-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-16 19:26, James Knott wrote:
On 07/16/2015 12:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There is a recent TV serial named Manhattan. At one moment, they mentioned about their computers. I was thrilled. Then they showed a room full a women, doing computing, ie, calculations by hand. :-)
I started watching that series and remember that scene, but for some reason the network stopped showing it.
Maybe because it explains what the lenses are :-p Or because it shows intelligence as daft paranoids :-p Yesterday I finished the first season, using the play on demand application of my ISP on a tablet. No commercials!
Back then, IBM was the name in punch card data processing. They had punches, readers, sorters, calculators, printers and more, all based on those 80 column cards. Some of the more advanced calculators were approaching computers.
I heard of them. Maybe my father used them. One day he showed me the computer room of his work place (a petroleum refinery). The line printer was awesome: a line at a time, almost instantly. He brought home lots of used printer paper, which we used for writing on the other side. Plentiful supply! :-)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-early-computers
BTW, I used to work for IBM, doing 3rd level OS/2 support.
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