2012-04-05
post/20501665874
quote 02:38:07
“ Seventeen 803 machines were exported to America between 1960 and 1963, where they were applied to on-line industrial process control - sometimes via the Panellit company under the badge of Panellit 609 computers. In the UK, a notable first for an Elliott 803 in 1960 was the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)’s Calder Hall atomic station project at Windscale (Sellafield). The 803 provided a 24/7 logging and alarm-scanning system for the prototype Magnox gas-cooled reactor, for what became the world’s first industrial scale nuclear power station. ”
Simon Lavington on Elliott Computers, from Computer Resurrection Issue 42.
2011-03-16
post/3901776115
quote 18:04:08
“ The last Twitter application I built was an exporter. With a single command you can dump all of your twitter messages to a text file. This can be technically done though there are some statements in the API “Rules of the Road” which suggest this might not be allowed. Which begs the question, do your own your own tweets? I’d say copy them out now while you still can. ”
Mike Verdone, in Screw Twitter (via Instapaper).
