Tomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC

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  • @warmstrong5612
    @warmstrong5612 7 років тому +153

    I've never had to check the oil in a computer before. lol

    • @wut6922
      @wut6922 4 роки тому +6

      Lots of mechanical moving parts. Times before everything was solid state.

    • @mikawanda3639
      @mikawanda3639 2 роки тому

      😂😁

    • @billsmith281
      @billsmith281 2 роки тому +1

      Dang it, no wonder my computer is always crashing, I never topped up the oil🤣

    • @connclissmann6514
      @connclissmann6514 Рік тому

      Forget the modern multi grade stuff today, back then you needed von Neumann Extra Gold. 😊

  • @kelvinwatson8482
    @kelvinwatson8482 9 років тому +160

    Wow - takes me back! Forest Grammar School Class 1A, academic year 1968 to 1969 - whole class was pretending to be binary registers doing adding (by raising of hands) under direction by Mr.Pomeroy, maths teacher. The clip from 5:05 to 5:23 features Roland Hughes nearest camera, me Kelvin Watson in middle (I look like Mr.Bean, says my young daughter - thanks!) with Martin Turner to my left. We were running test routines on memory boards; each tray had about 30 transistors, as I recall. Great days! - would love to hear from either of my test colleagues, or any others from that class - Great days!

    • @wisteela
      @wisteela 9 років тому +2

      +Kelvin Watson Great that you was involved with this.

    • @RedSkyHorizon
      @RedSkyHorizon 9 років тому +1

      +Kelvin Watson
      I'm impressed. What line of work did you eventually settle for ?

    • @falaicha
      @falaicha 7 років тому +4

      Kelvin Watson is Martin Turner Dr. Martin Turner I once worked in research project within uni of sydney, I am not sure but after I left I heard he retired, that was like 7-8 years ago..

    • @bobpitman9514
      @bobpitman9514 7 років тому +15

      I was at Forest 70-77 and the computer was replaced by the School library when we got a teletype terminal that linked us to the machine in the basement of Shire Hall in Reading.
      When they were dismantling it (I think in 1970-71) managed to scavange a few bits like the huge valves and odds that are probaby somewhere here at home where my wife wont find them and label them "rubbish".
      Mr Pomeroy!!! Maths teacher extraodinaire! Was in his class for Maths, he was a great teacher and saved me from remedial maths! I thought I recognised him as soon as he showed up in the piece!
      Thanks for posting and for the comments about my old school!
      I did go on to work in IT for many years, eventually (and almost by accident) founding an ICT consultancy that wound up heavily involved in web application development. Took early retirement and now just enjoy life!

    • @atheosmachina
      @atheosmachina 6 років тому +7

      I feel exceptionally sad in that I'm doing a computer science master's conversion at one of the best UK universities for the subject, and yet had I been a school kid in the 60s I'd have known it all already. My, how we have dumbed down the education system over the decades.

  • @AsDeadAsDillinger
    @AsDeadAsDillinger 10 років тому +46

    4:20
    Who else expected the machine to type :
    _'A strange game. The only winning move is not to play..'_

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому +3

      AsDeadAsDillinger I was expecting to draw a porn figure

  • @GaynorPaynter01
    @GaynorPaynter01 10 років тому +40

    Wow! Well it's thanks to boys like these that we are watching this on UA-cam today. Very interesting!

    • @jaynesamuel-walker3284
      @jaynesamuel-walker3284 5 років тому +7

      ...and girls...I learnt to program in 1974!

    • @jaynesamuel-walker3284
      @jaynesamuel-walker3284 4 роки тому +2

      @referral madness I started with FORTRAN WATFOR, then COBOL, BASIC, REXX, SAS, Usercode, Java, and PHP

    • @marionkennedy9651
      @marionkennedy9651 4 роки тому

      Yes very smart young boys!

    • @tommyhallum2054
      @tommyhallum2054 2 роки тому +1

      @@jaynesamuel-walker3284: Its a shame but here in the States young girls are not pursuing the math and sciences like they once did.
      The same year this film was made Margaret Hamilton built the hardware and wrote the code for the Apollo 11 Guidance system that landed on the moon. It's really a shame.

