Electromechanical Pong

[Pete Turnbull]

On Sep 24 2004,  7:27, Ed Kelleher wrote:

> Is the Museum of Automata still open in York (England)?
> Fascinating place that had all sorts of mechanical marvels like this.
> I remember an archer that would pull an arrow out of his quiver,
shoot it
> at a target, then retrieve the arrow and shoot again - all
mechanical.
> Amazing stuff.

Claude's Museum of Automata - no.  Sadly, it closed after suffering
storm damage some years ago.  It was up for sale for a while, but there
didn't seem to be any takers.  I don't know what eventually happened to
the contents, but that's why you won't see it on the web :-(

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York