nige the hippy
June 19th, 2008, 03:10 AM
link to the BBC of "god save the king "(he was on his last legs), "baa baa black sheep" & "in the mood".
recorded in the autumn of 1951 from a Ferranti Mark One.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458479.stm
And a picture of a Ferranti mark one being made.
I was really pleased to find this, because I used to work here!!!
As far as I can see it's the building that's now the modelmaker's workshop at Siemens Measurements in Manchester, it's the only bit of the original factory still (hopefully) standing, just behind the Ferranti's house and factory offices. I hope it's got a preservation order on it.
apparently the mark one was the worlds 3rd commercially available computer, beating the UNIVAC out of the traps by a month.
recorded in the autumn of 1951 from a Ferranti Mark One.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458479.stm
And a picture of a Ferranti mark one being made.
I was really pleased to find this, because I used to work here!!!
As far as I can see it's the building that's now the modelmaker's workshop at Siemens Measurements in Manchester, it's the only bit of the original factory still (hopefully) standing, just behind the Ferranti's house and factory offices. I hope it's got a preservation order on it.
apparently the mark one was the worlds 3rd commercially available computer, beating the UNIVAC out of the traps by a month.