Category : Various Text files
Archive   : HUMOR.ZIP
Filename : OLDIBM.MEM
Subject: Dateline: 1957
Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA
I just moved, and while putting my old SF magazines in a bookshelf, the
following caught my eye:
Worlds of IF Science Fiction, June 1957, ed. James L. Quinn
Editor's Report:
Trouble with your arithmetic? Then get yourself one of the new
IBM 709's which can handle up to 42,000 additions or subtractions
a second. Multiplications or divisions, tough stuff like that, can
be performed at speeds of only 5,000 a second! Over 327,000 decimal
digits can be stored in the 709's magnetic core, and any "word" in
core storage can be located and made ready for use in only 12 millionths
of a second. You can get a typical system for about $3,000,000, or
rent one for $56,000 a month!...
Wife: Goodness! I've never seen those books before.
Husband: Those are the six boxes that have been sitting in the closet since
before we got married.
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/