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From: Jennifer Cribbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2019 11:37 PM
To: Ole Drews Jensen
Subject: RE: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
I know now.I guess the jokes on me...
Jenn
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Is this serious?
I was under the impression that Ada Lovelace invented the binary counting
system. I was also under the impression that John Atanasoff came up with
the brilliant coding system that expressed everything in terms of two
numbers for the methodology of measuring the current or lack o
http://www.oledrews.com/job
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From: Jennifer Cribbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:01 PM
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Subject: RE: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
Is this serious?
I was under the
his site.
Jenn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Donald B Johnson jr
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
If you read through that post and
Not serious, but the intellectual credit here goes to George Boole--as in
"boolean arithmetic." Babbage/Lovelace machines were decimal.
At 02:01 PM 8/3/2001 -0400, Jennifer Cribbs wrote:
>Is this serious?
>
>I was under the impression that Ada Lovelace invented the binary counting
>system. I
rs.
Or at least that what I have read.
Jenn
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From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 4:23 AM
To: Jennifer Cribbs; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
Not serious, but t
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> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 4:23 AM
> To: Jennifer Cribbs; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> Not serious, but the intellectual credit here goes to George Boole--as in
> "boolean arithmetic."
I look forward to the day when I can think before I speakhehe
Jenn
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Gareth Hinton
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one
never gets the historical credit it should.
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 4:23 AM
>To: Jennifer Cribbs; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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y of the ATLAS, which was done at an English university and
>pioneered a great number of computer innovations, such as interrupts.
>It never gets the historical credit it should.
>
> >
> >
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> >From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC
the
>>same computer room as one still chugging away before it was
>>successfully emulated -- used a magnetic head-per-track disk (called
>>a drum) as main memory. (It was the first computer that produced the
>>Consumer Price Index, one of those applications that HAD to work).
&
AD to work).
> >
> >
> >*our UK list members expecially should learn something about the
> >history of the ATLAS, which was done at an English university and
> >pioneered a great number of computer innovations, such as interrupts.
> >It never gets the historical cre
ugust 16, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: Friday Funnie #2, Couldn't let this one go by!! [7:14809]
> In ancient India, binary numbers were used in music to classify meters.
>
> African bush tribes sent messages via a combination of high and low
pitches.
>
> Australian aborigines
the binary counting concept started with
> Ada. Not in the computer sense, but in a general sense of numbers.
>
> Or at least that what I have read.
>
> Jenn
>
>
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> Sent: Sunday, August 05,
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