https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yY8nRu3RA
Luddite? Me? I had embraced 80-column punched-card technology eight years before this film was released. Indeed, I was programming computers a full year before the last steam-drawn passenger train ran in Great Britain. I bet they don't have even a half-decent passenger train that gets to Texas at a reasonable time of day; let alone night. From memory trains land in Yuma AZ around midnight. Makes sense, I suppose: Middle of the night, Middle of Nowhere, just enough time to order a burger in Temple Tx but not enough time to put tomato sauce on it ... ("I ordered a burger and then had to run ...")
We dressed properly in those days; white shirts and ties in Windsor or half-Windsor knots.
And trains were an integral part of computing projects then. When was the last time you got to shunt 4-wheeled goods-wagons as part of your daily experience.
Note too the data recording media that would not rip your shirt pocket out of its seams!
4m24s “He puts in his request directly, via the keyboard, and the computer does the rest”, and Please Note – this guy uses only one finger at a time!
5m15s Unit Record data storage, for “type, sighs[sic], wait[sic] …”
5m54s Random Access Storage
7m07s Special status display when On Line
10m40s Note that if he clerk was using a mouse, filing of data could not take place!
11m26 By reproducing sets of cards, backup systems are obviated.
14m57s Multi-tasking!
More on the topic of mice as a useless pointing device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GazPXTkbhA
(signed) "Luddite? NEVER!" of Bonavista