Man & Computer - IBM 1965

[SuperBunkerbuster]

I love the way these old documentaries promise a wonderful future with utopic cities and amazing new technologies.

[brangrah1717]

Remember how IBM computers organized the prisoners in the Holocaust

[chickensforthewin]

@brangrah1717 the german division did, not the whole IBM themselves

[Alec0124]

21:00

Sounds a lot like what the Venus Project and Zeitgeist Movement suggest.

[eotunun]

Funny how "back then", such films focused on comprehension, while nowadays films about new digital products present you with how much cooler them chicks will think you are.

[188metalhead881]

To look this and see the world as it is today.

[CoolConejo]

Aliens did it first.

[Toca91]

And who would say we would comment about porn music and post the pictures of our breakfasts online?

[peshozmiata]

This video is presented in a very informative way, good job.

Also, 19:00 - wow, CT scanners were huge in 1965!

[gck86]

now IBM watson understand Natural Language.

[csweihe]

Made the year I was born. My dad was a hot shot computer technician. He said there were teams of techies who would be locked in "the computer" or a whole room for up to 2 days to repair problems.....this is cool.

[onedollarwill]

I Will adapt to the octopus method with ease for I've had the perspective of eight since adolescence. I wonder just how many words a minute the octopus will type?

[eMGeeGFX]

Poor kids, they grew up in a world of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter!

[GelandnaleG]

likpop

13:05

3:36

6:33

3:36

13:05

likpop

[stikpet]

Nice video. I like the "extremely rapidly" at 16:22. How quickly technology has developed is quite amazing.

[dywebhosting]

Excelent

[happygamestvfun1]

so true... man i love old documentaries...

[happygamestvfun1]

did bill gates make this shit?

[kallsop]

@happygamestvfun1

Bill Gates wasn't an embryo at the time.

[THE16THPHANTOM]

3 billion people back then?

[minnescanada]

The program at 10:58 is all wrong, it cannot work. since it is an endless loop that just keeps adding the number in slot 2 to the running total in slot 1 and never gets to the division in step 6.

Im assuming they mean that instruction 5 sends it back to step 2 with no control set to stop the loop. Oh well, this isn't a software movie, but a advertisement for IBM.

I'm assuming the eggheads at IBM were better than this.

[TheMechanicalLemon]

@minnescanada I'm sorry but i think you are wrong ,pay attention that the 3rd instruction changes the counter to 6, this way it skips the 4th instruction that adds B to A ,and 5th instruction that tells it to go back to the 2nd .

This way if the input is: 20,40,60 and 1000 the following will happen

1. A = 20 | 2.B =40| 3. (B > 999) = false | 4. A=B+A | 5. go to 2

2. B= 60 | 3. (B > 999) = false | 4. A=B+A | 5.go to 2

2. B=1000 | 3. (B > 999) = true -> go to 6 | 6.A = A / B| 7. print A | 8. stop

[lemonrind]

Enjoyable.

[thisshitiscalleddeaf]

Cultural education like this is important for study everywhere. we should have more of this.

[BuyerBrown]

So much for the City of the future idea, for crying out loud wheres my freakin public use jet Pack already!! LOL

[pufixas]

times changing... times changing...

[richieroller67]

Very interesting !

[applesweeter]

Are this basic still apply to today's computer?

[davor1pz]

Of corsre they apply to today's computers, only instructions are much different but the basics are the same.

[pufixas]

@applesweeter

i dont think so... cuz today's computer are more powerful and can do it in way simplier way, i'm learning c++ so i kind of know how it works.

[AwesomeMcTasty]

@pufixas

A high level language like C++ doesn't really teach anything about how a computer works at the basic level because you aren't actually writing instructions for the CPU, it's more like telling the computer what you want it to do and allowing the compiler to decide how to do it for you. Try writing a program in assembly language and you'll see what I mean.

[pufixas]

@AwesomeMcTasty

well, i know that assembly language is very hard, but nowdays no one using it because there is much easier ways to create a Program or game :)

[pufixas]

@applesweeter

binary? yes!

[VideyoJunkei]

Computers are fast, but getting the info into them is what takes the time. Think about this, everything you see on the internet was typed in by someone!!

[CivOtaku]

Excellently done video! Very informative and useful even today!

[droutsolias]

@CivOtaku excellent educational material...

[xoio]

WOW - Population 1965 = 3 billion

2010 = 6 billion plus = We're bloating this planet out!

[GMRDUI]

Neat! I found this to actually be pretty informative... like giving an overview of the "nuts and bolts" that goes into computers. I mean I know it's /incredibly/ dull to most people, but i'm interested in this sort of thing :(

[gevelegian]

God i love how they portray humans as Males... the ones that matter.... it was sexist... but i think that way was the right way... now women want equal rights and bla bla bla, but they didn't do what we did to get here... not saying they weren't important... they had their own attribution to history...

[lupinefever]

@gevelegian -you ARE kidding right?

