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Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives

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What it is

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 Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is one of my favorites, about people submitting their code to get processed at their computing center”

    How code was submitted and processed at the computing center.

    pram, 2024-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)”

  2. “These two training videos from the Bell Labs Computing Centre are a very interesting insight into what it was like.”

    Training video showing what the Bell Labs computing center was like.

    cube00, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “The State of Fortran”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bell labs, unix, 1973, batch computing, att archives

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