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On exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution is a solid-state computer of 1957 vintage, the first practical large-scale model ever built. This cybernetic antique served as the guidance system for U.S. ICBMs until 1961 and ticked off more than 300 countdowns. The unit was built by the Burroughs Corp...
Behind the profits are more efficient operations, specialized production, and a shift from space and defense to commercial work. Moreover, Burroughs' computer operations are now nearing break-even. The company's 1966 sales will probably reach $500 million, net earnings will be close to $28 million, more than...
∙TALKING COMPUTER. Burroughs Corp. expects to market a computer next year that will read its answers aloud. Electric impulses will vibrate the membrane of a loudspeaker, forming words. One use: a bank customer can go to a drive-in window and deposit a check in the computerized system, which...
His short hairs are best ignored. His excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion...
The book, written in Paris by Burroughs while he was reportedly a drug addict, details the hallucinations of a man under the influence of narcotics.