Newly Restored. 1967 NAVAL PHOTO INTELLIGENCE, PHOTO INTERPRETER Computer System UNIVAC in Hi-Res HD
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- Computer History (1967), -and the PHOTO INTELLIGENCE, PHOTO INTERPRETER System. An excellent U.S. Navy Training Film, in full color, explains the Photo Interpretation System, which used the Navy’s AN/UYK-1 and AN/USQ-20 Computers, and peripheral devices. Great footage of the SCV (“Stereometric Comparison Viewer”), Digital Plotter, and Teletypewriter used in Navy’s Photo Intelligence systems. Original film from National Archives has been newly restored for color clarity and sharpness. Excellent example of Naval Computing Technology of the mid 1960’s.
The Photo Interpretation (“PI”) system was part of the Computerized Integrated Operational Intelligence System (“IOIS”). The Univac AN/USQ-20 computer was part of the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) network. Original film courtesy of the U.S. National Archives. Uploaded by the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). We hope you enjoy this great piece of history!
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(from Wikipedia) The AN/USQ-20, or Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS), was designed as a more reliable replacement for the Seymour Cray-designed AN/USQ-17 with the same instruction set. The first batch of 17 computers were delivered to the Navy starting in early 1961. A version of the AN/USQ-20 for use by the other military services and NASA was designated the UNIVAC 1206. Another version, designated the G-40, replaced the vacuum tube UNIVAC 1104 in the BOMARC Missile Program. en.wikipedia.o...
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I really like how every program has a dedicated physical button on the Program Request Panel.
They were able to draw icons, but didn't have a display yet 😀😀
That's because the programs ran directly on the hardware. There was either no operating system or only the most rudimentary one.
You like the buttons until a change is needed.
And today (2022) your toaster oven has more calculating power. Equipment that took up MASSIVE rooms with tape readers (and MASSIVE amounts of cooling) is now contained in a box the size of a shoe box. When I was in High School, my best friends father worked on nuclear subs as a civilian and worked computer programs but could never go into any details of what he did. One thing I thought was interesting is that he said "women can not wear nylon undergarments (his exact words) in the computer rooms because of the risk of static electricity which would be detrimental to the very sensitive equipment." Times have certainly changed a lot.
Thanks for a look into the way things were.
Nice restoration of a 50+ year old film. Thanks CHAP !
Hi Head Pox, Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it! ~
My dear old dad was a Navy photo intelligence officer in the 1950's before all this new-fangled computer stuff was installed!
Quite sophisticated IMO for 1967!
Don't forget, this is from the same age where we landed folks on the moon and could launch missiles that could neutralize their target several thousand miles away. Technology was incredible back then. It's incredible now but things were moving FAST after WW2. This is exactly the level of technology we had in the 60s.
Not to mention too that there's no monitors or digital displays. It's a computer using paper and typewriters to get the job done. Again, exactly what we had and would expect in the 60s.
@@orangejjay And a large number of very dedicated people who made sure the technology functioned at its best and that the numbers were correct.
that code matrix block is like the grandfather of the QR code
I really dig the old retro films.
Hi Scott, thanks... we do too! ~ CHAP
Loved seeing the old Model 28 ASR Teletype, I was quite the teletype expert tech back in the day... (1980's)..
I used the 28 back in 1970. Wow - I'm getting old!
J'adore c'est vieille technologie 😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👍👍
CVA(N)-65 Enterprise (designation in the late 1960's) had an IOIC office similar to the one described here. The other fleet carriers probably had IOIC's too, at least Kitty Hawk class (CVA-63 to CVA-67) (CVA(N)-68 Nimitz was under construction). "My" Enterprise had the SCANFAR radar system: two billboards on each face of the square island, with a conical array of radar elements on top (mast mounted on top). That system was replaced by a conventional radar system, around 1980.
The RA-5C Vigilante was the reconnaissance aircraft. Film canisters were deposited in a cabinet in a main passageway (03 level). When the outer door was closed, the inner one could be opened from the photo lab in the rear of the IOIC.
