Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "NFSA Films" channel.

  1. I remember using those Cossor oscilloscopes shown in several parts of this film. They did not have the modern appearance and overall high performance of the rival American made Tektronix oscilloscopes. But they could do what the American oscilloscopes could not do - measure a waveform very precisely.
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  2. Anybody notice the Hammer & Sickle (communist) logos on the forklift at 9:15? It must have been some wharfie's little joke or wistful thinking.....
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  3. It depended on where you lived and what your parents did. My father owned a chicken farm producing eggs. There was not much profit in that. The best he could do was a two bedroom house without electricity - mains electricity was not available in rural and semi-rural areas. So no TV. Lighting was kerosene pressure lamps - about as bright as a 40 watt bulb and made a hissing noise. But Dad was a mate of some guy he served with in the Army who had a professional job in an office. Guy had a huge house with everything. But you are right - middle income families typically had one bedroom for Mum and Dad, one for male children and one for female children. I was good mates with a school friend/neighbouring farm whose bedroom was their back verandah, enclosed with wire mesh coated with some kind of semi-transparent gloop to keep the rain out. Not untypical. Where there was not enough bedrooms, girl children slept inside in a proper room, boys on the back verandah. Just too bad if it was a cold winter.
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  4. Little did they know that word processors were an interim stage in business communication. The introduction of email eliminated typing pools completely.
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  5. "On rest days, Ross take his family out ...." ...in a Mini Minor. As the kids get bigger they'll soon tire of that. A 1970's Mum alright - boils all the vegies so the goodness is leached out or destroyed, and she adds salt to everything because that's what her mother taught her. And she had to keep telling the kids to eat the vegies, but all they could taste was the salt, so vegies did not appeal.
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  6. Actually, at least in the large company I worked for, it wasn't. They provided word processors to the typing pool and the rest of the company remained unchanged. What caused a huge reduction in staff a few years later was the introduction of email, which let them get rid of the typing pool completely, along with a lot of secretaries/personal assistants. Then the creation of the company intranet and automating a lot of things on the intranet let them reduce staff count considerably.
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  7. The commentary in this film is very diplomatic. It describes how equipment abandoned in situ at the end of the War was recovered, refurbished, and put to work. What it omitted to say was that most of this good equipment was abandoned in situ by the American military.
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  8.  @albertafarmer8638  It was an excellent life. Its fabulous for a kid to be on a farm. As well as thousands of chickens, we had goats and a few other sorts of animals too. We grew mint on one acre. About half the area we owned was left natural trees. Lots of things to do on a farm. Neighbour farm on one side was another chicken ranch. Neighbour of the other side was a free-range piggery.
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  9. There's actually a variety of accents in this film. However, the ABC at that time was modelled on the BBC, which amongst other things, required presenters to speak with a "proper" accent.
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  10. CHEP got a vast quantity of pallets at the end of WW2 because they had been abandoned here by the American armed forces. Legally, some might still be owned by the US Navy - that's why CHEP had to be a government owned enterprise - the forklifts and cranes were also left behind by the Americans. A private company could not establish title. Within a few years, though, when the CHEP was privatised.
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  11. I accidentally touched my mouse. I meant to say "... when the American equipment was worn out and had been replaced with new, CHEP was privatised."
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  12. A strange film in some ways. Made when journalists and film scriptwriters had no idea just what a computer was, what it did, and how it did it. Supposedly made in 1979, at 2:28 is shown a DEC PDP-8 computer - a machine well and truely obsolete in 1979. I remember using one in the mid 1960's. It was about as powerful as a cheap pocket calculator. Clocked at less than thousandth of the speed of today's PC', and having only 4,000 words of memory. The film says computers will increase leasure time. Yeah, right.
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  13.  @HULK-HOGAN1  Same here. I still have Australian made business shirts that are in good condition after 40+ years of use. But new business shits only last a few years. I worked a few years ago for a dealer of American Big Yellow Machines for the mining industry. Every time I did something good they gave me American-made merch clothing. After 10 years use its all still good. But Chinese made electronics is good. Chinese-made tools not so good.
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  14. It hasn't changed. Victorians still think that WA is that little place out West that won't behave itself, too stubborn to do what Victoria does, forgetting that distance are vastly greater and climate significantly hotter.
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  15. The Australian PMG was only roughly similar to the British GPO. Particularly post Word War 2 the Australian PMG was run in a much more professional manner with better technical planning and execution, which led to a much more up to date network, albeit quite out of date compared to North America. The job structure was considerably different, with a clear distinction between technicians (chaps who use tools and fix what needs fixing) and engineers (who use pens and plan what comes next) - much to the distress of chaps emigrating from England, who could not slot into the same job in Australia. In no way was the job structure or titles similar to the military - your claim is ridiculous.
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