From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] 70 years of commercial computing
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:44:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c318234-35f6-c3a5-ac1d-d9b32555cb7e@dotat.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210616003539.GJ23809@eureka.lemis.com>
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> Seen in my calendar yesterday:
>
> Jun 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
>
> 70 years! And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.
And the LEO computer based on EDSAC ran its first demo program on 15th Feb
1951: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
Tony.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-16 0:35 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-16 1:54 ` Peter Jeremy via COFF
2021-06-16 2:58 ` Adam Thornton
2021-06-17 13:44 ` Tony Finch [this message]
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