Short clip of some old systems

18 Jan 2012

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  Short but, sweet little clip of some old
computers.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaFHrGjy7w0 
 Nice clips of RAMAC in action. 
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.  :)

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Short clip of some old systems