Telephone dials on consoles [was Re: 8 bit vs other Computers.]

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_aconit.org>
Date: Fri Nov 29 03:49:00 2002

Tony Duell wrote:
> [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.

I'm not sure abut the Pilot ACE. The picture I have does not have the
resolution to show if there is a telephone dial on the console. I do
however know that the DEUCE, developed from the Pilot ACE and ACE did
have a dial.

ISTR that the Ferranti Pegasus has one also, and the EDSAC as has
already been mentioned.

  -- hbp
Received on Fri Nov 29 2002 - 03:49:00 GMT