Wow! No one could have known at that time what an impact Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Brian Kernighan would make to the computing world. Their legacy is still probably the most important contribution of any in the field of software and operating systems/programming.
This is how we programmed when I was at UCLA from 1973-1979. You punched your cards, then fed the deck into a reader and waited. The output prints came through a slot in the wall. When the printout started it shot out so fast you couldn't keep up with it, and it ended all over the floor!
I used to be a technician for a Canadian telecom and in the mid 70s, I worked in the Toronto Stock Exchange. They had an IBM 370 system, though I don't recall the model. I'd often chat with the operators.
that's not the point. AT&T was gracious enough to share this valuable source of historical information for those of us like me who are interested in the history of computers and the early technology used. So be happy. Learn something.
Interesting stuff! I never set foot in that building but in 1971 I rode past it on a bicycle during explorations from nearby Fort Monmouth. I wondered what went on therein.
WOW!!! A whole 3 MB!!! Back in the late 70s and through the 80s, I was a computer technician, working for a different telecom. I used to maintain tape drives, disk pack drives, line printers, punch card equipment and more.
@@8BitNaptime I'll try providing a picture. This is a 4 Kb core plane from a Collins computer. There were 32 core planes in a module and 4 modules in the computer, for a total of 64KB. I salvaged it from a computer that was being scrapped at work. Hopefully, UA-cam will allow the link. BTW, I still have this. It's on the shelf behind me. I used to work with core memory on Data General Nova and Eclipse computers. drive.google.com/file/d/0B5LapMwk8iPrNkFZUXA4cmd5dTg/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-UaImmIxbC-73mW1SoJYNFA
Looks like a larger version of my university's computer room. I recall the punch cards, hoping to not drop my large deck, turning them in, and waiting for the print out. But I was not very mature back then. I used to enjoy designing programs which made the panel lights (they were not LEDs) on the front of the main frames follow repeating patterns. As time went on, I advanced into the time-sharing area. I was still into my fun antics, but trying to make those lights do obscene patterns and spell out obscene words. It actually motivated me to learn geometry so I could apply it, making crude digital movies on the mainframes. The guy at the operator desk noticed and called me over, and said: "time-sharing is no place for horseplay." In retrospect, I read somewhere that Paul Allen and Bill Gates got their start doing that kind of horseplay.
Hi, I'd like to use a tiny part of that video on an IBPT video. IBPT is Brazilian Instituto for Tax and Planning. We are producing a didactic video on ERP benefits. I think we'll got 5 or 7 seconds voice over on history. Your images are exactly what we need. Could you give us permition, of course, showing AT&T credits by the images.
notice anything taped to the computer in the background of those guys working? ua-cam.com/video/HMYiktO0D64/v-deo.html its like looking at the future of the internet right there.
Everything and anything related to sales and money. Supply chain was not even in the picture yet. At this time period all these machines did was calculations. Terminals to the computer did not even exist outside of these rooms and were not what you had in the late 70' and 80's. Those punch cards were most often sales numbers or projections, or financials for AP and AR input to the computer and output to paper since again terminals were not like that on these mainframes. That type of terminal output did not grow until the late 70s through UNIX even though Bell Labs invented it in the mid 60s and release to the public about the same time as this video.
Amazing how my keyboard has more computing power than that entire facility.
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I wonder if that phone number & those extensions still exist? Anyway, I remember my early Computer Operator days. The company had several 1403 band printers which needed cleaning every few days. We'd all fight for who got to clean the metal character bands since it involved using denatured alcohol & always gave you a wicked buzz from the fumes.
At 5:40 the camera pulls back to show an IBM370. WHY is there a girl in a bikini (maybe) stuck to the machine? Seeing calendars with girls on them hanging up around auto garages is a normal site but this seems a little unusual.
the diskpack was like the usb stick today. Oh TSO is still used today in z/OS which is really the same OS except 64bit based on the system 370. It is extremely reliable and its a true 24/7 operating system. Too bad IBM is so stingy and does not allow people to download a copy to run on the Hercules emulator so young people can learn the OS and experiment. This is why IBM is losing sales over the years on the big iron because the new generation has no experience in it and so they never recommend using one in place of a 300 server rack running windows and requiring so much upkeep and expense.
The days of the "300 server rack" that requires "so much upkeep and expense" is dead. Welcome to AWS and Azure and GCP, etc. (you posted your comment in 2017; AWS was up and running). Rob Pike repeatedly talks about how awful TSO was. Eight Edition UNIX has /usr/games/tso which is a fake TSO "game" that simulates how bad TSO was.
In one sense sure, in another sense, not very far at all. Some of the applications (speech, integration with the outside world, vision) haven't progressed very far at all since the 70s and the vast majority of the world's computing power is spent on pushing ads.
If I had such a computer, I would be the first female dictator in the history of the World... Empress of Earth!!! 1.5mb per second!!! YES!!! (although the other day I was transferring files between 2 SSD drives at a rate of nearly 300mb per second. REGARDLESS... bigger is better (and certainly more impressive)!!! 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Oh, you'd be shocked at how really privative the computers were in 1963. Memory was not measured in megabytes but in kilobytes and there was little to no disk storage. Everything was single job batch programming with lots of cards and tape.
