Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "AT&T Tech Channel" channel.

  1. Who'd have thunk AT&T would have one of the coolest channels on youtube?
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  2. That camera shot from on board the missile body at 13:10 is pretty cool when you consider they didn't have tiny little digital cameras like they put on rockets today. That sucker was film, it was probably big and had to operate its mechanicals under that huge G load and vibration.
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  3. 18:40 demonstrates the importance of NFL football music in winning a nuclear war.
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  4. 9:44 would be cool to actually get 150k people to try to relay a message across the country.
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  5.  @thetreblerebel  AT&T no longer has the impact it once did on the science and tech world. Bell Labs invented the transistor and so much other world-changing tech in the 40s-60s, tech which you are using right now as you read this, but lately AT&T are seen as just another service provider and Bell Labs itself is faded in prominence. I'm sure IBM is still doing heavy stuff but since they walked away from the PC market they are no longer in the public spotlight as they once were. GE ruined itself over the last two decades, RCA is long dead, Westinghouse is largely fragmented. The old aerospace big names have either gone under or merged into today's super giants, the Lockheed Martins, Boeings, and Northrop Grummans. Currently people look to younger companies like SpaceX for futuristic vision, unaware that some of the old giants are still out there and in some cases still quite potent innovators.
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  6. +jmr1068204 No way, the music is awesome, totally goes with the whole Cold War feel of it.
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  7. You'd better report them. Do your duty. Don't let them win.
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  8.  @operatorjeffdeathstar7759  Kinda hard to live in any environment when Soviet bombers are coming in undetected and dropping nukes on you.
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  9. 4:43 hottie detected. Also, thumbs up for the 70s analog synth music.
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  10. +SallySallySallySally Thanks, I was about to ask whose voice that was, I'm pretty sure I've heard him in commercials, too.
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  11. As soon as we ditch communism/socialism, we can get on with the business of living in freedom and peace together.
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  12. This is from 1978, and Piscopo was on SNL around 1980, so they are actually about the same age. Maybe it's his twin, separated at birth lol.
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  13. +ElfNet Gaming Meh, Bell Labs did in-house research for their own benefit. The military was but one customer of many.
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  14. Tape drives, actually. Tape is still a pretty good medium for archival storage of old data. Of course you need a functioning tape machine to read it back someday.
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  15. Oh I don't know. I kind of like being able to buy my own phone. If Ma Bell were still around we'd all still be forced to use Western Electric wall units that we don't own and which come in three colors: black, beige, and pea green or whatever.
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  16. The purpose of the DEW line was to detect incoming aircraft, so not sure how the Soviets would pull off such an airstrike without being spotted. And if it were a precursor to a massive strike, they'd have to hit several DEW sites at once to make a hole for the bombers to come through. The aircraft hitting the DEW sites would almost certainly be nuclear armed bombers themselves, so there is no sneaking past this without NORAD noticing and going high and to the right. As for "stealth", there was no such thing in the 50s/60s. All aircraft were visible on radar.
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  17.  B00 050  He most certainly did not.
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