30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
8:17 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for old computer book
It may well be the one that Paul saw and was asking
about. But just as
another datapoint, I too remember as a kid seeing a design for a computer
that used a telephone dial for input and it was not the same one as
pictured in the ebay article that Mike pointed out.
The one I saw was more "horizontal" in appearance with the dial on top,
whereas the one on the ebay auction is more "vertical" and has the dial on
the front. I also remember that the one I had seen definitely had a lot
more components.
I think this is the one I remember seeing when I was in grade school in 1960
or 1961. It used a phone dial and relays. As I remember, the article was
in a magazine, but I cannot remember which magazine. It would have been one
of the electronic magazines of the era. Was Popular Electronics published
at this time?
Martin Marshall