Wow! No one could have known at that time what an impact Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Brian Kernighan would make to the computing world. Their legacy is still probably the most important contribution of any in the field of software and operating systems/programming.
Great overview of HPC in 1973! Very illuminating.
This is how we programmed when I was at UCLA from 1973-1979. You punched your cards, then fed the deck into a reader and waited. The output prints came through a slot in the wall. When the printout started it shot out so fast you couldn't keep up with it, and it ended all over the floor!
My batches usually came back "Line ten - error"
I lived this life too. It hurts to watch this! Lol.
Did the Racquel Welch pinup come stock with the IBM System/370 or...
User installed option 😂
Raquel Welch is the pinup on the 370
LOL
Nice to see an IBM 370 computer room in operation. Footage is hard to come by.
I used to be a technician for a Canadian telecom and in the mid 70s, I worked in the Toronto Stock Exchange. They had an IBM 370 system, though I don't recall the model. I'd often chat with the operators.
No cameras allowed where I worked
5:35 Now I understand the origin of usr/bin
that's not the point. AT&T was gracious enough to share this valuable source of historical information for those of us like me who are interested in the history of computers and the early technology used. So be happy. Learn something.
True.Amazing I would like to work for AT&T .
Thank you.
Those days are missed!
One of the best company cafeterias I ever ate in. That's all I can remember about this place.
FYI: bell.works/
Only for coffee and ' donuts'.(Lol) Ok, now for something not indifferent.. This is cool, however, something for the modern day for 2019.Thank you.
Bar Bella
I dig the funky music.
Interesting stuff! I never set foot in that building but in 1971 I rode past it on a bicycle during explorations from nearby Fort Monmouth. I wondered what went on therein.
I love the music
wow, 3 million bytes is only 2.8 MB. Computers have come a VERY Long Way from the 1970s!
Computers have come a very long way since either the original, or my own comment.
Back when computers were really fun to be around.
Just a graphical proof of concept. Nothing to be concerned about. Call the operator on 2174 with questions.
WOW!!! A whole 3 MB!!!
Back in the late 70s and through the 80s, I was a computer technician, working for a different telecom. I used to maintain tape drives, disk pack drives, line printers, punch card equipment and more.
Core memory no less, it was basically hand woven. Crazy to think about. Love the look of the stuff.
@@8BitNaptime I'll try providing a picture. This is a 4 Kb core plane from a Collins computer. There were 32 core planes in a module and 4 modules in the computer, for a total of 64KB. I salvaged it from a computer that was being scrapped at work. Hopefully, UA-cam will allow the link.
BTW, I still have this. It's on the shelf behind me.
I used to work with core memory on Data General Nova and Eclipse computers.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B5LapMwk8iPrNkFZUXA4cmd5dTg/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-UaImmIxbC-73mW1SoJYNFA
@@James_Knott I find the idea of a computer accessing and using data stored on such a device to be quite fascinating
Holy crap this is awesome! Post more!
that brought back memories of all the perforated paper. gawd I hated tearing that stuff off.
Funny thing is AT&T sill use this exact setup including computers.
Thanks for the introduction. I'll be right over to drop off my punch cards for processing.
Sold! Do you offer home installation?
Its amazing how the device I hold in my hand has more computing power than a mainframe which occupies an entire story.
True, but without that , you wouldn't have this. It is amazing. But my God, Holmdel is now abandoned, being made into a shopping mall. What a waste.
I wonder where all this stuff went.
Imagine you mix up the IBM Model numbers of all those devices and instead of ordering a disk drive you will get a coffee machine.
HTTP error 418 I am a teapot
And to think a device dozens or hundreds of times faster than that and several magnitudes order more memory fits in your pocket today.
Or on your wrist!
Wonder what kind of art and music was being made with these computers
hello to the building for Severance!
It’s kinda funny to be watching this on a devise that is most likely faster and more powerful than all of these computers combined.
Looks like a larger version of my university's computer room. I recall the punch cards, hoping to not drop my large deck, turning them in, and waiting for the print out. But I was not very mature back then. I used to enjoy designing programs which made the panel lights (they were not LEDs) on the front of the main frames follow repeating patterns. As time went on, I advanced into the time-sharing area. I was still into my fun antics, but trying to make those lights do obscene patterns and spell out obscene words. It actually motivated me to learn geometry so I could apply it, making crude digital movies on the mainframes. The guy at the operator desk noticed and called me over, and said: "time-sharing is no place for horseplay." In retrospect, I read somewhere that Paul Allen and Bill Gates got their start doing that kind of horseplay.
“Fellas, ya think we can take Raquel down off the 370? If you make us look like a bunch of horny nerds on film, I swear to God...”
Anyone know the title of the music at the top of the video?
