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The Andromeda Strain (2008)
52 AETVP: Saturday, March 27 8:00 PM
2008, NR, 03:12, Color, English, United States, Made for TV
A reporter uncovers a government conspiracy when a deadly pathogen from a U.S. satellite spreads through Utah.
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Ricky Schroder Director(s): Mikael Salomon
}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tue, February 14, 2006 1:05:22 PM
Subject: Re: computer revolution
http://news.com.com/1952+UNIVAC/2009-1006_3-6038974-2.html?tag=st.next
1952: UNIVAC
Univac was the primary product of the Eckert-Mauchly computer company. Not only was it faster, but it demonstrated the shift from base-ten to binary code. A Univac was used by CBS news to predict the outcome of the 1952 Presidential Election. That event brought computing into the public eye, according to many historians. It wouldn't be long before scientific focus shifted to microprocessors.
[Not only was it binary machine language, but to manually program it, you had to start with base-10, convert that mentally to base-8, and then mentally convert that to base-2, or binary.]
Kerry Burgess wrote:
http://news.com.com/1946+ENIAC/2009-1006_3-6038974.html?tag=nefd.lede
This computer, unfurled to scientists on Feb. 14, helped launch the computer revolution and the U.S. tech dominance for decades. Few suspected actually what those next 60 years would bring. The evolution of computing devices has come a long way since the days of ENIAC.
[The way I see it, this was the modern equivalent of man inventing fire. Today's PC are a much improved version of that invention, in essence, a match or a butane ligther. Software is the fuel for that energy source. I don't think we have reached a point yet where you could compare the computer to the combustion engine. After that would be the progress that produces the computer equivalent of a jet engine. Of course, some marketing weenie is going to read this and start trying to refer to their products as jet engines.]
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