“PIERCING THE UNKNOWN” EARLY 1950s IBM COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL FILM XD81325

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10 ай бұрын

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This early 1950s (possibly 1951) IBM advertising film "Piercing the Unknown" promotes the potential to make business advances through the new computing power available through the company’s Electronic Data Processing Machines. It begins with a short history about advancements in technology and how computing now allows humans to spend less time on menial tasks. This is followed by a history of the company’s early electronic calculators and computers and some of the advanced technology developed by IBM including magnetic tape storage, cathode ray tubes, and magnetic drums. This is followed by real and animated footage of how the Electronic Data Processing Machine works including reading and calculating speed, as well as storage options. The computer calculates the trajectory of 25 different missile designs for each second of their path in less than 7 minutes.
0:15 “Piercing the Unknown”, 0:38 animation of an orange dot moving through different backgrounds, 1:14 different machines being operated by people, 1:51 a man using an abacus, 1:58 engineers at their desks with blueprints, 2:06 an F-86 flying, 2:11 machines doing work, 2:34 a computer calculating things, 2:59 a child doing math by hand, 3:09 animation of math being done on paper, 3:31 a man working at an early computer, 4:00 animation comparing the amount of man hours needed for an airplane from the 1930s vs. now, 4:34 IBM Electronic Data Processing Machines including magnetic tapes, magnetic drums, and electrostatic storage, 5:38 scientists and technicians working in labs, 5:57 an IBM book being opened to reveal the first Statistical Calculator from 1929, 6:21 1934 Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia, 6:50 1944 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator at Harvard, 7:18 1946 Type 603 Electronic Multiplier, 7:37 1948 Type 604 Electronic Multiplier, 7:52 a machine board, 8:05 the production line of the 604, 9:05 1947 Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator at IBM Headquarters, 9:24 a Hydrogen Bomb exploding, 9:54 1949 Card Programmed Electronic Calculator, 10:08 animation of how the calculator works, 10:34 technicians at the IBM labs working on computers, 10:56 animation of how a Cathode Ray Tube works, 11:38 magnetic drum being operated followed by an animation of how it works, 12:08 magnetic tape, 12:54 1953 Electronic Data Processing Machines, 13:11 animation of an artillery shell being fired, 13:22 animation of a rocket flying with the factors that need to be calculated, 13:50 path of the missile being calculated and how long this will take per missile design, 14:36 different results being printed, 14:49 a man connecting magnetic tapes to the computer, 15:21 labelled animation of how the data is read and processed by the computer, 16:32 the data being printed, 16:56 list of the reading speeds of tapes, drums, and cards, 17:17 speed of writing of tapes, drums, printer, and cards, 17:44 processing speeds in seconds, 17:58 storage capacity in each component, 18:24 an overview of the computer, 18:34 technicians working on different parts in a research lab, 19:05 a scientist working on a transistor, 19:13 a man researching magnetic cores, 19:25 different electronic components running, 19:43 the outside of the IBM Plant followed by an assembly line inside, 20:15 animation of an atom with summary footage of different components in the background, 21:02 A Presentation of International Business Machines, Produced by Raphael S. Wolf Studios Hollywood
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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@danstinson7687 10 ай бұрын

"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I cant do that."

@josephgaviota 10 ай бұрын

I always enjoy a good HAL reference ;-)

@thomasgoodwin2648 10 ай бұрын

"Now remember to clean and turn the stud regularly. Trust me, you don't want an infected unknown."

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 9 ай бұрын

Another excellent film! The scenes of workers assembling the systems in the factory are especially unique (20:05). Each machine took hours of manual labor to assemble and test. Nice bit of history! ~

@personalbyedl 10 ай бұрын

The last piece of IBM has officially left the facility here in Endicott, New York on Sept. 1, 2023. Truly the end of an era. The footage the school (10:29 to 10:35) is on North Street in Endicott, across from the original facility. I currently work onsite at one of the newer buildings for a non-IBM company.

@neerg63 10 ай бұрын

We closed today officially. The building is empty. IBM Endicott 1911 - 2023

@BobbyS1981 10 ай бұрын

😮 Where did everything/everyone go?

@monicaperez2843 10 ай бұрын

@@BobbyS1981 Sadly, overseas.

@joshhoman 10 ай бұрын

My grandfather was an engineer there

@monicaperez2843 10 ай бұрын

@@joshhoman My father (born 1917), was an IBM engineer, too.

@jimeditorial 10 ай бұрын

Sure hope that "transistor" works out

@nickdiamond7595 9 ай бұрын

😂 can't imagine life had it not worked.

@FenderGreg 10 ай бұрын

Good old cathode ray RAM. I still use vacuum tubes in my guitar amplifier.

