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Article #621743Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:00
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:00
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:49:01 -0500, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >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. At one point I had on one of my machines an APL workspace containing the entire Bible in a single vector.
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