Re: Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

Time writes:

"I am proud to announce, as your President, the goal of creating our national mechanical brain, a machine which will be built with one million relays and vacuum tubes. I am committing one billion dollars to this noble endeavour. We expect to have the mechanical brain operating by 1970." --President Dwight Eisenhower, 1958.

Uh, no. I followed science very closely during the Eisenhower administration, and I remember no mention of a "National Mechanical Brain" project. Tim is likely spoofing us again. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"