Computer Conservation Society

 

Media known to the society

We are attempting to build a list of films and video material of interest to CCS members. At this stage we are keen to simply identify material and make a note of where it is held.

Title Producer Machines featured Notes Format Copy kept by
           
           
Introduction to Punched Card Accounting - 1942 Powers Samas 40 Col punched card machines Very clear coverage of punching, verifying, sorting and tabulating. Include mechanical cross multiplying punch. DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

           
The Power-Samas Factory - 1924 Powers Samas Punched card manufacture Silent DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

The EDSAC Film - 1951   EDSAC Introduction by M V Wilkes added in 1976 DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

Leo - The Automatic Office - 1957   LEO II and LEO III   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

The Ferranti Pegasus Computer - 1955   Ferranti Pegasus   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

Computer Achievments   EMIDEC 1100 etc BEA Freight forwarding and Boots stock control DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

On Guard - IBM Corp IBM US SAGE Air Defence system Cold war terror at its best - IBM saves the US from the commie threat! DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

The Computer and the Mind of Man - 1965 National Educational Television, US Various IBM Primarily IBM machines - fairly doom laden warning of electronic brains ahead. DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC

The Future Came Yesterday ICL Unknown Unknown DVD Tilly Blyth / Science Museum

Time To Think - 1958 ICT BTM 1202   DVD Roger Johnson

Computer Architecture SHOTLIST PCs circa 1997 Quite a good basic introduction to computers VHS/DVD Roger Johnson

Supermarket Information Systems SHOTLIST (None) Stock control at Sainsbury - series of interviews with shop managers VHS/DVD Roger Johnson
 
           
           
           

 

On-Line Material (Copies of original material only)

Remington-Rand Present the Univac Remington Rand UNIVAC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs Online You Tube

Man and Computer IBM   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUCZJWo9MZo&feature=related Online You Tube

IBM RAMAC IBM   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD1umMX2s8&feature=related Online You Tube

GIGO Barclays Bank - 1969 IBM primarily http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXFnCD72JpY (Part 1 of 3) Online You Tube

Tomorrow's World 1969 Elliott 405 http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8008.shtml?all=2&id=8008 Online BBC

Science and the Egg 1962 Elliott 803 http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=41973 Online British Pathe