My computer studies class didn't have any computers, just pictures of them, circa 1977. Vision systems available now, and when utilised with a six axis robot are very capable. Great view of 45 years ago. Thanks for sharing.
Did you show them pictures of programs? I took a FORTRAN course in Gr. 12. We had no equipment in our class, other than the pencil we used to mark the pencil mark cards.
@@bostedtap8399 I was too. this was in 1970-71. Most of our time in class was spent filling in those pencil mark cards, which the teacher would take to the school board office to see if they would compile. We'd then get back the print out and spend more time trying to find our mistakes, I don't recall actually running our "programs". Later on, I got my own computer, an IMSAI 8080, which I did BASIC and assembler programming. Later again, in college night school classes, I took FORTRAN, BASIC and Pascal classes, and got C about a decade later at another college. Another post here mentions a bit of my work experience with the Air Canada reservation system, which is described in this video.
I could be wrong, but I believe the narration is the voice of Paul Frees, the voice of Boris Badinov on Rocky and Bullwinkle, as well as the Ghost Host at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, and the narrator on the extinct Disneyland attraction, “Adventure Thru Inner Space”.
Thumbs up if you're watching this from a smartphone connected via wifi, 4G, or 5G, an unbelievably powerful handheld computer that you treat as something as personal as your wallet. This little device in your hand has more computing power than all the computers in the world when this film was created. It would have been the most classified device on earth if were taken back to 1976 via a time machine. Even the battery charger for your smartphone would be a treasure trove of advanced computing technology to explore, and mostly be inscrutable as it is so far advanced that 40 years ago it would be truly alien technology, a leap so far it could not be bridged.
Great insight! Star trek used this to their benefit. Nobody knew back then HOW computers would benefit our lives and even myself back then had no idea, but clearly it's ridiculously prolific. It seemed to be creepy in this video, with the creepy sound effects and predictions, and a thing to behold from it's greatness; but it turned out to be both lol! Wonderful yet deadly to some. Time will tell. I find them amazing and love my computers!
"Difficult problems which once required thirty hours of work by a computer as large as a house can now be solved in twelve seconds by a computer no bigger than a bathtub" What a specific snapshot in history 😂
They said my generation didn't prosper, but we fought for every damn bit & byte and you better believe we pulled it in the basement just like you all, but we got out of there with night of the living Dead.
This video shows the Air Canada reservation system. I used to work on that, back in the days when I was a computer tech. The main part of it, which I didn't work on, was a UNIVAC system. I worked on the communications front end, based on Collins C8500 computers, which connected the UNIVAC to several PDP-11s, which in turn connected to banks of modems. This system was located on the 6th and later expanded to the 7th floors at 151 Front St. W., in Toronto. I worked on that from early 1978 to the mid 80s, when it was shut down as Air Canada moved to the Sabre network. It's lifetime was closer to 10 years, rather than the 8 mentioned in the video.
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 I have always been a hardware guy, though I did some software support at IBM. Also, I didn't work on the Air Canada terminals. My work was entirely on the computers and the terminals were elsewhere. However, I did some work on the terminals for other systems, but again hardware, not software.
Does anyone know what the color image devices are called that sync to the audio that the musician has laying on the floor? I would love to acquire one of these!
As if to prove a point on the prediction for the future detailed at 11:30, regarding the ability to look through any story in the New York Times over the last 130 years. I just put the title into Google of "US Grants 2-Year delay on safety air bags in cars" and it zeroed in on the newspaper shown in the video at 11:56 as the September 30, 1971, Page 1 issue. Awesome.
0:30 50,000 transistors in 1976 - we're up to 134 billion on a single CPU with the Apple M2 processor. And that's starting to get old by today's standard.
Wow, they accurately predicted privacy issues.
Yeah, it was eerie. They totally missed the mark on AI though.
At 1:10 " computers will invade our lives on a level that is unimaginable".... and then he goes on to describe basically what social media does
One of Facebooks largest early investors was the venture capital arm of the CIA - I wonder why?
Amazing this predicted loss of individual privacy to computer surveillance almost 50 years ago...guess we can't say we never saw it coming...
I know, right? Hearing that line was a knock out of the park!
Isn't it amazing, tho it said by 2000 but I believe that's when data collecting started in that time period.
George Orwell, 1984.
What is privacy? Never heard of it?
Amazing how we got from machines as big as a house to social media. Progress is neat!
Pretty accurate prediction... by the yeqr 2000.
Happened to use a computer for the first time in 1976. Now it's my career
My computer studies class didn't have any computers, just pictures of them, circa 1977.
Vision systems available now, and when utilised with a six axis robot are very capable.
Great view of 45 years ago.
Thanks for sharing.
Did you show them pictures of programs?
I took a FORTRAN course in Gr. 12. We had no equipment in our class, other than the pencil we used to mark the pencil mark cards.
@@James_Knott I was a pupil, I don't remember any programs or much else.
@@bostedtap8399 I was too. this was in 1970-71. Most of our time in class was spent filling in those pencil mark cards, which the teacher would take to the school board office to see if they would compile. We'd then get back the print out and spend more time trying to find our mistakes, I don't recall actually running our "programs". Later on, I got my own computer, an IMSAI 8080, which I did BASIC and assembler programming. Later again, in college night school classes, I took FORTRAN, BASIC and Pascal classes, and got C about a decade later at another college. Another post here mentions a bit of my work experience with the Air Canada reservation system, which is described in this video.
"50,000 TRANSISTORS"... if I had a computer with such power!! I would rule the World!!! 😊😊
Keep the shows coming!💙
Guy smoking in the terminal while waiting in queue (8:20). Such a different time!
