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I hate stories written this way! I feel like I’m about 1/3 of the way through and it just stops. Someone had to write 800 words and, gosh darn it, exactly 800
by craz8 7y ago
I hate stories written this way! I feel like I’m about 1/3 of the way through and it just stops. Someone had to write 800 words and, gosh darn it, exactly 800 words were written
I’d love to have learned more in this story
I know people that collect PDPs, and I used to have a small collection of 80s personal computers myself.
This stuff is interesting in many ways - what word size is used? I/O, storage, core memory, valves, mercury delay lines, anything else?
These were the wild-west days of computers, and there was little in the way of standard components. But this article barely scratched the surface of what this computer has
Gives me something to do tomorrow I guess
- pmontra 7y agoThere is another short article about the Elea 9003. It's from 2015, in Italian. This is the Google translation https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.vice.com/it/article/wng98y/lolivetti-elea-9003--un-capolavoro-dellingegneria-informatica-italiana https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
- sohkamyung 7y agoMaybe it feels like it ends half way because that article is mainly about the computer historian Elisabetta Mori. See this [1] for the article she wrote on the ELEA 9003. It was also linked to in the original article. [1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-italian-computer-olivettis-elea-9003-was-a-study-in-elegant-ergonomic-design https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/th...
- davidgould 7y agoThis is a much better article.