Computers & Data Processing: A fascinating educational film from 1972.
It introduces the field of Data Processing, with scenes of electric adding machines, IBM System/360 model 65 mainframe system, IBM 2401 magnetic tape machines, Control Data Corporation (CDC) image scanner; Burroughs Punch Tape Reader and MICR/OCR, CDC 160 computer and much more.
Here is an index to many of the vintage machines we identified:
00:10 Burroughs adding machine
00:45 Paper filing methods
01:00 IBM Selectric Typewriter
01:10 ADDO-X paper tape calculator (by AB Addo)
01:13 Automatic Page Collating Machine
01:21 Xerox 2400 Photocopier
01:32 IBM 029 Keypunch Machine (card punch)
02:28 IBM Card Sorter
03:00 IBM Model 188 Collator of 1961
03:42 IBM 602-A Calculating Punch Machine
04:54 IBM Accounting Machine Model 407 ?
05:47 IBM System/360 model 65 mainframe
06:01 IBM 2401 Magnetic tape machine; disk unit, printer
06:18 IBM High Speed Card Reader
06:14 IBM Plug Board Program (examples)
06:58 Computer Memory (inside computer)
07:26 IBM Plug Board Panel (Hardwired Program)
07:37 Rack of multiple Plug Board Programs Pre-wired for use
08:06 IBM 2401 Mag Tape Machine
08:11 Computer Light Panel (blinking)
08:20 Operator adjusting IBM tape machines
08:23 Computer Room view (tapes, disks)
08:35 IBM keyboard input to system
08:40 IBM typewriter Type ball in operation
09:00 IBM High Speed Card Reader
10:19 High Speed Printer
10:25 CDC Optical Scanner
10:59 Paper Tape Punch/Reader (Burroughs)
11:08 Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) (Burroughs Corporation)
11:18 Viatron System 21 Terminals
11:40 Views of the Data Center and Personnel
12:13 Electrical Power Station Control Center
12:16 {wave or signal monitoring station?}
12:29 CDC 160A Console and tape drives
12:36 { telecommunications tracking/reporting center?)
Some of the punch card scenes were filmed at the Statistical Tabulating Corporation (“STC”) a large computer data processing service bureau during the 1960’s-1970’s.
STC later sold its business to Automatic Data Processing (“ADP”) in 1980.