Re-booting the Main Frame Computer. Bld 313 South (1996).

[@apl175]

...at first glance I thought the thumbnail was a scene from Star Trek Voyager - and the Doctor was the one croutching in front of a computer

[@Justthisguyyouknow]

I like that old school tape library... long blue box. Used to sit on my lunch break and just listen to that old bot slide back and forth. heheh

[@HHGFHJGFHJGFJTYFJDGY]

For me, this brings a whole new meaning to "I work in IT".

[@Jonas_Keunecke]

Lol yes, and a new meaning to "just powering off the machine completely" to see if it doesn't want to boot

[@bzert281]

3:29 KLUNK - HMMmmmm "there it goes" - those are motorized breakers closing, energizing the rectifier circuits with 400V of three-phase power. 3:31 thunk-BZZZZZZZ "okay, all the heaters have come on" - the inverters have started. This system takes massive AC from the mains, rectifies it to straight DC current, then inverters change DC back to AC. You get a nice clean power signal that way, without the surges or sags. Rather frightening sound, up close. You can FEEL the power in the air.

[@logarithm0]

thanks for explaining that

[@ElectroMecca]

Very cool... Thanks for sharing this...

[@siemenstraffic]

Skynet system originally went online on August 4th 1997. Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. It originally became self-aware at 2:14 am Eastern Time on August 29th, 1997

[@coriscotupi]

In the 80s whenever we got a MSG from OP saying something like, *"ATTN USERS, PLEASE LOGOFF, WE WILL NEED TO IPL IN 5 MINUTES"* ... we knew we could all take a walk to the local grocery and kill some time there, as it would take forever before everything was up and running again.

[@RGAF1987]

OK, so what happens if I load AOL on that bad boy?

[@MockEmpire]

these videos are so trippy

[@LLAACountyJail]

I wish I could buy a IBM 360 Panel. That was my dads machine in the 60s......

[@captainbackflash]

Was some where arround there a red light goning on and talks to you- "Hello Dave!"???

[@joshuademoraes]

IBM invented the netbook :D yet in the middle of 96 1:48

[@qdaniele97]

Olivetti already did it in '92 with the Quaderno. But I'm sure some other company had already done something like that even before.

[@ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

oh fuck, all those 122 key IBM model M/F keyboards.

[@jcl410]

This was just trying to get the power back on in the computer room. The laptop was communicating with a very big power supply. The computer looks like an IBM 3090, or was it an ES9021?Either way, we never got to see it doing its power-on reset, let alone an IPL (Initial Program Load, i.e; booting)

[@jamesanakin]

Mr. Hammond the phones are working.

[@thiesenf]

"They're flocking this way"

[@jeffffff]

So this is what it was like the year I was born... I didn't miss out. ;)

[@domi3821]

this sounds a bit like firing a huge laser cannon instead of rebooting a ibm mainframe :D

[@hubergeek]

Are you sure they're rebooting a computer and not firing an ICBM from some silo? JC, it was dificult working on computers in those days. I worked on an IBM 3090 back in 91.

[@JaredReabow]

that last machine looked like the atomizer from tron, lol

[@captainbackflash]

Once apon a time in Fukoshima!

[@bzert281]

Boy, I'll bet it was cold in there, with just the UPS and the chillers running. Believe it or not, for those who don't know, that room was really really quiet. The mainframes were off. I didn't see any rebooting happening here, just futzing around with a sick UPS! I wanted somebody to click the GO button, and hear all those great old DISK DRIVES spinning up. They sound like jet engines spooling up. --disappointed.

[@LadyMoonstar6601]

I'll bet it smells fabulous in there too. All those electronics. I do love the smell of old computers. I can just imagine the synphony of hard drives spooling up.

[@MJAndersonPhoto]

they still have them now!

[@utubewatcher806]

Floor vibrates like a freight loco passing.

[@roswellgrey5746]

Hey! Do you have any more footage of this machine? It's amazing. Thinking it's a 3090?

[@jasonking1284]

Its like the Alien movie....

[@LadyMoonstar6601]

does the machine still run and what happened to make it need to be rebooted did it crash?

[@ps2os2]

This is a power on (and therefore a "reboot" really an IPL). Not even close to reality.

[@douro20]

Was this ancient ES/9000 even in use when you started it back up?

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

i bet every time they rebooted, they had to call the energy companies so they could fire up a few nuclear power plants to give a bit more power ;)

[@NexusCool1]

omg that noise ...how can somebody work there all day?

[@curlymike]

What year is that? Like 1988 ?

[@DerSpielerMabuse]

what happened to a simple Ctrl Alt Delete? Super boring video, but I watched it to the end, so thumbs UP. Gosh, it's only 15 years but it looks ancient!

[@JHRO9000]

1996

[@alexandrossotiropoulos5621]

OK when restarted , install doom 3 on it

[@kb-elmo]

:D there are room-sized computers today too. but normally they are called servers now :D

[@psychosolodiver]

You IPL a mainframe, not reboot it.

[@peterposto8984]

Or POR.

[@Ptero4]

poweroff and poweron (in russian).

[@420Potheadification]

lulz

[@profemmie]

but can it run Crysis? probably not. even modern mainframes can't because their architecture is completely different.

[@420Potheadification]

Can that mainframe host Halo games?

[@GodofLegacy]

lot of messing about just to play doom after hours guys

[@herauthon]

I hope it still exists - can you turn down the noice.. for g.. sake.. ;)

[@benanderson89]

What? Lol no. A server is tiny. Super computers are the room sized machines. Mainframes are actually quite small now.

[@memadmax69]

Now my desktop has 10 times more computing power and storage than that....... thing...

[@nzoomed]

Today's smartphones are probably more powerful than what was contained in this big room! lol

[@yakfacts]

Huh? This is 1996, not 1956. This was a pretty powerful computer. I'm guessing perhaps some variation of an IBM 3090. You could run hundreds of virtual machines on it simultaneously. The system we had in 1990 had a gigabyte of RAM, which was a LOT for 1990. Machines of this class need special water cooling, big power supplies, highly trained staff, etc. The Pentium was out at the time, if they could have replaced it with four pentiums, they would have, trust me. Just because it is big doesn't mean it is either old or slow. There is one system in my computer room today that adds up to be roughly the volume of a school bus and it is brand new. We called it's predecessor The Heater. Trust me, it's faster than all the desktop PCs in the building combined.

[@oldtwins]

These setups weren't so much for raw computational cranking but for data I/O involved in those types of transactions. Huge amounts of data involved, terrabytes moved in and out between dozens of programs simultaneously. Don't know of any smartphone that could come close to this today. Desktop PCs, sure, but not your typical dinky system on chip based smartphone.

[@Rage639]

DAEDRADONKEY mainframes are used to handly many simultaneous inputs and outputs. For example mastercard transactions. It can have no down and must be able to proccess very large amounts of simple transactions. So redundancy and large I/O volumes are more important than speed

[@PATROL4800VTC]

Why all that story! just go to the start menu then press restart ?? that's all !!

[@douro20]

Starting up a mainframe like this is an enormous undertaking, especially when you're not even sure that the 3-phase inverter works properly; this thing operates on fully synthetic 480VAC power, and the device they were starting up and diagnosing in the beginning is the inverter which powers the whole system.

[@MatildaJourney]

kid there are room sized computers trust me

[@ulfmusskacken]

lol nobody understands you bro