    • @jaynesamuel-walker3284
      @jaynesamuel-walker3284 2 роки тому

      @@tommyhallum2054 It’s the same in the UK and I remember seeing a photograph of Margaret Hamilton beside a stack of printout which was taller than her!
      I had the benefit of going to an all-girls independent school and our ratio of maths/chemistry/physics/biology to arts A-level (17 and 18 year olds) was 1:2. About 20 girls did science and 40 did arts. I think that ratio is unheard of these days.
      My school had a strong reputation for developing scientists since it opened in 1860. Our first science laboratory opened in 1890 and was one of the first science labs in an all-girls school in the UK.

  • @MrRosko03
    @MrRosko03 9 років тому +13

    Computer was donated to the school by the Army Garrison at Arborfeild was a big thing at the time. I went to that school at the time.

    • @trisstock1233
      @trisstock1233 9 років тому +1

      +Steffi Ri And here was me thinking it was Mother's Pride. I had Spud for maths in the early eighties, but maybe I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been. Actually had maths classes in the very room that computer sat in.

  • @courvoisibean
    @courvoisibean 4 роки тому +22

    5:50 love how they’re acting like it’s a nuclear plant going into meltdown and the world is about to end but really it just brokedown whilst playing drunken sailor 😂 😂

  • @johnkollor
    @johnkollor 11 років тому +21

    I think I would have a mental breakdown looking after that machine lol

  • @sunmustbedestroyed
    @sunmustbedestroyed 10 років тому +11

    Here these spiffy young chaps are hooking up one of the chiefmost engines of this personal electronics computing to the clock hands of Big Ben. Upon striking twelve o'clock buttercup, the the machine will express one plus one in binary and with additional assistance, calculate an answer. What a brave new world for these chaps indeed.

  • @malcolmpottinger5511
    @malcolmpottinger5511 2 роки тому +4

    The start up was a lot simpler, but being teenagers we persuaded the producer to make it look more exciting . We were disappointed that Raymond Baxter didn't come to the school, just an unknown producer.

  • @gusbaker4u
    @gusbaker4u 7 років тому +37

    "Some of the older boys have tried teaching the computer to print out pictures of naked ladies, but that sort of thing may take decades"

    • @cdl0
      @cdl0 6 років тому +2

      +gusbaker4u: We already did it back then, using ascii art on a Teletype!

    • @therealchayd
      @therealchayd 4 роки тому +2

      @@cdl0 There's a youtube video of the IBM 1401 at the Computer History Museum printing out pin-ups from code written back in the '50s.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 4 роки тому +2

      @@therealchayd
      "Where there is life, there is pr0n"

  • @joshtaylor6911
    @joshtaylor6911 Рік тому +1

    Imagine having to fault find youre phone everytime you start it....and change the oil.

  • @InfiniteGrenades
    @InfiniteGrenades 8 років тому +15

    I really wish I had been alive for the birth of computers. I'm only 22 and know my way around my machine, but it would so fascinating to witness the evolution of such an incredible technology.

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому

      NolanOnTheRiver shut up nerd

    • @nigeljames6017
      @nigeljames6017 6 років тому +2

      Kid Sundance Oh, save us from the uniformed and unwilling to learn plebeian.

  • @glynjones8761
    @glynjones8761 4 роки тому +7

    I won a computer in the 1970s but my dad couldn’t afford to hire a fleet of lorries to get it home

  • @TET2005
    @TET2005 8 років тому +29

    omg... it was like operating a nuclear missile silo...

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому +5

      TET2005 damn. It was like throwing a 11 year old to operate the ISS nowadays

  • @ZSU572
    @ZSU572 10 років тому +12

    I know all this lot , this is bizarre , The teachers are Pomeroy and Daley , Maths and Physics , and I used to test those boards as well..................

    • @jaydee5151
      @jaydee5151 10 років тому +2

      Keith ... minor memory lapse on the teacher names, the physics teacher was my uncle Cyril Dally.

