Billy Pettit real disappointment

[woodelf]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> Has anyone ever built a spherical computer? That'd be interesting... 
> dead easy to move around, too :-)

Only the Earth... but you're not to know about that yet.

> Indeed... personally I'm a big fan of the mechanical precursors whose 
> mechanisms helped kick-start the computer age - not strictly on-topic, 
> but AFAIK there's nowhere else to discuss such things unfortunately.

Other a bit in BYTE magazine in the 70's I can't think of much
I have read on the topic.


>> Maybe we need some sort of map showing what we think is on- and 
>> off-topic...

A big Venn diagram with DEC in the middle?
Nope ... a PDP 8 for the USA. What was the most common computer in the UK
of the early 70's?