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

AT&T Tech Channel · 59.2K views · 2012-11-28 · 8:26

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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.

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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.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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pram · 2024-03 · Strong recommendation

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 things like Hadoop and Spark aren't too far off, just more automated.

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cube00 · 2022-04 · Recommendation

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]

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st_goliath · 2023-07 · Reference

Fascinating to see a couple recent photos and find out what happened to this place. The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex is something that I find myself unexpectedly stumbling over on the Internet every few years or so. First time some circa 10 years ago, when they uploaded a 1973 era training video for the computing services to `AT&T tech channel`: [VIDEO] [LINK]

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