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A view of two of the three buildings that once housed the headquarters of the Franklin Life Insurance Company in Illinois' capital city. In addition to the three office buildings, there is a fourth building constructed as apartments that is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Over the next several days, photos of the entire complex will be posted.
On the left, at the southeast corner of Sixth and Lawrence streets, is the oldest of the three office buildings. This handsome low-rise, neo-classical style structure is the design of architect George H. Helme and was completed in 1916.
The taller, 14-story building on the northeast corner of Sixth and Cass streets was completed in 1949. This building was designed by the architectural firm of Aulschlager and McCammon, and also is a neo-classical design. A 14-story addition dating to 1952 connects the 1948 tower with the original 1916 building.
The complex is now the headquarters of the Illinois State Police.
The following history of Franklin Life Insurance is credited to the Sangamon County Historical Society and is reprinted below unedited.
Founded in 1884, the Franklin Life Insurance Co. remained an important force in Springfield’s economy into the 21st century.
Franklin Life was founded by a half-dozen central Illinois residents in 1884. They pledged to offer up to $3,000 in insurance to “all male persons who can pass a proper medical examination, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-five.” Payouts were to be made by assessments on members. Henson Robinson was the first president.
The company continued steady but unspectacular growth over the next 50 years, reaching $100 million of insurance in force in 1920 under president George B. Stadden. However, when Charles E. Becker, a Texas insurance entrepreneur, took ownership in 1939, Franklin’s business began a rapid upswing.
Franklin Life had completed an imposing new headquarters at Sixth Street and Lawrence Avenue in 1913. The Becker regime led to more expansion; major office buildings were completed in 1949 and then in 1964. The company also developed a Modernist apartment building intended partly for use by its executives, The Town House at 718 S. Seventh St. (It is now condominiums.) Even the lightposts around the headquarters complex denoted it Franklin Square (and still did as of 2013).
The company also was one of the first private firms to adopt early computer technology. Franklin Life received the 15th Univac computer ever built.
Becker was succeeded as president by his close associate (and acquaintance from high school), Francis Budinger, in 1961 and then by George Hatmaker (1910-2003) in 1964. William Alley (1929-1996) became CEO in 1976. (Both Becker and Budinger were named Springfield First Citizens, Becker in 1965 and Budinger 10 years later.)
The Franklin lost its independence when it was purchased by American Brands in 1979. Consolidations continued — American General bought The Franklin for $1.2 billion in 1995, and the company became part of insurance giant AIG in 2001.
Employment dropped from 1,300 in 1991 to about 400 in 2008, when the company moved out of its signature headquarters. The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce listed American General as having 410 employees in Springfield in November 2012, which still left the company ranked as the city’s eighth-largest private employer.
The former Franklin complex was purchased by the state of Illinois and converted to headquarters for the Illinois State Police.
In reality,
SINS computer room with Univac Computer
On the USS Midway (CV-41)
USS Midway Museum
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March 2006
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Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer in many stories by Isaac Asimov.
the name was conied in imitation of Sperry Rand's UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer
Since "univac" recalls the use of a single vacuum tube, Mr. Asimov idea was to choice a nane giving the idea of a far more powerful computer, thus "multivac"
Trivia:
UNIVAC is an acronim for "UNIVersal Automatic Computer
The Univac model 1108 I used during my university studies had 32 bit world length 4 x 16,384 words memory banks and a 300K word solid disk!
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Simone Weil, French Philosopher Quotes
Birth: Feb. 3, 1909 and Aug. 24, 1943 Died
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Events on June 14 in History as "found" at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_14
* 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
* 1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
* 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
* 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
* 1775 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
* 1777 - The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
* 1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty: Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
* 1789 - Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
* 1800 - The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
* 1807 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
* 1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
* 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
* 1839 - Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
* 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
* 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
* 1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
* 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
* 1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
* 1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
* 1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
* 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
* 1926 - Brazil leaves the League of Nations
* 1934 - James J. Braddock scores one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John "Corn" Griffin - roughly marking the advent of his comeback to success and eventually winning World Heavyweight championship.
* 1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
* 1937 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
* 1938 - Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman.
* 1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
* 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Naval Expansion Act which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
* 1940 - A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* 1941 - Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the June deportation, begin.
* 1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
* 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
* 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
* 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
* 1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1959 - A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
* 1962 - Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
* 1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
* 1962 - The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.
