I loved it, gave me an appreciation for how brilliant people can be.

But also kinda made me feel bad because I am retarded compared to those that built these machines, and continue to.

Interesting.
Here is Part: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

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Interesting video, and reminds me that all computers started life for military application. Firing computers first, and later, notably used for encryption/decryption of information.

Really fascinating videos, I watched all 7 parts. I wonder how much the whole computer weighed?
Seems like it would be a reliable device, as long as it's well greased, and the 3+ operators are well trained.

Of course nowadays a single chip smaller than a fingernail could achieve equal results with 0 operators, but an electronic computer in 1953 would have been much larger and much less reliable (transistor tubes tend to burn out) and required more energy than equivalent to feeding a few humans.

Actually, the fire control rooms had more than 20 people all operating in a room the size of a small McDonald's dining area. I looked for pictures, but in the USS North Carolina, they have silhouettes of the operators huddles around the computers and it's mind-boggling how they got it all done. Ah, here it is: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_KuYLyRjiSR8/SfXkK4QJYEI/AAAAAAAAFbQ/egYSw3kQhfo/DSC_2338.JPG

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Really fascinating videos, I watched all 7 parts. I wonder how much the whole computer weighed?
Seems like it would be a reliable device, as long as it's well greased, and the 3+ operators are well trained.
Of course nowadays a single chip smaller than a fingernail could achieve equal results with 0 operators, but an electronic computer in 1953 would have been much larger and much less reliable (transistor tubes tend to burn out) and required more energy than equivalent to feeding a few humans.

lol @1:32
'The computer requires men, to ever turn its small cranks, which pleases the computer... for it is the computer's desire that man knows his place - subservient to the computer and willing to toil endlessly and meaningless-ly if such is the computer's whim.'

men drink coffees --> overclocking!!