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    Museum Switches On Historic Computer

    Hi all, I stumbled onto this article and thought maybe you guys might like it. I have very little knowledge of computers so I found this article very interesting also the link on trying to find the plans is a good read.

    BBC News - Museum switches on historic computer

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    Remember SILLIAC?

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    Mice what do you mean Mice?

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    I cans do journalism ...

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    An audience of school children were invited to the The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley to witness the event. Now aged in their early 50's, the children ... uh ... guests ... have just finished witnessing the "boot" process.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh View Post
    Remember SILLIAC?
    Yes. It was still the latest when I was studying at Sydney, and I occasionally looked in the door while walking down the corridor on the ground floor of the Physics building.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DBT View Post
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    An audience of school children were invited to the The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley to witness the event. Now aged in their early 50's, the children ... uh ... guests ... have just finished witnessing the "boot" process.

    And we bitch about modern computer boot times.

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    @sys$system:shutdown

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    Only if you still remember how that is spelled on a punchcard.

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    Sorry, not quite that old........
    Pleased to see someone else has useless DEC information still floating around in their head though.

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