  • @albaproductions9602
    @albaproductions9602 11 років тому +50

    I was at school in the seventies and while the computer nerds were learning binary I was learning the female anatomy with Gillian Clark behind the bike sheds.

    • @donutworry9605
      @donutworry9605 10 років тому +15

      Those computer nerds built this website and are now billionaires. How far did your right hand get you behind that shed?

    • @FYeahFilms
      @FYeahFilms 10 років тому +2

      Delty Ploy It's a joke you nerds

    • @donutworry9605
      @donutworry9605 10 років тому

      Dog cool story

    • @albaproductions9602
      @albaproductions9602 10 років тому +2

      Donut Worry I wasn't knocking computer nerds, moreover my stupid sense of importance had I not been behind the bike sheds with girls and focused all that energy into learning.

    • @facethestrange15yearsago81
      @facethestrange15yearsago81 6 років тому +5

      But did you check her oil first?

  • @maunster3414
    @maunster3414 4 роки тому +1

    Stumbled upon. And funny as all get out.
    I started this video with the same settings from the previous video I watched. Ya, so absentmindedly left at 0.25 speed and full screen I pressed play for this video.
    Sat back in my chair, relaxed.
    This video at 0.25 speed is hilarious. Like Monty Python gone Psycho!
    I howled with laughter!
    Peace Out to All!

  • @tmr2126
    @tmr2126 8 років тому

    Learning. Thanks all.

  • @OwenMcDowall
    @OwenMcDowall 13 років тому +11

    its amazing to see how far computers have come, my phone is more powerful that that computer

    • @JonasHamill
      @JonasHamill 4 роки тому +3

      My earphones are more powerful than that computer.

    • @therealchayd
      @therealchayd 4 роки тому +2

      It's likely that your phone is even more powerful than what would have been regarded as a supercomputer back in the 1980s.

    • @adorabasilwinterpock6035
      @adorabasilwinterpock6035 4 роки тому

      The chip in a plastic toy from china is far far more powerful

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 3 роки тому

      An average smartphone of today is on the same level as a full desktop PC of 10 years ago.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 3 роки тому

      An average smartphone of today is on the same level as a full desktop PC of 10 years ago.

  • @tangben9297
    @tangben9297 4 роки тому

    Why am i getting all this recommendations about our old tech back in the days. Not complaining though. On the other hand, I am very amazed watching all these now. It takes all my anxiety from this lockdown around us. I am also in awe at how fast how tech has evolved in just a short span of time.

  • @alisongodden4500
    @alisongodden4500 2 роки тому +1

    At school in 1982.I was told by my physics teacher that I didn't need to learn about computers as they would not be used in every day life!

  • @CassetteMaster
    @CassetteMaster 7 років тому +3

    Beyond excellent!!

  • @thewhippetbeans
    @thewhippetbeans 12 років тому +4

    what an brilliant clip! those schoolboys must be pretty old now, they look like they were in their 40's back then.

  • @Joke9972
    @Joke9972 4 роки тому +1

    Before that they had to clean up the manure from the computer every day, so, that was a vast improvement this here.

  • @pointlessfailure
    @pointlessfailure 10 років тому +50

    pfft, computers will never catch on. Complicated abacuses is all they are.

    • @Focusyn
      @Focusyn 10 років тому +1

      you typed that on a computer, moron

    • @mrnemo204
      @mrnemo204 8 років тому +10

      +Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Joke.

  • @kamranchuahan8025
    @kamranchuahan8025 4 роки тому +1

    Smart clever kids in those days

  • @emdxemdx
    @emdxemdx 8 років тому +22

    “There may be a worldwide market of maybe four or five computers” - President of IBM, 1950.

  • @dusterdude238
    @dusterdude238 6 років тому +1

    Nellie the in-tell-e-gent Elephant
    Damn, it booted faster and with less fuss then my modern windows 7 computer
    picturing Mr Bean going to Orientation day and pressing random buttons on the computer when no one was looking, and blowing the whole thing out.

  • @andrewjenery1783
    @andrewjenery1783 4 роки тому

    This is computing history, I was five when this was televised.

