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Happy Birthday, UNIVAC I
Daniel Goldman writes "Today is the 53rd birthday of the UNIVAC I
(UNIVersal Automatic Computer I). The UNIVAC I
was delivered to the Census Bureau in 1951. It weighed some 16,000 pounds,
used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per
second. It was the first American commercial computer, as well as the first
computer designed for business use. The first few sales were to government
agencies, the A.C. Nielsen Company,
and the Prudential Insurance
Company. It could retain a maximum of 1000 numbers and was able to
add, subtract, multiply, divide, sort, collate and take square and cube
roots. Its transfer write/read to and from magnetic tape was 10,000 characters
per second."
Ok, if you're going to do it, do it right:
Duke Nuken Forever
it's Duke Nukem Forever
that's slashdot, taking stupidity to a whole new level.
Scott Richter (776062) saying "that mod points only go to people with fairly new accounts"?
Why's he complaining?
BTW, I've got my 21st through 25th mod points a couple days ago, and I might use them...
Off-topic, but wouldn't the time for /. to admit the metamod system doesn't work be after the moderation has been meta-modded? Or even after the post has been fully moderated? You replied after one mod. That's like getting the first person you see in the street to select the President.
Incidentally, I've already replied to the OP with a correction - but I certainly don't think we need to start attacking all moderators because one mod failed to RTFA, and will probably get hammered come meta-mod-time.
This is where the serious fun begins.
Like this is my only account. Sheesh.