| Show With Let the Machine Do It By DAVE BLACKSTONE Chronicle Staff Writer It's fun to ten-digit numbers at or divide one time and to get an answer in just a second's You can do it on the Burroughs Electronic housed on the second floor of the College of THE ELECTRONIC brain has a varied according to acting director Dee Morgan of the Computer Along with saving time and Miss Morgan greatly reduces the cost on statistical questionnaire calculations on along with other on the acting director pointed departments use the mechanical brain psychology chemistry Extension radio biology just to mention a THE BURROUGHS computer is made up of six working units the basic operator's card reader and and the power supply cabinet along with the converter for numbers The decision-making the computer center official ex- compares all kinds of num multiplies and divides all kinds of number 2 Miss Morgan A magnetic drum stores up all the and the in coming out with the finished WITH THE operator's the data can be punched on made-up tapes or ready-mada The photoelectric reader a part of the is used to feed instructions into the six-unit It can also be utilized to interrupt the tabulating process to make she The converter for numbers takes the commonly used decimal system and turns it into a special numerical technique for the running of the mechanical brain called the binary coded THE POWER supply cabinet the voltage going into the This cabinet unit acts as the basic source of The Miss Morgan places the compiled data on continuous specially made up for the This is the final operation of the mechanical brain |
