Making Electrons Count (c. 1950)

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8 жыл бұрын

This early 1950s film provides a fascinating tour of the WHIRLWIND I computer facilities at MIT, illustrating daily routines, problem-shooting and step-by-step procedures that computer programmers and other users go through at the research center. Henry Kolm and Robert C. Merton make appearances. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.

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@lynnmcfarland5746 4 жыл бұрын

That "physicist" is my Dad who was a professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and two other universities during his career. The movie was completed in July 1954. I have the MIT memo announcing its availability. My mother is the redhead in the paper tape room and one of the first female computer programmers. They married in September 1954. Both of them are gone now but I still love watching this movie!

@papadop 3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. I currently work in EECS at MIT.

@rushmore1539 2 жыл бұрын

THAT IS SO SICK May they rest in peace Hope your doing well

@seanc.5310 10 ай бұрын

May they rest in peace. Thanks for sharing

@joeguzman3558 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure you had a great upbringing having great smart parents

@papadop 3 жыл бұрын

As an employee of MIT for almost thirty years, I love this channel and it’s content. I especially enjoy trying to identify the department buildings and their locations, if they still exist.

@ozcankamanl2939 5 жыл бұрын

I am fascinated at those things.I want to live this counrty just for these reasons.

@shyleshsrinivasan5092 5 жыл бұрын

Wow ! Real pleasure watching this !

@Strothy2 5 жыл бұрын

And here I sit barely understanding how to program c++

@davewade3724 5 жыл бұрын

According to wikipedia Core wasn't added until 1953. As a core plane is shown early in the film, I suspect it was made 1953 or 54

@Muonium1 5 жыл бұрын

It was. Look at the calendar at 18:32

@tusharagrawal5458 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I really want to see them live. I had something about computers in me (like a fascination) and its revived again. 😄. Lucky those, who gets the opportunity to see, work, and learn about them live.

@spicywings5583 4 жыл бұрын

Ahoy!

@thewhitefalcon8539 11 ай бұрын

what would these people think if they knew that in 2020, our computers would spend 90% of their time completely idle and another 9% showing us advertisements, and programmers would type their programs directly on the computer and the computer would check them for mistakes?

@ChatGPT1111 10 ай бұрын

And the 90% of the 10% non-idle time would be spent processing cat videos, spreading false information for manipulating all of us and last but not least, the basics of twerking.

@edgarricardoperdomoayala9864 11 ай бұрын

increible lo complicado que era compilar y depurar un programa.... y lo limitada que era la interacción con el compu... y ahora con todo los avances solo vemos youtube, tick tock, facebook y mas... verguenza es que debiera darnos...

@jimwhitehead5728 5 жыл бұрын

The year of the film appears to be 1953. At 18:54 it shows a July 1953 calendar, and at 18:58 there are other calendar day images with the year 1953. However, this is inconsistent with other footage which depicts Fall weather when the doctor is parking their car. The film also shows magnetic core memory, which was demonstrated in August 1953 (www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/whirlwind-computer-debuts-core-memory/). The clothing worn by people in the film also appears too heavy for summer in Cambridge, but would be consistent with Fall weather. So, best guess is filming occurred in Fall 1953.

@BigDaddy-yp4mi 3 жыл бұрын

Besides begging for affirmation, your point is..?

@jimwhitehead5728 3 жыл бұрын

@@BigDaddy-yp4mi A historian looking at this film would want to know when it was shot. I was providing a rationale for a specific date, in hopes that other historians would find it useful, or have additional information which would point to a different date.

@gth042 Жыл бұрын

In the "example", I wonder why they didn't feed the output to a teletype instead of taking pictures of an oscilloscope. Dramatics, I guess.

@invariant47 11 ай бұрын

7:34 whats the name of this book

@almostfm 2 жыл бұрын

Was John Fitch the narrator for this?

@malvinderkaur541 9 ай бұрын

One cannot but marvel at what human mind is capable of thinking then creating the world which got created around us, whether conscience or well, yes, destruction also, nevertheless everybody is finally coming to conclusion it’s better to be on good trade bussiness zones with each other then wars. Hopefully further social civil discipline shall develop further to contain certain conditions allowed to go on