Look at Life: Figure it Out 

It only took RU-vid 56 years to recommend this video. I should send a telegram to their complaint desk.

The term "Patch" comes from errors in punch cards, tape was used to patch a hole so they could reuse the tape/card

If were around in the 60's this programme would freak me out !!!

To think it once took a computer almost THREE HOURS to draw a picture of a cat asking for a cheeseburger!

Everyone looks so spiffingly happy

"Hey, Dave: bet you can't fit this stock footage we have of a chameleon into your film about computers."

Wire wrapped backplanes and core memory - happy days.

They are making magnetic core memory at 4:22 Each of those little round things she is pushing the wire through is a magnet that can store one bit.

7:20 All the achievements since the 60s and we are still not able to do this... (double meaning)

'Yesterday the valve-operated computer was cumbersome'. You mean, unlike these?

The man with a pipe is driving up Willesden Lane, Kilburn.

A smartphone would have blown their minds what technology will blow ours 60 years from now?

watching this on a computer :p

"Ernie" was no computer at all but an industrial mercury vapor rectifier.

I ❤these Rank Look At Life videos from the 60’s I have a connection with this one as my wonderful late mother worked for a company as a punch card operator from 1970 till around 1980 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧

Almost looks like a set from an Irwin Allen TV show.

i wonder if we will ever have ipads

"And if you have the luck to hear from Ernie, it's said to be quite an enjoyable experience."....today, if you hear from Ernie, it's means your in trouble.

Interesting, these 'computer' things....do we still have them nowadays?

Still not a monitor in sight...

What a complete crock we’ve been sold. Punch cards, tapes we never understood even that. Now they harvest info from our every move as we drones buzz about the hive.

Ho my i woke 1 xmas morning nit a clue what yo do with a h type wrighter omg this computer omg

Oh, that chess thing happened with IBM's Big Blue right?

Does these machines run Crysis?

beware AI

For those interested, this film was produced in 1963. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_at_Life_(film_series)

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To think computers are now taking over jobs all over the world!

They look interesting but I doubt they will catch on... ;)

Bit like Politicians then!... They need to be 'punched'...Nothings changed!😀

What year was this?

6:20 Old school Google translate :)

CHECK MATE! huahuahua

5:47 Mercury Arc Rectifier!

what the year is in this movie?

2:04 "they can 02:07 deal only with things which can be 02:09 expressed in numbers " I was going to argue that point but then I looked at the formatting of the quoted text. LOL Still, I prefer mechanical analogue computers working with analogue variables like speed an torque - a bit like the computers in an Invacar calculating the correct drive ratio for engine speed and power for the speed of the vehicle.

should have stopped for the old lady on the left at 1.08 waiting to cross the road. BAD driving