16 Oct
2002
16 Oct
'02
8:31 a.m.
At 04:34 AM 16/10/2002 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
Geez. I can hardly remember what a DECsystem-10 looks like and I've got
photos! Half of Australia's red wine production over the last 10 years has
passed through my house (and me :-) so the long term memory has been
replaced with tannins....
All I can remember is a largish (blue?) slightly circular console (say 4 to
6 feet long) with switches and lights (no CRTs) and possibly a separate
room filled with valves. This would make some sense for a system installed
in the early to mid-60s.
OK super classic computer sleuths, any suggestions? My guess is that the
system is likely to be of UK origin but....
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I'd like to try to identify the first
computer I saw "in the flesh"
so to speak. This would have been 1965 or 1966 and it was at Keele
University (in the UK).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I would find this out? I've
already tried sending e-mail to the computer centre at Keele a few years
ago but didn't get very far.
Give us some physical descriptions and anything else you can remember. If
anyone can figure out what it was it will be us here.