Computer History: IBM Film 1989 Systems Integration Division (automation airports traffic control)

IBM Automation: Original IBM Film SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DIVISION ("SID") of 1989; automation solutions for business, military, police departments, airports and more. Good discussion of Systems Integration and creating business solutions, including IBM's solutions for modernizing the Air Traffic Control System. A professional documentary special, color, 18 mins. Uploaded for educational purposes and historical comment only. A good quality, informative film made for IBM. - (Rescued and restored from a 30 year old VHS, by CHAP.)

Topics Index:
01:00
United Services Automobile Association “USAA” (Imaging solution)

02:35
USAF Talon II aircraft avionics

04:00
State and Local Government: Baltimore Police Department, (IBM System 88 Dispatch and Records Management System)

05:58
U.S. Navy, “Busy One” Combat Control System for submarines.

07:32
Dun & Bradstreet, automated consumer coupon processing system.

10:19
Development of half-micron chips under the US Department of Defense Very High Speed Integrated Circuit program (1988) VHSIC; and CSP (Common Signal Processor)

13:28
Ford Motor Company, Automated Logistics and Production System “ALPS” in Austin.

15:30
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Automated Air Traffic Control

17:02
Closing narration, Launch of Shuttle Discovery.
END

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[foldsofblubber]

text based programs were actually fast and efficient. I write my own file handling scripts and run them off a terminal window- lightning fast even off a slow processor.

[thesteelrodent]

17:25 that Discovery launch was the first shuttle launch after the Challenger disaster when they resumed the program, on 29 September 1988

[dalecomer]

@5:28 ff: I want that keyboard!
I was personally involved in one of the projects mentioned in the film and several others of a similar nature involving that part of IBM. The $3.5 billion air traffic control system upgrade called the Advanced Automation System was a monumental disaster. $3.5 billion down the drain or most of it anyway. The company that bought the company which had teamed with the company where I worked to compete against IBM for the original contract subsequently received a contract to do it over and used several more billions of the taxpayer's hardearned and even then the result wasn't considered a total success. That system is now in the process of being replaced with a GPS (vs radar) based ATC system. That TV news story about it was laughably wrong but it did mention one aspect of the project in which I was once intimately involved.

[mwdenrg]

Is the the IBM mouse we see at 9:39 in the video?

[ashrafalsharafi]

Such a great documentary, thanks alot

[liamwatson]

The 911 call centres that I saw in Rescue 911 had IBM computers.

[RottnRobbie]

Weird - and a bit creepy - how there's snappy upbeat music throughout the entire film, _except_ for the minute and a half (14:09 -> 15:28) that has a robotic arm building instrument panels. It's as if watching the future masters of humanity doing scutwork was too serious a subject to make it seem a happy thing.
Also - 1989 doesn't seem like it should be long enough ago to be "history", because I'd been working with IBM mainframes for 10 years by then. I guess nearly 33 years (a third of century) ago is old enough to qualify as historic, but honestly, I don't _feel_ old enough to have been part of history.

[yellowboxster]

You’ve got to love these marketing hypes especially from a “marketing driven”, legacy computer company who couldn’t foresee the popularity of the PC. The very company who founded some amazing computer technology for both government and private industry almost totally missed the popularity of home computers.

[Steveos]

This looks like a video with some film elements. Someone at CHM should look at reclassifying it.

[nbntelevision]

As a commercial pilot and restorer of vintage computers CHAP is basically posting pornographic material for me. Haha!

[Krawurxus]

I miss the time when nobody normal cared about computers, just nerds and professionals. The advent of the IPhone ruined it, now everything is run and made for normies who don't even understand how folders on their phone work, let alone the internet at large.

For them it's just an appstore with a bunch of safe, gated communities and service providers.