* 1966 - The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
* 1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
* 1976 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
* 1982 - The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
* 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
* 2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
* 2004 - The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.
The Santa Fe agent at Perryton, Texas, at the very top of the Texas Panhandle, goes about his duties on his Sperry Univac terminal in December 1988. Perryton was located on Santa Fe's Shattuck Subdivision, which ran west out of Shattuck, Oklahoma, 102.1 miles to Morse, Texas. Perryton was the only open agency on the branch at the time. The Shattuck Sub was sold to the Southwestern Railroad in June 1990. The SW served the line for awhile, then abandoned it. Photo by Joe McMillan.
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Women have made vital contributions to the field of computing. Many women served as programmers at the dawn of the computing age, and a number of key pioneers developed highly influential innovations to support the emergence of computing as a dominant technology. Yet such trailblazers are often unknown or under-appreciated. This proposed LEGO Ideas set celebrates six notable women in computing and provides an educational building experience to support LEGO fans of all ages in learning about the history of women in technology. The six Women of Computing are:
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) with a partial model of the Analytical Engine
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) with a partial model of the UNIVAC and a model of her desk
Betty Holberton (1917-2001) with a partial model of the ENIAC
Jean Jennings Bartik (1924-2011) with a partial model of the ENIAC
Gladys West (1930-) with a model of the Global Positioning System (GPS)
Annie Easley (1933-2011) with a model of a NASA control room
Learn more on the project's LEGO Ideas landing page: bit.ly/3cgHobo
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This vignette of Grace Hopper is part of "Women of Computing," a project on the LEGO Ideas contest celebrating six pioneering women in technology.
If this project receives 10,000 votes, you could soon buy one at a LEGO store near you!
A trailblazing computer scientist and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper spent more than 40 years shaping the world of computing. One of the first modern programmers, she helped bring computing to the masses in new and fundamental ways. She was a lead programmer on the Mark I, an early general-purpose computer developed at Harvard University. She is credited by many as having invented the first compiler, which translates code into another language. She played a leading role in the development of COBOL, a highly influential programming language using English words that was incorporated into untold business and government applications. And she was a key driver on the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) I, a general-purpose computer that debuted in the 1950s and revolutionized how businesses worked. A portion of the UNIVAC is depicted in this vignette along with a model of Hopper's desk, which features a backward-running clock, a moth (considered the first literal computer "bug"), a pirate flag, and more. Hopper is holding a coil of wire that she used to publicly demonstrate the concepts of microseconds and nanoseconds.
The full Women of NASA set includes five additional minifigures — of Ada Lovelace, Betty Holberton, Jean Jennings Bartik, Gladys West, and Annie Easley.
To see the full set and to vote, visit: bit.ly/3cgHobo. Thanks for your support!
These 25 self-portraits are formed by a small sampling of ENIAC's 17,468 vacuum tubes, of which co-inventor J A Presper Eckert Jr said, “The tubes were off-the-shelf; we got whatever the distributor could supply in lots of 1,000. We used ten tube types but could have done it with four; we just couldn’t get enough of them.”
For more pictures of the first all-purpose digital computer, which I took in two states and one district, see my ENIAC Set.
After seeing parts of the very first all-purpose digital computer ever (1946) in Washington, DC and in Mountain View, CA, I was excited to see a large part of it at the very location where it was built, i.e. at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, where some nice people guided me through security to enable me to worship ENIAC while a couple of its geriatric nurses were giving it a thorough cleaning...
None of the knobs go to eleven, by the way...;-)
P.S. R.I.P. Gordon Moore (1929-2023)
No better time for artifact archaeology than a pandemic lockdown.
Ken delivers the goods once again on his Righto blog.
80-lbs with a machined aluminum case pressurized with nitrogen. The processor is made from scores of Signetics TTL chips not sold commercially. Hex nuts cut in half and screwed to precise angles allow each board to slide only into the proper slot.
The core memory "book" is a work of art and quite creative in its engineering (photos below). Image above: "These interface boards are wired to the connectors on top of the computer. Through these interfaces, the computer receives velocity and attitude pulses from the inertial measurement unit (IMU). The computer sends analog control signals to various actuators, as well as discrete (binary) signals to other parts of the rocket for thrusters, staging, and other functions."
The Magic 352 missile guidance computer (MGC) became this Universal Space Guidance System (USGS), and the Titan IIIC rocket switched from a Univac computer to the USGS, first flying with it in 1973.
