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Yeah. Yeah. If you had a small nagging suspicion that the machines are about to take over a trip to Brooks Hall here in San Francisco's Civic Center should fortify your fears here. About 125 of the nation's manufacturers have assembled their latest computers designed to replace just

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about anybody. This is a high speed paper tape communication terminal. It's designed to duplicate information that from one location to another over long distances. It operates over ordinary voice grade telephone lines. You can place a call load of paper tape or a punch card in it

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and cause the same information to be duplicated at the other end. This is the one that replaces the messenger boys. That's right. Nothing is immune from the effects of modern technology. There are computers designed to replace computers. What we are looking at here is an analog

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computer which can be combined with the digital computers which are more familiar to the general public. I'm sure into a hybrid computer system. And the analog computer gives this hybrid computer system the capability of representing the problem variables at higher rates than is currently possible on

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digital computers. Those of you who watch the election returns on Channel four last night realized that NBC through the use of computers accurately predicted the election outcomes. In most cases with only 1% of the votes counted. The R. C. A. Spectra 70 is the latest model

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of the type of computer which made that accomplishment possible. It also has numerous other applications. Computer of this kind is being used in business and government today to help control and move inventories to keep track of customer purchases in department stores and other retail stores. Keeping

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track of a const receivable to improving the banking services which are which we all are very familiar with. In addition to that it's exploring several applications in the field of medicine to assist doctors in diagnosing patients problems. There's this comforting aspect to last night's election computer

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performance. They still needed the help of ChET and David and art and jerry and Ed. So you see the computers haven't replaced the reporters yet. What? Yeah Exactly. Where I only have two. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.