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Jay W. Forrester, Patrick Youtz, and Stephen H. Dodd examine a new computer memory tube that they developed. Original caption: "Two versions of the 400 digit 'memory' tube developed in the [illegible] Laboratory at MIT are shown here. Jay W. Forrester (right), director of the project, holds one type while Patrich Youtz (left) and Stephen H. Dodd Jr. compare it with the type mounted in the rear. The new tube, literally a storehouse for numbers, will be important in the development of computers and information-handling systems using coded data at high speeds."