28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
4:02 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Has anyone ever built a spherical computer? That'd
be interesting...
dead easy to move around, too :-)
Only the Earth... but you're not to know about that yet.
Indeed... personally I'm a big fan of the
mechanical precursors whose
mechanisms helped kick-start the computer age - not strictly on-topic,
but AFAIK there's nowhere else to discuss such things unfortunately.
Other a bit in BYTE magazine in the 70's I can't think of much
I have read on the topic.
> Maybe we need some sort of map showing what we
think is on- and
> off-topic...
A big Venn diagram with DEC in the middle?
Nope ... a PDP 8 for the USA. What was the most common computer in the UK
of the early 70's?