20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
4:21 p.m.
On 20/11/2012 15:18, mick wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:06:08 +0000 Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com allegedly wrote:
This is one for we old geeks. Reminds me of my first job as a Computer Operator on a Honeywell 120, back in 1973.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2235139/The-2-5ton-calculator...
Cheers, Laurie.
"The WITCH [...] had a multiplication time of between five and ten seconds. Modern day computers work in less than a second."
Classic piece of Mail reporting - technically illiterate.
Yeah, the standard of journalism is woeful sometimes, although strictly-speaking nano-seconds are indeed, "less than a second"!!!
Cheers, Laurie.
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