[COFF] Mercury delay lines

Adam Sampson ats at offog.org
Sat Jun 13 23:55:00 AEST 2020


Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> writes:

> Apart from the beautiful Teletype in the foreground, there was a
> machine with lots of dials in the background; obviously some early
> computer, but not enough footage for me to tell which one,

There are some shots in this trailer:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQmO2fC00E

The racks are mockups (there's a nice National HRO radio in the middle
of one!), but I think what they're trying to represent is the EDSAC
computer at Cambridge; the noughts and crosses game pictured ran on
EDSAC.

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>


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