IBM GIRLS
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Year Published: 1950s
Format: 16mm
Description: This series of clips show women working in technology / computing in the 1950s. It begins with a clip from an IBM promotional film for mainframe type computers, which are attended to by a woman in blue dress. At :42 reels of magnetic tape whirr in a machine. At :52 punch cards are used to store data. At 1:27 a high speed printer that can print 1000 lines per minute is shown. At 1:54 silent footage shows women working at a variety of tasks in a computer lab. This material appears to date to the 1960s. At 2:39 is unrelated footage of a sailor returning from the sea and hugging his two toddler children and kissing his wife.
Transcription
here is Management's newest and most powerful instrument for business Decades of experience in business procedures and data processing are behind this answer to the volume input processing and output requirements of commercial life output of essential results may be written on Magnetic Tape as readily processible and complete permanent records each reel of tape may contain millions of characters many results need to be in the form of punched unit records the card punch produces these printed output is provided by line printers in the form of accounting documents and timely and concise management reports frequently business needs require printed results in volume printed output may be accelerated by the use of faster line printers here is an advanced model in action at 500 lines per minute and for even faster output a model that prints at the rate of of 1,000 lines per minute the volume input volume output problems peculiar to business transactions are met and completely answered in this data processing system to operate on Sound business principles by establishing like four days off in a row and then like one day [Music] oh [Music] [Music] they [Music]
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