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...computer, an IBM 360/65, is a third generation machine which will replace the current second generation machine. David S. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computing Center, said that "the growth of interest in computing has led to projects which just can't be done on the old machine...
...Dix said that other universities have set-ups similar to the IBM 360/65 System. But Harvard "plans to exploit the remote capability more than other schools," he said...
There will also be capacity for 16 teletypes linked to the computer. These teletypes will be able to print output at ten characters per second. Plans for locating these teletypes are still being made. Dix emphasized that the most important feature of the new computer is the "whole spectrum of possible remote devices...
...might even fight in your stupid wars if you hadn't forbidden Elvis. Why didn't you let us have friends with greasy hair? Why? Why couldn't we go meet our friends at the drive-in? Why couldn't we go to Union Hall to see Jonny Dix Why did you wrench us away from the turned-down transistors in our bedrooms? Why? Why? Don't you see what you've done. America You made drugs. You made SDS. You made us follow Leary and Ginsberg and Marcuse. You created Haight-Ashbury, you gave us Dylan, you big creep...
...committed to Her Majesty's asylum. With the help of his animal chums, he breaks away and sails on the good ship Flounder in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. On board his overloaded ark are an Irish cat-food seller (Anthony Newley), a small boy (William Dix), and a pretty admirer (Samantha Eggar). All too soon the Flounder flounders and the story slows down to its quarry's pace. Moreover, because violence is done to the original-there was no love interest in the books, for example, except between animals-even the underlying whimsey is worn...