Monroe electromechanical calculators

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> > > So far I've found an acorn jamming up the works (!!) and lots of dirt,
> >
> > An Acorn... What, a System 1, or an Atom, or a Beeb or an Arch, or what...
> >
> > (sorry, couldn't resist...)
>
> :-)
>
> I have no idea how it got in there; there isn't really a sufficient gap
> anywhere for such a thing to fall inside. And it was *very* well buried
> inside the mechanism (almost as though someone stuck it in there for
> fun!)

Well, obviously a squirrel stored it there and then forgot where he left
it!  Happens all the time.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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