1951-1968 Early Computer Magnetic Tape Units- History IBM, UNIVAC, RCA, AMPEX - Educational Video

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Your contribution greatly helps! Thank you! ~ CHAP. -- An educational, hopefully enjoyable, brief look back at Early Computer Magnetic Tape Units (1951 to 1968). Vintage photos & film show a variety of early hardware, including IBM 726-729 Tape Units, IBM NORC, early AMPEX drives used by GE for ERMA, NCR and other systems. Also mentioned in the Gallery are Honeywell 800, Philco Transac, CDC 6600 and others. A Computer History Archives Project (CHAP) video production, production/editing, Mark Greenia.
Approx. 20 min overview and 6 minute Image Gallery.


Acknowledgements:

Sincere thanks to those who provided much needed valuable input to date.
Here are some Acknowledgements and Recommended References:

IBM ARCHIVES
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/

SRI International Corporate History
https://www.sri.com/about/corporate-h...

Articles: General Electric Computer Dept. from the bottom up, 1961--1965, by Ed Thelen
http://www.ed-thelen.org/EarlyGE-Comp...

Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications & Computation, Ed Sharpe, Archivist
http://www.smecc.org/

VIP Club Information Technology Pioneers
http://www.VIPclubmn.org

Al Kossow’s Online Software Archive
http://www.Bitsavers.org

ATLAS Computer at Chilton, UK
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/a...

LEO Computers Society
http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/links...

Glenn’s Computer Museum
http://www.glennsmuseum.com/ibm/ibm.html

General Electric Company History
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/e...

MAG TAPE SPECIFIC REFERENCES:

DC Video (Conversions and Great Web Site),
https://www.dcvideo.com/videotape-ide...

Magnetic Tape Data Storage
https://wikivividly.com/wiki/Magnetic...

Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording (Good info on AMPEX and others)
http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording...

AMPEX Corporate History
http://www.ampex.com/ampex-history/

YouTube Video:
VIDEO: 1951 UNIVAC UNISERVO TAPE DRIVE - Computer History Archives Project, # CH-013
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Additional References:

Paper: “Fifty years of IBM innovation with information storage on magnetic tape,” by R. Bradshaw, C. Schroeder, Published in IBM Research and Development, Vol 47, No. 4, 2003
http://ibm-1401.info/history-of-tape.pdf

“Digital Magnetic Tape Recording Fundamentals,”
Training Manual, 1962, (originally by Ampex Corp.) http://worldpowersystems.com/J/magtap...

additional thanks to Jeff Quitney's vintage videos, YouTube channel
   / webdev17  

Professional Narration: David Melvin (GE Narration- Joel North)

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