22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
8:24 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Al Kossow wrote:
I wonder if it's so clear-cut, though. I mean, people have managed to do
some pretty impressive stuff with some of the 80's 8 bit "home" machines
too - well beyond what anyone ever assumed was possible.
So there's a temptation to assume that the "winner" would be an older
machine (60s or 70s), but it might not be so easy as that... (although I
suppose the "rules" should confine things to official hardware
configurations only, which perhaps rules out any newer machines that
have had things like IDE hard drives added by their owners)
I would have guessed something with plugboards for programming.
Possibly drum-memory.
Peace... Sridhar
I wonder
which machine would take the prize for the
most done with so little?
In the 60's, probably the LINC
1 or 2k 12 bit words, LINCtape, typewriter, CRT, and Lab I/O
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/ijs/epl/LINC.html