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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

• brudgers 2mo ago
  Parallel discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602
• SoftTalker 2mo ago
  I love the ad copy from 1951. Sounds like how people talk about AI today. "No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... now in critical shortage ... spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring"
  • amelius 2mo ago
    The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.
  • UncleOxidant 2mo ago
    The more things change...
  • AmazingEveryDay 2mo ago
    I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!