,,IBM #GJIJ
,THE ,,IBM #GJIJ WAS THE TRANSISTOR'S
ANSWER TO THE TUBE ERA3 ,,IBM TOOK ITS
#GJI VACUUM-TUBE FLAGSHIP  ITSELF THE
SUCCESSOR TO THE #GJD  AND REBUILT IT IN
TRANSISTORS SO QUICKLY THAT THE
ENGINEERS SIMPLY RENAMED THE PROJECT
#GJI-;,T1 A NAME THAT SLID INTO
8SEVEN-OH-NINETY0 WHEN SPOKEN4 ,THE
FIRST INSTALLATION WAS ,DECEMBER #AIEI2
THE RESULT WAS SIX TIMES THE #GJI'S
SPEED "<@9#AJJ ,KFLOP_/S"> AT HALF THE
RENTAL1 RUNNING THE SAME #CF-BIT
SCIENTIFIC ARCHITECTURE  AND IT USED
,STRETCH PROJECT'S ,,IBM #GCJB CORE
MEMORY TO DO IT4.<CITE3 .<,,IBM #GJIJ
AND THE BITSAVERS ARCHIVE  THE #GJI-;,T
NAMING1 THE ,DECEMBER #AIEI FIRST
INSTALL1 THE #F_/HALF-RENT FIGURES1 AND
THE #GCJB CORE.>.>
,THE MACHINE'S REAL LEGACY IS SOFTWARE4
,AT ,,MIT1 THE #GJIJ  LATER A
DOUBLED-POWER #GJID  RAN ,,CTSS "<THE
,COMPATIBLE ,TIME-,SHARING ,SYSTEM">
FROM #AIFA3 THE FIRST PRACTICAL
TIMESHARING SYSTEM1 THE ANCESTOR OF
,MULTICS1 AND THE PLATFORM WHERE ,,MAD
AND THE COMMAND SHELL ITSELF WERE BORN 
EVERY MODERN COMMAND LINE DESCENDS FROM
THE ONE ,LOUIS ,POUZIN WROTE FOR ,,CTSS4
,BATCH-WORLD SHOPS RAN ,,IBSYS ON THE
SAME HARDWARE2 THE #GJIJ WAS THE MACHINE
WHERE INTERACTIVE AND BATCH COMPUTING
FIRST COEXISTED4.<CITE3 .<,,IBM #GJIJ 
,,CTSS1 ,,IBSYS1 AND THE #GJID.>.>
,THE VOICE OF ,,HAL
,IN #AIFA AN ,,IBM #GJIJ AT ,BELL ,LABS
SANG 8,DAISY ,BELL0  THE FIRST SONG
PERFORMED BY COMPUTER SPEECH SYNTHESIS1
PROGRAMMED BY ,JOHN ,KELLY1 ,CAROL
,LOCHBAUM1 AND ,MAX ,MATHEWS "<WHOSE
,,MUSIC HAD ALREADY MADE THE #GJD
SING">4 ,ARTHUR ;,C4 ,CLARKE WAS
VISITING ,BELL ,LABS1 HEARD IT  AND A
DECADE LATER ,,HAL #IJJJ1 DYING IN
#BJJA3 ,A ,SPACE ,ODYSSEY1 SANG THE SAME
SONG AS ITS MIND WAS UNPLUGGED4 ,THE
#GJIJ IS THUS THE ONLY COMPUTER WHOSE
VOICE BECAME CINEMA4.<CITE3 .<,,IBM
#GJIJ AND ,DAISY ,BELL  THE #AIFA ,BELL
,LABS SYNTHESIS AND THE ,,HAL #IJJJ
CONNECTION.>.>
8#GJIJ0 ISN'T A NUMBER  IT'S A
PRONUNCIATION4 ,THE PROJECT WAS #GJI-;,T
"<;,T FOR TRANSISTORIZED">2 SPOKEN
ALOUD1 8SEVEN-OH-TEE0 COLLAPSED INTO
8SEVEN-OH-NINETY40 ,,IBM'S FLAGSHIP WAS
LITERALLY NAMED AFTER HOW ENGINEERS SAID
ITS PROJECT CODE OUT LOUD4
,WHERE IT SITS
,THE #GJIJ COMPLETES THE #GJA  #GJD 
#GJI  #GJIJ_/#ID SCIENTIFIC LINE  THE
LAST AND FASTEST OF THE #CF-BIT
TUBE-BORN ARCHITECTURE BEFORE
,SYSTEM_/#CFJ REPLACED EVERYTHING4 ,IT'S
WHERE THE BATCH ERA ENDED3 ,,CTSS PROVED
A COMPUTER COULD BE A ROOM YOU VISITED
OVER A WIRE1 AND THE #GJIJ WAS THE ROOM4
,CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
- .< .> ,WHAT DID 8#GJIJ0 ORIGINALLY
STAND FOR8 - .< .> ,WHAT RAN ON ,,MIT'S
#GJIJ_/#GJID THAT MADE IT HISTORIC8 - .<
.> ,WHAT CULTURAL FIRST DID A #GJIJ
PERFORM AT ,BELL ,LABS IN #AIFA8 - .< .>
,HOW DID THE #GJIJ COMPARE TO THE #GJI
IN SPEED AND COST8
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8SEVEN-OH-TEE0 BECAME 8SEVEN-OH-NINETY40
#B  "9"9,,CTSS"9"9  THE FIRST PRACTICAL
TIMESHARING SYSTEM "<AND ,,MAD1 AND THE
ANCESTOR OF THE COMMAND SHELL">4 #C  IT
"9"9SANG 8,DAISY ,BELL0"9"9  THE FIRST
COMPUTER SPEECH-SYNTHESIS SONG2 ,CLARKE
HEARD IT AND GAVE IT TO ,,HAL #IJJJ4 #D 
"9"9#F FASTER"9"9 AT ROUGHLY "9"9HALF
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