|Thank you that is very interesting. | |I have looked on the 'Big List' to find the date it was first sold |but could not find it. Google only brings up pages in the French |language. Could you please give us the year? It is difficult for me to give a precise date. I don't have any manufacturing notes/schematics about this machine. Published computer lists indicate 1965. But they don't know my work. It seems that the machine began a military career, before a commercial one. (My machine has a military color, and a customs seal)And I think that the 1965 date is only for commercial use (not reserved to military).Date codes on PCBs range from 1962 to 1964. It's why I think 1964. But the machine was used for manufacturing problems debugging / ECN. 1964 may be the date of the last ECN... So the date is between 1962 and 1965.|It is tiny compared with my Germanium machine (ICT 1301) which weighs |five tons. It has the same clock speed but is quite a bit slower, so |I guess it is earlier than mine. But maybe the emphasis of the design |was miniaturisation and the designers traded speed for size. | |Roger Holmes |(Kent, England)What is the manufacturing date of your ICT 1301?I have a earlier machine from the same company SEREL, named OA-1001. Built in 1959/1960.I need to restore it. It lays on the floor (horizontal position)... The blue one here:http://pichotjm.free.fr/Serel/Photos/Photos.htmlI will start restoring next month (with the Sun!) RegardsJM PICHOT