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brudgers•4 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.

AmazingEveryDay•about 22 hours ago

I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!

UncleOxidant•about 23 hours ago

The more things change...

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system