Classic DEC picture from "American Used Computer"

Brent Hilpert hilpert at cs.ubc.ca
Tue May 24 15:02:50 CDT 2005


John Allain wrote:
> 
> >> Are you talking about the November 1970 issue of National
> >> Geopgraphic?
> 
> > Can't be -- Illiac 4 was either not yet in existence, or alive
> > and well -- certainly not scrapped.
> 
> There are two articles in the mentioning
>    November 1970   "Behold the Computer Revolution"
>    October  1982   The Chip

Nov 70 issue has a picture of ILLIAC IV being assembled.
Oct 82 issue has a picture of ILLIAC IV being scrapped.

Coincidence, or intention on the part of the writers of the second article?

(... sent a message about this last week, perhaps it was lost, pardon if it's repetitious)


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