A short (17 min.) documentary about one of the earliest and most famous vacuum-tube computers.
From the Youtube Post: "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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MarineGunrockAutomatic upvote for awesome computer history.
MarineGunrockHaha - at 5:52 when he says "at twelve thousand digits per second" - 12,000 digits (bits) divided by 8 bits per byte is 1,500 bytes per second, or 1.5 KB/s. Wow that's fast!
therealblankmanImpressive, but will it play Crysis?
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therealblankman*beg your pardon, but might you see fit to upvoting this great short documentary. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
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