REMINGTON RAND UNIVAC INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL COMPUTERS 1960s MAINFRAME COMPUTING FILM 64454

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This is a 1960’s era, color movie presented by Remington Rand and Univac, a division of Sperry Rand Corp. It was likely made between 1957-1960. It is called “An Introduction to Digital Computers”. It opens with a man sitting in front of a very large computer terminal, :50. This is a UNIVAC LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer) one of the worldís first Supercomputers. The first LARC was installed in 1960 at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Only two were ever made. This one was at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Cartoon animation of caveman counting on his fingers, 1:00. Cartoon of ancient Japan, man counting on abacus. Cartoon continues with the recollection of mathematicians through history and their counting machines, 1:24. Rocket on a launch pad, 1:43. Man punches buttons on a 1960’s computer terminal. At 1:55 seen are 4 tall cabinets part of the computer processing units. At 2:04 a man loads a Magnetic Tape unit. Diodes, transistors, vacuum tubes are shown; the insides of a computer, 2:23. Analog and Digital animated illustration, 2:40. Binary System animated illustration, 3:21. Animated illustration of electronic switches within a computer; presentation of how the number 5 is represented in binary code, 4:17. At 5:00 shows a man loading punch cards into card reader of the UNIVAC Solid State 80/90 computer. At 5:15 is a wider shot of the UNIVAC Solid State computer. At 05:20 are shown UNIVAC round-hole format (80 column) punched cards, and then punched paper tape, and then magnetic tape (Mylar). Punch cards and punched tape are explainedComputer data sources are shown; punched cards, punched tape and magnetic tape, 5:25. At 5:55 is a Univac Uniservo Tape Drive, followed by explanation of how magnetic tape works. At 06:10 a punched paper tape reel in operation. Explanation of photoelectric sensors is given, followed by explanation of how magnetic tape works.Magnetic tape spinning in computer machines, 6:00. Animated illustration on how photoelectric cells are used to read punched tape and punched cards, 6:26. Magnetic tape illustration, 6:40. Computation and memory illustration, 7:02. 07:09 shows magnetic drum memory, and magnetic core memory at 07:15. Magnetic drum illustration, 7:45. Magnetic core memory illustration, 8:04. Explanation of computer clock and comparison to musical rhythm, 9:20. Illustration comparing computer computations to an average taxpayer’s thought process; cartoon, 9:45. 11:17 shows the Univac File Computer Model 1 control desk and supporting cabinets, two men are working on the computer. At 11:28 is a UNIVAC Solid State printed circuit board. “Logic block” illustrations using “and”, “or”, and “inverter” logic blocks, 11:30. At 15:10: a man sits at the control panel of a UNIVAC LARC, marked “Remington Rand Operator’s Console”. 15:25, UNIVAC Solid State Computer, 15:36. Man designing a decision chart for a computer, 16:00. Cartoon illustration of man designing a flow chart, 16:30. 17:51 UNIVAC high speed printer in operation. At 18:03 various blinking light panels of earlier computers are shown, one after the other. At 18:20 a man operates a computer control panel of a Univac Athena guidance computer console. Cartoon illustration of man living daily life in comparison to how commands are input into a computer, 19:00. Illustration of transfer instructions for a computer, 20:05. Input to arithmetic illustration, 20:20. Illustrated recap of how computers work, 21:26. At 22:10 a man operates a computer control panel of an early Univac (ERA) Bogart type control panel (circa 1957-1958). Men sitting at various computers, 22:25. At 22:28 a man operates computer control panel of a UNIVAC Athena computer (circa 1957-58). At 22:24 man operates UNIVAC File Computer Model 1. At 22:28 a man uses a UNIVAC ATHENA Computer console). At 23:02 scenes of hand wiring computer panels. At 23:15 Man at UNIVAC Bogart type (Navy) computer. At 23:20 UNIVAC Athena Guidance Computer for Air Force Titan missiles. At 23:26 shows a Control Center Room with UNIVAC Tactical Data System Command with Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) Computer and related equipment. (a.k.a. UNIVAC CP-642, UNIVAC 1206, and AN/USQ-20. At 23:32 UNIVAC NTDS (Naval Tactical Data System) Computer. Man pulls out drawer containing Univac circuit boards, pluggable ruggedized, field replaceable units. (These are solid-state cards with a conformal coating to prevent damage from water, dirt or vibration.) At 23:53 UNIVAC LARC Control panel again.



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