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fotthil&y, Janusty S6. i&Ss THE keiteimT PLAnmextra Pa$» NEW ELECTRONIC "BRAIN' ^ '•'V^ *< ', " " 'V O*5^* illc-j.r ~ « 1 i | .i ' |. l|.i}.! {• .;»ii..{.• ;• 4^ .• }• ft .ji.$. -X"!^ RICfSMOND-BtJRTON (Continued from Page 14) fore the championship js decided in mid-February. Richmond lost their first game of the campaign to Clinton, but since have won nine straight. Southern Regional Steadings Tuesday (Morning Richmond ' 9 i Genoa City 8 2 Clinton 8 2 North Boone ' "6 4 Walworth' 6 4 Williams Bay 6 4 Sharon , 3 7 Palmyra 2 & College High 2 8 Darien 0 10 An "electronic brain" has started to prepare the bills of Commonwealth Edison company, Willis Gale, chairman, has announced. Ite .Ailed in the Edison building 72 West Adams street, the large-scale computer is the first of its kind in Chicago and the first to be put in service by a public utility anywhere. The machine will gradually take over the job of billing more than a million Chicago customers and doing the related bookkeeping work. The computer is expected to be issuing all the Chi- ^go electric bills, by next Au- In 1957, it will also take Over the job of billing approximately 800,000 customers in the Public Service company division outside the city. i-. Although the big computer la called a "brain," it cannot really think. It can only handle data which people feed it, and it must be given very detailed instructions. There are 85,000 different mstructions just to tell the ma- [ chine how to figure bills and' { process accounts. | On the other hand, the machine i is phenomenally fast. In one minute it can read the equivalent of a dozen full-length novels or do a quarter of a million add-orsubtract problems. Unlike the human brain, the computer is sensitive |.o changes in temperature and humidity. It must be operated at temperatures ranging between 60 and 80 degrees in a relative humidity of 40 to 60 per cent. Officially named "the IBM-702 Electronic Data Processing Machine," the "computer weighs over 20 tons and consists of thirtyfive separate units. The .heart of the machine is an arithmetical and logical unit that does the figuring and a bank of cathoderay tubes which remembers the answers. The memory tubes look like little television tubes. Other units include an operating console, where the operator sits, card readers, punches, printers, and fourteen units which hold rolls of magnetic tape. £ This magnetic tape is similar I to the type used in home-record-! i n g d e v i c e s . A l l o f t h e i n f o r m a -j tion about the accounts will be recorded on magnetic tape, In-1 eluding the name, address, ac-j count number, credit status and, d a t a u s e d t o c a l c u l a t e b i l l s . T h e j t a p e w i l l e v e n c a u t i o n t h e m e t e r j r e a d e r I f t h e r e ' s a d o g t h a t b i t e s , j The 702 performs thirty-two' s e p a r a t e o p e r a t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g j reading, writing, comparing and' c o m p u t i n g m a t h e m a t i c a l p r o b - j l e r t i s I n i t s m e m o r y t u b e s i t c a n j store 10,000 criirrerent letters and I numbers. It will remember past bills, and if the on£„ being figured ! seems unreasonable, the computer will tell the operator. | The operator sits at the con-; sole and by watching lights on aj panel, he can tell what the ma-' chine is doing. If necessary, he j can instruct the machine by typing special messages on the console keyboard. E v e n t u a l l y C o m m o n w e a l t h plans to use the computer to prep a r e p a y r o l l s f o r i t s 1 6 , 0 0 0 e m - j p l o y e e s a n d t o i s s u e d i v i d e n d i checks to its 139,000 stockholders'] Rockets Trounoe Sharon 82-54 Last Friday night the Richmond Rockets defeated ^ weak Sharon, Wis., team by" 'a' onesided score of 82-54, with the regular five playing just over eight minutes. Coach Ned Morgensen used fifteen players trying to hold the score down, but his second and third stringers provided plenty of action so there wasn't too much need of playing his regulars after they had a rugged three days in the Mctfenry county tournament the same week. Clinton was defeated the same night by an improved Capron team by two points. By losing, Clinton dropped into second place behind the Rockets so the local boys are out in front of the Suthern Regional by one full game now and just four g&ihes to go in conference play. Tfils win was the Rockets' ninth win in ten starts in conference, play and their twenty-third win out of twenty-four in conference pl&y over a two-year period. Twelve players entered in the scoring* column to help defeat NAVE YOtm ON THE m 1 BOBBIN imnOTxrj +ef you goiound ro PA* RUFFED GROUSE Ruffed grouse, rated among the finest of upland game birds, were once plentiful in Illinois, But have long been practically extinct. The state Department of Conservation recently purchased 42 of these birds, trapped wild in ^^isconsin, and turned them out ja the Shawnee National forest in southern Illinois. It is hoped they will multiply and provide an added attraction of- the woods in that area. ' a COMPANY SALES Record breaking sales for the thirteenth consecutive year for National Tea company were revealed when H. V. McNamara, president, announced an all-time high in sales volume for the year of 1954 totalling $575,585,- 266. 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The young Rockets also had an easy time of ft when Coach Norm Patton used seventeen players to overpower the junior Panthers *6-34. <3 Rockets (82) L. Miller Gunderson B. Miller fChristensen Jarrett Schmitt .Wagner Buchert Dave Harris Huff Arseneau Swartzloff Shaw Don Harris , Totals Ranthers (54) Lubis Hanna Naber Anderson Calkins . Brunner Schuld Devine Ferguson Totals Rockets Panthers F 6 0 2 4 2 4 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 29 26 21 B F P 1 0 3 X 0 2 10 0 1 7 0 0 2 B 3 5 2 5 5 1 2 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 . 0 5 2 1 .1 2 to have more support from the local fans as rooters. This Sunday night the Zephyrs will be playing the famous pop House Five from Beloit and the preliminary game will be started by 7:30. Let's see if some of you basketball fans could come out and see a real good game played under the college rules. The scoring for the Zephyrs was divided up between, all ten playfers who saw action and the high-point man was Jimmy Judson, who is one , of the fastest players and finest shots in this area. 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