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Article: Anticancer genes. (genetic basis of retinoblastoma) (column)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- May 1, 1987
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The sound of computing is music to the ears of some
It was in 1965 that I first heard thesound of computing. An IBM 7090 at the University of Michigan Computing Center had been fitted with a simple electromagnetic pickup connected to a loudspeaker. As a computer program ran, a specific register in the machine changed its contents many thousands of times per second. The resulting pattern of miniature clicks was heard as an astonishing rush of alien sound that alternated among buzzing, screaming, burping, rumbling and whining. At times a grinding noise would change from bass to treble. This may have been the sound made by a double loop in the program; perhaps the ...