another anniversary.

ibm centennial film.

also: "IBM's Robert Creasy and Les Comeau started developing in 1964 to create VMs within the mainframe."

           and

1969: ibm anti-trust suit filed.

it is really time to travel to rüschlikon, finally.

they say: "ritter von handschuchsheim"

über gegenstandstheorie, 1904 über möglichkeit und wahrscheinlichkeit, 1915 über annahmen, 1902, zeitschrift für psychologie und physiologie der sinnesorgane, herausgegeben von hermann ebbinghaus ...

scifi:

there is a lot of guff in the talk of these days about "thinking machines" ... on the fringe of the activities, a few still talk about giant electronic brains. when, however, one of these, who has written a book on the subject, asked a seasoned applied mathematician, "dr. blake, do you believe that electronic computers think?" he was misunderstood to say "stink". the harried mathematician replied, "now that you put the words into my mouth, i rather think that they do." | how to build a thinking machine, jj coupling, aka john robinson pierce, 1950