On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:41:20 -0400 Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, you are thinking of bistable multivibrators. I was talking about > the Wiliams tube store: > > http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/SEAC-Williams-tube-desc.html
Very cool. Yes, I was thinking of something else. However, Williams' first attempt at storing memory on a CRT (1946) stored only one bit. > I don't ever remember programming to cope with equipment failure, > however. Did you make that bit up? No, I read it many years ago. However, I cannot find the reference (try searching for anything computer related and "shopping cart.") so I cannot check the story's veracity. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list