UNIVAC - Then and Now

[robyrobrob125]

But can it run Crysis?

[Morahman7vnNo2]

You fools! They still have large super computers that were based off this one!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Jeez, not much has changed eh?

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

the RAMAC is better than any of these.

[pally3209]

i love the challange though.... even though im horrible at summerizing videos.... dont know how to translat it to words... kinda hard to explain.

[pally3209]

lol and i have to write a 200+ word "short" summery on this...

[electrostatic1]

Notice how there is no mention of Alan Turing.

ENIAC was a Turing engine. All modern computers are Turing engines.

Turing arguably won WWII for the allies by cracking every code the Germans could come up with (Enigma was just one...)

Turing was shamed into committing suicide in 1954 after years of denigration for being a homosexual.

The fact that they still refused to acknowledge his existence 6 years later is pretty sad.

[jtree007]

@electrostatic1 Yep you are right, but unfortunately all of Alan Turing's work was classified when this was made. I think it was classified until the 1980's but I could be wrong.

[Nadeldrucker]

@electrostatic1 Well, but it's the same with the contributions of Konrad Zuse to modern computing. They left many things out, Zuse for being German, probably.

[bobbygnosis]

Why am I watching a Ren and Stimpy cartoon without Ren and Stimpy?

[jephgirl12]

thanks to this video.....the PAVIA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SSC Students in Philippines.help us to learn about ENIAC in Easier way....

there 33,000 plus people watch this but those who watch are Interested to be like J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly!!!!!!!!!!

[webnothing]

It's amazing to think that most of the computers found in computer landfills are each capable of out performing a 1950's calculator by at least 1000 times. People take technology so much for granted today. It's just mindblowing that we have attained such technology without being aware of how truly powerful it is.

[Grayrock667]

There are more than 5000 computers, lol...

[TheTaco1995]

now my computer is as big as my hand and i can do everything it could in 1 milisec not 1 day

[myoldmac]

also look for konrad zuse Z1 computer

[ArjobMukherjee]

I wish i know all the history and essence of our technologies that are changing by second.

[RedPortiaOne]

Back then it was a room sized computer. Today the same rechnology can fit into the palm of your hand

[Minifig666]

And who knows? One day computers like these could let you watch this film on the other side of the world to were it is served!

[luridplanet]

This is pretty funny - nothing has changed: we are always wanting more speed no matter how advanced technology is

[davidtoddnevins]

> Love it :)

Thank you for sharing this wonderful history of humankind and computing !

It is a treasure and a super learning tool :)

[jtel]

Thank you so much for making this old video available. By the way, I personally don't see what's humorous about the video. :)

[ewaf88]

Great video - I womder what these early pioneers would make of the I-Phone 4 if it was sent back in time (apart from cursing the lack of a Network)

[plushman79]

@ewaf88 they would probably laugh at it. Considering the i "PHONE" doesn't work very well as a phone... and it has "phone" in the name!! Give them a blackberry.

[ewaf88]

@plushman79 Yes - at my place at work too many people have one and parade it like a fashion accessory. My veiw - 1000's of dubious Apps and it's too bulky. Surely it's the new 'Brick' of the 21st Century.

[turnermedman1231]

before the second world war, 1941? i thought it started in 1939

[ewaf88]

@turnermedman1231 I think that was when the USA joined - so anything before that date didn't matter to them so to speak

[blakegriplingph]

But can it run Crysis?

[jessexbraughton]

@blakegriplingph duh dumbass every computer can run crysis...

[thefarazch]

I AM

[cristelvideo]

This film claims that the ENIAC was the first electronic computer. I don't believe that is true. The first computer was the "Colossus" built in Bletchley Park UK in 1942/43 and used to crack german secret codes.

[qed100]

@cristelvideo

This film was produced in 1960. At that time Colossus and the work at Bletchley Park were still secret.

[cristelvideo]

This film claims that the ENIAC was the first electronic computer. I don't believe that is true. The first computer was "Colossus", installed at Bletchley Park UK in 1943 and used to crack German codes.

[Jemmer1000]

But UNIVAC 7 eliminates seat-squirming, hand-rubbing, and awkward magazine-flipping almost completely.

[RichardEllwood]

You guys are so far behind the times! I just installed a pirated Hacaunivacintosh on MY Univac. I had some trouble getting the neon lights driver to work, but once I fed in a batch of punched cards with the code for a smiley-face-computer icon, it's been printing GUI updates fine -- AND I'm blowing far less tubes! Can't wait to see how well this baby handles WOW.

[gsp2241]

@RichardEllwood what about your flip-flop concepts?

[insultant]

Please forgive me but I am a total Univac noob. I just spent the last 7 months getting it installed and have just filled the liquid mercury into the tanks for the delay line memory. It doesn't appear that the propagation medium transduction is being reintroduced to refresh the memory as the manual describes. No one at Remington Rand will even answer the phone! Can anyone please help me?

[JesusManson323]

Maybe you should have bought a MACivac instead. Sure it costs more up front, but you don't have to worry about half-life radiation and...it just works.

