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DM1 by Colin Skelton (2015) [pdf] (shedlandz.co.uk)
23 points by 1970-01-01 on Oct 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Link wasn't loading for me for more than 24h, here is a cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231028011443/http://www.bitsan...


That’s a great read.

> The equivalent of seven 2966 computers were engaged round the clock, seven days a week, for over six months to help us complete the design.

The ICL 2966 was a British mainframe introduced in 1984. The last one is at The National Museum of Computing and that’s quite an interesting project in itself.

https://www.tnmoc.org/icl-2966


Most corporations cannot decide on a website font in 15 meetings and this team made working microchips back in the day... smh




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