Computer Revolution

Genre: Educational

Creator: CBS

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: The Computer RevolutionPhoenix / BFA Films And Video, Inc; 468 Park Ave South; New York; NY ; 10016; Tel. (212)684-5910DC: PHENIXColumbia Broadcasting System; 51 West 52nd St; New York; NY; 10019PC: CBSTV1968 Grade Level: I Distributed on media: 1 videocassette (24 min.), 1/2 in.; 1 videocassette (u-matic) (24 min.), 3/4 in.; 1 film reel (24 min.), 16 mm. Color?Color Length: 24 MIN Library of Congress Registration FIA68-1192 Description: Presents an introduction to the new world of computers, emphasizing their present uses and their potential for the future. Explains that the computer is a machine that takes in coded information, stores it, organizes and mathematically processes it according to a program it has been given, and finally supplies the resulting information in the desired form. Points out that computers free men from tedious repetitive work. Topics: Industry-; Office-Procedures; Automation,-General; Electronics,-Computers; Computers-; Educational-Educational-And-Career-Guidance; Methodology-and-Research-Technology-Computers-And-Programming; Automation-