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Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 22 17:25:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:46:19PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Mel Wilson <mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | When the first GE-115 computer came across from Olivetti,
> 
> I'd never heard of the GE-115.  Googling doesn't seem to lead to a
> description of the architecture (i.e. instruction set etc.).  But it
> does lead to information about the industrial designer.  Apparently he
> went on to form Memphis.
>   http://www.dundee.ac.uk/graduation2007/sottsasslaureation.html
> He was 90 last year, the year this degree was conferred.
> 
> Bull / Olivetti / GE / Honeywell etc. treated their computer business as
> some kind of hot potato.

How about this then?
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/GE/GE.GE-115SystemSoftware.1967.102646096.pdf

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