Univac Factory Tour 1968: Twin Cities Minnesota [video]

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My dad worked for Univac, in Salt Lake City. For several years, they would hold an open house once a year, and I went to several of them as a kid. This is a real blast from the past for me.

But I didn't realize that ferrite cores were that small. The way they threated them is amazing. I thought it was much more manual than that.

Reel-to-reel tapes! Punch cards! Drum memory! Fortran! Flowcharts! I never used them professionally, but I remember seeing them.

Uniscopes! I did use those professionally, briefly.

What a time trip.

I only just recently found this youtube channel. I've been having so much fun looking at all the technology that used to be. I thought I was old school having worked with Tandem and JCL and all that, but this is an entire other generation.

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