9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
4:18 p.m.
Tony wrote....
To see if anything has been modified, to see which way up a part goes,
how a cable should be routed, that sort of thing.
Hmmm... As a general point here, I'm a little
fed up with classic
computer websites that show a front view of the machine and little more.
OK, perhaps I use the web a little differently to most people, but when I
do a search on some classic computer, I normally know what it looks like,
I've got one in front of me :-). Pictures of the insides would be a lot
more use.
If you've got one in front of you, why do you need pictures of the
inside? Also old books on computing (that were current
when they were published).
Things like 'Automatic Digital Computers' (M V WIlkes) 'We built our own
computers' (the exploits of some schoolboys making relay logic machines),
etc.
Absolutely! I assume you'd be willing to enter those books into the site
and
post a word or two about them ;) Don't assume everyone, or everything, is in
the States :-). Make it
possible to include stuff in other countries too.
Oh, I assure you, the focus is
not just US based. But thanks for the
reminder!