Vintage 1962 "Digital Computer Techniques" - core memory, magnetic storage, etc.

[@radoslawbiernacki]

Ohhh, this is a pure gold. The quality of educational aspect of those old military movies!

[@bob4analog]

9:00 Amazing how much this resembles a video head drum in a VCR. Principles are pretty much all the same.

[@victorarnault]

I took an Numeric Calculus book from college's library and get really impresive. It's amazing how they made this thing years ago.

[@michaelyapkf]

A very educational video. I love it. Real Classics!

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Hi Rocky, thanks very much for your feedback. It is very much appreciated. And thanks for watching.

[@johneygd]

Absolutely incredible stuff and well explained.

[@lwilton]

Deliberately simplistic, but that is what you want for an introductory film. A pretty accurate description of how a great many first generation computers worked. Ten digit registers which very often could only legally hold decimal digits were very common, as was the two digit opcode and two 4-digit addresses. Almost all arithmetic was done in decimal in the early days on these machines. When character I/O was grafted on (usually as an afterthought, when the business guys wanted to use the computer the math scientists had devised for their own use) it was common to use two digits per character.

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Hi I Wilton, thank you for your thoughtful commentary on the Digital Computer Techniques film. I appreciate your insight. Nice to see the word "Opcode" used. Haven't heard that term in many years. Sounds like you know your stuff. ~ Victor, CHAP

[@victorarnault]

I love these videos!

[@BrekMartin]

That was interesting, and I’m only 4 minutes in. It wouldn’t have dawned on me to use a decade counter plus several multi-input OR gates to make a binary counter.

[@tabasco1998]

lovely

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Thanks!

[@andrewdean3560]

this coin with hole through it computer core matrix could be time smuggled to look like fashion or chainmail armor, your choice

[@ChatGPT1111]

I tried this already. Everytime a midevil knight would impail me with his lance, I’d get somebody else’s doordash order.

[@ThunderAppeal]

The 'digital computer, though it lacks imagination and initiative'. Hey! Get out of my head!