On 5/6/2020 10:29 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: "Achieving > Accuray: A Legacy of Computers and Missiles", by Marshall William McMurray. > > The first couple of chapters merely re-tell the story of earliest computers > (pre-elecronic and electronic), up through the IBM 701, Elliott 401, NCR 304, > SAGE, CDC 6600, IBM 7090, etc. Competent, but nothing special. Then it > gets interesting, though. > > Chapter 4 is "Small Magnetic Drum Computers of the 1950s", and it covers a > bunch of machines I'd never heard of: JAINCOMP B-1 (!), MONROBOT III (!!), > CADAC 101, 102 (!!!) and on and on. >
I have the paper tape reader off of a Monrobot, IIRC. Not sure which generation. JRJ
