Computers
It cracks me up to hear how 'there isn't many jobs for computer operators'according to this movie!
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It was made in 1962, after all.
Just the irony of it as compared to today's world. I always did wondered what those "punch cards" computer machines looked and operated. You'd always hear the old timers ramble on about it, but never knew what the hell they were talking about...
sharenot really as I'm old enough to have just eeked past punch cards but I did use tape recorders to record programs. I think the problem is kids today are so wrapped up in new movies/shows/things that they're comepletly freaked/shocked when they see what things were like in the old days. I grew up watching the old movies, but then again, I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching old and current movies and tv. So this is nothing new to me. What parents need to do is have their kids watch older movies and shows to give their kids more of an education, so to speak, to see what things were like back then.
share'those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it'.
one time, when my son's friends were talking computers, i put on the initial computer scene, freeze framing occasionally to point out salient features. then, later in the discussion, i put on the 'computer card spit-out scene' for comic relief. it worked for that group.
old movies are indeed a goldmine of scenes that we can share with our young ones. 42
I'm late to the discussion but completely agree with you. Technology has seen a real spurt in advancement but sadly many kids today (and even some old enough to know better), live in a throwaway society. Few have any appreciation for the cost/value of things. But to some degree we are all eventually (some slower than others), goaded into upgrading simply because some pieces of apparatus become obselete or are no longer supported which I find especially annoying given the outlay. I still have a VCR and a ton of VHS tapes and am loathe to part with them because they cost so blooming much at one stage! I was also in office work just before we got our first computers so we still had a typing pool and everything else was entered manually.
I also grew up in your era and was shown lots of older classic movies and have a fondness for everything that Doris Day stars in - and Cary Grant, James Stewart et al. I hate CGI and all this swasbuckling superhero garb! I would far prefer to curl up with something gentle and nostalgic even though it was before my time!
"These days you have to boil someone before you can sleep with them"
I remember the punch cards. The holes, made by a machine similar to a typewriter, yes I know the typewriters are obsolete now substituted by the laptops, represented digital numbers and letters. The holes were read by a computer with memory, and quite big ones they were, and the information came out from printing papers, also similar to a typewriter machines. Now it is easier with today's computers and discs.
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