John Backus passes away... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Mar 2007

From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
...
 Jules Richardson wrote:
   > I wonder which machine would take the prize
for the
  > most done with so little? 
I would have guessed something with plugboards for programming. 
Possibly drum-memory. 

Bletchley Bomb and/or Colossus?  Certainly the results to resources ratio 
was pretty amazingly high.