On 17/05/2018 10:33, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2018 09:02:19 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Well, is not ICL now part of Fujitsu?
There are still a lot of old mainframes etc floating about in museums,
though whether any work or can be used to demonstrate anything is
debatable.
Brian

There's a working Elliott 803 at NMoC, and they have a 2966 almost
working - won't be long now.

First flow diagram I ever wrote was coded up to run on an 803. To do,
potentially, a brute force attack on Fermat's last theorem. A guy from
Distillers in Burgh Heath gave a talk at our 6th form science club (mid
60's) and got us to do flow diagrams which he coded up, and brought back
the results a month later. Mine was one of the few that ran (sort of)
correctly. Except that it found 5, 12, 13 *and* 12, 5, 13. My coding
improved somewhat after that.

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