[thenobodier]

@gevelegian it's not because they use the word man to describe all the humanity like the language wants or that they use that symbol that they are sexist and say it's the ones that matter. they keep saying "men and women" "what men and women program" "what men and women can do". the only sexist thing in this vid is the other meaning (male) of the astrological symbol used. it just happens the language you and they are using is sexist.

[cobrachoppergirl]

wow, ibm cataloging man on punchcards on their way into a concentration camp!

[medoelkorsan]

at that time documentaries were so cute i think the basic ideas didn't change just advanced techniques in the matter of graphics also the voice of men who speak changed into another archetypal one in these ages lol

[chuppa1chups]

They had 3D image editing back then! 18:22

[XxSTICH666xX]

yep using a Vector screen.

[csnc82]

1.- Future wars will held by computers and robots in space.

2.- A company that makes computers, or, a computer that makes companies.

3.- We invented computers (and therefore we can defeat dolphins)

[randomhero101202]

@csnc82 "We invented computers (and therefore we can defeat dolphins)" would make a good band name.

[Fanscale]

Is the narrator the same guy who did the nuke attack public information pieces?

[theproplady]

It sounds like Lawrence Olivier.

[rayofminneapolis]

It's all about the lady at 1:55

[pspjunkie777]

yeah :D

[at90percent]

Microsoft DOS was as sophisticated as this.

[blueblob4]

What machine was at 19:04?

[kinmanyuen]

OMG... 44 years ago. Everything now still uses binary code.

At the end it's thriling how accurate they were in predicting the importance of computers in the future.

I'm not a geek but this video explains surprisingly simple how computers work.

Still the same method:

1. human input

2. software program (binary)

3. memory

4. cpu

5. print "hello result"

[Firestorm2900]

I agree, they seemed to have an idea of what they had at the time. I really wonder if they knew just how much impact such a computer would have today, or just how powerful they had become.

[ultramonster]

imagine they would not have predicted this. Maybe someone would have to reinvent the whole technique now

[agardnahh]

Is it me, or are the kids (1:50sih) all left handed? Could it be a reverse negative?

[avatarelite]

no the numbers are correct

[kid29a]

"Is it me, or are the kids (1:50sih) all left handed? Could it be a reverse negative? "

Only two of them are left handed.

[shaurz]

A nice introduction to machine code...

[shariefwat]

They should've waited another 20 years for the PC lol

[mdentari]

Not bad. I enjoy the cultural aspect of this. These movies are worth preserving and sharing. Thanks for posting.

[iwtsiwts]

Muito legal este documentário, continua super atualizado.. so mudou os periféricos porêm a essência continua a mesma... so falta ser atualizado...

[rustygates]

And to think back then, when us humans made the 1st cutting tools and 'invented(Lolz)' fire. There was a period of time for 1000000 years in which we did not advance in tech at all.

[rustygates]

mm...108 years ago we were dreaming of flying, we didnt even know or think about what a 'computer' could be. And in 108 years. Were making small ships with more power than an entire room sized computer could ever do back in the 40's, 50's, 60's....20th century is the best century in all of history.

[shariefwat]

at 108, what is the biggest change to people and society. and is it good or bad?

[Argonaut22j]

I also like all the philosophizing about computers roles versus humans. I wish the computer industry embraced that concept more today, instead of the rampant techno-obsession we have instead. The music was good too.

[Argonaut22j]

I enjoyed this video, as a video from a company with a very different attitude towards computing that say Google. This was probably just a run of the mill educational video back in the day, but now it has a charm and philosophy that is rare today.

[daleroes]

The "Dr. Evil" voice-over is a nice touch.

[gck86]

thanks alot. i really enjoy watching this video.

[magicianspirit]

Wow, leave it to IBM to make the subject of computers slow moving and dull. No wonder so many people were afraid of and bored by computers back then. The film on YT "computer History--a British View" was done about the same time but more interesting.

[fuzzplugjones]

Uh, actually it's because there are some people who refuse to learn on their own and need little cartoons, witty Jeff Goldblum commercials, and hipster emo fags to get them to "feel" "comfortable" enough to touch a computer. What you mean to say is, "Wow, leave it to lazy whiny losers to need coddling, babying, and dumbing down of technology to do the simplest things."

[jeffr890]

Thanks. We do need to be reminded just how far we have advanced in the technology world in the last 50 years. With advanced PCs, we take for granted what is really going on in that 'box' sitting next to our monitor.

[HairyPeo]

It's quite fun to see those guesses from 40-50 years ago as to what the world would look like around the turn of the century. What became of the plastic garments and hovering/flying cars? ;-)

[wayupn]

oh... how cute is it that they demonstrate the punchcard system they sold to the nazis so they more efficiently could kill members of my grandfather.

[theravenisunskill]

I haven't lol'd so much in a long time.

For this, I thank you.

[coverout]

cool historical film

[drohmascourge]

Makes me nostalgic for Assembler. *sigh*

[RGalleway]

Great! Thx.

[ikedasquid]

I think the speed of core memory was somewhat overestimated.