1 Dec
2014
1 Dec
'14
12:49 a.m.
On 2014-Nov-30, at 11:07 AM, Ian S. King wrote:
I would vote for the Whirlwind. In addition to an
interesting
architecture, the machine has a fascinating history! -- Ian
It's one of my favorite early machines too. It was just so far-looking in objective.
While all the other first-generation machines under construction at the time -
state-of-the-art themselves - were intended for number-crunching applications in what
would become batch-processing, Whirlwind was leap-frogging them by 10-15 years in vision,
targetting real-time simulation with human interaction.
One of the SAGE blockhouses should have been kept intact with the full & functioning
equipment installation.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Dave G4UGM
<dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
I would say that in the US you have CHM and the
LCM which exhibit working
mainframes. There are also MARCH and the New Jersey (I think) Museums which
show working machines. In the UK several working exhibits have been
"mothballed". The Science Museum has discontinued Pegasus demos, my project
to restore some of the Pegasus i/o equipment at MOSI has been suspended,
and
the Hartree Differential Analyser is to be removed from display. Personally
I would rather that money was expended on keeping real mainframes running
rather than building replicas,
I also note that the Baby Replica at MOSI is now around 16 years old, it
first ran in 1998. Its almost an artefact in its own right...
Dave Wade
G4UGM
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be. -----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent
Hilpert
Sent: 30 November 2014 07:48
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: EDSAC lives
So, we have the ABC, Colossus, Manchester Baby, and now the EDSAC.
Anyone for the ENIAC? Univac I? IAS machine? Whirlwind?
How come 3 of the 4 are in Britain?
On 2014-Nov-29, at 9:12 PM, John Foust wrote:
> The National Museum of Computing unveils EDSAC re-creation:
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30131447