Doomsday Computers, 1950s-1960s


Doomsday Computers, 1950s-1960s

BIOGRAPHY

Zebedee B. Armstrong was born in Thomson, Georgia, in 1911. He attended school through the eighth grade, then in 1929 he married, eventually raising two daughters. For most of his adult life, Armstrong worked as a cotton picker on the same large farm where his father had worked, but after the death of his wife in 1969 and until his retirement in 1982, he worked at the Thomson Box Factory. In 1972 he had a vision about the end of the world, after which he began building computational devices and elaborate calendars in order to calculate the exact date of the Final Judgment. Using his understanding of the passage and direction of time, he also came up with a number of savings and investment schemes designed to make it possible to profit from such knowledge. Armstrong died in 1993.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.