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Brilliant! What a gem, Thank You. IMO this is 1000x cooler than email lol

All these jobs that were done "in house" (i.e. Western nations), all gone to China (with some to Russia), how sad the loss of manufacturing, in the days when people actually "dressed" to go to work - I know, I did/do. May God help us all, Ciao, L (American Veteran)

Was this the first look-ahead unit? You'd think Intel invented it in the 90s if you believe the marketing...

They were really big, these supercomputers back in the day!

Very interesting. But imagine, they recorded every sound on film!

It could have been most informative if they also had mentioned the years when the different steps were taken, for instance when the first full length talkie was recorded, and so forth.

In my 1978 Master's thesis (paid for by Itty Bitty Machine Co) I dared make the prediction that "within a decade, the end user will be dictating the MIS mission. Central control over data processing and information management will be scaled back to universal core information and systems assets. Decentralized and ad hoc storage and processing resources will become the primary platforms for line of business, departmental, and task group operations." I got into a lot of hot water for daring to propose such heresy. My Director went so far as to order me to withdraw the paper. I politely declined. In 1985 I gave a talk at COMDEX about my company's product that already doing much of what do today. That same Director, who was still at IBM, laced into me for ushering in the demise of classic MIS with all these "silly" notions of virtual information sources and "objects" that weren't married to a particular backend or programming model. I'm still doing it.

In 1962 at NBN Channel 3 in Newcastle Australia, a new video recorder we had was the huge tube RCA Model TRT-1B. It was called a ‘Television Tape Recorder’, because the rival U.S. company Ampex, had trademarked the name ‘Videotape.’ The TRT-1B was RCAs very first production 2” tape video recorder, and we were very proud that ours was the first one outside the major city TV stations in Australia. To start it for transmission, it had a 10-1 countdown 15 second leader during which we had time to go to black and lock it to NBNs station sync. It always worked ok but in the control room there was always a big sigh of relief when we faded up and the taped program went to air.

It appears this computer used 64-bit words, so the 2 million word hard disks would store 16MB each - which is larger than my first hard disk!

Interesting that it had both an Operator's and Engineer's consoles. My guess is the operator's console was used to run the computer, and the Engineer's was to keep the computer running! I saw enormous vertical hard disks like that in an old movie recently. Wish I could remember which one; I didn't think they were real!

I was hired by IBM, but I refused their offer . Why ? I didn't like IBM's aggressive attitude towards the competition.

One evening in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset. One of the women noted it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car. “Voilà!” Does anyone know the woman's name?

its 5 am, you know what that means

Nice! I love the sound of that keyboard! These days, you have buy a gaming keyboard if you want to get close to that one.

While employed by an IBM VAR, I worked with one of the first AS/400 systems delivered in mid-1988. It is amazing how similar they appeared to the 9370. We had the same 9309 rack, 9335 disk drives, and 9347 tape drive. I doubt the 9370 used the rack-mounted 9331 8" diskette drive we had on the AS/400! The whole vertical/horizontal discussion sounded like typical IBM marketing-speak of that era. We heard similar rationalizations for more hardware into the 1990's. We never saw a client experience simple centralized administration discussed here. Once the horsepower and networking speeds reached a higher level later in the 1990's, we did many server consolidations to eliminate the distributed systems they were pushing in those days!

I used to work with VAX computers and even though I later worked at IBM Canada, I don't recall seeing a 9370. When I was at IBM, one of the applications I supported was called "Personal Communications", which was a 3270/5250 terminal emulator. The 370 systems used the 3270 and AS/400, 5250. It even included Telnet for AIX systems.

Thank you, for another excellent "Blast from the Past" post. In the early 1980's, I only used a Main Frame computer while in college earning my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. Since this was back before the release of Windows 3.1, as shown in this promotional sales video, you needed to keep a copy of all the software manuals near your work station. In addition, during the 1980's, I really enjoyed going to work in the office with myself and other male co-workers wearing business suits and ties, and my female co-workers were wearing either dresses or skirt suits with nylons and heels. Well, those were the "good old days" (smile ... smile).

Help maintain centralized control and rein in those rebelious departments with IBM's latest and greatest! 😅 Whelp, those little computers you launched a few years ago lit a fire that's gonna change everything! 🤔 But maybe keep a few COBOL programmers on retainer for Y2K - it's only 14 years from now (I know you aren't concerned yet but trust me you will be). 😂 Interesting to see the different directions that were tried and how the significant existing infrastructure and software investment affected the choices! Thanks for sharing these interesting videos! 😃

