Computer History – A British View – Part 1 of 3
A British film about computers from 1969. It is presented here as a historical look at how computers used to be in the 1960′s when PC’s and Macs were over 10 years away. Shown in three parts. Sorry, but the 16mm print is rather battered! To my surprise this clip was featured in ‘The Guardian’ newspaper’s Technology supplement on Thursday December 6th 2007.
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lol the guy at 0:55 makes me laugh
the guy talking at 1:00 is pretty funny…
In the UK for some reason is is spelt cheque, although it is said as check like the geezer in the film did, although the other kind of check is spelt the same. It does makes more sense to spell it check like in the US. Most of the spelling diffrences between you guys and us revolves around not having u’s like in colour ie color in the States. The reason I was told for the diffrence was the yanks not wanting to spell things the french way which seems a damn good reason. Anyway peace out.
sorry for the – i did it by mistake
he it says that millions of checks are being made but that was in 1969 imagine 2009
lol 1:05 she might not be alive. she mustve been assasinated by the 1960s geek squad lol
I wanted a video to get a historical perspective of “computer evolution” in the hope of understanding “computers” better.
At last I ve got a series of videos that come close to what I was looking for.
hahhaha
LMFAO AT 1:05 omg that was so funny but honestly I wonder what she thinks now
wtf …humans are really awesome
lol soo fukin noobish this vid why even bother makin it lol
very very informative
Hey! He didn’t ask for a vegetarian meal – but being British he is going along with it. Stupid computer.
WOW
the man at 1:07 knows what he’s talking about.
lol 0:56, the guy is high!!!
funky bulbs, that beep when turned on. I love these old videos their just so interesting to look at!
fuck
The professor was absolutely correct.
Please mind Konrad Zuse’s machine. Afair, he was the first to use binary digits, and float point operations.
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Its this plastic society man… Its like far out.