By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 05 September 2008
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steve brandom
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Not sure this is the oldest business computer. I used an Elliot 503 at British Steel's Operational Research centre in Sheffield in 1975. It had valve memory, a tape drum for high speed access storage (1 w/r head per track). OS and programs were loaded from paper tape. We used it for cross compiler (i.e. portable) development. It had a 39 bit word; so you could generate, ICL1900 (24 bit), IBM360/370 (32 bit), Unisys 1108 and native code!
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...
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This year was the fiftieth anniversary of Unilever...
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