A man walked into a lawyer's office and inquired about the lawyer's rates.
"$50.00 for three questions."
replied the lawyer.
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asked the man.
"Yes."
the lawyer replied, "What was your third question?"
George Robert StibitzDied 31 Jan 1995 at age 90 (born 30 Apr 1904).U.S. mathematician who was regarded by many as the "father of the modern digital computer." While serving as a research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City, Stibitz worked on relay switching equipment used in telephone networks. In 1937, Stibitz, a scientist at Bell Laboratories built a digital machine based on relays, flashlight bulbs, and metal strips cut from tin-cans. He called it the "Model K" because most of it was constructed on his kitchen table. It worked on the principle that if two relays were activated they caused a third relay to become active, where this third relay represented the sum of the operation. Also, in 1940, he gave a demonstration of the first remote operation of a computer. |
