At 09:06 AM 17/10/2002 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>Do you mean the main chassis had rounded corners? Could it perhaps have
>been a Packard Bell?
>
>http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-0740.jpg
>http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/pb250.jpg
>
>That is a picture of a Packard Bell PB250. Here is more info:
>
>http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-p.html#PACKARD-BELL-250
Well we can eliminate these as well (progress for sure). What I was trying
to get at (and obviously explaining badly :-) was that the main console for
the system was a large desk like affair with lights and switches with
either end being either curved or in a curved shape. Using (poor) ASCII art:
----------------------------
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
As I said, I'm not sure if it had "hard" corners or whether they were
rounded off somewhat.
I've spent quite some time web browsing and the photos of early Ferranti,
Marconi or ICT (ICL) that I've found don't match my recollections. I'm
still working on the premise that at that time a UK university would have
bought British (and at that time there was probably no good reason not to).
For an interesting history of British early Computers have a look at
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html#TOC
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