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Atoms for peace! Electrickery too cheap to meter! Atomic powered aircraft!

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    Atoms for peace! Electrickery too cheap to meter! Atomic powered aircraft!

    There's some lovely insanity in this little clip from The New Scientist of 30th March 1961.

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zfzhCoOHurwC&pg=PA814&lpg=PA814&dq=gecom+ "general+compiler"&source=bl&ots=Ie9DIahUEa&sig=vd nVkt2UBL1jFKgb4cxdRiJ5TVE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB 6c-y3NjKAhUHXhQKHUXmAAUQ6AEIJTAD#v=onepage&q=gecom%20 %22general%20compiler%22&f=false

    What led me to that page was the article on the GECOM General Compiler, which apparently translates ordinary English into computer program instructions.

    There's a lot of interesting history in that copy of NS.

    It belonged to a Mr Ainsworth according to the back cover.

    The beryllium moderated reactor on the same page as the GECOM compiler never went critical.

    And I'd assume that the nuclear turbojet is mouldering away in a disposal site somewhere.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J87

    Dear me.

    Here's the manual for GECOM II:

    http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stut...e%20Manual.pdf
    Last edited by zeitghost; 8 June 2017, 17:59.

    #2
    Shall we play a game?

    Edit: Forum won't let me do that in caps! Argh!
    Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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      #3
      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
      Shall we play a game?

      Edit: Forum won't let me do that in caps! Argh!


      Yes, let's play Global Thermonuclear War
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        #4
        It's ok, they found another solution!

        Woman who cant help putting on weight is free energy machine
        Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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          #5
          The "theme structure" is still there at LA International: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@33.94...7i13312!8i6656

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