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Sexy computer art, circa 1956
Sometime between 1956-1958 an unknown IBM employee wrote a punchcard program that displayed the above pin-up girl on the screens of the US military's two billion dollar Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) computers. Some say that the program was a diagnostic tool that showed the pin-up as a data transfer test. Others contend that it was [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Km9M6CRFvnk/sexy-computer-art-circa-1956.html
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