Classic Computer Question

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Wed Oct 16 08:31:00 2002

At 04:34 AM 16/10/2002 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
>
> > I'd like to try to identify the first computer I saw "in the flesh"
> > so to speak. This would have been 1965 or 1966 and it was at Keele
> > University (in the UK).
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I would find this out? I've
> > already tried sending e-mail to the computer centre at Keele a few years
> > ago but didn't get very far.
>
>Give us some physical descriptions and anything else you can remember. If
>anyone can figure out what it was it will be us here.

Geez. I can hardly remember what a DECsystem-10 looks like and I've got
photos! Half of Australia's red wine production over the last 10 years has
passed through my house (and me :-) so the long term memory has been
replaced with tannins....

All I can remember is a largish (blue?) slightly circular console (say 4 to
6 feet long) with switches and lights (no CRTs) and possibly a separate
room filled with valves. This would make some sense for a system installed
in the early to mid-60s.

OK super classic computer sleuths, any suggestions? My guess is that the
system is likely to be of UK origin but....

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