Digital Computer Techniques: Introduction

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1962

Creator: United States Navy

Complete Record: old fashioned computer rooms - big computers, big buttons, men sitting at controls, big reel-to-reel machines. man looks at printout on big computer paper. mother shows toddler daughter to count on fingers. CU counting stones, putting them in shell, counting beads on a string. CU of Chinese woman using abacus. CU of computer chips. CU of inner gears of a really old counting machine. slide rule. Rocket takes off from launch pad. satellite, bridge, couple watching TV, cars in assembly line, exterior shot of factory, smoke stacks, airplane, factory, adding machine, woman punching in numbers, pulling lever, gears on a big machine moving. navy men looking at dials, gears on a big console, man in computer room looking at print out (great shots of old fashioned computers). illustration of “The Computer Process” - flow chart: “Problem” - paychecks, utility lines, building roads, etc. (1st box) - “Program” (2nd box), “Input Medium” (3rd box) - “Computer” (4th box), “Output Medium” (5th box) - “Solution”. CU of diode tubes, binary number system, computer cards with punched holes, demonstration of how computer reads them. more illustrations of how computer works - “Input - Output”. boring man at computer console pushing buttons. man looks at console labeled “Electrodata”