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                          the whirlwind
            
                
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         . The Whirlwind Computer, an early "real-time"  .
         . computer at Lincoln Lab that gave operators   .
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         . a shrunken head, and other "experimental      . 
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    ooo ooooo  ooo o o o        Paper tape from the Whirlwind
    oo  oo o oooooooooo oooo    (provided by The Computer Museum).
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