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OT: UNIVAC 50th Anniversary
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John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]>
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John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:20:58 +0100
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Wayne R. Boyer wrote :

> Re: Nazis and punch cards - There was also something on public television (?)
> about this a while ago which I saw.  Not exactly a nice use of early
> quasi-computer technology.  The concept of the government keeping track of
> people and then using the information against them later is still relevant
> today.  Now we just have much better methods than punch cards for keeping
> track of all this data on people.

Can you say ECHELON?

Type it into Google and scare yourself!

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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