SPEC Computer Trainer
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Mon Jan 22 18:54:07 CST 2007
On 22 Jan 2007 at 16:09, Billy Pettit wrote:
> In the summer of 1961, I worked on a computer made by CCC (California
> Computer Co. ?) It used a magneto-resistive delay line for main memory.
> The model number was SPEC, which stood for Special Purpose Educational
> Computer. It was aimed at computer training in the military (I was in the
> Army at the time). It was a small sub-desk size computer, certainly not a
> mini. Only had 128 words of meory.
CCC = Computer Control Corporation? (later subsumed into Honeywell).
Sounds really close to this one:
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-c.html
Cheers,
Chuck
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