Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

Greg Booth bootgr at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 16:29:18 UTC 2007


> In the middle-late 1950's, I saw the machine used to grade the Iowa Tests then
> used in the school systems to evaluate kids, but I don't know if it would
> actually qualify as a computer.  It used a modified Harris printing press to
> present the test forms to the photocell array, and a 12,000 tube (12AU7's
> IIRC) processor that may have been one of the first eniacs.  SUI built the
> building it was in around it, probably the most air conditioned building on
> campus in Iowa City at the time.  But I didn't work on it, not having been
> infected with the digital virus yet.  The folks who were afraid I was gonna
> put fingerprints on 'their' baby weren't aware of the score I made on the
> test they were grading either. :-)
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene

Whoa, I live in North Liberty, just outside Iowa City. You still in
corn land Gene ??

G




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