REELS of FORTUNE

These magnetic tape reels are the symbol of the McDonnell Automation Center. They represent automation, a method for turning problems into profits.

Automation Center consultants will analyze your needs and help you decide if and how -automation can benefit your organization.

The photo looks like someone got mad after breaking up with NCR and tore up all their pictures.

OPPORTUNITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

DATA-PROCESSING SYSTEMS SPECIALISTS

long-range program in business systems —unusual creative freedom

Here’s opportunity to do advanced creative work with a leading company in the development of digital computer systems. Activity includes systems analysis of present customer requirements and future computer applications, with special emphasis on practical applications of new concepts. You’ll be well rewarded, both in salary and advancement, for your creativeness. You’ll enjoy the broad working freedom of a select research-design group—and the stability afforded by a parent company of international stature.

SUPERIOR GRAPHICS HAVE COME DOWN TO EARTH

$1995 AND THE FIRST AFFORDABLE HIGH RESOLUTION COLOR GRAPHICS MACHINE 15 YOURS

VX128
• VERY HIGH RESOLUTION 672 by 480 pixels individually addressable.
• EIGHT COLORS PER PIXEL 3 bit planes of memory totalling 128K graphics RAM.
• ON-BOARD 16 BIT MICROCOMPUTER Intel 8088 microprocessor with additional PROM and RAM and built-in expansion capability.

The five dumbest products in America.

There they sit.

Five products with no intelligence whatever.

And you can’t blame the people who made them. Because until now, nobody had the technology to make these products actually think.

So we’ve had cars that can only respond to their drivers’ commands, while they charge inefficiently on.

Why don’t people put math poetry in ads anymore? Also, wasn’t Zero invented in India?

Computation

The Arab
who first wrote zero

And
the mathematic clue

To
nothing at all is a hero

Who
never got his due

Unless
he sought

To share
the eternal naught.