29 Nov
2001
29 Nov
'01
7 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
rganised, and doubtless some of the
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[1] The PE Digical may be one of the first hobbyist calculators
(published 1972, all built from TTL chips), but it wasn't programmable.
Stick it on the list if you like.
Got more details???
Other machines that maybe should be on the list are
Cray 1 (famous
supercomputer), CDC Cyber (or whatever the early supercomputer was
called), Inmos ITEM (transputer based machine, to remind us of a
wonderful CPU that went (almost) nowhere), Apple Lisa, Apple Mac 128,
VAX11/780
How about mine -- brings octal back to computer programing. :)
There is shortage of 12/24 bit cpu's you know.
-tony
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