On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jim Battle wrote:
> Some time back on the vintage computer marketplace
> (http://marketplace.vintage.org/), somebody listed a "dumpkopf 1"
> computer, but only the most vague information was given about it. I
> think there was some speculation here that it was maybe a hoax, and that
> no information could be found about it on the internet.
>
> I accidentally stumbled upon the machine at this web site; I suspect
> that this guy was the lister in that marketplace ad:
>
> http://community-2.webtv.net/ARCHAICAUDIO/WESTERNELECTRIC/page15.html
Yes, that is his website.
> It looks to be very interesting, perhaps significant, but certainly
> inoperable. The web page has a number of very interesting pictures of
> the computer, and says that the tubes have a 1954 date stamp on them.
>
> There are some large patch panels on the machine, so perhaps it wasn't a
> general purpose programmable computer (in fact, the name implies the
> machine isn't all that smart!)
Unfortunately, he was too smarmy to get any useful information out of.
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