Hi,
Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca> said:
> Stan Barr wrote:
> All of a sudden I feel _very_ old ;-( There were no working electronic
> > computers when I was born...even Collosus was still a few months from
> > completion....
>
> Well you could go after the mechanical ones :)
Finding one here in the UK would be difficult! We have a very nice
string (wire, actually..) and pulley tidal computer here in Liverpool.
It was computing tide table for countries all round the world until
replaced by an IBM 1130.
I remember dismantling a bomb-sight computer for parts in about 1958/9...
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 14:17:21 BST