Comments by "Christopher U.S. Smith" (@ChristopherUSSmith) on "AT&T Tech Channel" channel.

  1. Paul H. Cohen Indeed... amazing to see how right on some of these predictions were for the time. Thanks for a great film. :)
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  2. 2:13 Wow, a VoIP phone in 1986! :O
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  3. JarOfRats Just wait until teleportation becomes commonplace! :)
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  4. Died April 30, 2016. RIP Peter Thomas.
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  5. billyboi57 Would it still be radioactive? NASA could have retrieved it before retiring the shuttle fleet if it had been a priority.
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  6. How cheesy can the dialog get? LOL
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  7. The research paper announcing the laser was published in 1958 by the two Bell Labs scientists in the video. So there's no twisted history here.
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  8. lookoutforchris He clearly said "pants". (Westrex audio recording system by Bell faithfully recorded what he said. :) )
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  9. Exiles Of The Underground The TRS-80 seen in the introduction was not introduced until 1977, so this film could not have been made in 1976.
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  10. DarthChrisB Motorola 68000 CPUs were very powerful for their small size. Amiga and Apple Macintosh also used 68000s.
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  11. Bilal Heuser The TRS-80 came out in 1977, and this film was actually made in 1980, so not a prototype.
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  12. Based on the instructions used, it looks like the A-0 System, that Grace Hopper developed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System
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  13. Dogmakarma Store ARPAnet had been operating for 17 years when this video was recorded, and was about to form the backbone of the internet.
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  14. Edwin Thanhouser Barry Sullivan (who also narrated "Lasers Unlimited" in this archive).
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  15.  @qed100  What do you mean beyond its capacity? "Good engineers are always a wee bit conservative, at least on paper." - Capt Montgomery Scott, STTNG: "Relics" ;)
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  16. 5:29 "We have a very long term, serious and deep commitment to put magnetic bubbles into high-level production." If only they had done so, the costs would have come down significantly.
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  17. Jonathan Jensen At least it wasn't vacuum tubes. LOL :)
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  18. 13:21 Yet the 200 million call switching capacity mentioned here would be insufficient just 2 years later when calls about JFK'S death overloaded the system. 21:53 Wow... call forwarding in 1961. :)
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  19. 12:12 Imagine that... AT&T forecast the splitting of area codes... in 1961!!!
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  20. Actually, that's Barry Sullivan doing the narration, but he does sound like Orson Welles. (See also the "Lasers Unlimited" film .)
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  21. How much did it cost them to remove hanging chads? :?
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  22. GeekBoy03 And CERN won't have its world wide web, built upon the internet's backbone, out for another decade.
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  23. John Carper The task prioritization system MIT invented for the Apollo Guidance Computer was pure genius. But it was woven into core rope memory, a far cry from the microprocessors that came a decade after it.
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  24. Chris Lewis He clearly said "pants". (Thanks to that Westrex sound recording system Bell developed for movies. :) )
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  25. Exclamation Point is played by Robert Ellenstein, best known as President of the Federation Council in Star Trek IV .
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  26. blueshirt06 Teletext wasn't widely used in the US, but it was in Canada and Europe.
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  27. rockvilleraven Actually, there are four of them now... Verizon, which was the NY and NJ & PA baby Bells; the new AT&T, which was Southwestern Bell , and picked up most of the midwest and southeast baby Bells plus Pacific Bell; CenturyLink, descended from various independent phone companies, and now owns the Pacific Northwest baby Bells; and Cincinnati Bell, independent as it always was.
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  28. OldsVistaCruiser Thanks, updated my post. :)
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  29. devjock Ed Snowden is a traitor who violated his NDA and Federal law, and must be held accountable.
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  30. B Laquisha MCI, the greedy MFers that demanded the Bell breakup, is itself dead and gone, and many former independent competitors own or are owned by a former Baby Bell (RBOC).
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  31.  @billybassman21  Depends on the elevation of the air burst, too.
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  32. 12:32 The predecessor to pizza and grocery automated ordering. :)
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  33. DuplicatedOnce CDs were still in the development stage when the film was made, LDs were just becoming available, and DVDs were still about 20 years away.
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