"The Titan missile, deployed from 1959 to 1987 was the largest ICBM deployed by the United States and delivered a 9 megaton nuclear bomb. To get a sense of how large the Titan was, the currently-deployed Minuteman missile weighs a third as much and its warhead has 1/25 the yield."
as the stories told, only 300 copies were ever made, for Corvette buff like myself, production # 1 & 2 were destroyed. used as test mules. it wasn't a magical car, heck it didn't even have door handles on the outside. more story shared when my health fully returns. Food poisoning can make you drop to your knees. this part of the returned Smile ! I've driven C1,C2,C3,C4,C5 &C6, C7 owned all but C1, You couldn't drive the C1 with an I phone in your hand, We used to call it power steering by Armstrong !. :-)) Hi Again, the MGA , Triumph TR3 and other Foreign based vehicles were popular with returning Military men, GM wanted an inclusion Buy here, Made in USA. Production six, altered to produce more horse power, added second carburetor, valve cover reads Power Flame Six, automatic, But the Big Boy's got their answer, when adding V8, Standard shift, and overdue color selection, Smile and look today, wondering, where's the door handle. Those my days, Machinist / Drafts man, sent a resume to GM Corporate, prospective Employment. Then the Draft, another interest, the electronic Computer, Eniac ! 1943, Sperry Univac My employer when discharged from Service, Had already, managed evolution, IBM, Philco, worked in repair lab, Instrument / electronic Computer ) Communication Technician, (1973) , 1971 Corvette, & 1963 Riverside Red Split window Coupe, With Factory Air ! the lone original was called, EX122 Concept, in 1952, debuted as pre production at the Waldorf Astoria Car show, the force behind credit to Harley Earl. the point is the Smile is still in force ! the Dream materialized, as s history continues. The Smile continues. ;-))
One of the displays for the main frame computer in the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier.
USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA
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I'll bet shaving with a new electric shaver is all this returning GI has on his mind. WWII Remington magazine ad from 1945.
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The Remington brand name dates to 1816 and is one of the oldest consumer brands in the nation. Remington began as a firearms maker, and its name was associated with several companies in the past two centuries as they went through mergers and consolidations. Companies named Remington made not only electric shavers, but also the first commercial typewriter and the first Univac computer.
The company was known as Remington Rand when it manufactured the first electric Close Shaver in 1937 and introduced what it called the ''dry shave'' at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Remington Rand's merger with the Sperry Corporation in 1955 transformed the Bridgeport operation into the Remington Shaver Division of Sperry Rand until 1979, when Sperry Rand sold the shaver business to Victor Kiam, a Stamford businessman. It was Mr. Kiam who would regale television viewers with the commercials that said he liked the shaver enough to buy the company.
The company prospered under Mr. Kiam. He bought Clairol's personal care appliance business in 1994, the same year he sold part of his stake in Remington to Vestar Capital Partners. He continued to serve as chairman until his death in 2001.
The Kiam family and Vestar sold their interests in Remington to Rayovac two years later.
The Remington Products Company plant on Main Street was shut down Dec. 30, 2004 by its parent company, the Rayovac Corporation.
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The cover of my MacBook: a Speck cover with a circuit printout underneath. Over the glowing Apple I put one of the smaller Apple stickers that come with iPods. The circuit image is of an Apple keyboard I took apart to repair a few years back. The 3 layer mylar traces were very beautiful so I photographed many detailed shots. I took those shots and cleaned, straightened, excerpted and inversed in Photoshop. I have used these images for video, album covers, projections, cards, etc for my audio/art. See techdweeb.com/univid.html for a video example.
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This vignette of Grace Hopper is part of "Women of Computing," a project on the LEGO Ideas contest celebrating six pioneering women in technology. If this project receives 10,000 votes, you could soon buy one at a LEGO store near you!
A trailblazing computer scientist and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper spent more than 40 years shaping the world of computing. One of the first modern programmers, she helped bring computing to the masses in new and fundamental ways. She was a lead programmer on the Mark I, an early general-purpose computer developed at Harvard University. She is credited by many as having invented the first compiler, which translates code into another language. She played a leading role in the development of COBOL, a highly influential programming language using English words that was incorporated into untold business and government applications. And she was a key driver on the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) I, a general-purpose computer that debuted in the 1950s and revolutionized how businesses worked. A portion of the UNIVAC is depicted in this vignette along with a model of Hopper's desk, which features a backward-running clock, a moth (considered the first literal computer "bug"), a pirate flag, and more. Hopper is holding a coil of wire that she used to publicly demonstrate the concepts of microseconds and nanoseconds.
