Remington-Rand Presents the Univac

UNIVAC is one of the earliest commercial computers and was easily the most famous computer of the 1950s. This film, produced between 1950 and 1952, shows how the UNIVAC computer was used in business, defense and by the census. The film shows several of the important portions of the UNIVAC system at work, including the high-speed printer, the UNISERVO tape drive, the UNITYPER, card readers and the mercury delay line tanks that served as main memory. The programming process is fully discussed and a business problem is demonstrated. These films served a promotional film as well as a way to demystify computers to the average person.

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  Science & Technology

[MerleOberon]

In 60 years they'll probably think the same of our computers.....

[HD8Track]

I wonder if anyone got fired for looking at ASCII porn?

[Jim Hanson]

The printers, card readers and card punchers were loud but nothing else.

[nsumlar]

Was it loud?

[WRXvideos]

this sucks



[TRUPAC12]

Porn on punched cards:"look at these 500 cards, these are pixel information for her left nipple"...

[TheWaaaagh]

These videos are AWESOME

[buddhafollower]

it was better without U.N.I.V.A.C. ... people had jobs... etc. this one, and other computers, only for scientific purposes

[BurtBartlow]

Best part of video at 9:59, Programmer finishd his computer program on paper....lites his cigarette and he's out for the day.

[rushfari]

I thought Colossus was a analog computer, more a machine, like the differential analyser. Colossus was the one used at Bletchly Park in London for code breaking, right?

[ChrisJBrady]

One of the ealriest computers - but the Brits invented them with Colossus.

[Carvo Loco]

Oh, good old times! Coding by hand and smoking at work! Sure you can't beat that.