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

 (righto.com)

27 points | by geerlingguy 5 days ago

2 comments

  • brudgers 3 days ago
    Parallel discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602
  • SoftTalker 12 hours 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"

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    • amelius 11 hours ago
      The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.
    • AmazingEveryDay 6 hours ago
      I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!
    • UncleOxidant 8 hours ago
      The more things change...