Billy Pettit real disappointment

I was thinking about mentioning some odd machines I've seen, like... analog+digital frankensteins a stored program process controller made up entirely of relays a programmable calculator that was made up entirely of relays Does the CompuCorp desktop programmable calculator with the Hollerith card reader count? Surely the HP65 does not count... How about a 6-bit computer made of transistors and programmed by plugboard? It was "homemade" and used point-to-point wiring in a steel chassis like the older TV's. Or a "tiny" 5-bit computer based on vacuum tubes that could fit in a large-ish briefcase? Or maybe a portable 4-bit computer made of vacuum tubes with a huge array of toggle switches and a tape loop in a Baudot tape reader for program store? Dunno... Probably not very on topic... == jd PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. -- E. W. Dijkstra