Christie's auction and other computer history events

From: Jim Beacon <jim_at_g1jbg.co.uk>
Date: Sun Feb 20 02:22:26 2005

And Colossus was mainly built of thyratrons - by a telephone
engineeer.......

Jim.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <spc_at_conman.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Christie's auction and other computer history events


> It was thus said that the Great William Donzelli once stated:
> >
> > > Without radar there would have been no electronic computers.
> >
> > I don't know about that. Certainly digital electronics got a huge boost
> > from radar technology (all those 6SN7GTs...), but I think someone would
> > have tried to get rid of relays at some point (probably the telco
folks),
> > and computers would have followed.
>
> Hmm ... Bell Labs *did* produce the transistor ...
>
> -spc (Perhaps there's some truth in that ... )
>
>
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