25 Aug
2011
25 Aug
'11
11:57 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2011 Aug 25, at 10:27 AM, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
Thanks! I could see that it ended in -AC but none of my guesses for the
first 4 letters came up with anything useful.
Alexey
A coworker of mine showed me this link. Whatever it is looks pretty sweet,
but I don't think I've ever seen a similar machine. Anyone know what it is?
Is it even a computer, or some sort of teletype switching office?
http://i.imgur.com/tDA3X.jpg
A little guessing and searching on the "????AC" name in the booklet in the
first photo (I thought it was just an EIMAC tube manual at first until I
noticed there were 6 characters, not 5) turned up this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRAC
The track lighting on the ceiling kind of breaks the period consistency,
otherwise a lovely display. 