2012-04-05
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photo 02:46:16
Elliott 803 computer launched, The National Museum Of Computing:
The Elliott 803 was a small computer manufactured by the British company Elliott Brothers in the 1960s. About 250 were built and most British universities and colleges bought one.
The 800 series started with the 801, a one-off test machine built in 1957. The 802 was a production model but only seven were sold between 1958 and 1961. The short-lived 803A was built in 1959 and first delivered in 1960; the 803B was built in 1960 and first delivered in 1961. Elliott subsequently developed the much faster Elliott 503 computer to be software compatible.
2011-05-27
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photo 03:05:06
A crane for book fetching at the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, University of Chicago. (via Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million “Library of the Future” at Singularity Hub, via dv at the Daily Chump).
