23 Jun
2007
23 Jun
'07
5:08 p.m.
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
My main resources have been my day job (where else do you get hands-
on experience on a $10Billion peripheral made out of largely relay logic?),
the community there and at other properties (a community which is
REMARKABLY not-web-based), and books from the 30's/40's/50's about
digital logic using relays, tubes, cryotrons, etc.
You are right, remarkably little of this is on the web.
Tim.
Tim Shoppa
wrote:
[Special-purpose industrial controllers from the past 100 years]
but that's what it's working out to), much of it is still in service,
but I can see just a few years from now that a lot of it will be gone.
Some of the more interesting military special-purpose computers
are being preserved (e.g. Norden bombsights) along with historical
context, but almost nothing else is.
Well this is clearly a problem. I consider myself to be a person
having pretty general experience with technology, and I've never even
heard of this stuff...but it sounds very interesting to me. Perhaps
what is needed is a way to "get the word out". Pictures,
descriptions, educational materials...YOU know about this stuff, but
who else does? I'd love to learn about it.