REDDIT vintage computing

Not that the US is the only country that needs a reality check. Wasn't it Australia who arrested someone on child porn charges over a cartoon of Bart Simpson? ...unless it's an ad, in which case anything that doesn't quite upset the media-censor bluenoses is fine. You can tell the audience that drinking your brand of beer will get you laid all you like, provided you don't put it in so many words or show any "naughty bits"...oh, and provided the "you" whom the ad implies that of is male and straight. And various other things, like white.... Yeah, the US does have various issues. To link this to something actually on-topic, consider the ADAM, from Logical Machine Corporation. I have a PDF (presumably a scan) of a brochure for it which, if taken at face value, implies they'd cracked the natural language understanding and learning problems. Its relevance here is the cover photo, which shows a woman seated at the thing, out on a lawn with a backdrop of plants. She's basically facing the computer, but her head is turned to look at the camera, which is about at her 4 o'clock. She's holding an apple with a bite taken out of it up to her mouth...and, by appearances, is wearing nothing but a pair of glasses. She is, of course, white, long-haired, blonde, and blue-eyed. And, based on the distortion they (don't) generate, the glasses - if they have lenses in the frames at all - are quite weak. It supposedly pulls some 20 amps (110V), requires 60-80 degrees F, but requires no particular cooling. I have trouble seeing those claims as mutually consistent. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B