The Machine that Changed the World: Inventing the Future
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Second part of the out-of-print and unavailable documentary about computer history.
For more information about this video, including a list of all interviewees and notes, see the <a...
Second part of the out-of-print and unavailable documentary about computer history.
For more information about this video, including a list of all interviewees and notes, see the related entry on Waxy.org.
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The Woz
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Enter the 1970s, and a generation of kids who want their own computers
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NASA sends a portable computer to the moon
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Gordon Moore (former Chairman of the Board, Intel)
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Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit
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Mass production of the IC creates economies of scale
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The Space Race and Cold War leverage the IC
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The Integrated Circuit
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The Tyrrany of Numbers
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From vaccuum tubes to the transistor
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Dick Davis, retired Bank of America VP
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Bank of America replaces entire bookkeeping staff with the ERMA computer
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UNIVAC clone from "Desk Set" (1957)
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Outmoded human labor leads to fears of automation
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COBOL
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FORTRAN
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Jean Sammet
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Programming was still extremely expensive and difficult.
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IBM quickly crushed the competition
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Epilogue