Comments on: COMPUTERS THE ELECTRIC BRAINS (Jan, 1958) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-1030908 jayessell Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:13:12 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/#comment-1030908 You can't see he has an index finger. Maybe it was bit off by the punched tape recorder. Wasn't there a guy strangled by his tie when it got caught in some data processing peripheral? (May have been a TV episode.) You can’t see he has an index finger.
Maybe it was bit off by the punched tape recorder.

Wasn’t there a guy strangled by his tie when it got caught in some data processing peripheral?
(May have been a TV episode.)

]]> By: Steve the Bassman http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-1029431 Steve the Bassman Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:19:52 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/#comment-1029431 I like how the computer operator on the first page is demonstrating his extreme disdain for having to pose for a photograph. I like how the computer operator on the first page is demonstrating his extreme disdain for having to pose for a photograph.

]]> By: NikFromNYC http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-1017983 NikFromNYC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:31:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/#comment-1017983 "Cool textbook"?! My god man, this is the best example of textbook "good writing" I've ran across in a long time. An 'Elements of Style' by Strunk and White classic. It's been spruced up and then edited down, like crazy. The old rule was either write-stoned/edit-sober or the opposite. The is an example of the first, quite fit for a textbook. My word, if I was a kid reading this in '58, I'd head straight to Radio Shack and, and not finding good microprocessors there, I'd head straight to HP to get some. Oh, in that case, my name would be Steve Jobs, being dragged around my my nerdy buddy Woz. “Cool textbook”?! My god man, this is the best example of textbook “good writing” I’ve ran across in a long time. An ‘Elements of Style’ by Strunk and White classic. It’s been spruced up and then edited down, like crazy. The old rule was either write-stoned/edit-sober or the opposite. The is an example of the first, quite fit for a textbook. My word, if I was a kid reading this in ’58, I’d head straight to Radio Shack and, and not finding good microprocessors there, I’d head straight to HP to get some. Oh, in that case, my name would be Steve Jobs, being dragged around my my nerdy buddy Woz.

]]> By: Modern Mechanix » INFORMATION: TO SEND AND USE IT http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-68428 Modern Mechanix » INFORMATION: TO SEND AND USE IT Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:05:54 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/13/computers-the-electric-brains/#comment-68428 [...] This is a chapter about information from a really cool text book called The World of Science, published by Golden Books in 1954. Also check out another chapter I posted called “COMPUTERS THE ELECTRONIC BRAINS” [...] [...] This is a chapter about information from a really cool text book called The World of Science, published by Golden Books in 1954. Also check out another chapter I posted called “COMPUTERS THE ELECTRONIC BRAINS” [...]

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