there was a time when people called things “X-atron” unironically
51 years ago:
In 1948, Sheraton was the first to use the telex system for a reservations network. In 1958, it introduced Reservatron, the industry’s earliest automated electronic reservation system, which made Sheraton the first hotel chain to centralize and computerize reservations.
I always get a kick out of this entrance across the street from my department. I am told it is some antiquated particle accelerator.
(Update: But I’ve never actually been inside the building, so it’s conceivable that it houses any one of these things instead.)
