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

Posted by geerlingguy 5 days ago

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system(www.righto.com)

26 points | 5 comments

brudgers 3 days ago|

Parallel discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602

SoftTalker 9 hours 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"

AmazingEveryDay 3 hours ago||

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

amelius 8 hours ago|||

The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.

UncleOxidant 4 hours ago||

The more things change...