I could be wrong, but I believe the narration is the voice of Paul Frees, the voice of Boris Badinov on Rocky and Bullwinkle, as well as the Ghost Host at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, and the narrator on the extinct Disneyland attraction, “Adventure Thru Inner Space”.
Thumbs up if you're watching this from a smartphone connected via wifi, 4G, or 5G, an unbelievably powerful handheld computer that you treat as something as personal as your wallet. This little device in your hand has more computing power than all the computers in the world when this film was created. It would have been the most classified device on earth if were taken back to 1976 via a time machine. Even the battery charger for your smartphone would be a treasure trove of advanced computing technology to explore, and mostly be inscrutable as it is so far advanced that 40 years ago it would be truly alien technology, a leap so far it could not be bridged.
If you show the people back then your smart phone, they will burn you at the stake. 🤯😈
And 40 years from now, people will look at our computer technology and smartphones and think how primitive we were.
This program is talking about personal data collecting and selling it for profit. Indeed it has happened. I'm impressed!
I'm 1:30 in and they really predicted privacy issues pretty spot on
Great insight! Star trek used this to their benefit. Nobody knew back then HOW computers would benefit our lives and even myself back then had no idea, but clearly it's ridiculously prolific.
It seemed to be creepy in this video, with the creepy sound effects and predictions, and a thing to behold from it's greatness; but it turned out to be both lol! Wonderful yet deadly to some. Time will tell. I find them amazing and love my computers!
"Difficult problems which once required thirty hours of work by a computer as large as a house can now be solved in twelve seconds by a computer no bigger than a bathtub"
What a specific snapshot in history 😂
Yes, more like 200ms while on your lap now.
They said my generation didn't prosper, but we fought for every damn bit & byte and you better believe we pulled it in the basement just like you all, but we got out of there with night of the living Dead.
This video shows the Air Canada reservation system. I used to work on that, back in the days when I was a computer tech. The main part of it, which I didn't work on, was a UNIVAC system. I worked on the communications front end, based on Collins C8500 computers, which connected the UNIVAC to several PDP-11s, which in turn connected to banks of modems. This system was located on the 6th and later expanded to the 7th floors at 151 Front St. W., in Toronto. I worked on that from early 1978 to the mid 80s, when it was shut down as Air Canada moved to the Sabre network. It's lifetime was closer to 10 years, rather than the 8 mentioned in the video.
Do you work mostly of the hardware side or the software side with these dumb terminals?
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 I have always been a hardware guy, though I did some software support at IBM. Also, I didn't work on the Air Canada terminals. My work was entirely on the computers and the terminals were elsewhere. However, I did some work on the terminals for other systems, but again hardware, not software.
1976? That's the year I bought my first computer, an IMSAI 8080.
Jesus christ, that prediction about privacy was way too accurate for comfort.
they were right about privacy concerns ...but it seems we compromise our own now through social media LOL
One day everyone will have a small bathtub sized computer in their home.
Who's the nut who made the jump from computers to robots in every home? Robotics is a totally different technology. How about computers in every home?
Groovy, man
I hope that our modern predictions of the future don't come to a reality
john whitney ..... a reminder of who he is ... and his importance.
Does anyone know what the color image devices are called that sync to the audio that the musician has laying on the floor? I would love to acquire one of these!
lol, modern computers have so much power, and yet we still struggle to teach something to walk on two legs!
A pretty dark view for 1975. Too bad nobody was listening.
1976
Wow! Only a bathtub! What will they do next?
Maybe one small enough you can lug it around!
@@ZenZaBill Don't be silly, why would anybody want to carry a computer around?
As if to prove a point on the prediction for the future detailed at 11:30, regarding the ability to look through any story in the New York Times over the last 130 years. I just put the title into Google of "US Grants 2-Year delay on safety air bags in cars" and it zeroed in on the newspaper shown in the video at 11:56 as the September 30, 1971, Page 1 issue. Awesome.
"More human, than Humans can make it" 14:59
Shoutout to the Triadex Muse starting around 12:50 or so
Where is that robot? Its 2020 and I want one for Christmas! LOL
😂 ikr
0:30 50,000 transistors in 1976 - we're up to 134 billion on a single CPU with the Apple M2 processor. And that's starting to get old by today's standard.
Laugh you want to be youngsters. But if you haven't gone home with a magnetic core in your pocket you might just be glad to see me 💕
1:07 came pretty much true. Don't have secrets, they will be on Dossier by 2027 for sure!
16:30 The beginnings of CGI wasn't that far away ...
to think that possibly in 50 years from today, todays super computer would struggle to keep up with a low end raspberry pi made in 2070.
"I told you so." - Edward Snowden
No. "I told you so." Zuckerberg
@@ByWire-yk8eh 😂
“By the year 2000 computers will invade our privacy on a scale hardly imaginable...” Prophetic words.
Ok, 1976, how about using 4 digits for the year?
Yup.
The predictions were only partially fulfilled due to the mini ice age of the '80's that computer models predicted.
The beginning of Sky Net? Just axing for a friend.
Imagine going from this to AI, in less than 50 years
now we hope our predictions for the future do not come true
2020: Still no household robots..
Bull shit, I got a robot vacuum cleaner.
@ And robot lawn mowers, self driving cars (sort of) and of course the predicted invaded privacy.
With a computer no bigger than a bathtub
Compared to then look at it today
'CONSPIRACY THEORIES!' sheep yelled when loss of privacy was cited. The novel '1984' was a warning, not an instruction manual.
Tf, predicted the future correctly...
Some parts of course
Kouini transistors
@01:11 yeah shit
What a f-cking nightmare. Lemmings running right off the cliff.
I'm sorry... but Michael's tune kinda sucks
Alexa, Google Home
'70s porn soundtrack ....
3 mins in hittin home hahaha