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“Microworld with William Shatner” (1976) is a color, educational and promotional film made by AT&T about the future of microprocessors. Canadian…
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William shatner wow.
Just to think that all of this has devolved into Tik Tok
lol William SHAT-nerd
In about 1967 68 my dad was a vice president at western electric ( the manufacturing end of the bell system) at 222 broadway in nyc. I can remember a small tv screen hooked up to our phone and connected to my grandmothers house 30 miles away where she had a screen too. My dad would dial her up and there she was. I was 14 years old at the time. The bell system was the largest contractor for the us government when it came to communication and electronic defense systems at the time. I do believe from what my dad would talk about at the dinner table to my mother the us government would supply bell system technology way ahead of what bell system was working on. I think I remember the phone screen was also at the nyc world’s fair in the early 60’s. My dad was born in 1920 and what a life he lived! Who knew!
Today a large number of those discrete components, the 3 leg package, are unavailable. The ones left are in individual's parts bins all over the world. Today, when putting together circuits with old schematics, there is a lot of substitution going on. Now even through-hole assemby has more to do with structural necessity. SMD technology, even for passive compinents is more typical today.
About the size of one of the flies many eyes. Thanks Dr. Suisse.
At 0:29 is a Tandy radio shack trs-80. These came out in 1977. So I'm not sure how this film could be from 1976?
The technologies presented seem quant by today's standards. Of course, we are now living in the world imagined in this video. Amazing! Will quantum computing be the next stage? Only time will tell.
Holy Shatner, another great video P.F. 👍🏽😎👍🏽
Fascinating!
"Making predictions is tough, especially about the future. " — Yogi Berra
Nice hairpiece though.
1976? Impossible.
1979 probably.
I really dig the background music in this film!
@12:26 – Surprising to see an Apple ][ in a film from 1976!
I wonder if anyone can identify any of the chips shown in this video?
The irony is that the official AT&T archives YouTube channel posted this same video several years ago.
I find myself wondering what the landscape would look like if the US didn't break up Bell.
Is that 'The Shat'?
This film is not 1976 – at 12:27 we see Apple II (with floppy drive) in a classroom. Apple II launched on June 10, 1977. Sadly, the copyright (at 14:32:14) is covered by the frame counter!
I've seen some suggestions out on the 'net that this film was made in 1976 BUT REVISED in 1980, which would explain the Apple II with floppies.
Should have invested more $$.
You can see the link to TRON in some of the old grafix, awsome
Andromeda Strain music realness.
This is so entertaining
I wonder what those chip designers would say if they could see a Ryzen 9!
I got out of High School in 76 and had no idea how the technology in this video would shape my life going forward. Just retired after 40 years in holding just about every job in Information Technology you could think of.
Its just a passing fad .Know one will ever have use for this rubbish
At 15:23 there is a dome input device I saw demonstrated at a late-70's West Coast Computer Faire. Anyone happen to know the name of the company that made it or what it was called?
It was operated by selecting a pattern with your fingertips on those eight buttons, then using your thumb to finish the character by choosing one of several thumb buttons which triggered an ascii char to be sent out the port. The person demonstrating it was going pretty fast, probably faster than some typists (and with just one hand.)
One of those Bell Lab scientists quit his job to start a transistor manufacturing company in his hometown of Palo Alto, California. Thus was born "Silicon Valley".
Thanks to periscope for saving and sharing this GEM!
There's no future in these computer things, waste of time.
6:52 hey! What is she doing there?! I was told that ‘back then’ women could only be house wives and secretaries and if they worked real hard and went to college they could be a nurse or teacher. Weird
I worked in electronics as a tech most of my work career. I even worked in a TV repair shop at 16 yo in 1969, 4 years in the military as an avionics technician, oil well logging tool tech and then in telecommunications retired from the T doing satellite communications. Worked on many types of communications equipment including two way, microwave and fiber optic and many types of low speed and high speed circuits.
Prophetic and still UP TO DATE . . .
Clozee breaths heavily
Amazing feature. Everything said still applies. Given that it showed an Apple-II computer, it must have been made after 1977.
For all its expertise and ability, Bell Telephone couldn't fight the federal government.
The way he's talking about the 80s and 90s…technology is going to be out of control by then. I'm glad I won't live to see it…
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