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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com
May 20, 2013, 10:32:13 PM5/20/13
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TCM showed a 1965 comedy, "Our Man Flint", a spoof of spy pictures.
At the start, they decided to select a new agent by computer, based on
specs by various managers. The scene shifts to a machine room.
We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
Rand 90 column card.
At the start, they decided to select a new agent by computer, based on
specs by various managers. The scene shifts to a machine room.
We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
Rand 90 column card.
Howard S Shubs
May 21, 2013, 12:47:14 AM5/21/13
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
> typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
> On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
> Rand 90 column card.
oops.
> We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
> typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
> On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
> Rand 90 column card.
Charles Richmond
May 21, 2013, 6:35:56 PM5/21/13
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<hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
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There was a follow-on movie titled "In Like Flint", where James Coburn
played the same spy character Derek Flint. I'm *not* sure if this follow-on
mentioned computers though.
For those who have *not* seen one, there is a photo of a 90-column Remington
Rand card near the bottom of the following page:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/cards.html
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played the same spy character Derek Flint. I'm *not* sure if this follow-on
mentioned computers though.
For those who have *not* seen one, there is a photo of a 90-column Remington
Rand card near the bottom of the following page:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/cards.html
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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com
May 21, 2013, 10:31:18 PM5/21/13
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On May 21, 12:47 am, Howard S Shubs <how...@shubs.net> wrote:
> hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
> > typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
> > On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
> > Rand 90 column card.
> oops.
No, AFAIK, there was no object-oriented programming involved. <g>
Indeed, for all the mention of "computer", all we actually saw was a
keypunch and a bunch of sorters, no real computers.
Sorters were great for movies as they showed the cards flying down the
path and then into the bins. Different colored cards could be used
for a neat image. Very visual. I remember one movie showed a large
batch of cards dropping into the first few pockets, then a single card
ending up in the last pocket (with a musical accompanment of "oh no".)
Doris Day did a movie where she worked, briefly, in a computer room,
resulting in cards flying all over the place.
> hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
> > typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
> > On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
> > Rand 90 column card.
> oops.
Indeed, for all the mention of "computer", all we actually saw was a
keypunch and a bunch of sorters, no real computers.
Sorters were great for movies as they showed the cards flying down the
path and then into the bins. Different colored cards could be used
for a neat image. Very visual. I remember one movie showed a large
batch of cards dropping into the first few pockets, then a single card
ending up in the last pocket (with a musical accompanment of "oh no".)
Doris Day did a movie where she worked, briefly, in a computer room,
resulting in cards flying all over the place.
Quadibloc
May 21, 2013, 10:44:52 PM5/21/13
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On May 21, 4:35 pm, "Charles Richmond" <numer...@aquaporin4.com>
wrote:
> There was a follow-on movie titled "In Like Flint", where James Coburn
> played the same spy character Derek Flint. I'm *not* sure if this follow-on
> mentioned computers though.
Not terribly, to my recollection.
However, it led to the enchantingly catchy musical composition "Your
Zowie Face":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGxyAF8n48U
John Savard
wrote:
> There was a follow-on movie titled "In Like Flint", where James Coburn
> played the same spy character Derek Flint. I'm *not* sure if this follow-on
> mentioned computers though.
However, it led to the enchantingly catchy musical composition "Your
Zowie Face":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGxyAF8n48U
John Savard
Michael Black
May 22, 2013, 2:01:39 AM5/22/13
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On Tue, 21 May 2013, Charles Richmond wrote:
> <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
> news:24be49a0-1ec3-478c...@a8g2000yqp.googlegroups.com...
>> TCM showed a 1965 comedy, "Our Man Flint", a spoof of spy pictures.
>>
>> At the start, they decided to select a new agent by computer, based on
>> specs by various managers. The scene shifts to a machine room.
>>
>> We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
>> typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
>> On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
>> Rand 90 column card.
>
> There was a follow-on movie titled "In Like Flint", where James Coburn played
> the same spy character Derek Flint. I'm *not* sure if this follow-on
> mentioned computers though.
>
Maybe in the bad guys lair? I can't remember.
> <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
> news:24be49a0-1ec3-478c...@a8g2000yqp.googlegroups.com...
>> TCM showed a 1965 comedy, "Our Man Flint", a spoof of spy pictures.
>>
>> At the start, they decided to select a new agent by computer, based on
>> specs by various managers. The scene shifts to a machine room.
>>
>> We see cards being punched on 026 punches, though the sound is like a
>> typewriter. We then see the cards sorted on Remington Rand sorters.
>> On each sorter, one man keeps coming out, seen typed on a Remington
>> Rand 90 column card.
>
> There was a follow-on movie titled "In Like Flint", where James Coburn played
> the same spy character Derek Flint. I'm *not* sure if this follow-on
> mentioned computers though.
>
There was actually a third movie, made for tv and really having nothing to
do with the first two. A differnet actor, but also no longer the same
sort of super agent.
I know, because I got the two movies as a set on DVD a couple of years
ago, and the made for tv movie was part of the package.
There are some weird instances of computers appearing in movies or tv. I
was watching the first season of "The Streets of San Francisco earlier in
the year, and there was an episode where a family of "gypsy-like" people
run an organized crime ring, moving into a town, doing scams and such, and
themn moving on. And it opens with someone in an RV checking a computer
that's in the RV.
Michael
Charles Richmond
May 22, 2013, 4:38:40 PM5/22/13
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<hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
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The Doris Day/Cary Grant movie was titled "That Touch of Mink". It also had
Gig Young, Alan Hewitt, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, and others. In the
"computer" room it was mostly EAM equipment, but it had a shot of a "front
panel" with the push-push lighted computer switches. On the wall in the
back, it said in big letters: UNIVAC.
news:2ed142c6-4c63-4579...@s18g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
Gig Young, Alan Hewitt, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, and others. In the
"computer" room it was mostly EAM equipment, but it had a shot of a "front
panel" with the push-push lighted computer switches. On the wall in the
back, it said in big letters: UNIVAC.
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