Feynman and Frankel were hooked. “Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about,” Feynman later explained. “The trouble with computers is you play with them.” Feynman and Frankel, joined by Nicholas Metropolis, adapted the IBM machines to accelerate the work of the hand computing group. “If we got enough of these machines in a room, we could take the cards and put them through a cycle,” explained Feynman. “Everybody who does numerical calculations now knows exactly what I’m talking about, but this was kind
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