Clip opens with women working at tabulating machines and man reading a printout. 8/7/44 appears on the screen with a shot of the IBM Mark 1 Computer. Two men are working at the computer. Narrator states it was another 10 years before the first production computer was installed at Monsanto in 1955--picture of the Monsanto sign on top of the building. Mark 1 designed for engineering and scientific jobs. Room of computers is shown. Narrator discusses the technological breakthroughs in the 1950's. Shot of transistors, printed circuits, vacuum tubes and wires, tape drives and printers. Shot of card input time processing cards. Narrator discusses the second generation of computers in 1960 and magnetic core memory. Shot of the IBM 1401 system, tape input/output system