Look at Life: Figure it Out

Look at Life presents Figure it Out, a film all about the new advanced technology known as computers!

[@PilotVBall]

It only took KZbin 56 years to recommend this video. I should send a telegram to their complaint desk.

[@davidt-rex2062]

The term "Patch" comes from errors in punch cards, tape was used to patch a hole so they could reuse the tape/card

[@maestososhifu]

Eh, I mean the phrase "patching something up" predates punch cards

[@lenkapenka6976]

If were around in the 60's this programme would freak me out !!!

[@BenPanced]

To think it once took a computer almost THREE HOURS to draw a picture of a cat asking for a cheeseburger!

[@cyrex686]

They are making magnetic core memory at 4:22 Each of those little round things she is pushing the wire through is a magnet that can store one bit.

[@tkboyd3925]

And each little ring needed THREE wires through it.... Buy a "core memory" module on eBay, while you still can. An amazing technology. (I had to edit that... originally I had "Buy a bit of...") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

[@delboyoelmundo4718]

Everyone looks so spiffingly happy

[@rogerbarton497]

Wire wrapped backplanes and core memory - happy days.

[@hoilst265]

"Hey, Dave: bet you can't fit this stock footage we have of a chameleon into your film about computers."

[@waytosacramento3843]

7:20 All the achievements since the 60s and we are still not able to do this... (double meaning)

[@davidpanton3192]

'Yesterday the valve-operated computer was cumbersome'. You mean, unlike these?

[@pauloliver6813]

The man with a pipe is driving up Willesden Lane, Kilburn.

[@garrycowan4394]

A smartphone would have blown their minds what technology will blow ours 60 years from now?

[@CamcorderSteve]

I wonder, I will be 130 years old then!!

[@frankroberts9320]

"Ernie" was no computer at all but an industrial mercury vapor rectifier.

[@stephanesonneville]

This piece of hardware is a gas neon diode used as noise generator. The R & N in ERNIE stands for Random Number. ERNIE was a Colossus digital computer.

[@pamount]

Almost looks like a set from an Irwin Allen TV show.

[@joanne26]

I ❤these Rank Look At Life videos from the 60’s I have a connection with this one as my wonderful late mother worked for a company as a punch card operator from 1970 till around 1980 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@julianwalls1077]

My next door neighbor retired 10 years ago he was in It since punched card to working at running large computer systems in modern times to becoming a Government IT consultant retiring at 65!😀

[@Pianoguy32]

watching this on a computer :p

[@OUigot]

"And if you have the luck to hear from Ernie, it's said to be quite an enjoyable experience."....today, if you hear from Ernie, it's means your in trouble.

[@staypress8611]

i wonder if we will ever have ipads

[@viennapalace]

I doubt it. People won't want to spend all their time staring at a screen... ;)

[@johno4521]

Still not a monitor in sight...

[@jdb47games]

Interesting, these 'computer' things....do we still have them nowadays?

[@timetraveller6643]

What year was this?

[@abrahamdsl]

Oh, that chess thing happened with IBM's Big Blue right?

[@harleyd9180]

What a complete crock we’ve been sold. Punch cards, tapes we never understood even that. Now they harvest info from our every move as we drones buzz about the hive.

[@TheCramunhao666]

bom vídeo

[@Fiilis1]

Does these machines run Crysis?

[@mattflaneur407]

For those interested, this film was produced in 1963. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_at_Life_(film_series)

[@user-hp6md8zl9t]

Ho my i woke 1 xmas morning nit a clue what yo do with a h type wrighter omg this computer omg

[@nicky29031977]

To think computers are now taking over jobs all over the world!

[@gan9e]

beware AI

[@viennapalace]

They look interesting but I doubt they will catch on... ;)

[@mclare9817]

Bit like Politicians then!... They need to be 'punched'...Nothings changed!😀

[@Northaxe]

what the year is in this movie?

[@abrahamdsl]

196x

[@edwardoneil3962]

1961 I think 😀sorry about time delay 😀

[@viennapalace]

@@edwardoneil3962 Don't sweat it. Time is relative...

[@jimk4864]

CHECK MATE! huahuahua

[@Sebastián8844]

6:20 Old school Google translate :)

[@DestructoGuy17]

Probably worked better.

[@JacGoudsmit]

5:47 Mercury Arc Rectifier!

[@dryjointdave]

should have stopped for the old lady on the left at 1.08 waiting to cross the road. BAD driving

[@simonipswich]

She didn't have a foot on the crossing, therefore he could pass.

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Smart Alecs randomly stopping for no good reason are dangerous.

[@millomweb]

2:04 "they can 02:07 deal only with things which can be 02:09 expressed in numbers " I was going to argue that point but then I looked at the formatting of the quoted text. LOL Still, I prefer mechanical analogue computers working with analogue variables like speed an torque - a bit like the computers in an Invacar calculating the correct drive ratio for engine speed and power for the speed of the vehicle.