COMPUTERS THE ULTIMATE MACHINES 1970s INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS 62284

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Produced in the early 1970s "The Ultimate Machine" is an introduction to computers that features a variety of computers, including early personal computers. At 1:27, an early mainframe computer is shown. At 1:47, a music box -- a mechanical computer -- is shown and a connection made to modern computer punch cards which are shown at 2:40. At 4:22, a mechanical calculator is shown and then at 4:40, a modern computer using a punch tape program is shown. At 5:13, an automated oil refinery control room is shown. 8:53, electronic music is shown being created at Bell Labs using an early synthesizer similar to those used by Robert Moog. At 10:00, an automaton is shown, and then at 10:13 a computer controlled IBM robot is shown delivering mail. At 12:02, a prototype robot rover is shown, and at 12:10 a gerbil is set loose in a machine that interacts with it. At 12:55, a man plays against a computerized chess screen that seems very similar to the one seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey. At 13:40, early computer graphics are displayed on an Adage Graphics Terminal. At 14:33, a game of pool is played using a light pen cue stick. At 18:48, a Honeywell mainframe is shown with spinning magnetic tapes. The film ends with a warning that the future may include computers being used to control the lives of many by the few.
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@seb1554 Жыл бұрын

What a brilliant documentary. So many clever people covered. The Ralph guy who predicted the computer bringing an end to people’s privacy was genius.

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

The cool thing is that less than a decade after this film came out, I went to my local Radio Shack and got my OWN computer!

@Astrovite 3 жыл бұрын

I freakin' miss Radio Shack. I was born in 95 but as a teenager I got so many components and neat electronics at Radio Shack.

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

@@Astrovite Cool! I ended up, briefly working at Radio Shack in the early '80s. The boss was a pain, But I got to see, sell and mess with some cool shit! 👍😊👍

@joemaulerworks 2 жыл бұрын

11:42 nice vintage Tamiya Panther 1/25 scale 👍

@John_Leonard_Hart_IIII 3 жыл бұрын

All we've done since this film was made is refine the technologies that were in place at that time... nothing is truly new...

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

Technically true. Digital computers are smaller, faster and cheaper now, But the root concepts: RAM, ROM, Processor units, operating systems, programming languages and mass storage were pretty much settled by the mid 1950s. Even seemingly recent "1980s sounding" things like hard drives (IBM RAMAC,1956) and ASCII (1963) are over 50 years old. "Fortran", the mother of all high level languages (and the root of BASIC) is from 1957 and is STILL used on super computers today! A time traveling computer technician from the 1950's would be impressed with our hardware and would have to get used to modern operating systems, But he would STILL know how it "works".

@zatozatoichi7920 3 жыл бұрын

Except quantum computing.

@fensti7917 3 жыл бұрын

@@zatozatoichi7920 nah that's also not a new concept it's been thought over for a long time, it just couldn't be completed. The biggest difference to then and now is the large scale implementation of machine learning. (I hope i spelled everything correctly, because I have dyslexia : D )

@jaminova_1969 2 жыл бұрын

7:23 They weren't joking about that!

@DavidGalich77 Жыл бұрын

That was a trip, still hear it echoing to this day.

@GaryMCurran 6 жыл бұрын

It's interesting that this came out in the early 1970's. In High School, we had a direct link to the mainframe at the Naval Undersea Systems Command in New London, CT. A mainframe, and we had a terminal, not even a video display. Now, I probably have more computing power in my pocket when I stick my Android phone in it to go out the door, and I certainly have more power in my desktop computer, even though it's 6+ years old. As to privacy, we gave that up, unknowingly at first. If you don't believe me, Google yourself. There is supposed to be a complex in Utah, I believe, run by the NSA, that copies every single piece of data that flows across the Internet, and then stores it. I believe that, you know? That line about information is power is very true!

@zatozatoichi7920 3 жыл бұрын

You have 30-50 times the computing power on average in your smart watch (typically in the range 5-9 GFLOPS) than the Cray-1 supercomputer had in 1975 (160 MFLOPS, costing roughly 30+ million dollars in today's money, weighting 5,5 tons). Today, a single, high-end consumer graphics card is in the 20-35 TFLOPS range in FP32 performance. TFLOPS. Mind-blowing stuff.

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@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

That Pool game was included with Windows 68 SE. 😜

@MrMountainMan Жыл бұрын

How about the music in this documentary? Wow, set the stage for all 70's and 80's computer themed 'anything' would have this style of background music.

@mikecowen6507 6 жыл бұрын

Often with forward thinking analyses, the best projections still miss the mark. This was a very well balanced look at future possibilities, both good and bad. That said, the privacy & control issues mentioned could not have been more accurate!

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

The loss of privacy was well known even then. Everyone had been reduced to computer data since the 1950s. (IRS, Social Security Administration, The FBI..) And well before then, "You" were a bunch of files in folders. The big difference is today, we volunteer to give up our privacy by posting every minute of our lives to "social media". "THEY" would have loved to have been able to get as much info as we GIVE "them" now.

@mikecowen6507 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesslick4790 Without a doubt!

@GStev-qf1zl Жыл бұрын

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@ifstatementifstatement2704 2 жыл бұрын

Even back then the loss of privacy and freedom was a concern, and the abuse of private information.

@CumminsDslPwr 6 жыл бұрын

So "wreck it" Ralph Nader actually got one thing correct? I'll be damned, I guess even a blind squirrel does occasionally find a nut.

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

And a broken (analog) clock is right twice a day.

@typograf62 2 жыл бұрын

It is an odd feeling that the speak of old computer films seem almost identical to the speak of HAL 9000. HAL was an echo of this age.

@stephanesonneville 6 жыл бұрын

7:24 pretty advanced for the era. What's that computer?

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 2 жыл бұрын

Computer Communications CC-303

@zatozatoichi7920 3 жыл бұрын

Only those high blops and beeps used for ambience ("the music") didn't age well.

@joenad5512 3 жыл бұрын

The Sports Illustrated magazine cover shown at 17:28 is from April 1970.

@operatorjeffdeathstar7759 2 жыл бұрын

7:25 Computer Communications CC-303

@lewiemcneely9143 6 жыл бұрын

Good film, Periscope. WAY too many human are being folded, stapled and mutilated.

@steven2212 4 жыл бұрын

Computers run the world...and you and I.

@videosuperhighway7655 4 жыл бұрын

One day they will invent supercomputers that will fit on a desk and users will be able to get pornography on demand at the speed of light.

@fensti7917 3 жыл бұрын

i don't think that thats smart to do tbh... although it would be pretty nice 😏

@robertcraane7910 2 жыл бұрын

@@fensti7917 I dont like sex on my computer, I keep falling off!

@fensti7917 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertcraane7910 hahah yeah 😔😔😔

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

Music is musical.

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

Attention, sentient machines... the Prime Directive.... *Mother Music must be given the honor and respect that is Her due* . So let it be programmed. So let it be compiled and run.

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