@davidhewson8605 10 ай бұрын

Still have my Thornton slide rule, Sinclair built calculator and other gizmos from 60s. to 90s. used in my engineering career. Mobile phone has inordinate power in comparison !. IBM were giants . Loved flow charts , box computers and machine time to calculate solutions. Thanks all. Dave

@josephgaviota 10 ай бұрын

Nobody under 45 has ever _seen_ a slide rule.

@davidhewson8605 10 ай бұрын

@@josephgaviota Thanks my friend. Actually am 29 sorry 71yrs and love Gizmos still. Regards, Dave

@sclogse1 10 ай бұрын

It really is amazing what has taken place so quickly. Most of us plebians can barely change a tire, but we still get all the bennies. My Samsung Android phone is now 7 years old, and works perfectly. I bought two backups for it that cost me 150 bucks. How much did your phone's cost you in 7 years? Great camera, great Google and youtube. (Keep your screen dim and you'll prolong your phone life immensely) On my front desk sits a No5 Blickensderfer typewriter from 1896. It's a marvel.

@hoofie2002 10 ай бұрын

It looks like a commercial for fridges. All we need is an elegant woman in a beautiful evening dress to come flouncing in and start pawing the cabinets.

@philboydstudge 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful views of the IBM 701, aka "Defense Calculator" in operation. Electrostatic memory was a bear to work with and IBM quickly replaced it with magnetic core memory, briefly mentioned toward the end of the film, within a few years. I'd date the film to 1954 but no earlier than 1953.

@josephgaviota 10 ай бұрын

Ah, core memory. The best part of core memory was, you could drop power to the computer; and when power was restored, the cores would still be in the same position, and could continue.

@josephgaviota 10 ай бұрын

I was surprised how much faster mag tape was than any other medium, by a long way. AND, to the modern eye, it's hard to imagine how memory was such a difficult problem to solve.

@20000lbs_of_Cheese 10 ай бұрын

rapid calculation, rapid access to information!

@paulwomack5866 10 ай бұрын

Looks like this was 1953 - I found a newspaper reference to the "new" IBM film being shown at Stanford in May of that year.

@kc4cvh 10 ай бұрын

Yes, there is plenty of room for innovation and improvement.

@woodhonky3890 10 ай бұрын

Wow. That was enlightening. Thanks guys for saving this stuff!

@bobbyinalaska.4186 10 ай бұрын

It was donated to them. They don't make this stuff and they sure don't buy it.

@warrenjones744 10 ай бұрын

I am watching this on on a Apple MacBook Pro. I wonder how much more powerful or should I say faster it is than the whole rooms full of machinery that they show in this film. Teamed with a simple to use Drobo file server or even simpler external data drive I can store and retrieve more information than I can ever need or use (I do concede I am not designing aircraft or something like that, my needs are simple) Plus it did not cost a whole lot of money. It's amazing where are now in less than 100 years. However the complex mechanical machinery, withe their vacuum tubes and electronic assemblies from IBM are still amazing after all these years. As a machinist and person who builds things I find these devices are very interesting.

@mikemcgonegal1616 8 ай бұрын

I like how they give this 'transistor' thing 10 seconds at the end. Oh well, they never worked out anyways.

@henrycarlson7514 10 ай бұрын

interesting , Thank You. Who knew that crt's were storage? So amazing

@martyduncan2636 10 ай бұрын

I can’t imagine how rudimentary we’ll look 70 years from now as this does in 2023. However if past is prologue, as it often is, somehow people in 2093 will say how in the world did they get by way back in 2023? 😂

@richardsanjose3692 10 ай бұрын

1300 electronic tubes huh! And I'll bet the techs were always chasing down bad ones too.

@curtwuollet2912 10 ай бұрын

Probably a rack or two of relays to add interest.

@whirledpeas3477 10 ай бұрын

Another little gem 💎 thanks Periscope

@marmaly 10 ай бұрын

Very relaxing video.

@ImpetuouslyInsane 10 ай бұрын

10:51 Huh. Odd use of a CRT; they're basically using it like a RAM stick.

@h.mattberetta3564 6 ай бұрын

Ah the days of positive and negative zeros.

@SuperBNAVARRO 10 ай бұрын

1953

@James-nl6fu 10 ай бұрын

Their sci-fi is our (hi ab lm)technology, and we learned absolutely nothing despite our billion dollar brains

@RetroJack 10 ай бұрын

Who knew this would culminate in 12-year-olds playing Fortnite while shouting abuse at each other?

@AA-ke5cu 7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the XEROX 9200 Series. No one else was allowed to run it or touch it. Silicon doped with trace amounts of arsenic. None of these reels tell you the full truth.

@paulwomack5866 10 ай бұрын

Another film (from the US Army, 1952) about the Card Programmed Calculator (CPC) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIGnfWmQls6lmpY