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The Elliott 803 - and its whopping 4KB of memory...

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By Andy McCue

Published: 5 September 2008 14:42 GMT


Kevin Murrell, trustee at the National Museum of Computing, told silicon.com: "Most big companies that were computerised had an Elliott machine."

Generally all the work for the computer would be set up on paper tape, as seen here.

Photo Credit: Andy McCue/silicon.com


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