13 Jun
2020
13 Jun
'20
1:55 p.m.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> 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.
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Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>