# Programming in America in the 1950s – Some Personal Impressions by John Backus

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[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EylBknGtkqA) contains an amusing presentation of the early days of computing and floating-point arithmetic by [John Backus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus) in The First International Research Conference on the History of Computing in 1974. It is a relatively new upload to Youtube (along with the recordings of other speakers like Von Neumann et al.). Please delete this post if it has already been posted in this forum.