Hi Terry,
> Peter has brought a bit of history to the Meeting; a CV148 infrared
> image converter, dating from the late 40s.
A couple more things from last night.
In 1942, silver was available when copper was in short supply so
$1,000,000,000, in 1942's terms, was used to build a centrifuge. They
went to some effort to retrieve every scrap afterwards; detail is on
Wikipedia.
"How much do you need?"
I replied, "Six thousand tons."
'How many troy ounces is that?" he asked.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron#Construction
Ivan Sutherland's 1988 Turing-Award paper on `Micropipelines' used for
asynchronous linkage of blocks in a circuit instead of a synchronous
clock. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=63532 Free PDF download.
Cheers, Ralph.
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