[FRIAM] These Hidden Women Helped Invent Chaos Theory

[George Duncan]

Interesting. Thanks, Tom.

I can relate through the Royal McBee LGP3O. In 1962 I had a summer job with
Chicago Bridge and Iron Company. That was their only computer. Physically
it was as described--about like a big freezer. It was programmed using 17
machine language instructions and punched paper tape input. I used it to
calculate weights of weirdly shaped steel pieces used in the construction
of oil and water storage tanks. You optimized execution speed by placing
instructions strategically wrt its rotating drum. Well it did have speed
relative to a Friden or Marchant calculator!

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On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 4:35 PM Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

> Perhaps of interest....
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