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Dateline: April 1951 (50 years ago).(technological notes reported in magazine Radio-Electronics)(Brief Article)
Poptronics, April, 2001
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> Two news columns in Radio-Electronics--"The Radio Month" and "Radio Business"--kept readers up to date by reporting that: * The US TV set population reached 10,549,500 (Today, that number reaches to the hundreds of millions.) * A new desk-sized computer sported a paltry 100 vacuum tubes and a single moving part--a 10,000-digit rotating memory drum with a 0.3-mS retrieval speed: (Today's notebook-sized computers store billions of digit, but ...
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