A data processing room held cabinets of IBM punch cards, one card for each item of interest (AAA, SAM site, ...). The briefing room had sliding wall panels with maps posted (typically Vietnam). The plotter could hold one map sheet, but we cut a sheet of tracing paper and mounted it on the plotter (vacuum via holes in the plotting area). The data techs would retrieve the items that were on the mounted sheet, and the plotter would place a symbol for each item. The sheet was removed, and overlaid on the appropriate map sheet, then colored pins for each data type were pinned to each symbol. Then the tracing paper could be (very carefully) removed, leaving the pins, all plotted correctly on the map. BIG savings of time.
The IOIC had three SCV's. The only time I saw any of them working was during a visit by President Lyndon Johnson while Enterprise was in San Diego (homeport was Alameda). A couple of guys were wearing their dress uniforms, sitting at one SCV set up as a static display, since they didn't work (film feed issues?). The rest of us were told to get lost.
The other SCV problem was the code blocks. The film usually had distorted code blocks that the computer couldn't figure out. You "could" manually read the code blocks, but we didn't do that very often. Keep in mind this is well before IBM PC's (or Apple). Ten years later, I worked for a company using Digital Equipment PDP-8 computers, but that was far in the future for IOIC offices, and still well before personal computers.
So photo interpreters would work on a simple light table in a dark corner, cranking a roll of film by hand, plotting the course of the aircraft by matching items on the ground to those on a map sitting on a knee.
Today, the PT rating (Photo Intelligenceman) is a flavor of Yeoman. Most of the time I maintained our supply of maps (each map came in a package like a ream of printer paper), or handled message traffic delivered by bunny tube. Just like a Yeoman.
Such memories! Thanks for the video.
Raymond, PT2
USS Enterprise, 1967-1969
Hi Raymond, thanks so much for the fascinating account of some of your experience on the Enterprise! It sounds like such a floating, high-tech, self-contained "city on the ocean." Your recounting of some of what it was like makes me wish I had been able to tour that ship. Sounds like a pretty fantastic time. My grandfather was a Navy radio man, but on a much, much older craft, with no computer tech at all. Thanks again for sharing your story on this. ~ Victor, at CHAP
Thanks for restoring this gem. Did the narrators of non-fictional films in this era go to the same school?They all sound very similar.
The accentuation could be related to something like “atlanta accent” (forget the real name), where the annunciation of words is special to improve clarity on older recording devices
@@zeektm1762 Interesting I will look into that. Never thought that might be a reason, shows how spoiled we are with our digital tools today.
Very enjoyable, Thank you for putting it up.
Hi CosmosNut, very glad you liked it. Hope you will check out some of our other tech and space videos as well! ~ Victor
It can even rotate the image. What will they think of next?
Zoom. Zoom. Enhance. ROTATE.
There was a fancy optical path to do all this. Probably sealed hermetically so most delicate parts of it wouldn’t need cleaning.
Excellent video! thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it! ~
Can be accurate within one foot, I cracked up when I heard this.
I think the Univac of this era were might have been the first reliable enough for military applications like this. I served on the USS Norton Sound AVM-1 1968-1970 (originally seaplane tender AV-11, reclassified as the Navy's first guided missile ship AVM-1, and eventually called something like "weapons test platform".) All sorts of things were tested on it before deployment to the fleet. I believe it was a Univac 1219 used with the Mark 86 fire control system. And I think a 1219, or similar, was used with the first laser gyroscope (no moving parts - very cool) that was tested on that ship for sea trials. The computer handled the same problem that was handled differently in mechanical gyros where, without dead reckoning corrections, if you sailed around the curve of the earth the gyroscope can only think you are rotating end over end.
