Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system www.righto.com 28 points by geerlingguy 6 days ago
SoftTalker 1 day ago I love the ad copy from 1951. Sounds like how people talk about AI today."No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... now in critical shortage ... spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring" amelius 1 day ago The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course. UncleOxidant 1 day ago The more things change... AmazingEveryDay 1 day ago I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!
amelius 1 day ago The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.
AmazingEveryDay 1 day ago I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!
Parallel discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602
I love the ad copy from 1951. Sounds like how people talk about AI today.
"No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... now in critical shortage ... spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring"
The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.
The more things change...
I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!