admin 21 Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 What in the 18th century, operated by reading data from programs written on removable media? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian D 0 Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Would these be lace machines, reading punched cards (rather like a Jaquard loom)? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
admin 21 Posted December 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Well that did not take long :D Thanks Brian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Posted on Dec 17 2004, 11:36 PM Well that did not take long Thanks Brian. :D Well don't i get a go then :o Bl@@dy hell Brian that was quick are you on Broardband :D :D :D :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian D 0 Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Yes - we do have that in Derbyshire, you know................ AS an aside, in my first job I actually got a Power Samas punched card sorting machine to function and sort the cards - never found out what it was used for, though.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
admin 21 Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 We could do with some images posting, so visitors from abroad know what were talking about? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 :D Powers-Samas Card Punch 1954 Powers-Samas Ltd., United Kingdom Following business disagreements with Herman Hollerith, the US Census Bureau hired engineer James Powers to build punched card equipment for the 1910 census. Remington Rand acquired Powers’ company in 1924 and competed directly with IBM, Hollerith’s successor company. In the United Kingdom, Powers-Samas equipment was known commonly by the nickname “Acc and Tab,” an abbreviation for Accounting and Tabulating. It captured about fifty percent of the British market against their primary rival, British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM), which was licensed to provide IBM products. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 B) Also this one B) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 We could do with some images posting, so visitors from abroadknow what were talking about? Sorry Mick2me I still dont know what you're talking about Quote Link to post Share on other sites
admin 21 Posted December 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 Lace Machinery Caz :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
angi 3 Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 When I left school I went to work at the Co-op in the check office on Chaucer st we used to do the divi(remember that) and it was all done on Powers machines .punch card,sorters and tabulaters.Then I went to work at the naafi and we used Hollerith machines there.I've also used IBM. I could blind you with science about it all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Surly this is one of the first computers. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,281 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Decades ago i read a SF book about a space exploration that went wrong when the computer failed. They eventually got home by making several abacus boards and working as a team, they were able to compute and plot a successful course. So maybe the centuries old abacus was the first computer?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Not a Nottingham computer, but an early one. We have come a long way since then. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 You now have 100s of times computing power on you lap top than that monster had. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bing 78 Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 The first computer I worked on was an ICL 1903A at Plessey at Beeston. It had 32k of main memory (that's 32k not 32M or 32Gig) and when the executive program had been loaded in from paper tape it only had 28k of memory for programs to run. Disc drives were huge and took two hands to carry them safely and stored 8 meg each. The last time I saw one was in the Science Museum in London! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 What year and department would that be Bing? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bing 78 Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 1969. We were in Pollard's Palace. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 M Block, I worked in there from 65-68 , and again from 85-95. All gone now. Flattened to make a car park. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bing 78 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Sic transit gloria mundi. It's the pension from those days that keeps me in my old age. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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