Computer History - A British View - Part 3 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

[tomtheebomb]

i wonder if the scientists featured thought one day we would watch this very video on a computer!

[sbostedor]

so much has changed - yet so little has changed

[pbizunow]

profound words at 3:46

[Baxxter101]

7:55 aw snap, whats going to happen when the computers dont want to be slaves anymore!?!?

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Fitting the film ends with the sound of a typewriter.

[Bullettube]

I'm amused at all the commenters who are amazed at what we had back in 1969. I built my first 2bit demo unit in school in 1968 as part of a class on electricity using transistors that were almost as big as my thumb! What we got wrong was how wonderful all the new jobs would be, when in fact the jobs became mundane and tedious. Of course, these same wonderful jobs were then outsourced to cheaper overseas labor.

[ereignisfelder]

and I'm still using the same keyboard

[100Hertzzz]

that touch pen game at 6:16 is nearly at the the level of some basic modern games! i'm genuinely shocked that we had these technologies way back in 1969... astounding.

[Starwins]

This revolution has led us to the age of porn

[xxkil]

those keyboards are great like changing channel on a old telly BE DOING!!!!!!

[STOPTHEEU]

@sbostedor What s the next step? :P

[MarkTheMorose]

Thanks for posting, a fascinating look back at the dawn of the use of computers outside the government/military/education sectors.  Also some very accurate predictions of how the computer could be 'misused' with terrible consequences for people.