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Doug Winterburn

wrote:
On Apr 12, 12:18 pm, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:18:42 -0500, Morris Dovey wrote:
You're right - I went digging and found that there had been a /Minnow/
R/O floppy drive with diminished capacity released in 1972. I'm guessing
it was an early /Igar/ prototype.
I'm beginning to wonder how many old computer jocks and card pushers
there are in this group :-). Is there some mystical connection between
computers and woodworking?

Not so much computers and woodworking, I think, rather electronics and
woodworking. I noticed a correlation some time back (maybe it's just
that design is design - doesn't matter much what). Computers, to me,
were just a way to get paid to design circuits. ;-)

I was in the computer software development/support side, but I did
design & build most of my ham radio gear - vacuum tubes no less.

BTW, to see the 1st computer I programmed (and helped assemble) go to:

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61.html#TOC

and click on Readix. I worked on one at Science Research Associates in
the late '50s.

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw