From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Mercury delay lines
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:14:55 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2006131413530.44790@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
ABC-TV "Grantchester" (a detective-priest series[*]) featured someone who
died from mercury poisoning, when someone opened the tanks. 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, but is a British show if that helps.
[*]
I suppose that I need not remind any Monty Python freaks of these lines:
"There's another dead bishop on the landing, Vicar-Sergeant!"
"Err, Detective-Parsons, Madam."
Etc... Otherwise I'd go on all day :-)
-- Dave
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