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Friden EC-132 Calculator [video]
- aap_ 9y agoVery nice. I got see two of these machines as well recently. The memory is indeed quite fascinating. And I totally understand and share that guy's fascination with bringing back things from the past.
- Cieplak 9y agoPersonal favorite calculator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
- gbrown_ 9y agoWow that's really quite beautiful.
- exabrial 9y agoPiano wire for memory??? Wow the things we take for granted these days.
- stan_rogers 9y agoFor interest's sake, the EDSAC reconstruction[1] will be using taut-wire delay lines in a similar way as a replacement for the original mercury-filled tubes. We very nearly revisited the delay line "juggling" memory a while back when it seemed that magnetic bubble memory might be the solution to all of our woes. (Then flash happened.) [1]http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac/recreating-edsac http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac/recreating-edsac
- nabla9 9y agoFascinating read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
- Animats 9y agoI hate to admit that I used one of those things in college. It's a stack machine, like HP calculators.
- Quai 9y agoMan, I love personalities like Cliff Stoll's! I mean, if a person can make reverse polish notation sounds like the most interesting thing you have ever learned, they are worth listening to!