Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/17

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: computer-designed lenses
From: Mark_Bishop@ipc.co.uk (Mark Bishop)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:43:35 +0100
 
Marc James Small wrote:
>Well, Leitz designed all Wetzlar-produced lenses from 1949 onwards by
>computer, so I seriously suspect your friend hadn't a clue as to what was
>going on 

Are you sure? 1949 was the very infancy of the computer, and its use was
confined to the military and a couple of research machines in universities. I
seem to recall as early as the late 1950s IBM predicted that, globally, there
was a market for no more than 16 computing machines ;-)