Australia's oldest computer turns 60!

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:46 pm    Post subject: Australia's oldest computer turns 60! Reply with quote

I've got to go and see this some time...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/25/2752781.htm?section=justin
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"It consisted of nine cabinets, which are about seven foot high and about a very fat person's width, and there was a console and the computer was driven," he said.


LMAO its always fun to measure things in the dimensions of fat people LOL

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, maybe he should have said "it is about the height of a very, very tall basketballer and the width of a very fat person" just to keep it consistent
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