And each little ring needed THREE wires through it.... Buy a "core memory" module on eBay, while you still can. An amazing technology. (I had to edit that... originally I had "Buy a bit of...") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
This piece of hardware is a gas neon diode used as noise generator. The R & N in ERNIE stands for Random Number. ERNIE was a Colossus digital computer.
I ❤these Rank Look At Life videos from the 60’s I have a connection with this one as my wonderful late mother worked for a company as a punch card operator from 1970 till around 1980 🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧
My next door neighbor retired 10 years ago he was in It since punched card to working at running large computer systems in modern times to becoming a Government IT consultant retiring at 65!😀
"And if you have the luck to hear from Ernie, it's said to be quite an enjoyable experience."....today, if you hear from Ernie, it's means your in trouble.
What a complete crock we’ve been sold. Punch cards, tapes we never understood even that. Now they harvest info from our every move as we drones buzz about the hive.
expressed in numbers " I was going to argue that point but then I looked at the formatting of the quoted text. LOL Still, I prefer mechanical analogue computers working with analogue variables like speed an torque - a bit like the computers in an Invacar calculating the correct drive ratio for engine speed and power for the speed of the vehicle.
It only took UA-cam 56 years to recommend this video. I should send a telegram to their complaint desk.
The term "Patch" comes from errors in punch cards, tape was used to patch a hole so they could reuse the tape/card
Eh, I mean the phrase "patching something up" predates punch cards
They are making magnetic core memory at 4:22 Each of those little round things she is pushing the wire through is a magnet that can store one bit.
And each little ring needed THREE wires through it....
Buy a "core memory" module on eBay, while you still can. An amazing technology. (I had to edit that... originally I had "Buy a bit of...")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
To think it once took a computer almost THREE HOURS to draw a picture of a cat asking for a cheeseburger!
"Hey, Dave: bet you can't fit this stock footage we have of a chameleon into your film about computers."
If were around in the 60's this programme would freak me out !!!
Everyone looks so spiffingly happy
Wire wrapped backplanes and core memory - happy days.
7:20 All the achievements since the 60s and we are still not able to do this... (double meaning)
The man with a pipe is driving up Willesden Lane, Kilburn.
'Yesterday the valve-operated computer was cumbersome'. You mean, unlike these?
A smartphone would have blown their minds what technology will blow ours 60 years from now?
I wonder, I will be 130 years old then!!
"Ernie" was no computer at all but an industrial mercury vapor rectifier.
This piece of hardware is a gas neon diode used as noise generator. The R & N in ERNIE stands for Random Number. ERNIE was a Colossus digital computer.
Almost looks like a set from an Irwin Allen TV show.
watching this on a computer :p
I ❤these Rank Look At Life videos from the 60’s
I have a connection with this one as my wonderful late mother worked for a company as a punch card operator from 1970 till around 1980
🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧
My next door neighbor retired 10 years ago he was in It since punched card to working at running large computer systems in modern times to becoming a Government IT consultant retiring at 65!😀
i wonder if we will ever have ipads
I doubt it. People won't want to spend all their time staring at a screen... ;)
"And if you have the luck to hear from Ernie, it's said to be quite an enjoyable experience."....today, if you hear from Ernie, it's means your in trouble.
Interesting, these 'computer' things....do we still have them nowadays?
Still not a monitor in sight...
Oh, that chess thing happened with IBM's Big Blue right?
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What year was this?
Does these machines run Crysis?
What a complete crock we’ve been sold.
Punch cards, tapes we never understood even that. Now they harvest info from our every move as we drones buzz about the hive.
For those interested, this film was produced in 1963. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_at_Life_(film_series)
Ho my i woke 1 xmas morning nit a clue what yo do with a h type wrighter omg this computer omg
beware AI
They look interesting but I doubt they will catch on... ;)
Bit like Politicians then!... They need to be 'punched'...Nothings changed!😀
CHECK MATE! huahuahua
To think computers are now taking over jobs all over the world!
what the year is in this movie?
196x
1961 I think 😀sorry about time delay 😀
@@edwardoneil3962 Don't sweat it. Time is relative...
6:20 Old school Google translate :)
Probably worked better.
5:47 Mercury Arc Rectifier!
2:04 "they can
02:07
deal only with things which can be
02:09
expressed in numbers
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I was going to argue that point but then I looked at the formatting of the quoted text. LOL
Still, I prefer mechanical analogue computers working with analogue variables like speed an torque - a bit like the computers in an Invacar calculating the correct drive ratio for engine speed and power for the speed of the vehicle.
should have stopped for the old lady on the left at 1.08 waiting to cross the road. BAD driving
She didn't have a foot on the crossing, therefore he could pass.
Smart Alecs randomly stopping for no good reason are dangerous.