I do some translating work, lots of the stuff I get is industrial machinery manuals that are pretty much like this. Interesting how, with modern research tools, you can accurately translate from one language to another stuff that is completely incomprehensible to you.
Wow. There are spec sheets describing this fiction going back to the 1940's. This is a remake of an original video filmed around 1990 which included a younger version of this same actor. This is geek humor from waaay back.