20 May
2005
20 May
'05
12:09 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
By the way, the original plac ethat picture was used
was an old National
Geographic. I recall the same page has a picture of one of the piles as
ILLIAC 4 was being scrapped.
(via David Forbes):
This photo is scanned in from the October 1982 issue
of National
Geographic magazine, which I just found at the thrift store. It has
an article about The Chip, and another about Silicon Valley. Humorous
reading.
Some more humour (in the ironic vein): there is an article in National Geographic of
November 1970 that has a picture of ILLIAC 4 (IV) being assembled ("Behold the
Computer Revolution", page 631).
"... when completed will perform a billion operations a second and may rival in
capacity all other computers combined ... The 25 million dollar machine...".