Ferranti Mercury

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> > > http://wps.com/archives/Ivall/Ferranti-Mercury-computer.jpg
> >
> > That's the same pic everyone seems to have :)
> > You've got some interesting other stuff on there, though.
>
> They're all from a book that's reasonably available:
>
> Computer Design and Hardware	Electronic Computers, Principles and Applications	T.E. Ivall	1960	Iliffe and Sons	Overview, history, direction, pictures, for tech audience, analog, digital state of the art
>
> Hmm, paste from OOo, ugly, data there. Try abebooks.com
>
> Mostly English machines, obviously. My next concentration...

Speaking of photos of old computers, I was watching Revolution OS last
night (I give it a thumbs up so far...really good history on GPL, OSS,
etc. right from the folks who started it all) and they had some nifty
pictures of the PDP-1 at MIT and other machines that I've never seen
before.  Good stuff.

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