Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:07:52 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199512280707.JAA09424@grumble.grondar.za>
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wrote: > Mark Murray wrote in message ID > <199512210717.JAA28301@grumble.grondar.za>: > > Ollivier Robert wrote: > > Er, neither, but I would give my eye teeth to have a good look at either. I > > have read a bit about the Bletchley Park (sp?) machine, and the mother of a > > good friend of mine worked there during the war. > > Just FYI, Bletchley Park (sp again :-) ) is now open as a museum and I > believe they are trying to restore the machine that they used to crack > the ENIGMA code to working order! That would be interesting to see. WOW! I was in London in 1990, and had a looong look at the computer section in the Science Museum. I have a photo of a reconstruction of Babbage's Difference Engine, the first in my collection of bits of computer history. Its getting bigger, but not more prestigious - I need things like Grace Hopper's first Bug from the Smithsonian, and so on. In my museum of computer hardware, I have a Commodore PET, original model, still in working order. Chiclet keyboard, cassette tape and all! Heck, this computing giant has 3k of ram! I believe it was powerful enough to calculate the moonshots, but was a little slow after a while - hence the move to something about as fast as three Commodore 64's. (Anybody in ZA reading this who has bits of historical hardware they want to unload - please give me a shout - I am keen!) M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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