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Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941

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Date 2020-03-12 15:25 -0700
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Subject Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941
From hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com

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On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 9:37:28 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:

> >IBM approved the project to build the Harvard Mark I in 1939.
> 
> And it didn't actually run until 1944.  Further, it was not electronic
> and it was horrendously slow.

Was the Harvard Mark I really all that slow by the standards
of its day?  Yes, it was a mechanical machine, and a trig
or log took a full minute. But so was everything else at that 
point in time.  

At that time, the only alternative to the Mark I was a bunch of
humans punching desk calculators.  They were even slower.
The Mark I had the advantage of continuous operation, passing
results of one equation automatically to the next and other
logic.

As best as I can tell, the Mark I was a powerful tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

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Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-10 06:01 -0700
  Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-03-10 11:34 -0700
  Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-10 19:20 -0400
    Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-11 07:12 -0700
      Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-03-11 15:02 -0400
        Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-11 20:07 +0000
        Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-11 18:08 -0700
          Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-11 21:32 -0400
          Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-03-12 15:18 -0700
      Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-03-11 19:56 +0000
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        Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-11 18:31 -0700
          Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-11 21:37 -0400
            Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-11 21:03 -0700
              Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 06:48 -0400
            Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-03-12 15:25 -0700
              Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 18:42 -0400
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-12 20:04 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 23:24 -0400
                Re: unreliable, or Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-03-13 03:31 +0000
      Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-11 19:09 -0400
      Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-03-12 00:06 +0000
        Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-11 21:32 -0400
          Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-11 21:01 -0700
            Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-12 06:54 -0400
              Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-03-12 17:38 +0000
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-12 17:44 +0000
              Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-13 20:51 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-14 06:39 -0400
              Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-13 21:43 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-14 06:38 -0400
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-14 04:28 -0700
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                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-16 19:19 +0000
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2020-03-14 18:15 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-14 22:07 -0400
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2020-03-14 21:12 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-15 09:05 -0400
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2020-03-15 14:22 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-15 18:31 -0400
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-15 19:39 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-03-15 12:07 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-15 16:42 +0000
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-03-15 12:07 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-03-15 19:52 +0000
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-03-15 15:38 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-03-15 16:18 -0400
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-15 19:36 -0700
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-03-16 23:17 +0000
                Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-03-14 09:44 -0700
        Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-03-12 15:17 -0700
          Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-12 20:12 -0700
            Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-03-12 20:21 -0700
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        Re: Thomas J. Watson (IBM) profile 1941 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-03-12 17:12 +0000

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