Working "Lost in Space" Analog Computer Replica!
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Replica prop builder Brian Mix is obsessed with the 60s sci-fi show Lost in Space, and has built a working analog replica of the computer on board the Jupiter 2 spaceship. He explains how the prop was sourced from a real Burroughs B205 computer, which was also the same one used in the Adam west Batman show! Lost in Space Props Yahoo group: https://beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LostinSpaceProps/info Shot by Joey Fameli and edited by Tywen Kelly Music by Jinglepunks Subscribe for more videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testedcom Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/testedcom Get updates on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/testedcom Tested is: Adam Savage http://www.twitter.com/donttrythis Norman Chan http://www.twitter.com/nchan Simone Giertz http://www.twitter.com/simonegiertz Joey Fameli http://www.twitter.com/joeyfameli Adam Isaak http://www.instagram.com/adamisaak Kishore Hari http://www.twitter.com/sciencequiche Patrick Norton http://www.twitter.com/patricknorton Frank Ippolito http://www.twitter.com/frankippolito Sean Charlesworth http://www.twitter.com/cworthdynamics Jeremy Williams http://www.twitter.com/jerware Thanks for watching!
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Just a note that that is not the whole B205 computer. It is just the Control Console.
Like most computers from the 1950s, the complete machine filled a room. -
I always wanted to see a device in the Bat Cave labeled " Bat Label maker ".
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Does anyone know how the actual Borroughs 205 computer worked? What was the purpose of the blinking lights?
Is this really a computer or just a console to operate the remote computer that took up an entire room? -
this is what you do, when you don't have a life
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Great job!
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Where is the bat-diamond to power it? Any idiot knows you can't power a bat computer without the bat diamond and there is obviously n..... Wrong computer? Never mind.
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I love the props, huge fan, but sorry, the hairpiece is just too hard to avoid.
Even Lost in Space never had props that bad. -
VERY COOL !
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this is awesome! i would of wired up the meter as well with the output of the transformers, you could have it move according to the current draw of the bulbs as they change just for extra effect.
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I understand this is a Replica Prop, however if you're interested in seeing the actual Burroughs 205 computer check out this awesome page from the University of Virginia. The entire computer seems to be the size of a large room! They definitely used printer circuit boards to operate. Completely digital to my understanding, the only analog part I could think of would be what appears to be a tape cassette hard drive. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/about/museum/
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Everybody needs a "knob guy"
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Take my money! Are they for sale?? :)
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did he buy his hair piece there too?
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Dude may want to update his hair hat.
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As someone who actually worked on 1960's vintage computers in the early '60s, (U.S.Navy USQ-20) I was unaware of this Burroughs product. I recognize the register format, and the one I worked on had the neon lights, which were actually switches also. The computer I worked on could be manually programmed at great effort using those light switches. The boot up routine consisted of 18 words hand loaded, if the punched paper tape drive failed.
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Guess it never show up in any T.V. Science Fiction but dig this old digital computer idea Patent 3109554 that computes with compressed air! Bet if Babbage had gone with this he could have had the pipe organ guys build his Analytic Engine, and Lady Ada could have invented COBOL! They could have done your taxes and given concerts at the same time!
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Cool! In 1972 my high school guidance councilor tried to get me into computers by handing me some sale info from the Systron Donner Analog Computer company. In 1976 Jobs and Wos had made their first million building Apple Breadboards. Which I had saved that brochure, but you can Google it anytime. Also wish I had a technicality hipper guidance councilor.
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dedication
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So it wasn't just a cheesy prop effect. They actually had computers with lots of blinky lights in the 60's??? o_O
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perfect replica whats next a better wig
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