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Roosevelt College. Abba Lerner with a Phillips Moniac, 1951

I’ve got to crow. Recently entertained a group of students visiting Berlin from Roosevelt University in Chicago and was given a nice picture book about the history of their university in which there was a picture of Abba Lerner with the analogue Phillips Moniac computer. When I googled to find out whether that Moniac was still somewhere at Roosevelt, I stumbled upon an eBay ad for the photograph distributed with the article (link below) published December 7, 1951 in the Sarasota Herald Tribune. For $25 plus postage I scored an original glossy print of the picture seen in this screenshot from Google news, Abba P. Lerner with his Robot Professor.

1951_11_ScreenshotMoniac

 

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