[GreenKeys] Mercury delay lines

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Jun 13 00:11:45 EDT 2020


Umm, well at least there was a Teletype in frame :-)

ABC-TV "Grantchester" (a detective-priest series[*]) featured someone who 
died from mercury poisoning, when someone opened the tanks.  Apart from 
the beautiful Teletype, there was a machine with lots of dials in the 
background; obviously some early computer, but not enough footage for me 
to tell which one, but is a British show if that helps.

[*]
I suppose that I need not remind any Monty Python freaks of these lines:

"There's another dead bishop on the landing, Vicar-Sergeant!"
"Err, Detective-Parsons, Madam."

Etc...  Otherwise I'd go on all day :-)

-- Dave


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