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Started by hanc...
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:02
1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: hanc...
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:02
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:02
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article in LIFE magazine about putting the bible on a computer. https://books.google.com/books?id=DFQEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA93&dq=life%20eberhard%20faber&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q&f=false (following is a cute ad for Pink Pearl and other erasers).
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: Al Kossow
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:16
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 22:16
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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.
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: Quadibloc
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:53
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:53
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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. John Savard
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: 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
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: 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/
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:08
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:08
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On 4/5/2018 3:49 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > 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. > Even at five megabytes, the Bible could fit on a data CD over 125 times! That's less than 1% of the space on the CD... -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: 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.
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:12
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:12
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On 05/04/2018 20:49, 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. > > But why would anyne bother when there are a myriad of other works of fiction and / or make-believe available?
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: 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
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:26
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:26
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On 2018-04-05, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-04-05, 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. > > [huge@amun ~/Desktop]: ls -l /data/Media/Books/Fiction/KingJamesBible.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 huge huge 4451502 Nov 27 2016 /data/Media/Books/Fiction/KingJamesBible.txt > > There you go. 4.45Mb. Yup. The version I got my hands on came on three 5 1/4-inch floppies. (It must have been compressed - probably ARC, since it predated zip.) -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
Re: 1957 Bible index put on computer
Author: hanc...
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:39
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:39
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On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 6:16:12 PM UTC-4, 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. Here is another 1956 article about the project: https://books.google.com/books?id=8CkDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA174&dq=bible%20on%20computer&pg=RA1-PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false (also has workshop and electronic tips as of 1956).
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