In <[email protected]>, on 04/10/2014
at 08:53 PM, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> said:
> As the EE Lab Professor (name now forgotten, but rather aged as I
> recall) finished the instructions for that lab project, he said "I
> have been instructed to read this note to all EE students", and
> picking up a one-page, dittoed notice, he continued "The IBM
> Corporation has donated a Model 610 digg-it-tal, er, digital,
> computer, located in room 240, and students can sign up for blocks
> of time to use it." Slamming the sheet of paper face down, he
> then said "those digital things will never amount to anything,
> but next year, as Juniors, you will be able to go across the
> hall to room 241 and use the Bendix G15 Analog Computer - that's
> how we Electrical Engineer's solve real problems!"
Bendix G15 Analog Computer? Digital, Shirley.
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