I am a victim of the science age

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A child of the storm................
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Who needs UHF anyway?

Some helpful number cruncher in the realm produced a bit of code to go from this:
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The Snyder D-10 Directronic Indoor Antenna featured above has dial with channel 1 on it.
On June 14, 1948, Channel 1 was deleted from the FCC's allocation plan.

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1959 Hewlitt Packard Vacuum Tube Digital Divide by 10 Module
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IBM ad from the early 1950's.
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The venerable IBM System 370 computer system at NASA’s Glenn Research Center circa 1981.
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There was a time.
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