3 Apr
2002
3 Apr
'02
6:17 a.m.
Hi,
Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> said:
Stan Barr wrote:
All of a sudden I feel _very_ old ;-( There were no working electronic
Finding one here in the UK would be difficult! We have a very nice
string (wire, actually..) and pulley tidal computer here in Liverpool.
It was computing tide table for countries all round the world until
replaced by an IBM 1130.
I remember dismantling a bomb-sight computer for parts in about 1958/9...
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
computers when I was born...even Collosus was
still a few months from
completion....
Well you could go after the mechanical ones :)