[SunRescue] old storage [was Offerings]

[Kurt A. Huhn]

This leads me to an interesting thing my dad told me ages ago.  He told
me about a method of storage they used in the navy (where he was an
instructor at the Great Lakes facility in Illinois) that used a metal
wire run through a magnetic reader of some sort.  He was a
math/geometry/calculus instructor there so he didn't have specifics, but
he did say that it went through *extremely* fast.  One of the
technicians removed a cover of some sort to troubleshoot something and
nearly had a finger removed when he got too close to the wire.

Any one know what this was?

--kurt


scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> 
> It was Eckert and Mauchly, the builders of ENIAC.
> 
> Stephen P. Cohen           Email:  scohen at acxiom.com
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Wallis [mailto:rawallis at bsu-cs.bsu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 09:52 AM
> To: rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Offerings
> 
> > So, who was it? *grin*
> > Us young dudes, only approaching 40, wanna know...
>         Since Turing was dead at the time, was it Alonzo Church, Zeeman or
> the guys who built ENAIC?
>         -Andy
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Kurt A. Huhn
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