John Allain wrote:
 > Are you talking about the November 1970 issue
of National
> Geopgraphic? 
  Can't be -- Illiac 4 was either not yet in
existence, or alive
 and well -- certainly not scrapped. 
 There are two articles in the mentioning
    November 1970   "Behold the Computer Revolution"
    October  1982   The Chip 
 
Nov 70 issue has a picture of ILLIAC IV being assembled.
Oct 82 issue has a picture of ILLIAC IV being scrapped.
Coincidence, or intention on the part of the writers of the second article?
(... sent a message about this last week, perhaps it was lost, pardon if it's
repetitious)