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AT&T Archives
AT&T Archives: Robot, by Jim Henson
For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications. The seminar itself involved a lot of films and multimedia ...
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- Tags: AT&T Tech Channel AT&T AT&T Archives History Robot Henson Jim Henson Henson Studios Puppet Technology
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AT&T Archives: Computer Security
Watch a new video from the AT&T Archives every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at techchannel.att.com These films (strung together into one film here) were originally made for the annual Skytop conference of Bell Labs executives, and were shown over a series of days during the conference. They were ...
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- Length: 9:54
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AT&T Archives: Dr. Walter Brattain on Semiconductor Physics
See more videos from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com In this film, Walter H. Brattain, Nobel Laureate in Physics, presents an introductory college-level lecture on the physics of semiconductors. He demonstrates by experiment such semiconductor properties as thermal EMF, photo EMF, and re...
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- Length: 29:14
- Views: 2575
- Tags: AT&T Tech Channel AT&T AT&T Archives Semiconductor Physics Transistor
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AT&T Archives: Now You Can Dial
See more from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com The goal of this film was to aid in reducing customer dialing irregularities by demonstrating the correct way to use the dial telephone. It documents the shift between operator-based connections (which were on the way out) and having to dial ...
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- Length: 9:51
- Views: 14468
- Tags: Bell System 1950s How to Dial Your Phone
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AT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com Bass' work in logo design and movie title credit sequences spanned the latter half of the 20th century, with prominent work in each field. He worked closely with AT&T, designing not only the 1970 "bell" logo that was ubiquitous for a deca...
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- Length: 27:00
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- Tags: AT&T Archives AT&T History Design Invention Innovation Logo Bell System Saul Bass 1960s
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AT&T Archives - The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983)
New video from the AT&T Archives every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at techchannel.att.com Viewtron was AT&T's second attempt at a telephone-based information system that fed data to a terminal in the user's home. The first was EIS, from 1979. It was tested in a few regional markets, including th...
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- Length: 5:39
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- Tags: AT&T Tech Channel AT&T Archives AT&T History Technology Data Communications Invention Innovation 1980s Viewtron Sceptre Videotex Compuserve Internet
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AT&T Archives: Incredible Machine
See more from the AT&T Archives at techchannel.att.com This 1968 short shows some of the ways that Bell Laboratories scientists used computers in communications research. Contains sequences of computer-generated movies, photographs, music and speech. The entire score and main title and credits of...
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- Length: 14:56
- Views: 2691
- Tags: AT&T Archives AT&T History Invention Innovation HAL 2001 computer generated music computer graphics
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AT&T Archives: Getting it Together
For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com Subtitled "Our Kids/Our Schools/Our Business." The thesis for this film is that kids — in 1976 — were much more isolated from the world of work than that of the previous generation, and that the community needed to pay more attention to t...
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- Length: 28:36
- Views: 162
- Tags: AT&T Tech Channel Archives History Communication Education Children 1970s
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AT&T Archives: Seeing the Digital Future (1961)
For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com In 1961, the digital future was just starting to come to fruition. And the Bell System had a number of products that had either just come onto the market, or were incipient, that implemented these new computer technologies. In December 19...
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- Length: 15:45
- Views: 10978
- Tags: AT&T Tech Channel AT&T Archives AT&T History communication invention innovation futurist 1960s technology phone data internet digital future henry strauss
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AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
Watch new AT&T Archive films every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at techchannel.att.com In the late 1960s, Bell Laboratories computer scientists Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started work on a project that was inspired by an operating system called Multics, a joint project of MIT, GE, and Bell L...
AT&T Archives: Viewtron Introduction, from the Viewdata Corporation
See new films from the AT&T Archives every Mon, Wed, Fri, at techchannel.att.com The Viewdata Corporation, a company formed by joint arrangement between AT&T and Knight-Ridder, launched the Viewtron system commercially in 1983. Initially, in 1980 and 1981, it had only 200 users, a test market. By...
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- Length: 7:24
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AT&T Archives: Operator! (1938) (Bonus Edition)
For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com Introduction by George Kupczak of the AT&T Archives and History Center Operators in 1938 were an absolutely essential part of the telephone communications network. Usually young women (in 1900 they had to be unmarried and between the ages...
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- Length: 21:58
- Views: 420
- Tags: AT&T Tech Channel History Archives Bonus Edition Communication Invention Innovation Operator Phone Switchboard
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AT&T Archives: Design Line Fashions
Watch more AT&T Archive films at techchannel.att.com From the company's start to the breakup in the 1980s, AT&T always rented their phones to users. But in the 1970s, they tried a novelty line of phones that customers could actually buy, in stores. For these "Design Line" phones, the users were e...
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- Length: 9:00
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AT&T Archives: Charlie Magnetico, by Jim Henson
For more from the AT&T Archives, visit techchannel.att.com This is the second (long lost!) film that Jim Henson made for the Bell Data Communications Seminar in 1963. (More on the Seminar and the first film, Robot, at bit.ly Charlie Magnetico stars Henson's first robot puppet, as well as his coll...
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- Length: 7:20
- Views: 3802
- Tags: AT&T Archives AT&T Tech Channel AT&T History Jim Henson Jerry Juhl Bell System Robot
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