THE VIDEO SHELF · computing history
Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives
A 1973 AT&T training film made for new employees at Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center, when Unix was in its third version and running at 16 computer centers in the Bell System. It shows how users submitted jobs and used the center's machines.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters share it as a rare, atmospheric look at what working at an early computing center was actually like, including how code was submitted and processed.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- AT&T Tech Channel
- Topic
- computing history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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ATT has a bunch of Bell Labs stuff on their Youtube channel, it's all a pro watch. This is one of my favorites, about people submitting their code to get processed at their computing center: [VIDEO] Watching it made me realize a lot of batch-esque …
pram on Hacker News · 2024-03
In Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)These two training videos from the Bell Labs Computing Centre are a very interesting insight into what it was like. Part 1 [VIDEO] Part 2 [LINK]
cube00 on Hacker News · 2022-04
In The State of Fortran
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