Archive for April 23rd, 2020

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 24

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020

I haven’t done anything super geeky in a little while, so today’s the day.

“An Introduction to Digital Computers”, from the UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand sometime in the 1960s.

Bonus video #1: it seems only fair to give the other guys their turn. This is a compilation put together by the Computer History Archives Project of promotional videos for the IBM System/370.

Bonus video #2: and before that, System/360.

You try and tell the young people today that…and they won’t believe you.

(A fun non-video System/360 diversion from Ken Shirriff.)

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Obit watch: April 23, 2020.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020

Shirley Knight, actress.

She did a lot of theater work (and won a Tony), did some movie work, and a whole bunch of TV (winning three Emmy awards). No “Mannix”, but she did appear on a lot of Quinn Martin productions.

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