> Russel:
>
> I do not think You would believe some of the things that were done early =
on.

I don't know why you'd think that :-).
I didn't mean to evince any great surprise at the achievement. Just
passed it on as being an impressive but believable example.

One of my treasures is a book titled "Faster than Thought. A symposium
on digital computing machines."
8+ major any many minor digital computers and the general field are discuss=
ed.
My copy, ex California Federal Telecommunications lab, is 1955.
1st printed in 1953.
Dr A.M. Turing FRS wrote one of the papers - dealing with the
application of computers to games, with chess playing example given.
1953!

I've seen a full basketball scoring and game control system written in
256 bytes of fusible link PROM, using an SC/MP processor.

In 1977 I used a Motorola 6802 (D2 kit!) to read blocks of data from
an 8 track tape drive (ONLY JUST able at 4 MHz clock)  and pass them
to an HP9831 "Mini Computer" using HPIB. (Subsequently adopted for use
by then NZPO).

Marine RADAR was  first demonstrated by a German in Germany in 1903.
Fortunately, perhaps, nobody got the point.

Much more ...

I can well believe your commendable scope / TV display - sounds like
you had fun.

Those were the days ... :-)


  Russell
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