3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
4:05 p.m.
On 2/3/07, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have it, too; but I am not sure where it is at the moment....
(*rummage* *rummage*...) Just found a second copy - all of $0.30USD
There is, IIRC, a picture of a Stretch in the Time-Life book
"Mathematics". I don't have my copy close at hand, but I _think_ the
one in the photo was being used for weather modelling...
I still have that book too, Ethan. I received it as a little kid in the late
60's and share your sentiments about it. from Half-Price books. This edition is (c) 1963, 1971,
U.S. Library
of Congress catalog number 63-18983, for the bibliographically
curious.
Looking at the double-page spread of Stretch right now
Me too, now. Pages 26-27.
... the text says it
belonged to the U.S. Weather Bureau ("analyses 90,000 weather reports at
once", "addition in 1.5 millionths of a second").
There you go. It seems that the one in the book would be the one
documented on the Stretch page recently posted in this thread.
There's also the photo of the front panel of the
IBM 704 with a chess board
in front of it and indicated to be running a chess-playing program,
I remember the photo. Didn't remember the model of the computer.
... another IBM 70?0 series machine doing moon-flight
calculations,
... imposing photos of Claude Shannon (in front of what may be part of
Whirlwind) and Kurt Godel,
... John Kemeny having a discussion with some students at Dartmouth,
... etc, etc.
Yep. When I ran across these (now famous) names years later, they
always seemed familiar.
The page about bananas for 1101(2) cents a pound took me a bit to wrap
my head around, but it came in handy when binary (BCD) clocks were all
the rage in the early 1970s.
-ethan