On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:12:10 +0100, Peter Percival wrote:

> Bill Findlay wrote:
>>
>> Like the Raspberry Pi, but half a century earlier,
>> the English Electric KDF9
>
> I recall using one as a front end to an ICL 1904 (or 1906?) when I did
> my degree.
>
I heard about them, but did my University computing work (analysing
Mossbauer spectra) with the more or less contemporary Elliott 503,
learning Algol 60 in the process. In 1968 I started work at an ICL bureau
doing OS support, system design and programming a 1903 in PLAN and COBOL.


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