Classic DEC picture from "American Used Computer"

[Brent Hilpert]

William Donzelli wrote:
> By the way, the original plac ethat picture was used was an old National
> Geographic. I recall the same page has a picture of one of the piles as
> ILLIAC 4 was being scrapped.

(via David Forbes):
> This photo is scanned in from the October 1982 issue of National
> Geographic magazine, which I just found at the thrift store. It has
> an article about The Chip, and another about Silicon Valley. Humorous
> reading.

Some more humour (in the ironic vein): there is an article in National Geographic of November 1970 that has a picture of ILLIAC 4 (IV) being assembled ("Behold the Computer Revolution", page 631).

"... when completed will perform a billion operations a second and may rival in capacity all other computers combined ... The 25 million dollar machine...".