Oldest machine (was: Re: Good haul of old pc stuph)

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Oldest machine (was: Re: Good haul of old pc stuph)
>   From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
>   Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:57:11 +0000
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Allison wrote:
>>> Subject: Oldest machine (was: Re: Good haul of old pc stuph)
>>>   From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
>>>   Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:26:08 +0000
>>>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>>>
>> 
>> PDP-8F manufacture date 1973. Running!
>
>That's what we like to hear! :)
>
>> However will the owner of that nice looking PB250 step up.. he's back around 1961.
>
>Ahh, that's earlier than our Marconi TAC then (1963 IIRC, although designed in 
>the late 50's).
>
>Not sure what we have that's earlier and qualifies. The Elliott 803 is late 
>1950's (1958 I think) but has a core fault so doesn't count as working until 
>someone finds the time to fix it! It's probably the earliest complete machine 
>that we have though; prior to that we just have small bits of some of the 
>earlier famous* machines.

Whirlwind, SAGE, IBM, Univac, SperryRand Frieden are names that come to mind.

from the time orf Eniac to 1960 there were a great number of companies and 
machines some quite unique other more functional.  The IBM 500 and 700 series
are examples of the latter.  


Allison