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KQED-TV, National Educational TelevisionLogic by Machine (1962)

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Discusses the computer revolution and the relationship between man and machine. Explains how the computer can process millions of bits of data in seconds and can handle as many arithmetic figures in one minute as a man can handle in a lifetime.

This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: KQED-TV, National Educational Television
Production Company: National Educational Television
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: fixme

Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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Reviewer: donwert - 3.00 out of 5 stars3.00 out of 5 stars3.00 out of 5 stars - December 17, 2012
Subject: Proto NOVA
This film was made in the early '60s by KQED-TV, the San Francisco educational television station for NET--National Educational Television (NET), the forerunner of PBS. It explains the basics of computers at a time when computers occupied large rooms and output was printed on wide paper, not displayed on a screen. The experts, from Bell Labs and Columbia Univ., are halting and poor speakers---they won't make you forget Carl Sagan or Neil DeGrasse Tyson! The film is at great pains to make it clear that computers don't "think"; they merely execute instructions programmed by humans. At the time, there was much fear that computers would "take over" and people would somehow lose control of them. One of the experts early in the film says that computing had advanced so quickly and its costs dropped so dramatically, that if home-building followed the same trajectory, a house
would cost $60!!! When you consider that the computers shown probably were less powerful than
a $100 cell phone of today, the truth of his observation, made 50 years ago, is evident.

Subject: The machines are so small, they can fit in one room!
All in all, keep your fast forward button handly.

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