Vintage Univac newsreel from the 1950s
Nice 17-minute video from the 1950s showing the inner-workings of a Univac, complete with VU meters, tanks of mercury, 6-bit characters, "clean desk" programming with flowchart templates, and the obligatory whirring tape drives. In the vocabulary of the 50s, the programmer is assumed to be a "he" even though Grace Hopper was one of Remington's chief programmers at the time.
This video was posted by the folks at the Computer History Museum.
Remington Rand Presents the Univac
Posted at 08:37AM Feb 27, 2008 by Peter Schow in Industry |