MOBIDIC: A 1959 "mobile" computing system + a true but unfunny cartoon
The "Computer History Archives Project" has been bringing online at YouTube a collection of great old vintage computing films. Really good stuff. Their YouTube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyJD0RHtF_77_oAf5tT1nQ They're putting a lot of work into these. In some cases, the films are presented in original form, sometimes silent films are presented with a new narration, and sometimes they provide an opening narration and then present the original film, as in the case of: MOBIDIC Mobile Digital Computer 1959 U.S. Army's Giant Mobile Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9Lk2min4w Yeah, a whale of a computing system, MOBI-DIC. Though I'll bet the soldiers had a "different" way of interpreting that acronym. = = = Here's a two panel cartoon that showed up today about how users and programmers see each other. It is both absolutely true, and to me, not funny at all: https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/ZDxCg5gWsse --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
