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		<title>1960s Navy Training Film on Computers</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Surprise! Today&#8217;s post is about a video from Periscope Films from sixty years ago on the fundamental building blocks of computers from way back then. Right off we&#8217;re told that computers no longer rely on primative things like electromechanical relays (gags) or vacuum tubes (wretches). NOW computers are made of TRANSITORS, and we truly are &#8230; <a href="https://setsideb.com/1960s-navy-training-film-on-computers/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "1960s Navy Training Film on Computers"</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Surprise! Today&#8217;s post is about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNCz0_7whbU"><strong>a video from Periscope Films from sixty years ago</strong></a> on the fundamental building blocks of computers from way back then. Right off we&#8217;re told that computers no longer rely on <em>primative</em> things like <em>electromechanical relays</em> (gags) or <em>vacuum tubes</em> (wretches). NOW computers are made of TRANSITORS, and we truly are living in <em>the future</em>! (18 minutes)</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The cool thing is, while they&#8217;re much faster now denser now, and faster, and we have much simpler ways of interacting with them, and storage, both chip and magnetic, hold much more data, and each of these things has improved by a factor of billions or even trillions, computers still basically operate on these same principles.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This video mostly concerns itself with explaining how basic computer circuts are made. It makes for fairly dry viewing if you don&#8217;t know anything about electronics or circuit diagrams, but maybe it&#8217;ll be interesting anyway, from a historical perspective.</p>



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