| Computer Automation - 1960s Office | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 317 |
| Catalog #: | 432755 | |
| Clip Number: | 432755-1 | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | COMPUTERS: Mainframe COMPUTERS: Punch Card | |
| Description: | MS men in technical laboratory, adjusting knobs on mysterious wall of gauges and meters. 17:38:05 MS large mainframe (reel-to-reel tape drive) computer printing, woman checks flow of paper in large tractor feed device. CU paper in feed mechanism. 17:38:47 MS group of computer punch card machines with paper tape drives. The machines flips card when done. More scenes of paper-based memory storage devices from the old days of computing 17:39:50 MS man feeds cards into computer, another swaps out a primitive circuit board (several takes) 17:40:42 MS man at card punch machine, view of printer, other computing devices 17:42:26 MS women typing at what look like electric typewriters, but must be computer interfaces; paper tape drives visible 17:42:57 MS line of women keying numbers onto cards suggests drudgery, tedious work 17:44:00 MS man loads card into punch machine 17:44:22 MS woman in computer print room 17:44:35 CU spinning tape drives -- good shot of early mainframe computer 17:45:18 CU woman at mimeograph machine, man taking sorted papers out and stapling them 17:45:45 CU paper tape readers on computer | |
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