Hi,
ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
> [Telephone dial]
>
> > the input. I was thinking that this would have been the perfect
> > low-tech, low-cost input device for a homebrew computer back at that
> > time.
>
> I beleive the Pilot Ace computer had a telephone dial on the operate
> console which was used as some kind of single-stepping clock. You could
> generate 1 to 10 clock pulses in the obvious way.
>
> -tony
And of course EDSAC had one as a way for the operator to input numbers
at run-time.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Wed Nov 27 2002 - 04:51:00 GMT