The full Women of NASA set includes five additional minifigures — of Ada Lovelace, Betty Holberton, Jean Jennings Bartik, Gladys West, and Annie Easley.
To see the full set and to vote, visit: bit.ly/3cgHobo. Thanks for your support!
Photograph from the scanned (in 2003) collection of Verena Huber-Dyson
In honor and remembrance of Verena Huber-Dyson, a brilliant mathematician and local Bellingham Washington resident during the last part of her life... and also the mother of a good friend www.edge.org/conversation/vhd
Back in 2003 I scanned 70 pages of black and white negatives for Verena, photographs that she took as a young adult, one of her side hobbies being photography. The collection consists of many great photographs from world travels, and from her adventures raising a young family.
VERENA HUBER-DYSON
May 6, 1923 — March 12, 2016
VERENA HUBER-DYSON, a Swiss-American-Canadian mathematician known for her work in group theory, decision problems, and symbolic logic, was born in Naples, Italy on May 6, 1923, and died in Bellingham, Washington, USA on March 12, 2016. Her parents, Karl (Charles) Huber (1893—1946) and Berthy Ryffel (1899—1945), were Swiss nationals who raised Verena and her sister Adelheid (“Heidi,” 1925—1987) in Athens, Greece, where the children attended the German-speaking Deutsche Schule, until forced to return to Switzerland in 1940 by the war. Charles Huber, who had managed the Middle Eastern operations of Bühler AG, a Swiss food-process engineering firm, began working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), monitoring the treatment of prisoners of war in internment camps. As the ICRC delegate to India and Ceylon, he was responsible for Italian prisoners held in British camps, but also visited German and Allied camps in Europe, and in 1945-46 served as an ICRC delegate to the United States, which he described to Verena as a place she “definitely ought to experience at length and in depth but just as definitely ought not to settle in.”
Verena’s own leanings toward engineering and the outdoors had been repressed by her mother’s social conventions and she turned to mathematics as a more acceptable escape. She could observe the requisite social appearances outwardly while playing with numbers, invisibly, in her head. She obtained her Ph.D in mathematics from the University of Zürich in 1947 with a thesis in finite group theory under Andreas Speiser, and sailed for America and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, aboard the Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam on January 1, 1948.
Verena married Hans-Georg Haefeli in 1942 and was divorced in 1948. Her first child, Katarina Haefeli (now Halm) was born in Zürich on April 18, 1945. She married Freeman Dyson in 1950 and was divorced in 1958. Their daughter Esther Dyson was born in Zürich on July 14, 1951, and their son George Dyson in Ithaca, NY on March 26, 1953.
Over her long and nomadic career, Verena held teaching and research positions at Cornell University, Goucher College, San Jose State University, Adelphi University, UCLA, University of London, ETH Zürich, Warwick University, University of Melbourne, Monash University, Australian National University in Canberra, University of Zürich, Mills College, and UC Berkeley (where she was a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science, and later the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) and worked as a consultant for Remington Rand (Univac) in Philadelphia and Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles. She obtained tenure as an associate professor in the Mathematics department of the University of Illinois in 1972, and from 1973 to 1988 was a tenured professor in the Philosophy department of the University of Calgary, Alberta, where she taught graduate courses on the foundations of mathematics and the philosophy and methodology of the sciences and began work on a monograph, Gödel's theorems: a workbook on formalization, published by Teubner in 1991. Her personal and professional memoirs were left unfinished at her death.
Verena purchased a 1940 Dodge convertible shortly after her arrival in the United States and almost immediately fell in love with the American west, driving cross-country countless times. A lifetime mountaineer and a serious amateur photographer, she joined the Sierra Club in 1965, attending numerous Sierra Club base camps and high trips over the years, and later explored the Canadian Rockies with Calgary as a base. After her retirement she settled on South Pender Island in British Columbia and lived there for most of 14 years, refurbishing two waterfront properties, first at Gowland Point and later at Craddock Beach. She became an active kayaker, and made trips to Johnstone Strait, Glacier Bay, and Prince William Sound.
