The 803 is paper tape in and paper tape out typically. For fault finding and testing, however you needed to hook up a 'scope to monitor the accumulator. We will produce some more video showing typical operation.
Gordon bennett! These early computers had such clunky interfaces, no wonder they were exclusively in the hands of technicians. This Elliott has a particularly strange interface. How can you operate a computer with only a single waveform as a display?
very cool
K7AGE 2 years ago
Love the narrator's formal wear!
dougluce 3 years ago
The 803 is paper tape in and paper tape out typically. For fault finding and testing, however you needed to hook up a 'scope to monitor the accumulator. We will produce some more video showing typical operation.
tnmoc 3 years ago
Fair enough; but at least other computers had at least a set of lights on a front panel.
Desmaad 3 years ago
Gordon bennett! These early computers had such clunky interfaces, no wonder they were exclusively in the hands of technicians. This Elliott has a particularly strange interface. How can you operate a computer with only a single waveform as a display?
Desmaad 3 years ago