> Were the CRT calculators Busicom? No, one was a Singer/Frieden, the other was something else (but I don't think it was Busicom).
> One of those was the first thing I ever programmed... Punch cards with an > instruction rate of ten per second! These weren't programmable, just add, subtract, multiple, divide, maybe a couple of other things. > I seem to recall it had a magnetostrictive coil memory, an acoustic delay > line using wire that behaves like piezo electric stuff does but with > magnetism instead. That could be - I remember the big coil of wire in the base, but didn't know enough in those days to tell the difference between magnetostrictive and torsion memory. - Cheers, John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/364912FE-E976-428E-914A-9FDF6FFF8192%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
