Sunday, July 11, 2010

BrainBank: The Univac is Awesome Edition

Look at that! I just found this at about 5:30; it is a conversation with the Univac, one of the first computers ever built.

Apparently some fellow named Scott Loyd and his wife Nancy had this conversation with Univac and keep the printout all these years, just recently bringing it to the attention of the site Boing Boing.

It's crazy to think about the ridiculous amount of engineering and the incredible expanses of vacuum tubes and other such old-timey things that made up the Univac, all to enable it to spit out numbers and Zodiac predictions.

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