7508_early_days_comp1_part2
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1970s
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This clip starts out with a still of an early computer, the Harvard Mark I. There are shots of First Generation computers (1955-1960) and men wheeling them around. There are shots of men sitting in large rooms with huge, old computers. Transistors and printed circuits are shown. Machines that can store records on tape are also shown. A new Second Generation computer from the 1401 system using tape to compute information is seen.