"IS dead"

Approves

From TFA:

...found the earliest ways to use a computer for business purposes, including standardizing flavorful, cost-effective cups of tea...

From "Restaurant At The End Of The Universe"

A short while before this, Arthur Dent had set out from his cabin in search of a cup of tea. It was not a quest he embarked upon with a great deal of optimism., because he knew that the only source of hot drinks on the entire ship was a benighted piece of equipment produced by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. It was called a Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer, and he had encountered it before.

It claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared to use it. When put to the test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but nit quite, entirely unlike tea.

Just goes to show that maybe Earthlings are better at at least one thing than all those fancy, arrogant superior-acting aliens. At least we can use a computer to make a decent cup of tea without shutting doww the most powerful spaceship in the known universe.

I am guessing that the machine could probably have heated the water for the tea as well.

Cool story. Once again the early leader in technology falls by the wayside.

Say his last name phonetically for extra British lulz.

Hitchhiker's Guide reference, +1.

Monsieur Jacquard frowns upon the article's shenanigans.

KellyLockhart: Just goes to show that maybe Earthlings are better at at least one thing than all those fancy, arrogant superior-acting aliens. At least we can use a computer to make a decent cup of tea without shutting doww the most powerful spaceship in the known universe.

Which is why the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation were the first up against the wall when the revolution came.

Well, i tip my hat to him for the cup holder in computers.

/ weeping this time, not facepalming
// facepalming?

Al Gore died?

Crude:Al Gore died?

Gore didn't claim to be the first to use a computer in business.

Instead, he said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Facepalming Flagella:Hitchhiker's Guide reference, +1.

that

Crude:Al Gore died?

If only we could hope for this. Rich people like Algore cannot udnerstand the problems of good American folks like us eh?

And thus began Sirius Cypernetics.....



/Share and enjoy.

Sorry Mr Bill, didn't see your post.......

Actually thought the reference was an obscure one. Hot Millions is a movie where the cleaning lady figured out how to bang the side of the multi-million dollar computer a panel pops up allowing her to heat up her tea. It also turns off the security system too. Allowing the charicter played by Peter Ustinov to steal millions.


\Hot Millions
\\ Definatly has its moments
\\\ And Karl Maulden.

Pour boiling water
over the tea
How simply and clear
can instructions be

Sad. A real pioneer.

Strangely enough, I worked with people who had worked with LEO machines (Ford in the UK bought a couple), which is where I first heard of them. Here's a book (pops) which explains more. Fascinating story.

And yes, I do work in IT.

FTA:
...noisy vacuum tubes...

Do what now?
I know 12AX7's and EL34's and 6L6GC's and the like can ROCK, but I don't think that's how they were used in computers. :P

I can't believe it. All that stuff about the LEO's history can't be true. I think they're making it up.

/Americans FTW!