[9fans] good fun

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

I know a lot of folks on this list like history, so check this one out:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/LA-6943-H.pdf

"                                             Further-
more, by using clip leads to short one side of the
vacuum-tube     flipflops, you could actually change
the contents of a register (while the machine was
stopped). A skilled operator, like Don Bradford or
Verna Ellingson Gardiner, could fetch a word into a
register, make a change in it using clip leads, and
store it back in memory in about the same time that
most modern operators can type a one-line com-
mand on a terminal.
"

enjoy.

ron