# HIGH SPEED DIGITAL COMPUTERS & DATA PROCESSING 1960s MAINFRAME IBM COMPUTERS 53034

The System Development Corporation presents “System Technology,” a circa 1960 color film featuring footage of “modern” computers and data processing. At mark 00:40 we see several large IBM computers, each about the size of a bookcase, as the narrator explains how technology marvels are able to handle vast computations and hold data. Data processing is involved in nearly aspect of daily life, we’re told, including transportation, insurance, banking, credit cards, and information technology. We are shown an automated oil refinery near mark 01:30 as the narrator continues an explanation of how computers are an accepted part of the work world. The Air Defense Command’s Continental Defense Network (mark 01:50 ) is also a user of such technology. At mark 02:17 we’re taken to the Santa Monica headquarters of System Development Corporation, a purveyor of such technology. Inside we see scenes of engineers at work drafting diagrams and maps, engineers in meetings, and various draftspersons. By mark 07:55 the film discusses how such technology serves the training needs of the US Air Force and other branches of the military. Via a mix of animation and meeting scenes, the film explains how personnel create detailed training exercises, each meant to achieve a specific goal. Much of that work is also automated, we are told at mark 11:45 , as punchcards are shown making their way across the screen and are later used to create a detailed map. At mark 17:00 , the film shows a simulated air…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/53034SystemTechnology)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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