14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
10:20 a.m.
Jason McBrien wrote:
What about magnetostrictive delay line memory? Output
could be a typewriter
rigged up to solenoids, though I'm not sure when solenoids were invented -
I've found companies that have been producing them since 1918. They're easy
enough to build.
Post WWI seems to be about the right age, for computers could have been built.
I even have the right USE ... computing for building bigger ships for the Navy.
Forget why computers were developed after WWII, this is historical fiction.