By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 05 September 2008
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Name
Rog
Location
Hants
Occupation
IT Consultant
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What a blast from the past !
I can recall "playing" with an old 803 in my formative IT years as an Operator working at Keele Uni - messing about with the instruction set and the mag film to program tunes on the console speaker etc. or line printer "pictures".
Our main system then was the Elliot/NCR 4130 with 64K memory which filled a cab 6'x6'x3'....
We used to keep our fish & chip dinners warm in the similar sized cab housing PSU transformers while we changed mag tapes of loaded card decks.
'Elf & Safety'?!
I remeber seeing one of these in operation in the ...
R. Mark Clayton
What a blast from the past !
I can recall "pl...
Rog
Sorry, the Joe Lyons LEO ran its first business pr...
Richard Sarson
I programmed these in 1962. The basic memory was n...
Brian Boutel
Not sure this is the oldest business computer. I u...
steve brandom
I too started my programming career on one of thes...
Ian Beaty
My grandfather worked on the development of this a...
Anonymous
This year was the fiftieth anniversary of Unilever...
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