Verena Huber-Dyson is survived by her children Katarina Halm of Vancouver, BC, Esther Dyson of New York, NY, George Dyson of Bellingham WA, and grand-daughter Lauren Dyson, currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Although a champion of women’s rights (women did not gain the right to vote in Switzerland until 1971) Verena’s final instructions include the statement that “Women should not be encouraged to go into mathematics for any motive other than their own stubborn preference and curiosity.”
Memorials, if any, should go the Whatcom Hospice Foundation in support of the Whatcom Hospice House, where she spent the last 12 days of her life. Her last words were “This will all go smoothly. Let’s get going.”
By the mid-1970s,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s time-sharing system, Octopus, was the world’s most powerful research computer facility. It included four CDC 7600s (each with the power of 5,000 UNIVACs, about 10 million operations per second) and two CDC STARs. The computers were time-shared by users at more than 1,000 remote workstations around the Laboratory, many connected to television monitor display systems.
The UNIVAC at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had a large console with a series of switches that could be set to address each of the machine's 1,000 words of memory. Once set, the contents of that memory location would be displayed on the console's oscilloscope. An electric typewriter could be used to direct the machine and was useful for debugging. The largest data system was a set of ten tape units, designed to read and write backwards and forwards. These served as an expanded main memory, allowing larger data volumes and even larger programs than would fit in the small amount of main memory.
Guerreros de Anenecuilco vs Chivas Los Ángeles GrupoIII Tercera División Profesional
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Anenecuilco, Morelos a 10 de Noviembre 2012
Termina la racha de visitante
- Chivas Los Ángeles no pudo
ligar su quinto triunfo al hilo de visitante y cayó 2-1 en su visita a los Guerreros de Anenecuilco.
Con un marcador adverso de dos goles por uno, este sábado Chivas Los Ángeles no pudo continuar con su buen paso de visitante, y es que en el duelo de la fecha número 12 de la Tercera División, cayeron a manos de los Guerreros de Anenecuilco, que en la Unidad Deportiva de la comunidad, se embolsaron los tres puntos.
Duelo que comenzó con paridad de fuerzas y con ambos conjuntos buscando el gol, mismo que habría de caer a los 13 minutos por conducto del morelense Kevin Vidal, quien no perdonó frente al marco defendido por Salvador Hernández, quien poco pudo hacer para evitar la caída de su marco.
Con la ventaja a su favor, los bélicos se encargaron de manejar las acciones, pero con la insistencia chiva de buscar el empate, mismo que llegó cuando rondaba el minuto 40, cuando Darío Sandria no desaprovechó un regalo de la defensiva rival para poner la igualada al final del primer tiempo.
Sin embargo, apenas comenzó el complemento, al 46’ René Campos devolvió la ventaja al Anenecuilco, misma que defendió a capa y espada a pesar de los constantes arribos chivas, que a poco estuvieron de arrancar el empate, no obstante, la suerte no estuvo de su lado y luego del tiempo reglamentario, vieron cortada su racha de cuatro victorias foráneas.
Con este resultado, Anenecuilco llegó a 17 puntos y se aproxima a las posiciones de honor del Grupo III, mismo que comparte con Chivas Los Ángeles, que con esta caída, se quedaron con 13 unidades. La próxima semana, en la fecha 13, los poblanos descansarán y retomarán participación una jornada después recibiendo al UNIVAC Mazatepec.
After seeing parts of ENIAC at the Smithsonian eight years ago, I ran into more parts of it at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
The main thing that struck me there was how much of our technology was originally military-related. Heraclitus, who lived 2,500 years ago, must have been right, when he wrote: “Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.”
This lingerie ad goes the high-tech route, touting the virtues of computer-assisted fabrication. CNC for you and me! (Oh, that's supposed to be DPRK only...snark)
"The Electronic Age" 1 of 6 - 4' x 8' custom chalkboard signs made for 2012 HCA conference in Nashville.
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My "office"
Lots of Mac stuff. Explore the notes.
Some other Mac doodads not seen (in storage): MacTV, All-In-One G3 Mac (edu only), newton 100 and keyboard/box, lots of powerbooks, PowerComputing PowerTower 180, manuals, boxes, t-shirts, etc....
In 1969, with the installation of the first CDC 7600, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory continued to lead in computing and custom-software development for nuclear design and plasma simulations. The CDC 7600 had 5,000 times the computing power of the UNIVAC. Octopus connected researchers at remote workstations to the CDC 6600s and 7600s, creating one of the first—and the largest—such networking systems.