Computers Manufactured in 1986 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Apr 2002

Hi,

"Merle K. Peirce" &lt;at258(a)osfn.org&gt; said:

You have the Kelvin?  What a lovely surprise.
             ^^^^^^
[see below...}

...
 On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Stan Barr wrote: 
...
 > Hi,
> 
> Ben Franchuk &lt;bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca&gt; said:
> > Stan Barr wrote:
>  > All of a sudden I feel _very_ old ;-(   There were no working electronic
...
 > > > computers when I was born...even
Collosus was still a few months from
...
 > > > completion....
> > 
> > Well you could go after the mechanical ones :)
> 
> Finding one here in the UK would be difficult!   We have a very nice
> string (wire, actually..) and pulley tidal computer here in Liverpool.
> It was computing tide table for countries all round the world until
> replaced by an IBM 1130.
>  
Kelvin?? Must look that one up... ;-)

I don't personally have such a thing ;-)  But Liverpool University  
have a Doodson/Lege - magnificnt beast!  See www.pol.ac.uk

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb(a)dial.pipex.com

The future was never like this!