's My Line?" are episodes in which things and ideas which we now take for granted are presented as new and exciting. Other IGaS episodes like this introduce microwave ovens and Krazy Glue, WML? episodes amaze panelists like Alan Alda over things like Pong style video games, ATMs and paperback book sized calculators.
In this clip, a woman creates the first digital computer (better known to you and me as an electronic brain :) ) midi file shown on TV. For those too young to remember it first hand (like myself) the second theme was the ad jingle for sponser Winston, perhaps the most well known today for the infamous Flintstones clip of the same. IGaS managed to sneak this into many secrets, a number of which made it through to GSN, until they decided to ban all Winston episodes for fears that all the 10 year olds watching a 50 year old black and white gameshow at 4 in the morning would be influenced to smoke.
To stay within KZbin's time limit I snipped out the guest bit at the beginning. For those interested, it was Meredith Willson.

[@stanleykijek6983]

Just think----only about 20 years after this program aired you could buy musical greeting cards for about a dollar each. The card had a small hidden chip in it and played a tune (usually Happy Birthday) when one opened up the card to read the inside greeting. It sounded very much like that computer on the show. Things sure have advanced.

[@stet1965]

That's one helluva usb cable.

[@Hotobu]

Heh, I love how he struggles to pronounce di-gi-tal com-pu-ter.

[@michaelbarnhart8364]

Woah! Look out! Probably 65 kilobytes grinding away on that massive machine!

[@hieronymus9]

2,160 words of 29 bits each!

[@Juliaflo]

Ahh, the wonderful Bess Myerson--Miss America 1945.

[@cosmicmatrix6238]

putting that fish in was stupid. that music was so beautiful it made me cry!

[@thetiler]

Gary More reminds me of Rod Stewart for some reason. Plus, he seems musical as well. That giant computer machine seems to be a type of forunner to the modern synthesizer and a usb iMac etc. My how things change ! And of course seeing the cigaret advertising !

[@ralph5450]

He reminds me of Peewee Herman

[@stephenmurphy1003]

Thetiler ,watch some more and you will see them smoking while playing the game

[@addagwenlyn9662]

Geez, Henry was way before his time tho', they laughed at him when he he that gizmo will send it up to a satellite .

[@MySpace662]

The innovations of yesteryears has brought us to where we are today in computer technology.

[@JSSTyger]

So the world's first keyboard was the size of a house...

[@wardka]

Just a few decades later almost all music is made on a computer or at least recorded on one.

[@philiphoward1731]

Looks like everybody had a lot of fun back in the 1950s they were driving around and really big beautiful American made cars there was no Vietnam war going on rock ‘n’ roll music was invented and you could smoke cigarettes anywhere and they were advertised on TV it must’ve been a lot of fun living in the 1950s

[@rayizard5687]

I'm sure the Korean War was a blast! Throw in the beginning of the cold war, the threat of nuclear war, and escalating racism- I am sure it was a blast!

[@SatchmoSings]

They could have used that in "Forbidden Planet."

[@Swampzoid]

its so primitive to us now but then it was amazing.

[@ziggycat999]

My wrist watch can do that!

[@gwenniegirl50]

This computer was manufactured by Bendix. Before computers they manufactured washing machines

[@philboydstudge]

In it's heyday Bendix manufactured and sold a wide variety of products. I programmed in COBOL in the 1970s for their Heavy Vehicle Systems Group which made truck air brake components and systems.

[@knottreel]

Her hand smells fishy now.

[@stormgirl09]

this is from the 50s? Despite that computer being a dinosaur compare to todays computers i honestly thought computers from the 50s were the size of a full room oppose to just being the size of a vending machine. I thought vending machine sized computers was more of the late 60s and early 70s:P

[@RaymondHng]

The Bendix G-15 was introduced in 1956. Only the central processing unit is shown in the video. The tape drive peripherals are in separate cabinets and are not on display. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix_G-15 This is an actual Bendix G-15 with two tape drives. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZndq4tqis1goNE

[@TheRAH14]

@mmmrazor Did he really? When did he say that? Not that I am doubting you, it's just that he virtually disappeared from "public" life after the 1970s so I would be interested to know if he said this in an interview or something.

[@gamepro94z]

shes cute. but not anymore..lol

[@knottreel]

gamepro- you are so evil.