Baby Computer, 1956 vintage

[GwydionM]

ON SHOW in London on 4 December, fresh from a debut in Paris, was a new American electronic digital computer, the Burroughs E 101. This machine is no bigger than a desk, and it is in fact operated by someone sitting at its keyboard. In size, cost and performance it fills a gap between the hand-operated, mechanical "adding machines" on the one hand, and the full-scale electronic computers on the other.

This is from New Scientist - classic articles from the last 50 years.

Seeing where we've come from gives us a better idea of where we might be going.

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An old man who lives in the UK

 

[RCorrigan]

Which looked like this!!!

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

 

[philhege]

Another one from the archives:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzet861t/id5.html

:-D

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.

 

[dilettante]

I remember using a dusty, more or less forgotten one of these in around 1973:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620_Model_I

The one I used actually had a hard drive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage#IBM_1311

As well as a card read/punch. For heavy-duty printing one punched cards and then took them over to a Model 407 Accounting Machine with an 80-80 Listing plugboard inserted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_407

 

[Sympology]

Bet they still ran faster than a P4 2.ghz running Vista



Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[gbaughma]

The console typewriter was a modified Model B1, which typed at only 10 characters per second. (This typewriter had a very 'nasty' habit of breaking off its "0" hammer and throwing it across the room in the middle of a long core dump!)

Just my 2¢
-There once was a man from Peru
Who wanted to write a Haiku
but...

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com