At 03:23 AM 18/10/2002 -0700, Brian Chase wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
>It wasn't a Lyons' LEO, was it? http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/
Well the photographs of the console could match with a slightly faulty
memory. I've had a look at the list of LEO sites and Keele doesn't appear -
what's scary are the number of sites here in Melbourne (Australia)! At this
stage a LEO would have to be a "possible" but somewhat unlikely choice. I
would have thought that a University would buy a "scientific" rather than a
"commercial" computer.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
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Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 09:20:01 BST