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Second part of the out-of-print and unavailable documentary about computer history.
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1 year ago 0 + -Impact of World War II on technology
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1 year ago 0 + -The Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania, birthplace of ENIAC
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1 year ago 0 + -Movietone reel about the "electronic brain"
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1 year ago 0 + -Ted Withington on the implausible commercial market for computers
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1 year ago 0 + -Eckert talks about trying to start the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
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1 year ago 0 + -Eckert-Mauchly court the US Census Bureau
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1 year ago 0 + -Morris Hansen interviewed about buying UNIVAC for the Census
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1 year ago 0 + -Home video footage from Eckert-Mauchly's early days
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1 year ago 0 + -Computer engineers underestimating deadlines? Shocking!
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1 year ago 0 + -The J. Lyons Company
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1 year ago 0 + -The success of the LEO
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1 year ago 0 + -Eckert-Mauchly try to stay in business
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1 year ago 0 + -In the McCarthy era, Mauchly blacklisted because of (incorrect) Communist ties
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1 year ago 0 + -Harry Straus saves the company from ruin...
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1 year ago 0 + -...but Straus dies, and Eckert-Mauchly's last hope dies with him.
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1 year ago 0 + -Eckert-Mauchly Company sold to Remington Rand
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1 year ago 0 + -Remington Rand deliver UNIVAC to the Census Bureau
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1 year ago 0 + -UNIVAC gets TV exposure in the 1952 President Election on CBS
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1 year ago 0 + -UNIVAC correctly predicts an Eisenhower landslide
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1 year ago 0 + -UNIVAC cameo in "That Touch of Mink" (1962)
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1 year ago 0 + -UNIVAC in Looney Tunes
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1 year ago 0 + -IBM thought computers were just for science, at first
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1 year ago 0 + -Thomas J. Watson, Jr. understood the threat, but had to convince his father
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1 year ago 0 + -James Birkenstock (VP, IBM)
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1 year ago 0 + -IBM gets serious about computers with the IBM 650
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1 year ago 0 + -IBM quickly crushed the competition
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1 year ago 0 + -Programming was still extremely expensive and difficult.
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1 year ago 0 + -Jean Sammet
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1 year ago 0 + -FORTRAN
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1 year ago 0 + -COBOL
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1 year ago 0 + -Outmoded human labor leads to fears of automation
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1 year ago 0 + -UNIVAC clone from "Desk Set" (1957)
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1 year ago 0 + -Bank of America replaces entire bookkeeping staff with the ERMA computer
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1 year ago 0 + -Dick Davis, retired Bank of America VP
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1 year ago 0 + -From vaccuum tubes to the transistor
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1 year ago 0 + -The Tyrrany of Numbers
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1 year ago 0 + -The Integrated Circuit
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1 year ago 0 + -The Space Race and Cold War leverage the IC
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1 year ago 0 + -Mass production of the IC creates economies of scale
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1 year ago 0 + -Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit
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1 year ago 0 + -Gordon Moore (former Chairman of the Board, Intel)
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1 year ago 0 + -NASA sends a portable computer to the moon
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1 year ago 0 + -Enter the 1970s, and a generation of kids who want their own computers
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1 year ago 0 + -The Woz
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1 year ago 0 + -Epilogue