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Article #621744Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:37
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:37
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On 4/5/2018 9:00 PM, J. Clarke wrote: > 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. > Ahhh... you just forgot to close your quote... ;-) -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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