Man & Computer - IBM 1965
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Uploaded by ComputerHistory on Jan 7, 2008
The film Man & Computer, made in 1965 by IBM's UK branch, provides a basic understanding of computer operations. A large portion of the film shows the ways in which a computer can be simulated by five people using the standard office equipment of the day. The film employs a number of different techniques, including animations, and features a few brief scenes of an IBM System/360 in use—just months after the first machines were delivered.
Starting in the 1940s, IBM became a major producer of films used for sales, training, documenting business processes, entertaining at company functions, and educating the public. Several IBM films were made by respected filmmakers and sometimes featured well-known actors.
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I love the way these old documentaries promise a wonderful future with utopic cities and amazing new technologies.
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@brangrah1717 the german division did, not the whole IBM themselves
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Remember how IBM computers organized the prisoners in the Holocaust
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Sounds a lot like what the Venus Project and Zeitgeist Movement suggest.
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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.
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To look this and see the world as it is today.
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Not bad. I enjoy the cultural aspect of this. These movies are worth preserving and sharing. Thanks for posting.
mdentari 3 years ago 29
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)
csnc82 2 years ago 23