[mdlug] Amusing ad from the past

[Jeff Hanson]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> --- Raymond Ingles wrote:
>> <http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2009/01/youre_trying_to_divide_by_zero.php>
>
> In the same vein, here's a Remington Rand (RR) "newsreel" promo clip
> from about 5 years earlier--an interesting hardware comparison:
> "Remington-Rand Presents: UNIVAC"
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs>
>
> I just wonder how computers and computing would be different now if
> Eckert & Mauchley had NOT been put out of business (forced to sell
> UNIVAC to RR) by the HUAC/McCarthy hearings fallout...
>

Think we would be still using mercury-based storage?