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Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think

by Edmund Callis Berkeley

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General Organization of the Machine

The logical-truth calculator built by Kalin and Burkhart is not giant in size, although giant in capacity. Like other mechanical brains, the machine is made up of many pieces of a rather small number of different kinds of parts. The machine contains about 45 dial switches, 23 snap switches (or two-position switches), 85 relays, 6 push buttons, less than a mile of wire, etc. The lid of the metal box is the front, vertical panel of the machine.

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