Burroughs 203

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From: da... Anthony A. Datri
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 21:53

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I was watching "Angry Red Planet" the other day.  The spaceship has
a Burroughs machine in it.  Racks of glorious tubes, and a console with
wonderful lights.  They had a switch rigged for a guy to turn the tape
drive on and off -- they portrayed it as an audio drive.

There's also an old movie whose name I can't be sure of ("X the Unknown"?
"Rocketship X-1"?  something like that) where they show an ancient Calcomp
plotter drawing a spiral.

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