[inforoots] Eckert ENIAC Interview

[Barrie Robinson]

Sorry about the addressing of this missive !

I bought a USB adapter to give me more 'plugs' and the young shop clerk 
made a comment on how technology had advanced.  He thought it was 
marvellous that one could just plug into a USB.  I did not have the heart 
to tell him that this technology was used in the early 60's by Elliott Bros 
of the UK.  The computer was the 920C which allowed several CPUs, blocks of 
memory and controllers to be plugged in onto one common bus.  I believe it 
allowed hot swapping too.  It was so rugged (military) and cheap that GE 
Syracuse stopped (1968) development of their similar product


At 08:30 AM 2/15/06 -0800, you wrote:
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>http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,108568,00.html?source=x10
>is the transcript of a long ago interview with Presper Eckert on the 
>ENIAC. It was pointed to by /.
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>jay
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Regards

Barrie Robinson
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