Computer History - A British View - Part 2 of 3

A British film about computers from 1969. It is presented here as a historical look at how computers used to be in the 1960's when PC's and Macs were over 10 years away.

Shown in three parts. Sorry, but the 16mm print is rather battered!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• computer
• history
• old
• IBM
• mainframe
• technology

[DigitalStudent]

3:20 ... he predicted the internet!

[derslangerman]

it was shocking. i saw her bum. big turn on. oh yeah baby

[jaymorpheus11]

for

[jaymorpheus11]

If computers should help make the traffic flow I wonder what those walk buttons were even invented.

[TheManFromOctober]

@Daudania why didn't you like it?

[gilbertwham]

@HRMacQuacken You tedious Yank oaf. First mechanical computer? Charles Babbage British. The father of modern computing? Alan Turing British. First major computer system in business? Lipton's British. First programmable digital computer? Colossus. British Man who designed it? Tommy Flowers British. Not that you give a toss about history, as so few of you leave your pest hole of a country to see what the rest of the world looks like. America? Fuck, no. Go back to watching TV and eating grease.

[pixelr0]

@HRMacQuacken Teh Amerikan iPhone = the touchscreen is made in Germany, bluetooth chip is made in England, the CPU / flash memory is made by Samsung (South Korea) with ARM licensed design (England) and assembled in China. The lead industrial Apple designer is English etc.

[Daudania]

terible video, I had to watch this for school. Serieusly, t.e.r.i.b.l.e.

[rudeydudey05]

@HRMacQuacken

And you wonder why Americans are hated world wide lol.

[PacoOtis]

Come on! This is our history. One might attempt to remember what they had with which to work. In college we were accounting majors without adding machines!! It was rough! We spent all our time adding numbers and little time learning theories and such. This video shows us the shoulders on which we stand as we move forward. Well done!!

[HRMacQuacken]

Britain has no computer industry and is irrelevant to the real industry and innovation that is coming out of the US. Enjoy using your American designed PC clone, with its American OS, American browser, and American CPU while you visit YouTube, an American website.