  • @whowhoMikeJones
    @whowhoMikeJones 2 роки тому +1

    I got a HP laptop that loads exactly like this

  • @TheShamusOfSlots
    @TheShamusOfSlots 10 років тому +27

    This is amazing ... I have never seen the kids learning binary math. This should be added to the school curriculum immediately in Canada!

    • @jiegokoji
      @jiegokoji 10 років тому +11

      In russia we learn the binary math at school :D

    • @mrnemo204
      @mrnemo204 8 років тому

      +Ильдар Каримов I learnt that in 4th and 5th form.

    • @CorporalClegg1000
      @CorporalClegg1000 6 років тому

      I thought in Russia binary math learns you.

    • @alphabet_soup123
      @alphabet_soup123 5 років тому

      We taught each other basic binary math in high school in Australia, but most teachers had no clue what it was.

    • @singlecell2498
      @singlecell2498 5 років тому

      We do in uk if u do computer science gcse

  • @xxwendyx
    @xxwendyx 9 років тому +3

    ruddy heck what a kerfuffle 😁😂😂😂😂

  • @sydhughes6041
    @sydhughes6041 2 роки тому

    We did this in my Grammar School in the Rhondda South Wales in 1960s...cant remember using Castrol GTX on start up however!!

  • @larsanderson3072
    @larsanderson3072 4 роки тому +1

    This reminds me of missile silo procedures. "Turn your key, Sir!"

  • @computingatschoolTV
    @computingatschoolTV 8 років тому

    Added to our favourites list :)

  • @ikramramli6410
    @ikramramli6410 4 роки тому

    Thank you Alan Turing..

  • @happydavid13
    @happydavid13 2 роки тому

    3:20. Nice to see a young Jacob Rees Mogg!
    I’d like to say that the Comprehensive school I went to in 1978 was just like this, though sadly it wasn’t.

    • @funkg
      @funkg 2 роки тому +1

      My thoughts too as I knew like many others that computers were 'the future' but my 'bog standard' east end comp of the 80s didn't really have any teaching of the subject. Its unfunny because at my sons secondary they only have a single day/two hours of teaching, which IMO is not enough. Every half term i have been paying for my son to attend coding camp which cost over £500 a week, out of reach for many families!!!!

    • @happydavid13
      @happydavid13 2 роки тому +1

      @@funkg I can add nothing to what you say except to thank you for your reply.
      I can see many similarities between the way our country is now to how it was in the 1970’s. We are stagnating and calcifying and our great nation deserves so much better.
      Anyway, take care. David

  • @darcy031685
    @darcy031685 14 років тому +2

    Unbelievable. Oil?! And I thought our first computer, with a turbo button, from 1990 was a dinosaur. Crazy.

  • @ZedsDeadXO
    @ZedsDeadXO 10 років тому +27

    Those guys had hipster glasses before it was cool, so radical!

  • @MeWrecks
    @MeWrecks 5 років тому

    Awesome video!

  • @BeepSmile
    @BeepSmile 14 років тому +3

    Of course the modern method of dealing with faults is to swear at the machine and google relentlessly until it work again/you give up.

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому

      BeepSmile of course

    • @temparalflux914
      @temparalflux914 2 роки тому

      The difference is alot of kids dont actually understand what they are doing with the computers..they just do it becuase the motions are ingrained from a young age, back then you had to learn hard science to operate it.

  • @UnderpantsMan123
    @UnderpantsMan123 4 роки тому +1

    Watching this in bed on a phone seems wrong.

  • @robbiecrosbie4506
    @robbiecrosbie4506 9 років тому +9

    Health and safety would have a field day with that now lol

  • @CamcorderSteve
    @CamcorderSteve 6 років тому +8

    1969, that was the year I passed my driving test. I was working for a higher purchase company, and they were experimenting with the use of computers. A whole floor housed all of the computer equipment. We had two monitors, (called CRTs), on the floor I was working on and everything had to go through a mainframe to access details of the customers accounts. It was 21 years before the first home computer was invented.
    There was no internet in those days and each computer stood on its own. No fear of being hacked or scammed - carefree days. A case of what you have never had you do not miss., I guess I would be just as happy writing BASIC programs on my Speccy as I am trawling the internet for something interesting to read.

