IBM Comedy 1970: Bob Newhart - A Call From Herman Hollerith

Film featuring Bob Newhart who receives a call from a Herman Hollerith, who tries to get support from Bob representing the Acme Product Company, for his new invention to record the 1890 U.S. census figures on punched cards. The skit wasn't a standard part of Bob Newhart's repertoire, but something commissioned specifically by IBM for the launch of IBM System 370. It might be one in a series of maketing spoofs IBM used to have with Bob Newhart on the evolution of early mainframes.

The movie was found in 2003 on a 16 mm reel in the IBM Sweden library archives in Stockholm and showed at their 75th year anniversary the same year. Thus the Swedish subtitles.

(In 1896, Herman Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention. It was renamed International Business Machines Corporation - IBM - in 1924: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith)

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Comedy

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• Bob Newhart
• Newhart
• IBM
• Herman Hollerith
• Hollerith

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

Useless without a live audience, even if dated.

[KaptKan1]

Young people will have no idea what this is about. None.

[fred5739]

been searching for years. brings back old memories.

[gillovski]

Does anyone have a copy of The Submarine Commander?

[mfrumer]

Wow! I have been looking for this video for years. I saw it when it was first released. Thanks so much for providing it.