[insultant]

Thank you Jesus but isn't the MACivac only really just used by creative-types? Is it capable of calculating trajectories of icbm's AND predicting the results of elections? I'm going to use it to run a start-up superpower country. If a MACivac can handle these functions then it might be a better idea because I'm getting really frustrated here. I don't have much time because the current superpower country I'm involved with is going bankrupt and this project needs to be up and running soon!

[JesusManson323]

I just upgraded to "UNIVAC 7" and I love it. My vacuum tubes run so smooth now.

However, the Service Pack was a pain to install...it required me to add another room onto my house.

[brn2bwild2001]

How long did it take you to download the Service Pack? Remember modems were running at about 300 baud. Assuming the Service Pack is 100MB, it would only take about 231 days to download the Service Pack.

[alloria]

Juat don't install "Univac Vista" or you will need five houses to contain it all, and it will only run at half the speed.

[Serpico261]

ITS A FACT..........BY UNIVAC

[DOFUSTA]

nisiquiera se ve esta ched

[jacgoudsmit]

Too bad they cut out just when it's getting interesting... I would have liked to hear what expectations he had for the future which of course is now long past...

[txtransam]

02:33 "Vac-you-umm tubes ..."

I'm going to start pronouncing it that way ... Ha!

[Franquay]

That's "Vac-you-umm toooobes ..."

[cisco9x]

They were lucky in a way, they didn't have Windows Vista to screw things

[cisco9x]

Where can you get those retro chairs at 8:58 - they are well crucial

[marlls1989]

5000, Wow! What a great number!

Counting every remote control and other microcontrolled device I belive that I have that amount of computers at home

[MerleOberon]

Where do I get one of these Com-puters?

[K9spot66]

Wonderful....For those of you who do not grasp the humor of this video, consider the time. It is 2009. If you have watched this, you have done so on a personal computer with a high speed connection to the Internet. Seventy years ago, --likely after your grandparents were born--that sentence would have been gibberish and the newest and best of dictionaries would not be able to define several of its nouns. The irony of watching this video today, is both remarkably stunning and great.

[Orious69]

5000!!?? what happened to the other 10 million..oh i get it, its the 1960's.

[TruthandJustice101]

Can you imagine when ENIAC got a BSOD?

Dear god, that must have been ugly.

[cenzo188]

A long time ago, i talked to someone who had worked with UNIVAC. When it crashed, the lights would actually flicker in the entire building.

[kinmanyuen]

lol... one of the first computergeek chatter at the end

[Barefootterry]

any film on the yuk-7, I used in the mid 70-s

also played space war on them, with the uya-4-s, military display.

I ran the paper tape program through the teletype-s paper tape driver unit.

And the space war loader. cool a Zierhut design I believe.

whow have they changed.

be blessed....

[Agitpropist]

There's more than 5000 computers!

[baddmanaz]

which part was humorous?

[WetlandsRemediation]

Then notion that engineers and mathematicians have a sense of humor.

[Zarathustra799]

I like how they cut off the fellow's speech at the end with music. 'Yap, yap, yap!!!' alright, enough of this boring yapping. THE END

[scottmaxys]

absolute gold!!!

[bob4analog]

@scottmaxys

Ditto!

[toborthegreat]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful video. Would you or anyone you know have video of the Burroughs 205B computer? Thanks Victor

[theawesomone]

ha ha ha. My ipod has more processing power than those 5000 computers put together.

[Kashaslove]

My Dad worked for Univac. wonder if he has anything from those days of old.

[ct1401]

Kashaslove,

In clearing out my dads basement, we have come across numerous Univac 1004 parts,hundreds cards, control panels and other items. He used the univac 1004 till the early 1970's. Replaced it with a IBM 1401 that is now in the loving hands of The CHM.

[rambow70]

wow his voice is soooooooooo boreing

[Pablos544]

Were're seeing The 'Nano-Information' age, information every second, where up till now it's been the tail of the semi-conductor revolution. Back in the days of ENIAC vacuum tubes were an all encompassing 'new way' of doing things and to those early people it must have seemed like a vast cloud stretching over the entire horizon and it was all very exciting. Now, even the latest microchips seem 'old news' just like tubes of ENIAC must have seemed at the time between MS-DOS & Windows 98 .

[Pablos544]

Back in the age of ENIAC where everything was tubes and a few 000's calculations per second was deemed impressive, it is easy to forget the every-day person's perspective where computers were once only property of powerful institutions like governments and the military .I wonder what their reaction would have been had they seen the way we live now with our PC's, MAC's and Linux'es, and what our great-grandchildren will think when they see a video of us with our computers in the distant future.

[Dangoxs]

@fuzzplugjones whats myspace?

[biped19]

@fuzzplugjones

LMAO

[antoin654]

why? they are pretty girls.

[gtq838]

@fuzzplugjones lol

[tomcatdcn]

@fuzzplugjones So what's your point exactly?

[pokamonmaster1997]

@fuzzplugjones facebook to be exact :D lol, but i do agree, but i use the computer for good

[cr9527]

5000 computers? lol

[peppeddu]

No one knew.

And now even in their wildest dream they could have imagined that one day we could be all connected to each other via a global network. (the Net)

[marshalauth]

Love the vids CHM keep up the good work of preserving the past for future generations!

[HotforRobots]

That guy at 11;25 is a tool