DOC: "History of Computing: Building Blocks of Technology"

[ahalpert]

I edited this video for Christie's about the highlights of Paul Allen's historical computer collection (which were formerly housed in the "Living Computer" museum he founded).

NorBro - I finally bit the bullet and bought some plugins from MotionVFX for this project. Thanks for the recommendation. They're not tools I'm going to use on every project, but where they work they really work well.

 

[NorBro]

nice, nice - hopefully you'll get some good use out of them for a while

 

[Paul F]

Nice.

I wrote about 60 pages for a documentary about the internet, but I lost interest in it. In doing so, I learned about the first computer, built near the end of WWII, made with vacuum tubes. Its purpose was to calculate trajectories for artillery. Previous to that, there were women who did that and they were called computers. They computed trajectory tables.

I also met professor Kleinrock at UCLA. He sent the first internet message. The 'modem' that was used to send messages was a computer that was the size of a 6'rack. It still stands in the Engineering building at UCLA.

 

[drboffa]

Very nice work, Abe. I think the plugins work pretty seamlessly here and fit the overall vibe and edit really well.

Also what a cool collection and story!

 

[CharlesPapert]

Nice edit Abe!

I spent part of my childhood running around the AI lab at MIT in the early to mid-70's when my dad was working with my uncle Seymour Papert on a business venture to put computers into schools centered around Seymour's LOGO language. My playgrounds were floors of humming hardware racks, tape drives and the like. It was very fun to be around!

 

[ahalpert]

Nice.

I wrote about 60 pages for a documentary about the internet, but I lost interest in it. In doing so, I learned about the first computer, built near the end of WWII, made with vacuum tubes. Its purpose was to calculate trajectories for artillery. Previous to that, there were women who did that and they were called computers. They computed trajectory tables.

I also met professor Kleinrock at Stanford. He sent the first internet message. The 'modem' that was used to send messages was a computer that was the size of a 6'rack. It still stands in the Engineering building at Stanford.

That sounds interesting to me! Maybe you'll finish the film

 

[ahalpert]

Very nice work, Abe. I think the plugins work pretty seamlessly here and fit the overall vibe and edit really well.

Also what a cool collection and story!

Thank you. It amazes me that this guy and his team were able to get all these old supercomputers up and running. Back in the day, some of them would take up to a year to build and would then require a full-time technician tasked with maintaining a single supercomputer.

 

[ahalpert]

Nice edit Abe!

I spent part of my childhood running around the AI lab at MIT in the early to mid-70's when my dad was working with my uncle Seymour Papert on a business venture to put computers into schools centered around Seymour's LOGO language. My playgrounds were floors of humming hardware racks, tape drives and the like. It was very fun to be around!

That sounds really cool. Imagine where you'd be now if you went into AI instead... I took a couple computer science courses in college and I remember a professor pitching us on studying machine learning...

 

[CharlesPapert]

That sounds really cool. Imagine where you'd be now if you went into AI instead... I took a couple computer science courses in college and I remember a professor pitching us on studying machine learning...

I joked for years that I knew more about computers at 8 than I did at 18. Didn't get back into it until I bought an Apple IIC in the early 90's. But I never got deep into it, like coding etc. My family roots didn't run that extensively.

 

[Road Journal]

I edited this video for Christie's about the highlights of Paul Allen's historical computer collection (which were formerly housed in the "Living Computer" museum he founded).

NorBro - I finally bit the bullet and bought some plugins from MotionVFX for this project. Thanks for the recommendation. They're not tools I'm going to use on every project, but where they work they really work well.

Amazing!