    • @knightonlibrary1183
      @knightonlibrary1183 4 роки тому

      Apple II was released in 1977 (and wasn't even the first home pc)

    • @CamcorderSteve
      @CamcorderSteve 4 роки тому

      @@knightonlibrary1183 Oops, I should have said 12 years before the first home computer was invented, which would have made it 1981, I was unaware of the apple II I'm afraid.

    • @CamcorderSteve
      @CamcorderSteve 4 роки тому

      @referral madness I was unaware of that referral madness, how many households actually had one though?

  • @msremmert88
    @msremmert88 15 років тому +4

    Neat. I recognise the uniform.
    That's the Forest School in Winners, though back then it was a grammar school.
    Things have gone downhill somewhat since I left in 2005...

  • @CaptApril123
    @CaptApril123 4 роки тому +3

    That start-up sequence, Jesus! Nuclear turbines up to speed! Oil! Switching power over.... now ADD!

  • @Ripper15ltd
    @Ripper15ltd 11 років тому +1

    Funny watching that as its my school...

  • @Rachybabe2009
    @Rachybabe2009 15 років тому

    Those boys would probably have passed out if they had seen a computer like this.

  • @sdfkjgh
    @sdfkjgh 5 років тому +3

    7:11 It keeps hitting flat notes.

  • @nlpnt
    @nlpnt 10 років тому +1

    0:47 Only thing better would be if this thing had an old Mopar "Hamtramck Hummingbird" starter. Or a pull cord!

  • @Kiwibloke2025
    @Kiwibloke2025 4 роки тому

    I hope those guys lived long enough to see what tech we have today

    • @grahamplatt6237
      @grahamplatt6237 4 роки тому +3

      I was one of the boys in the programme representing ones and zeros by raising or lowering our hands. I remember having to test the diodes and making repairs by using a soldering iron. The computer took up a whole classroom with cables running through a hole in the wall to an adjoining classroom to two teletype terminals. Only one terminal could connect the computer at a time. The other terminal was used to type a simple programme on paper tape. The paper tapes were then transferred to the active terminal to programme the computer. I believe that our school was the first to trial a new 'O' Level subject "Maths with Computing" with a course book called "Numasets" written by Mr Hooper, head of maths, and Mr (Spud) Pomeroy.

    • @Kiwibloke2025
      @Kiwibloke2025 4 роки тому

      @@grahamplatt6237 absolutely awesome, fascinating topic 🙂

    • @malcolmpottinger5511
      @malcolmpottinger5511 2 роки тому

      We did.

  • @Shadow__X
    @Shadow__X 3 роки тому +1

    I wanna use one of those computers more than a modern computer...

  • @Leojim650
    @Leojim650 5 років тому +1

    wonder if that was the worlds first portable computer, complete with it's own oil refinery.

  • @clemstevenson
    @clemstevenson 8 років тому +5

    Yes, I've seen one of those data storage devices (in the rectangular silver can) on UA-cam. It held data in the form of an acoustic wave in a long spring, generated via a transducer. They had done this with a mercury-filled tube at one time. I presume that it could have been termed an early form of FIFO buffer. I presume that it would have had some regenerative circuity to maintain the data in the loop until accessed.

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому

      Stephen Clementson who cares u faqin nerd

    • @cdl0
      @cdl0 6 років тому +1

      +Stephen Clementson: If I remember correctly, the device was a long, thin nickel rod bent into a loop. Acoustic waves were generated by magnetostriction using a coil at one end of the rod/loop, whereby a ferromagnetic material is deformed during magnetization (this is why electrical transformers hum) and detected by a matching coil at the other end in which a small current is generated by the passing vibrations. Each unit held one thirty-two-bit word.

    • @marccas10
      @marccas10 2 роки тому +1

      I can't tell if you just made all that up or it is legit?

    • @clemstevenson
      @clemstevenson 2 роки тому

      @@marccas10 I saw one of these spring things on UA-cam. Large amounts of short term memory storage was a very major problem without high levels of integration, so they had to find ways around the problem.

