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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] 70 years of commercial computing
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:35:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210616003539.GJ23809@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)


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Seen in my calendar yesterday:

  Jun 15  UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951

70 years!  And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.

Amusingly, though, the next entry is:

  Jun 16  First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951

Which suggests that they were able to install the machine and getting
it running in only one day.

Greg
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             reply	other threads:[~2021-06-16  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-16  0:35 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-06-16  1:54 ` Peter Jeremy via COFF
2021-06-16  2:58   ` Adam Thornton
2021-06-17 13:44 ` Tony Finch

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