18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
2:05 a.m.
On 2012 Jan 17, at 5:37 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
That video is clipped from this longer one: http://bit.ly/wDNnvN.
The computers that are mentioned -- MOBIDC, BASICPAC, and COMPAC --
are all part of the Army's FIELDATA program, which was the
predecessor to ASCII. FIELDATA (and MOBIDIC, and some others) were
all developed at the Army Signal Corps' Evans Signal Lab, in
Belmar, N.J. -- which is today the InfoAge Science Center,
containing the MARCH computer museum! We even have a very little
piece of a MOBIDIC ("Mobile Digital Computer" -- "mobile" meant it
fit into two 30-foot trailers.)
Come to VCF East at our museum this spring and see it. :)
It keeps getting pointlessly chopped up, there's a third video on
there with just the RAMAC scene. ..!?..
Short but, sweet little clip of some old computers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaFHrGjy7w0
Nice clips of RAMAC in action.