The Leo III control desk had some interesting shapes, but I don't think
it's what your talking about either.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
> 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
>
> Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
> | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
> | air, the sky would be painted green"
>
>
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Shady Lea, Rhode Island
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