Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site masscomp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!masscomp!carlton From: carlton@masscomp.UUCP (Carlton Hommel) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Dateline: 1957 Message-ID: <167@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 12:10:35 EST Article-I.D.: masscomp.167 Posted: Sun Dec 9 12:10:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:45:04 EST Distribution: net Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA Lines: 18 I just moved, and while putting my old SF magazines in a bookshelf, the following caught my eye: Worlds of IF Science Fiction, June 1957, ed. James L. Quinn Editor's Report: Trouble with your arithmetic? Then get yourself one of the new IBM 709's which can handle up to 42,000 additions or subtractions a second. Multiplications or divisions, tough stuff like that, can be performed at speeds of only 5,000 a second! Over 327,000 decimal digits can be stored in the 709's magnetic core, and any "word" in core storage can be located and made ready for use in only 12 millionths of a second. You can get a typical system for about $3,000,000, or rent one for $56,000 a month!... Wife: Goodness! I've never seen those books before. Husband: Those are the six boxes that have been sitting in the closet since before we got married.