local demolition of SAGE building

Dwight K. Elvey dwight.elvey at amd.com
Tue Jul 19 17:01:42 CDT 2005


>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
>
>> Before we say the reporter was wrong, consider this: of course the main SAGE
>> computers in the 1950s used vacuum tubes, but isn't it likely that the
>> later, remote facilities (like the one in this story) used transistors?
>
>No.
>
>;)
>
>Plain and simple, this reporter did not do their homework.
>

Hi
 You forget, they write stories. You can say anything
that you like in a story.
Dwight




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