IBM: Once Upon A Punched Card (1964) Vintage computing
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- IBM: Once Upon A Punched Card (1964)
History of the punch card from beginnings to modern day (1964 in this case).
from a 16mm print
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OK, I'm sold. Punched cards are the future!
hahahahaha
They have been, for decades. We owe them.
:D
They were the future. The technology is still the same, just uses different physical media.
I got my (natural) gas bill monthly on punched cards until the LATE 1980's!
This film certainly brings back memories for me. I operated a one-man IBM punched card installation with the exception of the keypunch, since we had six keypunch operators and they used the 029 keypunches. This was at North American Aviation in 1968 in their quality control section. I operated the 084 card sorter (2000 cards per minute), the 514 and 519 reproducing punches, the 087 collator, the 557 interpreter and finally the 407 accounting machine as pictured in this film. I wired all the control panels and designed all the new jobs to be processed in addition to running other production work. I loved it! That 407 was my big gray baby. What a machine!
Brace67 It does for me too. I started in 1963 at the Intext Computer Center in Scranton, PA. Worked all of the above plus the IBM 1401, 1460 and 360. Many great memories.
Joe Costanzo I also later operated the RCA Spectra 70, IBM 360/65, Univac 1110 and Univac 1100/40 computers. The most fun though was when I was a "Tabulating Machine Operator" at North American. The most boring aspect of that job were long card sorts. Even though I used the fastest card sorter of the day, the IBM 084, it still often took forever to get through a long sorting operation with trays of cards and lots of fields. I tried to have other machines going at the same time as I was sorting in order to be more productive. They called it "multi-processing".
When computing made physical sense , you could physically get into the code. what was the storage sizing for these cards? Reguarding longevity how many times could these cards be read and what was the power requirement for these machines?
Thanks for identifying the 407 ACCOUNTING MACHINE. Wonder if any museum has any of that stuff around???
Thank you for posting this. My dad was an IBM salesman during the 60's and later ran the data-processing center for a bank. Occasionally he would take me there on weekends when I was a boy and let me play around with the punchcard machines and readers and show me a little about them. It was fascinating for me to see these machines work. Those were some of the best times I remember having with my dad.
Same here, I grew up in the 90's tho, but there were still a few 80's dinosaurs left.
Was a keypunch operator and also verified during the late 50s early 60s
There was no" glad" time like "dad" time! Probably they were the best times of your life.
The impact computers had on large businesses in the 50s and 60s cannot be imagined. It was like magic.
A typewriting skill enabled me to learn keypunch at my first job that began in 1970, but did data key typing in 1972. The benefit I knew about punch cards was that those punched cards could be used almost repeatedly as tape. The storage of punched cards was simple, but the room had to be large to accommodate big quantities of card boxes on utility shelves. Some storage areas for punched card boxes were in more than one floor in a building or a large warehouse, just like the mainframe computers that occupied one entire floor or more.
These films should serve as a reminder that technologies we think are 'an indispensable business tool' are all transient technologies, and will be considered quaint and backwards fifty years hence.
Someone should make a punch card system capable of running COD or Doom, making punch cards relevant again.
From punch cards to modern mainframes an computersystems, how quick in time it went, fabulous, and it's not yet ended.
Computers up to early laptops were compatible with something patented in 1891. It's only Windows that invented compatibility issues ;)
@@millomweb Thank you for your remark, the computertechnolgy has gone far ahead.
Mr Morse an American invented the Telegraph Machine among 1800, does anybody knows more about that fact.
@@saskiavanhoutert3190 It was 'Strowger' that invented the automatic telephone exchange - 1891 and computers up to ~2010 had modems that could drive/operate it with 'pulse dialling'.
Takes me back to my first years in computer programming both at school (University of Maryland, Computer Science department) and on the job working for the Federal government. The key punch machine can be thought of as a dedicated word processing machine without a backspace key. If you made a mistake, you could duplicate the card up to the error and continue on.
When the new Omron CRT monitors displaced the key punch machines there were no tears shed and in fact we were ecstatic. One interesting thing about the monitors was that there were a maximum of 80 characters per line, the same number of characters on an "IBM" punch card. That was no accident.
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Loved this, used one of the card interpreters in high school to list punched card output from programs I ran on a IBM 1620. (Models I and II)
In the 1950s, my mom worked in a big company, in the department that marked punch cards in preparation for punching. She showed real leadership abilities, and they wanted to promote her to supervisor, but her parents wanted her to be the administrator in their small business, and she didn't have the backbone to stand up to them.
She hated working for her parents, and soon left to go to Teacher's College. She'd have had a much better (and wealthier) life if she'd stayed at the big company.
