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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2. waxpancake 2:20
The Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania, birthplace of ENIAC
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Movietone reel about the "electronic brain"
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Ted Withington on the implausible commercial market for computers
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Eckert talks about trying to start the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
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Eckert-Mauchly court the US Census Bureau
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Morris Hansen interviewed about buying UNIVAC for the Census
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Home video footage from Eckert-Mauchly's early days
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Computer engineers underestimating deadlines? Shocking!
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The J. Lyons Company
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The success of the LEO
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Eckert-Mauchly try to stay in business
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In the McCarthy era, Mauchly blacklisted because of (incorrect) Communist ties
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Harry Straus saves the company from ruin...
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...but Straus dies, and Eckert-Mauchly's last hope dies with him.
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Eckert-Mauchly Company sold to Remington Rand
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Remington Rand deliver UNIVAC to the Census Bureau
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UNIVAC gets TV exposure in the 1952 President Election on CBS
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UNIVAC correctly predicts an Eisenhower landslide
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UNIVAC cameo in "That Touch of Mink" (1962)
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UNIVAC in Looney Tunes
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IBM thought computers were just for science, at first
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Thomas J. Watson, Jr. understood the threat, but had to convince his father
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James Birkenstock (VP, IBM)
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IBM gets serious about computers with the IBM 650
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IBM quickly crushed the competition
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Programming was still extremely expensive and difficult.
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Jean Sammet
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FORTRAN
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COBOL
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Outmoded human labor leads to fears of automation
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UNIVAC clone from "Desk Set" (1957)
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Bank of America replaces entire bookkeeping staff with the ERMA computer
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Dick Davis, retired Bank of America VP
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From vaccuum tubes to the transistor
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The Tyrrany of Numbers
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The Integrated Circuit
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The Space Race and Cold War leverage the IC
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Mass production of the IC creates economies of scale
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Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit
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Gordon Moore (former Chairman of the Board, Intel)
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NASA sends a portable computer to the moon
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Enter the 1970s, and a generation of kids who want their own computers
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The Woz
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Epilogue
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Impact of World War II on technology