Vintage Computer shown on Green Acres?

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Thu Apr 15 12:25:35 2004

>>>>> "ben" == ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca> writes:

 ben> Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> Based on what I saw last night it looked like three tape drives, a
>> card sorter and either a typewriter or a terminal of some sort.
>> I'm guessing the gear was from the 50's. There was no sign of an
>> actual CPU. No idea who the manufacturer was, those tape drives
>> were rather interesting looking.

 ben> Still you can still find tape drives being used with recient TV
 ben> too. While visting somebody, they were channel clicking and
 ben> Tape Drive flashed by. It think it was part of some sort of
 ben> police computer.

I still remember the opening shot on "3 days of the Condor" with a
PDP-8 busily spinning its DECtapes...

      paul
Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 12:25:35 BST