Jacquard may have borrowed the idea from previous machine builders who used punched cards and paper tape. They forgot to mention Charles Babbage planned to use punched cards for the Analytical Engine. Could be due to prior art issues with IBM patents.
97-99 on a worker's permit @ 16 years old i miss them days
Where is the focus knob???? I'm flustered... =D
You rotate the aperture to adjust focus clockwise or counter clockwise.
Punch cards lasted a long time. When I started college in 1982 the second computer programming course I took was PL/I. And yes, all submitted on punch card. As the assignments got deeper you'd make sure you serialized your cards. Drop em' and it's all over.
We got our (natural) gas bills in punched cards into the LATE 1980s!
As did my bro around that era.
I, on the other hand, was on cassette tape ;)
I remember them. You watched every character you typed. Make a mistake, and you had to retype the entire card. Discover it late, and you had to wait to use the key punch machine. A terminal was living. Draw lines across the top to keep them in order. One could number them if you had a sorter. Drop a four foot box program in a mud puddle, and watch a man curse, and cry.
The local electric company sent out bills on postcard size prepunched cards. A number of companies used punched card billing. The "don't fold, punch, staple, or mutilate" phrase came into being with those bills.
I'm sold! Where can I sign-up for this punched card system and dump my whole ethernet/wi-fi/Windows network that is giving me nothing but trouble?
wow he really emphasises the MAN in BUSINESSMAN doesn't he XD
This is still the purpose of data warehousing today.
Interesting factoid: the entire 1890 US Census were destroyed in a massive fire.
@@BrianDurham en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census. The original data for the 1890 Census is no longer available. Almost all the population schedules were damaged in a fire in the basement of the Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. in 1921. Some 25% of the materials were presumed destroyed and another 50% damaged by smoke and water (although the actual damage may have been closer to 15-25%).
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Yikes. IBM 1) got the century wrong--the first Jacquard loom started working in 1801 (beginning of the 19th, not the 18th century) and 2) looms don't have needles (and it was not a traditional pantograph--the cards in the animation all have dotted designs of what would appear in the cloth)--they seemed not to have a clear idea of how punched card loom weaving worked, or else decided a) people are too stupid to understand or b) we don't have time to explain it. Funny.
Needle looms have needles.
So it's a needle hole system.
Long before IBM made digital computers.
I wonder when IBM will be able to create a payroll system that can accurately calculate paycheques?
When it's "farmed out" to ADP 😜
I love how the makers decided that explaining how punched-card loom machines actually worked was too complicated so they represented the punched cards with punched patterns that represented the designs and with needles passing through the cards (wtf?--where did the needles go after theypassed through the hole?) instead of how they actually worked. What's the point of even explaining something if you're not going to explain it. "Well, we wanted to explain how it worked but how it worked wasn't really important so we abstracted to such a general level that it completely distorted how it actually worked. So...everybody understand now how it worked?" "No."
LOL.
I think I understand it. Where there's nothing (a hole), that's one and where there isn't a hole, that's nothing.
The info at the start of this video of a film isn't sufficiently warped.
It's interesting nowadays mechanical computing and punch cards are now like a fairy tale.
Data is STILL Data though.
Not really. If you look hard enough you'll find mechanical 'calculators' in some places.
thanks
I can't find my projector's threading instructions!
Wonder what that ACCOUNTING MACHINE WAS? I am familiar with IBM 402 & 403 Accounting machines.
Can it play DOOM?
A Doom computer punches demons instead of cards
I am in sync with this, if you know what i'm talkin about
4:02 Isn't it better to insert the cards all the same way around ?
amazing bit of vintage sexism
Gahd, Here we go, "Old days,BAD, New Days,GOOD".....BORING! Come up with SOMETHING to do with Technology , Ya know the POINT of the film. In a real "Anti-feminist" world, no DAMES would have ANY PART of it. The GIRLS would be all at home BAREFOOT & PREGNANT. Get over your modern self righteous selves!! In 1908 my GREAT GrandMOTHER worked for Westinghouse Electric building transformers and electromagnetic relays. Notice, this was WAY before either World War, So no "Emergency DAME hiring". And one of her daughters was a process chemist for a major photographic company (General Aniline and FIlm) from the 1920s till the 1960s. Yeesh!
They forgot to say "adjust your white color balance on your kinescope"... lol
No need on 16mm film! LOL
Is it considered rape if you plant a needle after it said no?
I wonder how hard it was to root one of these machines?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Yeah, after this wiki article, it is hard not to see an innocent census tech which killed six million people, andnot scratch your head about the future damage from the smart phone and smart car.
+dennis garber There is no superuser mode on these machines.They are already "rooted".
punch card yes/no aka 0/1
Eng gb USA throw it away book sin rings?
reminds me of fallout