19 Oct
2007
19 Oct
'07
12:59 p.m.
On Friday 19 October 2007 15:46, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 19 Oct 2007 at 12:37, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I remember years back when some of the surplus places were selling core planes
and such, I think that they actually figured that some hobbyist was gonna
get them functional, or something. Way more of a challenge than I wanted to
take on, for sure.
I've thought much recently that it'd be cool to have one, just to have it
hanging on the wall or something. :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I'm not familiar with what happened to the
computer division with the
demise of Philco but it could be interesting to speculate as to what
would have happened to Philco computers if the Predicta hadn't killed the
company.
I've got a core plane stitting in my desk drawer from what I was told
was a Philco computer. Biggish (visible with the naked eye) core;
maybe 2K bits on the plane.