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It was required viewing when I was a freshman in college.

Ii was probably the only person in the audience who was not stoned.

The company that testified to Congress in the 1950’s that they didn’t see a commercial need for more than a dozen computers a year in the future, since they would be so huge and expensive to make.
And now I type that on a small hand-held computer with far more capacity than the biggest computer IBM made back then.

round up the Jews at the beginnings of the Holocaust.

When I was in college, we had a prototype HP 2000 we named Smedley (cannot remember why) . Smedley took up about half of a 12×12 air-conditioned room. Today, my cell phone (not even my tablet) which is considerably smaller, has incredibly more power and capbility than Smedley, and doesn't go down for a tea break in the afternoon, nor does it swear at me!

When I moved into our new house 20 years ago, in the attic I found a Christmas wreath made ca. 1960's with those cards.

They were still in use when I registered for college in 1979 even though more advanced computers were certainly available.

I joined the AF in 1975 and we used the 80-column keypunch card. Every Friday, we took one to two boxes of keypunched cards (2,000 card to a box) to the data processing center for them to run over the weekend because our computer program took the longest on base to run. By the late 80s, we converted to a dedicated, in-house computer system eliminating keypunch card.

I was quite good at keypunching. I could keypunch information from a paper or program the drum to skip to the card columns when there was a large amount of information in the same format.

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IBM and the Holocaust - Wikipedia

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic …

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Not even going into how I deal with the squeals

at the planetarium in San Diego, on the big overhead sky screen. It was quite an experience, including the headache!

Thanks for sharing. I remember watching the movie and thinking "nah that'll never happen"!!!! LOL

Uh huh...

When ai runs amok.

Sidenote: HAL is IBM tribute (one letter over)

HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

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... because it's cheaper than paying humans to do it. Also the results are probably more reliable as well. Bots don't ask for raises or paid holidays, and "full benefits" are unheard of.

OMG…I nearly let it out…you’re good kentuck.

repeating the cycle over and over again.

gratitude to the ownership of this site for maintaining and keeping it going. I imagine it's more a labor of love than a cash cow (compared to major propaganda/social media sites like FB, etc.). And yes, I might be assuming too much.

I enjoy the algorithm-free site features DU offers.

I'm nearly 80 and have very poor vision and am hooked up to machinery that makes a racket. Low contrast photos and indistinct mush mouthed men saying words mean any site that uses ilocks me out.

Come the crash, I hope that's one of the first companies to go under.

with bicycles, but we let them replace humans at jobs requiring much more than that.

It cannot grow or expand its capability unless there is more human programming. It could freeze the present progress in place, as I see it. How many times can it be upgraded?

I mean, I know we all have to go sometime, but I don't want it to be in a self-driving car driving off a cliff or not taking that right toin at Albuquerque.

Thank Goodness their analysis of the data was skewed by crappy programming. No, mr self-aware computer, your analogy that 100% of people cannot resist checking an empty box to prove they are human, is not correct. We don't HAVE to check the box, we just had to to get our DU fix.

(sorry for the bad sci fi references... it's late, I"m tired, I think I'm funnier when I'm this tired.