Classic Computer month

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue Mar 13 21:16:01 2001

>
> > We should declare a day in August as Classic Computer Day.
>
> First, does anyone know the anniversary date of the release of something
> significant to the classic community?
> The first PDP? First Vax? (Not the pc please!) That might be a better
> choice than a random pick perhaps.
>

It was August of 1881, when Dr. Billings first suggested to Herman Hollerith
that there ought to be a machine for doing the purely mechanical work of
tabulating population and similar statistics. Which could be considered
the dawn of the modern computer age.

-Lawrence LeMay
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