Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours required to tabulate the vote from 52,573 to 5,781-even while the total vote rose by more than 15% over the last previous election. >Fulton County (Atlanta), Ga., is one of several that has used a nifty little number called the IBM Votomatic. Invented by Dr. Joseph P. Harris, a retired University of California political science professor, it weighs a mere 6 Ibs. and costs $185 per unit (against $1,800 for the present automatic voting machines, which, because of their size, are also far more expensive to store). Votomatic works by electronic punch card. As with...
...restaurant, play a round of golf with him, and fly him back to his office the same day. Outside Washington, a developer is turning the Montgomery County (Md.) airport into an airpark, already has 170 aircraft based there. A golf-cart manufacturer is building beside the airstrip, and IBM, Fairchild Hiller, Sprague Electronics, Bechtel Corp., and the National Bureau of Standards are building nearby...
...torn surfaces is precisely the difficulty of the individual to adapt to a new world," he feels. What he finds within evokes a strange and curious crystalline imagery drawn from the machine. His slabs look like the innards of computers, his spheres like ball-shaped printing heads for IBM typewriters. He did a facade for a Cologne school that is 78 ft. high by 27 ft. wide and entitled Grand Homage to Technological Civilization. He calls other slabs Radars because they strike him as "capturing feelings." Rather than stand at odds with the machine, Pomodoro searches for harmony between technological...
...attic of his father's house in Weehawken, NJ. Ultimately Engineer Diebold hired businessmen and technicians to work for him while he supervised his firm's growth and actively promoted his ideas and himself. He is currently selling advice to Lockheed, Du Pont, Agfa, Xerox, IBM, Allstate Insurance, Philips Lamp, Westinghouse and 250 other companies...
...occasion. Founders Vaughn Morrill and Jeff Tarr launched their enterprise last February on a shoestring budget of $1,250 (Tarr won $500 of it on Password, the TV quiz program). They worked out a questionnaire that would both describe the writer and his "ideal mate," then programmed an IBM 1401 computer to pair them...