On typewriters. 50 lines is a good number used for the number of lines in the body text, excluding headings and footers. Footers can bring the text up to 55 lines.
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Times, not x! Times, not x! Times, not x! Times, not x! Oh, oh, now I get it.
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The SAGE USAF missile defense system’s computer.
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Mainframe, stone age, iron age from the Jargon file. Insightful.
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20150907/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
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20150907/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I
Interesting. Australian early programmable computer.
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Thoughts on our efforts to build computers.
What we’re literally trying to do is build a computer system that can compete with the human brain.
Drifting standards. Take for example economics. Humans are terrible when it comes being consistent.