#archiveteam-bs 2012-06-30,Sat

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02:53 🔗 Coderjoe chronomex: did you see the video I linked the other night about ESS?
02:53 🔗 chronomex hi, no, I don't think so
02:55 🔗 Coderjoe http://archive.org/details/0767_ESS_20_00_58_00
02:56 🔗 Coderjoe courtesy of western electric and the prelinger archives
02:59 🔗 Coderjoe or, as I joked then: Tonight on "How It's Made" 1965 edition: ESS
03:03 🔗 chronomex nice
03:03 🔗 chronomex great fine, btw
03:03 🔗 chronomex *find
03:04 🔗 Coderjoe it popped up wednesday night on my prelinger collection rss feed
03:06 🔗 chronomex hot off the telecine
03:07 🔗 underscor ESS?
03:07 🔗 underscor oh
03:08 🔗 chronomex quite sleepy narration too
03:09 🔗 chronomex I love how in the day they used "ESS" as a mass noun, even though it's basically the same part of speech as "computer"
03:12 🔗 Coderjoe look at all the "robuts"
03:12 🔗 Coderjoe they look like people
03:13 🔗 chronomex heh
03:14 🔗 chronomex btw the equipment they are making is #1 ESS, at the phone museum's storage facility we have a decent amuont of the cpu of a #1 ESS
03:14 🔗 chronomex it's not on public display because 1) we're out of room and 2) it's not complete or functional
03:18 🔗 chronomex ha, that was back in the day when commercial silicon crystals were an inch in diameter
03:22 🔗 Coderjoe the end of the narration and beginning of the credits make me slightly wonder if they're missing a few words, like "the twilight zone" or the outer limits or something
03:36 🔗 chronomex hah
03:36 🔗 chronomex phone company videos tend to be sonorous
04:17 🔗 Coderjoe chronomex: there were a couple of other bell labs computer clips I linked around that time as well
04:17 🔗 chronomex cool
04:17 🔗 chronomex I'm in the zone, sorry
04:23 🔗 Coderjoe *sigh* http://archive.org/details/0619_Computing_For_Fun_04_01_26_00 for (mostly) audio, http://archive.org/details/0619_Computing_For_Fun_04_30_23_00 for the missing video
04:25 🔗 shaqfu Is that the video with the chiptune opening?
04:25 🔗 Coderjoe yeah
04:27 🔗 Coderjoe dammit, I am a dork
04:27 🔗 Coderjoe I just synced up two separate players
04:29 🔗 Coderjoe another bell labs computer film: http://archive.org/details/0767_Incredible_Machine_The_20_26_47_00
04:30 🔗 Coderjoe wow
04:30 🔗 Coderjoe this is weird
04:31 🔗 Coderjoe the visuals bounce between the two versions
04:37 🔗 Coderjoe it is almost like these are two separate lab elements, but that doesn't explain why it keeps in sync between the two
04:38 🔗 Coderjoe (other than the one with the audio being constantly off sync between its video and audio)
05:00 🔗 Coderjoe I am amused by the "Incredible Machine" one, because they talk about writing programs to render computer-generated animations to film. and I am WATCHING THIS ON A COMPUTER. one that is much much faster than what they had then, and only 54 years later
05:01 🔗 shaqfu Coderjoe: I saw a webcomic from '94 about how "video on the Internet may one day be possible"
05:04 🔗 shaqfu (it was DFC, go figure)
05:05 🔗 Coderjoe and in that same film, they play with what is essentially Miku Hatsune's great great grandfater singing "Bicycle Built for Two"
05:06 🔗 shaqfu ...going to have to watch now
05:06 🔗 Coderjoe and reciting the "To be or not to be" monologue
05:07 🔗 shaqfu What time point?
05:08 🔗 Coderjoe for bycycle?
05:08 🔗 shaqfu Yeah
05:08 🔗 shaqfu Curious if it was inspired by 2001
05:08 🔗 Coderjoe around half to 2/3rds or so
05:09 🔗 Coderjoe 10 minutes
05:09 🔗 shaqfu Impressive for '68
05:10 🔗 shaqfu When I first read 2001 I thought "no way computers like that existed in '61"
05:10 🔗 shaqfu But they more or less did
05:10 🔗 shaqfu Just missing the intelligence aspect
05:11 🔗 Coderjoe I'm pretty sure it is a continuation of the research that created Voder
05:11 🔗 Coderjoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0
05:11 🔗 Coderjoe 1939
05:11 🔗 shaqfu Woah
05:12 🔗 shaqfu In a lot of ways, it's astonishing how much less closer we are to HAL-like computers now than we were in the 60's
05:12 🔗 shaqfu The only difference between ELIZA and Siri is that Siri has more data
05:13 🔗 Coderjoe more voder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZAQXkpb5w
05:13 🔗 Coderjoe (I really want to find a FULL presentation of voder, such as the rest of the one in the first youtube link I gave)
05:14 🔗 godane uploading episode 98 of dl.tv
05:14 🔗 godane a full 1st year of dl.tv is on archive.org
05:14 🔗 godane :-D
05:15 🔗 Coderjoe hahah
05:15 🔗 Coderjoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc
05:17 🔗 Coderjoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSyTFvrihkM
05:18 🔗 Coderjoe mmm
05:18 🔗 Coderjoe some stuff that looks like RIPterm
05:22 🔗 godane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDpagiwYDg4
05:28 🔗 Coderjoe "to do this with a PC, you have to buy and install a card" "here too" "you can also run windows programs on a mac, by adding a PC compatability card"
05:29 🔗 Coderjoe so adding hardware is evil if it is your competitor, but fine if it is you?
05:30 🔗 Coderjoe and the url at the end just redirects to their "hot news" page
06:21 🔗 chronomex TOO MUCH CODE
06:21 🔗 chronomex MY EYES
06:24 🔗 * BlueMax hands chronomex a hello world example
06:24 🔗 BlueMax Rest your eyes
06:24 🔗 chronomex I don't think that'll help, friend
06:24 🔗 chronomex I rather like erlang
06:24 🔗 chronomex it's just that my eyes hurt
06:25 🔗 * BlueMax shows chronomex a poorly photoshopped picture of Jason in a tutu
06:25 🔗 chronomex I think the best idea for me at this point is to go take a walk
06:25 🔗 chronomex but it's kind of dark out
06:26 🔗 BlueMax chronomex just keep your pockets turned out, nobody mugs a poor nerd
06:26 🔗 chronomex so you say
06:26 🔗 chronomex already been mugged once
22:27 🔗 shaqfu This looks fun - tracking down hypercard lit
23:12 🔗 godane 3d world cdroms 109 thur 111 are up
23:57 🔗 chronomex Leap second in 3 minutes!

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