Well, that was fun to watch! It looked to be the mid-1960s era when the Black Bomber was the big bike?
It's pretty impressive when you know how those 'automatic' machines were run then, which was all relay-logic sequence control. The NC controllers didn't make it into their factories until about the time of that film, with those becoming big by the early 1970s era. The PLC didn't arrive there (as we know it) until the late 1980s, when Mitsubishi copied the Allen-Bradley method, but made it SO much better - the Mits PLCs are to die for if you have to program a modern automated machine. I've done a bunch of Mits-based machines that sometimes required the Allen-Bradley PLCs instead, and the Mits absolutely clobbers the A-B in ease of programming, reliability, flexibility, speed (10x-15x faster), and at 25% of the cost with a much more flexible communications environment to boot (and HMI systems to die for). I miss the programming (creativity and satisfaction of jobs well done), but I don't miss the pressure, travel, and angst that went with that industry. I only did it for 30 years, though.
