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Authorities at the federally subsidized Argonne National Laboratories outside Chicago heard of Mickelson's expertise in this narrow specialty, invited him in 1955 to start building experimental computer parts, offered to supply the raw materials. Mickelson figured that the demand for memory cores would be so great that even...
Despite AMU's elaborate controls, maneuvering in space without the radar and computer guidance available in full-size spacecraft-called "eyeballing" by astronauts-can be both difficult and dangerous.
At first there were many short circuits. For one thing, people tended to lie about their looks, checked themselves off as attractive when "not exceptionally attractive" would have been a generous judgment. For another, the early computer program told a subscriber who his "ideal mate" was and whose "ideal mate...
Indoor & Outdoor Sports. But Operation Match also produced more than its share of fun dates. At Harvard, a varsity swimmer and amateur astronomer was desperately looking for someone who 1) would time his laps in the pool, 2) be willing to wake up at 3 a.m. to watch comets with...
Op Match feels that it has just scratched the surface in machine-age romance. Next step is a process called "RealTime" that will allow a customer on any campus anywhere to fill in his questionnaire on a keyboard teletype (perhaps in the Student Union?) hooked up to a central computer...