27 Nov
2002
27 Nov
'02
4:51 a.m.
Hi,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
[Telephone dial]
And of course EDSAC had one as a way for the operator to input numbers
at run-time.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
the input. I was thinking that this would have
been the perfect
low-tech, low-cost input device for a homebrew computer back at that
time.
I beleive the Pilot Ace computer had a telephone dial on the operate
console which was used as some kind of single-stepping clock. You could
generate 1 to 10 clock pulses in the obvious way.
-tony