[GreenKeys] paper tape variants

[Chris Elmquist]

On Wednesday (08/12/2009 at 02:05PM -0500), Randy and Sherry Guttery wrote:
 
> http://tendertale.com/tttj/tttj2-5.html         3rd picture down the 
> right-hand side - Verdan test bench.
> 
> For the curious - scroll on down and check out the technology of the 
> 1950s -- the U.S. Navy's *first* deployed fully solid-state system.  
> Yes, compared to today's computers -even a pocket calculator is far 
> faster, etc. - BUT - even today - a standard (all) digital computer 
> cannot do what these machines did (and still do - there are still some 
> in use). It was their analog "capacity" that made it possible... and 
> that is what is so staggering.

Very impressive and thanks for the link on that!

Amazing to see what appears to be the rough equivalent of a 5.25" hard
drive in the Verdan.  The rest of us didn't see such a thing until,
what, 25 yrs later?

Pretty cool.

Chris N0JCF

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Chris Elmquist