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Re: PBS show is NOT historically correct!

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From: Vance Cochrane
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:20
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In article <1992Apr16.135924.15805@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

> Yes, I was annoyed that von Neumann's contributions were ignored.  But then
>what can you expect from a program that says a transistor is 100 times
>ligher than a vacuum tube -- that would give it negative weight by my
>calculations.
>
Sorry, but (+)/(+) is not < 0 !

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