Summary:Documentary film produced in 1969 for Barclays Bank, when computers were in their infancy. The films aims to provide an overview of computers and explanations of how they work.
There is a common expression among computer personnel "Garbage In, Garbage Out" (GIGO) which gives this film its title. It illustrates that there is no magic in a computer. If you give it a stupid instruction you will get a stupid answer. It is only as good as the raw material, which is the programme: the instructions and information fed into it. This film shows how the computer handles the information it gets as long as it is expressed in numbers - and that covers any shape, fact or theory about the material world.
