Subj : Explanations anyone?
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Matt Mc_Carthy
Date : Sat Nov 11 2000 01:12 pm

11 Nov 2000, 00:03, Leonard Erickson (1:105/51), wrote to JAY EMRIE:

Hi Leonard.

 LE>>As I heard it, it was Eniac, and they had *shopping carts* of 
 LE>>tubes. And they ran every calc 3 times and compared the answeres to
 LE>> compensate for tubes dying during the calc.

 JE>> Anything that unreliable is worthless. Sure would hate to
 JE>> have my life dependant upon it!

 LE> Keep in mind that this was replacing hundreds of clerks with 
 LE> mechanical calculators. 

 LE> It was *more* reliable!

Yep, and now they want to re-count Ballots by hand to "insure accuracy"...


     M.

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