The City of Dearborn was supposed to have fireworks earlier this summer but it got rained out (I think that’s why it was delayed) and tonight was the make up day.
Wow! It was amazing, it was a constant barrage of fireworks for about 25 minutes. Very cool.
It was an impressive show. I won’t miss another one at Dearborn’s Ford Field if I have a choice about it.
Tagged Dearborn, Fireworks, Ford Field, photos, videos
A commercial from the 1950s for the Remington Rand UNIVAC System!
Direct link to the Univac video
It’s got “Memory Tanks with 12,000 additional units of information”, assuming a “unit” is byte that’s 12 kB of information. That’s about one-tenth of a floppy disk, a floppy disk from twenty-fie years. Based on the other video (below) they might only be 3/4 of a byte :)
I’m really surprised the printer could do 600 lines per minute, that’s pretty fast for that time (I would think!) although it didn’t look much different from some large printers I’ve seen years later.
There’s a 17 minute infomercial too.
And I found this video from Dean’s World too! I didn’t steal his text :)
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