History of Computing exam question

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Thu Nov 29 15:00:21 2001

Tony Duell wrote:
rganised, and doubtless some of the
> <snip,cut,rip>
> [1] The PE Digical may be one of the first hobbyist calculators
> (published 1972, all built from TTL chips), but it wasn't programmable.
> Stick it on the list if you like.

Got more details???

> Other machines that maybe should be on the list are Cray 1 (famous
> supercomputer), CDC Cyber (or whatever the early supercomputer was
> called), Inmos ITEM (transputer based machine, to remind us of a
> wonderful CPU that went (almost) nowhere), Apple Lisa, Apple Mac 128,
> VAX11/780
How about mine -- brings octal back to computer programing. :)
There is shortage of 12/24 bit cpu's you know.

> -tony
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