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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
...TiKi (304 pp.)-Thor Heyerdahl -Rand McNally...
...made a deal with Remington Rand to build and sell the camera-and-receiver TV unit. Expected cost: about $20,000.* CBS thought that medical groups, which for some time now have been viewing operations in color TV, would be the likeliest customers. CBS and Rand hope also to sell the system for relaying corporate meetings to stockholders, and for classroom use. As for the eventual mass consumer market, CBS Vice President Adrian Murphy quipped: "You have to smoke a little opium before you really can see its potential...
...promised the Guernsey editor, "will break this medieval monopoly about the keeping of bitches on Sark." He splashed Rand's story on his front page and awaited developments. They were not long in coming. Sark's constables showed up at Rand's house, told him curtly to get Jip off the island or shoot her within four days. Rand made arrangements to send his pet to Guernsey, but at the last moment he changed his mind. "We were together in the air raids," he stammered. "She stuck to us and we'll stick...
Last week Ernest Rand reached a solution of his relations with the Lord of Sark. He brought the local butcher to Jip, stood by while she was shot...