  • @workonesabs
    @workonesabs 12 років тому +5

    As if! Imagine letting kids into the electrical switchroom!

  • @trebuh
    @trebuh 7 років тому +9

    props to that kid who made a fucking coding language by himself

    • @ZepG
      @ZepG 7 років тому

      Maybe a would have been future Bill Gates but might have lost his way.

    • @MirlitronOne
      @MirlitronOne 2 роки тому

      @@ZepG Probably became an accountant and made a lot of other people's money.

  • @clemstevenson
    @clemstevenson 4 роки тому +2

    What happens if I reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

  • @i.george2321
    @i.george2321 6 років тому +1

    these guys get to know more about how computers work than we do right now.

    • @erebostd
      @erebostd 5 років тому

      As long as you don't want to build a classic computer from scratch everything we learned back then is obsolete now, sorry to say..

  • @MegaMidoZ
    @MegaMidoZ 10 років тому +2

    they will faint out if they saw smart mobile phone

  • @Tampo-tiger
    @Tampo-tiger 3 роки тому

    I wonder why we never got to see the voice-over chap here. There was a very similar on Blue Peter who voiced over their story boards occasionally.

  • @Discrimination_is_not_a_right
    @Discrimination_is_not_a_right 4 роки тому +1

    Probably fairly simple stuff compared to what kids do with computers now.

  • @roboticpigeon42
    @roboticpigeon42 12 років тому +1

    Hah, thanks! Cheers for taking notice of my 10 month old comment, and, y'know, caring.

  • @chrislewis1753
    @chrislewis1753 4 роки тому

    i can barley use a laptop now so back then i would have been doomed

  • @thewhippetbeans
    @thewhippetbeans 11 років тому

    lol, apologies! was more a comment on the changing times than individuals, I fully respect their/your computer competence, I'm 34 and have only just mastered the etchasketch :)

  • @weeneldo
    @weeneldo 14 років тому +1

    @CLICKHEREKillACHILD Fuuucking hell haha, I was taking the piss out of people who are geeky enough to make jokes like that. Would have thought the ridiculous laughter would have given it away. Check you getting all serious about "actually I think you'll find that's inaccurate for the following reasons". You've made my day :D

  • @lars0361
    @lars0361 5 років тому +1

    "Nellie" is a National Elliott 405, according to
    mentalfloss.com/article/501480/watch-nellie-british-school-computer-1969

  • @MirlitronOne
    @MirlitronOne 2 роки тому +3

    Britain in the 1960s - land of opportunity. Too dangerous and elitist nowadays.

  • @The.Pickle
    @The.Pickle 2 роки тому +1

    Honestly, that looks more fun than anything I got to do as a teen in my 1990's school.

  • @lmcgregoruk
    @lmcgregoruk 12 років тому +1

    An Elliot 405? £50,000-£125,000 depending on specification, Typically £85,000
    1963 average price was around £125,000

  • @yaosio
    @yaosio 14 років тому

    Wow, that explanation of how you add binary is certainly much easier than explaining how to add binary!

  • @Alex1M6
    @Alex1M6 12 років тому +1

    Its amazing that whilst computers have gotten smaller and much more powerful, the people using them have gotten lazier and know almost nothing about how they operate.
    As long as they can get on facebook, that is all most care about.

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому

      Alex1M6 computers now must learn how WE operate to be better than us. the future is computers implementing some of our biological features to themselves

  • @bigmikevt
    @bigmikevt 14 років тому +1

    @plavins1 they probably invented some of the computers of now-times

  • @uriituw
    @uriituw 5 років тому

    The Apple II was about eight years away.

  • @Scruffy818
    @Scruffy818 4 роки тому +1

    This would make logging into Facebook somewhat complicated I feel.

  • @FCPWHAT
    @FCPWHAT 4 роки тому

    Ahhh finally the new Mac Pro!

  • @11guyinthechair
    @11guyinthechair 14 років тому

    if only they would see nowdays computers!

