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From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:06:18 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0311130004540.6494-100000@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031112204925.GH52503@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On the positive side, Australia has managed to preserve the last
> first generation computer extant anywhere (CSIRAC, built in the late
> 1940's).

Not to demean that effort, but don't the Germans have a Z4 still working
in a museum? That would mean something like 1942.

	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-12 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-11 13:18 Fred N. van Kempen
2003-11-12  1:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2003-11-12 20:49 ` Peter Jeremy
2003-11-12 23:06   ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2003-11-13  8:43     ` Jochen Kunz
2003-11-14 10:27       ` robinb
2003-11-14 14:58         ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-14 15:44           ` robinb

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