I believe the SAGE had oil cooled core. Oregon state had old core hooked to the ancient nebula serial delay line / CAM machine.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM David Wade via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 18/10/2025 07:03, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote: > > On 18/10/2025 02:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >> All that I can think of right now are Sinclair and Amstrad. > > > > I would say most every one on this list has one and possible several > British designed, and possibly UK assembled computers somewhere. > Whilst it does use chips made outside the Raspberry Pi is pretty much UK > designed, using an ARM CPU. > Much of the original layout and circuit was done by one by my old > friends Peter Lomas and it was initially assembled in Wales. > I understand that like the ARM chip it can be licenced by almost any one. > > We have a history of helping IBM build computers... > .. their first electronic machine the IBM 701 used Kilburn-Williams > tubes, developed in Manchester and licenced to IBM > .. the later machines used Virtual Memory, developed for the Atlas > computer, again under licence from Manchester University.. > .. Speculative Execution probably originates from Heuristic Caching > developed on the MU5 computer.... > > IBM also ran a major research centre at IBM Hursley, near Winchester, > UK , where CICS support was , and possibly still is based. > > Today Manchester still does computer research, so Steve Furber one of > the original designers of the ARM chip has built a million core machine > for Neural Networks > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiNNaker > > > > Acorn, ICL, Ferranti, Apricot, Elliot, GEC, Jupiter, Nascom, > > Torch, Tadpole, Whitechapel. Oh, and the Raspberry Pi, of course. > > Even the Commodore Amiga 1200 was assembled in Scotland. > > > > Well IBM had several plants in the UK. Keyboards and IBM PCs were made > in Scotland. Disk Drives at Havant, Hampshire. > > > Julf > > > Dave > p.s. as for oil, IBM was I think the only company to put its core in Oil > Tanks. Not sure if they ever leaked, but some 70xx machines used this > technique to keep the temperature constant. >