Hi, I'd like to use a tiny part of that video on an IBPT video. IBPT is Brazilian Instituto for Tax and Planning. We are producing a didactic video on ERP benefits. I think we'll got 5 or 7 seconds voice over on history. Your images are exactly what we need. Could you give us permition, of course, showing AT&T credits by the images.
notice anything taped to the computer in the background of those guys working? ua-cam.com/video/HMYiktO0D64/v-deo.html
its like looking at the future of the internet right there.
What were the people actually doing? What sorts of reports were they running and what sorts of data was being processed?
Everything and anything related to sales and money. Supply chain was not even in the picture yet. At this time period all these machines did was calculations. Terminals to the computer did not even exist outside of these rooms and were not what you had in the late 70' and 80's. Those punch cards were most often sales numbers or projections, or financials for AP and AR input to the computer and output to paper since again terminals were not like that on these mainframes. That type of terminal output did not grow until the late 70s through UNIX even though Bell Labs invented it in the mid 60s and release to the public about the same time as this video.
The prominent framing of the pinup on the 370 console... 🤦🏼♀
I just made a comment on that! I was hoping I wasn't the only one who saw that.
Amazing how my keyboard has more computing power than that entire facility.
I wonder if that phone number & those extensions still exist? Anyway, I remember my early Computer Operator days. The company had several 1403 band printers which needed cleaning every few days. We'd all fight for who got to clean the metal character bands since it involved using denatured alcohol & always gave you a wicked buzz from the fumes.
At 5:40 the camera pulls back to show an IBM370. WHY is there a girl in a bikini (maybe) stuck to the machine? Seeing calendars with girls on them hanging up around auto garages is a normal site but this seems a little unusual.
check out the view at 5:40
Nowadays, we can probably fit a million times the computing power and storage capacity of that entire facility inside a smart watch.
I bet the office ladies were fighting over Dennis and Ken.
Is that Raquel Welch?
Groovy!
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It's funny how in this setup the humans are essentially a *part* of the computer. Also… uh… 5:39.
The misogyny is palpable. In some ways, we've come a long way. In others, not so much. They featured that image what, a dozen times?
Anyone know the songs used?
What the hell is a Dataset? A Modem?
Yes
The Krusty Krab training video ain't got nothing on this!
The good old days! Don't forget your EOF card !!!! 😊😊😊😊
Boy it sure took a long time to type out "Please stay tuned for program on Computer Services"
This little video is totally retro!! ;-)
A half ton of paper a day!
wow 10.2MBytes harddisk unbelivable my 8TB for Video in 4K Videos on my desktop!
epic bikini girl on that big iron. no way you could get away with doing this today.
Raquel Welch, I believe -- at 5:38
The picture of her is not just on the IBM 370, its on the training film.
This is not a paperless office!
the diskpack was like the usb stick today. Oh TSO is still used today in z/OS which is really the same OS except 64bit based on the system 370. It is extremely reliable and its a true 24/7 operating system. Too bad IBM is so stingy and does not allow people to download a copy to run on the Hercules emulator so young people can learn the OS and experiment. This is why IBM is losing sales over the years on the big iron because the new generation has no experience in it and so they never recommend using one in place of a 300 server rack running windows and requiring so much upkeep and expense.
who runs windows as server when you have linux
The days of the "300 server rack" that requires "so much upkeep and expense" is dead. Welcome to AWS and Azure and GCP, etc. (you posted your comment in 2017; AWS was up and running). Rob Pike repeatedly talks about how awful TSO was. Eight Edition UNIX has /usr/games/tso which is a fake TSO "game" that simulates how bad TSO was.
5:40 wow, they really did just leave that on there while they’re filming a professional movie for other people to watch.
I also saw that! ;-)
The sad fact that now a cheap gas station burner smartphone stomps this room flat.
when I dropped 1500 cards on the floor because I was looking at beautiful operator, she felt sorry for me and lent me a magnetic tape
Code of conduct violation 3 seconds in. LOL
200 MB disk packs. Those were the days…
5:42 is that a pic of a woman in a bikini?
oh my god this is hilarious :D
Challenge: who's the bikini girl attached to the IBM 370 panel?
Almost certain that is Racquel Welch. I spotted her at the 0:02 mark. i.pinimg.com/originals/91/94/95/9194953ff6bf9565b713684ddb0ef099.jpg
@@kryptoskeptic Name the movie
In one sense sure, in another sense, not very far at all. Some of the applications (speech, integration with the outside world, vision) haven't progressed very far at all since the 70s and the vast majority of the world's computing power is spent on pushing ads.
WOW......we sent men to the moon on these type computers? ;-). Our smart phones can do all this and more in a split second......
If I had such a computer, I would be the first female dictator in the history of the World... Empress of Earth!!! 1.5mb per second!!! YES!!! (although the other day I was transferring files between 2 SSD drives at a rate of nearly 300mb per second. REGARDLESS... bigger is better (and certainly more impressive)!!! 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
1973! More like 1963!
Oh, you'd be shocked at how really privative the computers were in 1963. Memory was not measured in megabytes but in kilobytes and there was little to no disk storage. Everything was single job batch programming with lots of cards and tape.
wow.. 1000 lb of paper a day. who reads all that? poor trees.
5:40 NSFW :p
Corruption
Music on this video had zero effort put in