Looking for old computer book

[Martin Marshall]

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From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for old computer book


> It may well be the one that Paul saw and was asking about. But just as 
> another datapoint, I too remember as a kid seeing a design for a computer 
> that used a telephone dial for input and it was not the same one as 
> pictured in the ebay article that Mike pointed out.
>
> The one I saw was more "horizontal" in appearance with the dial on top, 
> whereas the one on the ebay auction is more "vertical" and has the dial on 
> the front. I also remember that the one I had seen definitely had a lot 
> more components.

I think this is the one I remember seeing when I was in grade school in 1960 
or 1961.  It used a phone dial and relays.  As I remember, the article was 
in a magazine, but I cannot remember which magazine.  It would have been one 
of the electronic magazines of the era.  Was Popular Electronics published 
at this time?

Martin Marshall