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Article #1108Re: CDC slowdown / TV computers (Was: Re: Burroughs 203)
From: r... Robin Fairbairns
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 14:00
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 14:00
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In article <50...@convex.convex.com>, da...@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes: >.... Notice how many of these early >machines (like ENIAC) were used for ballistics? You speak for your own country... If one ignores the Analytical Engine (which never worked, but was intended for calculating navigational tables), and the code breaking machines built during WW II, the early machines in the UK were built for a physics research lab (Ace), and two Universities - Edsac (Cambridge) and the Manchester Mk.1. >As I understand it, the Analytical Engine would have been a digital, not >analog, machine. Correct...though I certainly wouldn't recognise it as a stable mate of the machines we have round here...! Robin Fairbairns, Laser-Scan (despite what it says in the header)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!icdoc!cam-cl!rf From: r...@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: CDC slowdown / TV computers (Was: Re: Burroughs 203) Keywords: CDC TRS-80 TV differential analyzer 3270 Message-ID: <1765@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 16 Feb 90 14:00:45 GMT References: <4815@convex.convex.com> <9651@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <5065@convex.convex.com> Sender: ne...@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: r...@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Distribution: alt Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 16 Posted: Fri Feb 16 15:00:45 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit