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1976 film helps you learn computing terms

Rob Beschizza
Aug 06, 2025
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Jane and Harry contemplate the binary

In this video, or, rather, this film, now rendered in digital form after an unknowable sequence of transfers that surely involved video recording and/or transmission, we learn the basic computing terms of 1976. Meet Harry, a 1970s businessman overwhelmed by his backlog and unfamiliar with new technology.

Jane, a compu…

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