Hi Charles, thank you for sharing your thoughts on the film and a bit of your history. It sounds like serving on the USS Norton Sound was a great experience. The 1968-1970 period was the later years of the Vietnam war, if I remember correctly. Naval tensions must have been somewhat high during those years as well. Thanks again for your feedback. Glad you found our channel and hope you will continue to explore it! ~ Victor, CHAP
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Just about all naval weaponry was first tested on the Norton Sound such as SUBROC, ASROC, launching terrier missiles. Sea Sparrow missiles. And also, other systems like TYPHON (the first phased array radar) ABIR (All Band Intercept Receiver) and CATS (Computer Aided Test System) and a long list. Finally, the AEGIS system was initially tested on it (modern phased array radar and computer operated). Deployed in the fleet there are four large panels to cover 360 degrees. On the Norton Sound, they only had two panels on the front of the superstructure and only one was active and the other a dummy. So, the radar screens only showed 90 degrees of information. In early days, it did things like fire the missile that exploded a low yield nuclear device in the atmosphere that led to the discovery of the Van Allen Radiation Belt.
Hi Charles, very interesting! Some fascinating high tech systems. I am have to look some of these up to learn more about their history. Thanks! ~ VK
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject You should be able to find info on almost all of them. I see I misspelled "TYPHON" (and have corrected it). However, you probably won't much on ABIR (All Band Intercept Receiver) because it was highly classified. I don't know if it was ever declassified.
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject For the radar used with the AEGIS system, you will want to look up the "AN/SPY-1 Radar." The site "missilethreat" has a nice short description and photo of it on the Norton Sound.
Interesting old footage.
Boah, grand dad's Adobe Photoshop 0.01 beta.
This system saved america during the cold war..during the cuban missile crisis.
Think what US Navy now has but public does not know, if they had this much facility in 1967, when general population did not even have easy access to computers.
Stop comparing your smartphone that you did not design, with Navy had in 1967 which their engineers designed.
Holly alien's life!
Anyone else searched for the coordinates?
“The ANUS-Q20 computer, known as the Q20”. Ahem, yes I can sort of see why
Interesting nick-name. I wonder what it was like to run a massive computer on a moving ship. Even a ruggedized one.
Wow google earth type tech.
google map in 1967
All the function has build into google map
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To be understood by those knowing computer lingo for the time. I'm totally lost.
Thank goodness intel came along because this computer looks little over complicated.
Google earth 🌎 of 1967
You mean the PRP
Google Earth analogue
Imagine being this technologically sophisticated yet still believing that the plural of "equipment" is "equipments"
That's weird how they are saying "equipments". Although that is grammatically incorrect in standard English usage, it seems like it's a military thing to use "equipments". Searching around the internet there are various military publications that use it. For example in the Department of Defense Dictionary (JP 1-02), "equipments" is used repeatedly. "fire control system - (*) A group of interrelated fire control equipments and/or instruments designed for use with a weapon or group of weapons."
I'm assuming all that could be replaced by a couple of Macbook Airs?
One from a decade or two ago, easily.
Can be replaced with a texas instrument ti 83 calcultor
@@StealthGT40 I’ve used an old abacus that was missing half the beads. Oh and I have no hands.
Only if they connect to massive backend infrastructure like Google Earth.
Gosh navy sailors can do complicated things.
They sure love to create and use lots of acronyms. Are we more clever if we talk jingoism and jargon? These people sure seem to think so.
What words would you have liked them to use for each of those pieces instead?
Acronyms ensure we can convey what's needed quicker and in a way that's easier to remember. Yes! It absolutely makes us more clever because it's a smarter way to communicate.
It'd be ridiculous if we always said universal automatic computer instead of UNIVAC.
I think the Navy is particularly good at acronyms. My first jobs were programming the Q20 for the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) and then the Tactical Advanced Combat Directions and Electronic Warfare (TACDEW) system. TACDEW was used to train sailors on how to use NTDS when they were on ships at sea. The work was done at a facility called Fleet Computer Programming Center Pacific (FCPCP - pronounced FIPSea), and FCPCP was a tenant command of Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center (FAAWTC - pronounced FOTSea). So the joint command was FCPCP/FAAWTC, which I alway thought was hilarious to say out loud. By the way, there were also Atlantic versions of this command. I worked there for 9 years, 1968 to 1977.