just learned about CofL49...remember the Yoyodyne exec

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 08:21:38 CDT 2008


On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> replaced by an IBM 7094?..."Time-sharing"!....time pervades all his work.
>
> the 7094 is famous for helping make compatible time-sharing systems possible. (It was also the first computer to sing, thereby inspiring a scene from Kubrick's 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7094

http://audio.textfiles.com/sounds/daisy.mp3

http://www.317x.com/albums/i/IBM/card2.html

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP7090.html



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