MarAzul
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I was just informed of this mark by email. Claude Shannon.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/claude-e-shannon-founder/
Claude Shannon, he was the professor for class I took many years... well it is history now. It is funny how history gets written, I think of the man as a mathematician, Boolean logic guru. But the writers of history credit him with the Minivac 601, they say was the start of Personal Computing. While it did demonstrate bit logic, I don't think it was ever used for much.
However, this little 6 bit 8 word machine was used all over the world in that day. The IBM 632, as close to a PC as there was at that time.
I created a lumber billing package for this machine, almost every lumber distributer in the Northwest had
one of these doing the billing every day. Oregon Pacific Lumber, North Pacific Lumber, Crown Zellerbach...
Clickity Clack!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_632
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/claude-e-shannon-founder/
Claude Shannon, he was the professor for class I took many years... well it is history now. It is funny how history gets written, I think of the man as a mathematician, Boolean logic guru. But the writers of history credit him with the Minivac 601, they say was the start of Personal Computing. While it did demonstrate bit logic, I don't think it was ever used for much.
However, this little 6 bit 8 word machine was used all over the world in that day. The IBM 632, as close to a PC as there was at that time.
I created a lumber billing package for this machine, almost every lumber distributer in the Northwest had
one of these doing the billing every day. Oregon Pacific Lumber, North Pacific Lumber, Crown Zellerbach...
Clickity Clack!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_632
