Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[stanb45@dial.pipex.com (Stan Barr)]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:00:04 +1100, Ross Simpson <yeah_whatever> wrote:
>
>I downloaded the Life, Invaders & Pong which are all just non-playable
>demos, I'll have a look Towers of Hanoi Puzzle & see if that's playable. I
>see this machine had what appears to be a dialer, I wonder if that's
>programmable, so that when pressed it could do something.
>

The dial can be used for inputting numbers at run-time - see the tic-tac-toe
program (called OXO) for code.

>I'm still a very long way off knowing how the EDSAC language works. :-( But
>still I could have a read about it.

It certainly takes a bit of getting used to!
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