🚀 go-pugleaf

We were told in my undergraduate architecture class that some CDC system that
came in several models contained, for the 'slower' models, a 'decelerator'
board to slow them down.  It might have been the 6600; I can't remember for sure.


Also, there was an episode of some TV show ("The Greatest American Hero" ?) where
someone looks up information about someone--including a photographic-quality
mug shot--on a TRS-80 Model III (a machine with a monochrome screen with something
like 128x48 resolution, unless one upgraded something like CGA, but still monochrome).

In, I think, "Whiz Kids," an IBM-3270 -type terminal is used to trigger a building's
sprinkler / fire-alarm system.

And in this B&W science-fiction movie ("When Worlds Collide" ?), a 'differential
analyzer' is used to perform some giant calculation.  The machine was a huge
mechanical calculator, something like Babbage's analytical engine.

I saw "Angry Red Planet" as a child and thought it was really scary.  Of course,
I didn't notice the Burroughs 203...

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