30 Dec
1998
30 Dec
'98
3:18 a.m.
Hi Doug,
At 01:49 AM 12/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
In any case, here's a picture of Simon, the first
personal computer from
~1950:
http://www.yowza.com/classiccmp/berkeley/simon.gif
Very interesting. Are the approx. 6 rows X 20 "modules" relays? Looks
like
something that could be built without too much difficulty.
I assume you have it to have made the scanned image. Have you powered it?
-Dave
30 Dec
30 Dec
6:51 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, dave dameron wrote:
Very interesting. Are the approx. 6 rows X 20 "modules" relays? Looks
like
something that could be built without too much difficulty.
I assume you have it to have made the scanned image. Have you powered it?
I don't have one, and I don't hold out much hope of finding one. The
scans are from a 1956 report from Edmund Berkeley on the status of
Berkeley Enterprises computer and robot products and projects.
Simon is relay-based and includes a paper tape reader. Plans to build it
as a kit were published, but I don't have a copy yet.
-- Doug
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