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Old 19th Jan 2007, 10:48
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New Army computer

A defence contractor finally succeeded in building a computer capable of solving the most complex army warfare problems. The top Army brass assembled around the new machine and were instructed to feed a difficult tactical problem into it. They described a complex hypothetical battle situation to the computer and then asked the pivotal question, "Should our forces attack or retreat?"



The computer hummed and beeped for about an hour, and finally printed out an answer, "Yes."



The generals stared at each other, mystified by the response.



Finally, one of them submitted a second request to the computer, "Yes what?"



The computer responded instantly, "Yes, Sir!"
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Clearly EDS were not involved in its development, or it would have said "maybe, don't know, don't care............"
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C'mon! Hands up who can remember them!

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Remember them? I'm still using one!
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Originally Posted by Saintsman
The top Army brass assembled around the new machine

Sorry couldn't resist
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Another caption competion?

Inside JPAC..........
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"A thousand monkeys with a thousand computers have a better chance of making JPA work than EDS do"
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Originally Posted by ratty1
That maybe the case but they are chimpanzees in the picture.

Takes one to know one.
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Old 22nd Jan 2007, 22:45
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Originally Posted by ratty1
Is that the best you could come up with?
It's all you're worth. I'm not going to waste my best material on you.
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Ooh cat fight! C'mon wg13, let's hear your best material. I could do with some new insults for my closest enemies!

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Originally Posted by Whirlygig
Ooh cat fight! C'mon wg13, let's hear your best material. I could do with some new insults for my closest enemies!

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I'd love to alas the Pprune police will not allow it.
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'Spose you're right. We should endeavour to maintain a military aviation context

So, tell me about your Commodore PET. You should get it on Antiques Roadshow!

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like your material boys - simple, to the point........almost monosyllabic
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So, tell me about your Commodore PET
... shouldn't that be Air Commodore PET - actually mine's all right (considering he's not a pilot) - but please don't call me PET!
..... I'll get me coat....
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Are any of the ASMA terminals about - ghastly orange, I seem to remember. They were my introduction to computers, except for having a quick go at programming a Sinclair ZX81.
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