1975
28:00APL demonstration 1975
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Imperial College London
A 1975 live demonstration of the APL language by Imperial College professor Bob Spence, showing a REPL on a modified typewriter terminal and APL's appeal to non-programmers.
2:58Word Association - Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live
A 1975 Saturday Night Live sketch in which Chevy Chase gives Richard Pryor a word association test during a job interview, escalating into trading racial slurs. It is a landmark piece of racial satire.
16:48CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam
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Witness to War
Former CIA officer Frank Snepp describes how, working in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975, he planted stories in major newspapers to support Agency goals. He notes that some younger reporters refused to take the bait.
4:06DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) playing music
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Philipp Hachtmann
A 1971 DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) minicomputer plays music by inducing noise into a nearby AM radio. The software is Richard Wilson's 1975 Music Compiler running under OS/8.