16 Jun
2020
16 Jun
'20
9:21 a.m.
On Monday, 15 June 2020 at 17:38:18 +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> wrote:
That looks very much like the delay lines on CSIRAC, the oldest
Australian computer, currently on display at Scienceworks in
Melbourne. I have a number of photos of the machine at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/Photos.php?dirdate=20040904 , and
there's a delay line at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Photos/20040904/big/Delay-line-1.jpeg
CSIRAC was built in 1949. If you're in Melbourne, it's well worth
looking at.
Greg
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Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> writes:
A picture of Wilkes with some mercury delay lines and a corner of an EDSAC
rack.
https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/500004368-03-01.jpg?w=6… 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. 
