23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
1:07 a.m.
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 22 Jan 2007 at 16:09, Billy Pettit wrote:
It says there that the computer used 0.4 kilowatts (400 watts) of power.
Is that right? I'm not terribly informed on how much power machines of
that type and vintage took, but it seems rather low.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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In the summer of 1961, I worked on a computer
made by CCC (California
Computer Co. ?) It used a magneto-resistive delay line for main memory.
The model number was SPEC, which stood for Special Purpose Educational
Computer. It was aimed at computer training in the military (I was in the
Army at the time). It was a small sub-desk size computer, certainly not a
mini. Only had 128 words of meory.
CCC = Computer Control Corporation? (later subsumed into Honeywell).
Sounds really close to this one:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-c.html