Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

["Ross Simpson" <yeah_whatever>]

"Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message...

> > History in Science more relevant that History of Computers. I tend to
enjoy
> > history a bit as I think of myself as ol' fashioned. Would you have
> > knowledge of the Harvard Mark I, ENIAC, EDSAC or UNIVAC I? I know I'm a
> > little rusty on the last 3 computers! :-)
> >
> If you have access to use a Mac or PC, you can get an EDSAC emulator
> at:
>
> <http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/>

No DOS version :-(

Oh well, I'm downloading the Windoze 6.02 version anyway.

> You can learn the simple assembly language and write a few programs
> for this one...

Looks interesting. Any games been written for it? Oh Geez now I see. There's
nothing but games written for it! :-) Even my Invaders idea has been done.

> Also, Al Kossow has a *book* on how to use of the Harvard Mark I
> on his web site as an Acrobat (.pdf) file. You can download it at:
>
> <http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/harvard/MarkI_operMan_1946.pdf>
>
>
> It is a "Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Control
> Calculator"...but it is on the order of 40 or 50 megabytes in size.
> (Finding a Havard Mark I to program is left as an exercise for the
> serious student.  ;-)

Now, that's a system I'd like to see a game for! ;-)

Ross.