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Gene Bane ©Stars and StripesFrankfurt, West Germany, January, 1960: A technician works amid the memory units inside a Sperry Rand UNIVAC computer. The room-sized collection of consoles, spools of tape and stacks of punch cards seems primitive by today's technological standards, but was state of the art in the 1950s.

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