9 Sep
2002
9 Sep
'02
6:33 a.m.
Doug Coward wrote:
http://www.nzpca.org.nz/megabyte/2001/02/art02.htm
One of the (maybe the only) remaining copy of this computer
is in the Science Museum in London. If someone gets a chance
to stop by and see this computer, I would appreciate a first
hand report and maybe,maybe,maybe a picture.
I've seen this machine in the Computing gallery of the Science
Museum. It's about six feet tall, maybe two or three feet wide
and mostly made of perspex (plexiglass) so that the internal
flow is visible. It wasn't working at the time, though.
Next time I go, I'll get a photo!
It's right next to a Classic PDP-8, the Babbage engine, an ICL 1900
and a huge hard disk drive (IBM I think) with hydraulic head
actuators. The Science Museum is that kinda place...
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John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk