I was an avid viewer of the series in the late fifties and sixties when it was being syndicated. While I was born in 1949 I was still a little young to see it during its original run though I may have seen a few episodes with my grandfather who called this type of show "educational". Anyway, the title of this post refers to the fact that during the opening of the later episodes a computer was shown. That computer was a Bendix G15 and I know this because I got to work on one when I started college in 1967. The school I attended, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, had such a machine in one of the basement labs that could be operated by students. It was vacuum tube based (of course), booted up with paper tape and programmed via an old electric typewriter. The programming was basically a machine code system with the entry of a numerical instruction code and memory location. While I never really did anything constructive with it just the novelty of being "hands on" with a computer was enough, not to mention the connection to the show.
Review of Science Fiction Theatre