Fascinating. The firs computer programs I ever wrote were in IBM 360/370 Macro Assembly Language. It turned out to be a great foundation for every programming language I learned after that. The tech school I went to had a 370 clone made by Burroughs. While there, I got a job at a small distributing company that used an IBM System/34 for all their data processing. After that I worked at a much larger company where I used a terminal connected long-distance to the three mainframes at corporate headquarters. The were an IBM 370 and two 370 Burroughs clones. We used twin System/34s for local processing. Later we upgraded to a single System/38. This was about the time the IBM Personal Computer came out and we got one to try out. I was decidedly unimpressed and never looked at one again. Then I got a job at a fast-growing retailer of women's underwear where, at first we were borrowing time on a different division's System/38 before we got our own AS/400 Model 70. This was a serious step up from the System/34 and System/38 but a logical progression technologically. I watched this video, curious to learn about an IBM line I was unfamiliar with. I thought it might be a way to get a mini 370 to play with. But the video used such archaic terminology I've decided that technology is better left behind. I notice the 9370 uses the same model number progression as the AS/400 did. We had upgraded to an AS/400 Model 90 with a Model 50 to run a subdivision and a Model 30 we used for development and testing. But we found that we needed more than the Model 90 could deliver. IBM was still filling in the middle of their model line and wasn't offering anything with more capability than the Model 90 so we eventually switched over to VAX because we saw it as more scaleable.

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"here's a vertical network" *shows horizontal diagram*. Not very intuitive. IBM always had their own terminology, but for this particular video, I feel it needs some explanation of how mainframes and mainframe systems worked to fully understand what he's on about. Modern computer networks operate quite differently and servers don't quite serve the same role as mainframes did. Thin client networks are the closest we get to a mainframe network these days, but even then they use virtual machines rather than centralized multi-threading, so it's still far from the same concept

Very interesting video, I wonder how today's world network could be described? Funny thing is it looks like a pyramid, and we all know about pyramid business schemes

Beautifully done!

What IBM didn't realize was that with the advent of DEC VMS cluster it made the mainframe completely unnecessary all systems communicating seamlessly and sharing storage

I remember at the community college I retired from in 2012, when we moved from 4341 mainframe to a two cabinet AS/400 in 1988. Loved working with it. In 1994, the state's Board of Regents decided to move all state community colleges to a common platform, the DEC Alpha, to handle student records and facility accounting and general databases. It was sad when we worked on a weekend to remove the cabling, the AS/400, and its peripherals to be stored in our surplus equipment storage and eventually wound up at another state agency.. Since a great team of DEC Alpha specialists and programmers were hired, we were offered other jobs in the IT department or we could transfer to another community college. There was an opening in our IT department for a network WAN and network security position rolled into one, so I accepted that position and remained in that job until retirement. To this day, I still have a fondness for my days working with the AS/400.

And do I guess that my phone is more powerful than any of those 9370 systems?🤔

1986 personally, was just slightly before my time with computers. I do remember in the mid '90s, hearing a lot about Linux Wolf Pack, as a distributed computing model. One hundred PCs in a Wolfpack ~ fine. Two thousand ~ fine. I also remember a constant buzz about the legal case of the Santa Cruise Operation, but it wasn't clearly explained why that was a big deal. One got the feeling it was a big deal, but journalists seemed shy about honestly explaining why. The issue, was "Is Linux UNIX or not? Because if it is, then the owners of UNIX also own Linux. That blows the concept of free & open source software completely out of the water." By that time, all the world's web servers, half the world's supercomputers, most of the servers, and a growing number of mainframes, were already running Linux. If the traditional / conventional owners of UNIX could be shown to own Linux, that blew the whole FOSS scene completely out of the water. Fortunately, that isn't what happened. But boy ~ they put up a fight! They were prepared to throw a seemingly limitless amount of good money after bad, trying to put the Genie back in the bottle.

Now I see what I missed.💙

1:27 He sounds suspiciously like the Turbo Encabulator guy…🤔

Whoa... that keyboard brings back memories. :)

When I went through US Army flight school our UH-1 instrument simulator was made by Singer-Link (IERW 86-41)

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Only 30 seconds is much too little.......

3:33 very First portable computer lol

GREAT POST , THANKS

Look ahead! 60s! Wow! :-)

I was 16 when this came out, and I remember it well!

thx for the video. its fascinating to sense that USA had a consumertech-industry back then.. but then again... hmm yeah the era of the Dodo.

Cool video! At 1:27 there's an image of a PDP-11 being used to display what looks like a four car version of Intellivision Auto Racing. Does anyone know where this image comes from?

I just wonder how does scenario write `start with jet noise` at the beginning? ;-)

One Mega-FLOP! Such speed!

2:30 Pointing guy: What is this, a printer for ants?

" ... for his own well being." And the wellbeing of IBM on the way. 😊

One example was sold to the French atomic research agency and is partially preserved in the Paris museum of Arts et Métiers. They have the control panel on display and some of the drum broken down so you can see all the heads and wiring. Probably the only example this side of the pond.

Those cards look remarkably like the PCBs I recall seeing in electronics shops in my youth (Smiths of Lisle St in Soho for example) Of course they were minus their gold plated contacts.

I wonder by how many multiples was the 1108 faster and able to hold more bits in memory than the original Univac I ? Did Seymour Cray work on design of the 1108 before he set out to design his own super computer business ?

The machines built today's machines. Computers can out think every human on the planet.

And today the whole hall is lying on my desk as a matchbox-sized ESP8266...

Great old film. I want those cute miniature mainframes they keep showing off <3 They really missed a trick by not selling the models to the public

I wonder if I can run this in a VM - to think I am watching this on a PC with 128GB of RAM, probably more than every System/370 they ever made.