A new automatic translation machine, designed to translate German and English into Japanese has been demonstrated by its inventor, Professor Katsuo Ohno of
So, 50 years ago this year, starts a story in Electronics Weekly's edition of September 28th 1960.
The story continues:
This machine, the first of its kind, was completed at a cost of $27,775 (£9,920 approx). It will translate an average sentence in 30 seconds.
The machine contains 1,500 transistors and 18,000 diodes and is capable of translating 200 words.
So how does the Japanese translation stack up against the likes of Google translate and other machine translation tools?
Asia Translate: The story is 50 years old - from an Electronics Weekly edition of September 1960. So the machine mentioned in it doesn't stand comparison with Google today.
Those were the days - 2.8 US$ to the UK£ !!!