POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Wahahahaha! : Re: Wahahahaha! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 21:20:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wahahahaha!  
From: Stephen
Date: 9 Nov 2007 05:30:00
Message: <web.473435f66f9d6136726bd13c0@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
> > Well if we are going for a P***ing contest:)

> > uniselector and a rotary phone dial. It could add and subtract with the output
> > in binary. Almost as much fun as the wine making.
>
> Um... technically that's not a stored-program computer. :-P

I think really it was an electro mechanical abacus. It had two hard wired
programmes, add and subtract. :) You had to throw a switch to change the
operation.

Stephen


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