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Article #621741Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:49
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:49
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:49:01 -0500, Charles Richmond 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. I was (and think I mentioned that already here) I was talking to a pal in 1987, that I heard about a Gigabyte data medium coming in the near future. That it would just use 2% of its space if you put the Bible on it. The future is bright! :-) Well the 90s and thereafter got boring though. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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