Topical Guide 374
Mark Dorset
Gadgets: Electronic: Computers: UNIVAC 1
AFTER A POSTWAR SLUMP, the demand for slide rules began to pick up, and Edwin Berwick asked Lorna to return to work. At about the time when she began her new duties as supervisor of the cursor department at Hargrove Slide Rules, technology took another step toward the slide rule’s eventual obsolescence when the first programmable computer — that is, the first computer that could store a program in its memory — became operational: UNIVAC 1.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 17
Studebakers
During the dozen years or so after Bert and Ella and I left, Herb and Lorna had a new car nearly every year. They owned a 1949 Land Cruiser, a bullet-nosed 1950 Commander Regal DeLuxe convertible, a 1952 Commander State Starliner hardtop, a beautiful white 1953 Commander Starliner hardtop, a 1955 President State hardtop, a 1956 Golden Hawk, a 1958 Commander Provincial station wagon, and a 1960 Lark VIII DeLuxe convertible.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 17
Foreshadowing
Piper Poker survived the war, at least in the Spotters Club. The Spotters continued to meet weekly, at the home of a different member each week. … Piper Poker was the only game the Spotters played — until they began playing the stock market.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 17
See also: Foreshadowing TG 63; TG 84; TG 127; TG 128; TG 140; TG 142; TG 147; Gadgets, Electronic TG 83; TG 84
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