Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM systemrighto.com 28 pointsgeerlingguy1 month ago5 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−brudgers1moParallel discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602−SoftTalker1moI love the ad copy from 1951. Sounds like how people talk about AI today."No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... now in critical shortage ... spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring"−amelius1moThe ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.−AmazingEveryDay1moI did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!−UncleOxidant1moThe more things change...
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Parallel discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125602
I love the ad copy from 1951. Sounds like how people talk about AI today.
"No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... now in critical shortage ... spend priceless creative time at routine repetitive figuring"
The ads from 1951 didn't know anything about you. Except that you were reading an engineering magazine of course.
I did a double-take on that ad, it obviously features the professor from Gilligan's Island!
The more things change...