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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Names of ancient computing devices [was:  Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
Date: 09 Mar 2025 21:50:29 -0400
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:

> On 2025-03-08, Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:

  [ snip ]

>> In one of his essays, Asimov explained that he made the same error to which
>> I was responding above, that UniVac was a device with *one* *vacuum* *tube*,
>> so that he called the computer in his story "MultiVac".

> No, he called it "Multivac".  CamelCasing had yet to be invented at the time.

Well played.

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Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
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