[COFF] Music!
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Feb 11 14:20:46 AEST 2023
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023, steve jenkin wrote:
> In 1996, a Unix conference in Melbourne had a visit to the reconstructed
> first (valve) computer in Australia, CSIRAC.
[...]
> Can’t find a reference to that now :(
>
> Dave Horsfall, IIRC, was at that event & knows radio.
> Might correct my recollection.
My ears are burning :-)
No. I don't recall that, but I may have written about it in AUUGN (I wrote
heaps of articles in those golden days).
I do recall a visit to KRE's machine room, though; the PIN for his machine
room was "1428" (the first four digits of the fractional part of 22/7, of
course).
I don't recall going to Monash, though; umm, remind me? The bloke with
the TTY driver hangup? He spoke at a few AUUGs.
> CSIRAC is the only pre-1950 computer in the world to be preserved. All
> others were broken up for scrap - their useful life over.
Sacrilege...
> IIRC, the console of the Manchester Mk 1 was found near a railway line,
> used as part of a retaining wall.
Heh :-) I'm currently writing an emulator for that thing (just for fun, of
course); now, where the hell can I find some sample programs to verify the
thing?
-- Dave (VK2KFU for the radio bit)
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