lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (09/07/84)
From: lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Steve Lionel) In one of the many responses identifying Isaac Asimov's "Franchise", Paul Summers said: "The story in question is "Franchise" by Ike Asimov." Surely anyone who is at all familiar with Asimov's autobiographical writings should know that if there's one name he absolutely DESPISES, it's "Ike". By the way, in a preface to one of the Multivac stories he relates how he came up with the name "Multivac". You see, there was this well known computer of the time called Univac, and Asimov wanted his computer to have LOTS of vacuum tubes, instead of Univac's one.... Steve Lionel ARPA: lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA UUCP: decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-orphan!lionel MCI: Steve Lionel (177-0623) "God is real unless declared integer."