From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ats at offog.org (Adam Sampson) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:55:00 +0100 Subject: [COFF] Mercury delay lines In-Reply-To: (Dave Horsfall's message of "Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:14:55 +1000 (EST)") References: Message-ID: Dave Horsfall 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. -- Adam Sampson