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...weighed 30 tons and occupied a space as large as a boxcar. Its 40 modular memory and processing units, each housed in a 9-ft.-high black metal cabinet and bristling with dials, wires and indicator lights, filled a room the size of a small gymnasium. Its 18,000 vacuum tubes radiated so much heat that industrial cooling fans were needed to keep its circuitry from melting down...
...ways. Either they estimated the solutions, using mechanical analog devices like slide rules and differential gears, or they computed them digitally, using the on-off action of slow-moving electromagnetic telephone switches. ENIAC, by contrast, was the first digital computer both to store and to process information with vacuum tubes; as a result, it was able to perform calculations 1,000 times as fast as its electromechanical predecessors. "I was convinced that you could produce great speeds electronically if you put your mind to it," says Eckert. "ENIAC proved that this...
...events in the sprawling Pacific archipelago appear to be moving rapidly beyond Marcos' fading ability to control them with anything like the skill and ruthlessness that he so often displayed in the past. While the President continues to hold sway in the Spanish colonial-style Malacanang Palace, the vacuum of authority outside the palace has reached alarming proportions. Among other things, it has led U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz to warn that the Philippines is heading toward "civil war on a massive scale" within three to five years if the insurgency spearheaded by the Communist New People...
Unfortunately; the flourescent-lit commodity havens turn what must otherwise be real humans into something less than human. Transformed from person to buyer, the consumer is a veritable vacuum cleaner, inhaling commodities. While shopping for goods and services, we forget the cornerstone of being human lies in creative activity--production--rather than consumption...
...series of movements on its own through the use of its ultrasonic sensors. These sensors are in the form of strips on the side panels that send signals back to the computer's Central Processing Unit of the main computer in case the robot--or in this case the vacuum cleaner--bumps into an object on the floor that it must evade...