[SIGCIS-Members] UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer

[Alex Bochannek]

CHM had acquired pieces of this newsreel segment a while back and we made an edited version available last year at: http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/analog-computers/3/143

A segment from the General Electric in 1947 newsreel featuring the same machine is also available at the same Web page, courtesy of the GE archives at miSci.

Considering the substantial licensing fees for the Popular Science episode, I am curious to learn where Gizmodo got the segment.

Also, the UCLA DA is shown in the following feature films:

Destination Moon (1950)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

On Jul 23, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo wrote:


For those not following the Paleofuture blog, this might be interesting

http://www.readability.com/articles/yt0ybia6
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