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Tote Boards: The engineering of horse gambling
- Oatseller 11y agoHackaday article links to another with additional images and info. http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article020109.html http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article020109.html
- femto 11y agoATL's head office and factory used to be in Meadowbank, Sydney, a few minutes from where I grew up. The old building is still there, though ATL is not. There's lots more history and better photos than the hackaday article at the following link, written by an ex ATL employee. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/atl.htm http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/atl.htm --- Don't forget to go up one level to http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/index.html http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/index.html for a comprehensive collection of further pictures and text.
- dajohnson89 11y agoMaybe I'm missing something. How are these machines not more widely considered as one of the early examples of computers? We have Babbage's difference engine, and then usually the story goes straight to ENIAC.
- cafard 11y agoI used to know some people who had worked for American Totalisator in Baltimore. It got a somewhat later start, 1927. One of the programmers spoke of a special-purpose programming language devised there, "Totran".