@RUTGERS.ARPA:brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (04/18/85)
From: brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (From the terminal of Brendan E. Boelke) A little bit more trivia - Why did Asimov name his computer Multivac?
mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (Larry E. Baker) (04/19/85)
[lll] > A little bit more trivia - Why did Asimov name his computer > Multivac? I always thought it was a pun on the original "UNIVAC." -- - Larry Baker @ The University of Texas at Austin - ... {seismo!ut-sally | decvax!allegra | tektronix!ihnp4}!ut-ngp!mercury - ... mercury@ut-ngp.ARPA
@RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:LS.SRB@MIT-EECS (04/23/85)
From: "Stephen R. Balzac" <LS.SRB%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Date: Tuesday, 16 April 1985 22:26-EST
From: brendan%gigi.DEC at decwrl.ARPA (From the terminal of Brendan E., Boelke)
To: SF-LOVERS at MIT-MC
Re: More trivia (Multivac)
A little bit more trivia - Why did Asimov name his computer
Multivac?
Because it had so many vacuum tubes of course.