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An SF book published in the 1950s (I have forgotten title and author, sigh) featured a then-imagined supercomputer with - 1M bits of storage - A mile on a sid
by kabdib 3y ago
An SF book published in the 1950s (I have forgotten title and author, sigh) featured a then-imagined supercomputer with
- 1M bits of storage
- A mile on a side
- Located in Buffalo, NY, and cooled by Niagra Falls (vacuum tubes, natch)
- Able to surveil every citizen in the nation for suspicious activity
No mention of clock speed, cache-line size, or instruction set. I guess SF writers aren't computer designers :-)