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Solid State: Minnesota’s High-Tech History

Solid State: Minnesota’s High-Tech History

Born for espionage in World War II, the computer has touched nearly every part of human life. And for decades Minnesota was the global epicenter of computing as birthplace of the supercomputer and home to Univac, Control Data, IBM Rochester, and Honeywell. Produced in partnership with MHTA, with major funding from Seagate Technology.

Solid State: Minnesota’s High-Tech History is a local public television program presented by Minnesota PBS

Solid State: Minnesota's High-Tech History

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Minnesota was the global epicenter of computing, a high-tech landscape for generations. (56m 40s)

Solid State: Tale of the Tape

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Innovation needs inspiration. One man’s inspiration for recording data came frompianos? (1m 39s)

Solid State: Land of 10,000 Secrets

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Minnesota was home to the computer industry. Yet much of its work was highly classified. (1m 39s)

Solid State: Demon

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Breaking secret codes were a wartime necessity. (1m 39s)

Solid State: Spinoffs

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Explore the major brands and their spinoffs that make Minnesota's tech industry so rich. (2m 1s)

Solid State: Honeywell

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Starting in the 1960s, Honeywell was embroiled in a protest against its core business. (1m 39s)

Solid State: Big Blue

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IBM was the first computer company to choose Minnesota as a base of operations. Why? (3m 58s)

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