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Not quite as visually compelling as the video, but pretty deep given
their multi-decade history, is the BCS's Computer Conservation
Society
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/index.htm"><http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/index.htm></a>.
Unsurprisingly, it's got a heavy UK focus. It does occasionally dig
into Canadian issues, partly because of the Canadian
Ferranti-Packard company's design for the ICT (later ICL) 1900,
arguably the UK's most successful mainframe.<br>
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Their journal, <i>Resurrection</i>, is very often an interesting
read. The current issue, aside from big iron restoration efforts,
covers the pre-history of the Raspberry Pi:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res69.htm">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res69.htm</a> <br>
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I'm kind of glad I missed out on the delay-line memory days. I <i>just
</i>remember magnetic bubble memory, but only as it was fading out.<br>
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cheers,<br>
Stewart<br>
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