  • @superspit
    @superspit 14 років тому +3

    This is more like a circa 1957 computer rather than one from 1969....which were becoming more 'main-stream' in design by then.
    Most of the start-up procedures seem more to do with getting voltage to this cumbersome machine (?).

  • @connclissmann6514
    @connclissmann6514 Рік тому

    Where did you insert the Ethernet card? 😊

  • @piyush3836
    @piyush3836 5 років тому

    mans ability and achievement is limited by the tools he uses

  • @Jurgh909
    @Jurgh909 4 роки тому +4

    Breakdown once every 12 hours. A dream scenario for Apple and their magically irrepairable Macbooks

  • @mrs7195
    @mrs7195 11 років тому

    Now that is a Computer - running on oil...!

    • @kidsundance3970
      @kidsundance3970 8 років тому

      mrs7195 damn I can only imagine the smell

  • @chrislewis1753
    @chrislewis1753 4 роки тому

    prints out MY move u cant trust these computer things

  • @davemckiernan
    @davemckiernan 4 роки тому +3

    Nowadays, you'd have to carry out numerous risk-assessments before anyone would be allowed anywhere near its PSUs. I doubt any kids today would be capable of fault-finding at this level. Impressive to say the least.

  • @tonnumman1789
    @tonnumman1789 5 років тому

    Why do I feel like the framerate is high?
    Edit: and also the zoom in-out speed

  • @DelilahThePig
    @DelilahThePig 7 років тому

    Check the oil and start a motor-generator set?

  • @amazingly44
    @amazingly44 14 років тому

    the song they played was irish!!! :)

  • @michaelodonoghue7464
    @michaelodonoghue7464 6 років тому

    My first computer language was Fortran.

    • @FromSagansStardust
      @FromSagansStardust 5 років тому +1

      Me too, 1976 Newark College of Engineering (later NJIT)!

    • @michaelodonoghue7464
      @michaelodonoghue7464 4 роки тому

      Patricia McGill For Me it was probably 1973/74 and I was still a Student (Computer Club) at Unley High School (South Australia).

    • @FromSagansStardust
      @FromSagansStardust 4 роки тому

      @referral madness FORTRAN mostly, then COBOL and intro to SNOBOL4. More like 'did I know' than 'do I know'!

  • @shrivel1
    @shrivel1 12 років тому

    1969. He's probably retired, or about to.

  • @humaxf1
    @humaxf1 14 років тому

    I must remember to check the diodes in my dual core oh yea, where is the dip stick?

  • @esdeekay4344
    @esdeekay4344 6 років тому

    Tomorrow's world...50 years ago...

    • @funkg
      @funkg 2 роки тому +1

      Fifty three years ago now!!

  • @11guyinthechair
    @11guyinthechair 14 років тому

    @bigmikevt
    yes. but i mean back then!

  • @ListenAndLearnChannel
    @ListenAndLearnChannel 15 років тому

    that was an easy boot up sequence

  • @mp2611
    @mp2611 14 років тому

    the ORIGINAL computer nerds, these guys sons and grandsons are here today as computer programmers and software engineers, thats if they ever stopped playing noughts and crosses enough to go get laid

  • @UncleFeedle
    @UncleFeedle 2 роки тому

    They all look like Brains from Thunderbirds. 🤓

  • @jut20five
    @jut20five 6 років тому +3

    Hmm didn't have anything like this at coopers comprehensive! Can't have future site labourers and bus drivers messing around with this stuff . Good lord no !

  • @Dunkypoo22
    @Dunkypoo22 14 років тому +1

    3.17, omg its harry potter!!

  • @Abrahandsome3200
    @Abrahandsome3200 14 років тому

    tAHTS A REALLY BIG IPOD :D

  • @larsanderson3072
    @larsanderson3072 4 роки тому

    I wonder if they used "DOS Shell Oil".

  • @MisterWillX
    @MisterWillX 5 років тому

    Don't forget to change the oil every 3000 miles.

  • @PhillyCopsAreCorrupt
    @PhillyCopsAreCorrupt 13 років тому

    @Riiye
    Before you start calling people stupid, you may want to reread my comment. LOL. I was using sarcasm to point out that Macs are far superior to PC's.