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Article #621740Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:49
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:49
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On 4/5/2018 10:53 AM, Quadibloc wrote: > On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 4:16:12 PM UTC-6, Al Kossow wrote: >> On 4/4/18 3:02 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >>> article in LIFE magazine about putting the bible on a computer. > >> It's actually about using a Univac computer to to produce a Concordance for the Bible. > > Of course, putting the Bible on a computer in the plainer sense also happened. > Thus, a Bible with the RSV text was typeset using an ICT 1500 computer that I > mentioned in this newsgroup once. > ISTM the Holy Bible (Old and New testaments) in ASCII requires less than five megabytes of storage spce. That sounds rivial today, but of course it was *not* trivial in the early 1970's. ISTM that five megabytes requires something like 62,500 80-column punch cards. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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