Hi The last time I checked in any depth the schematics for the SIGTOT master tape generator were "missing". The best speculation I have seen is that it was indeed an analog (electron multiplier photodiode) based setup. Of course that's not provable any more ...
It is indeed a leap from that gear to *assume* it ever got hooked to a computer. Bob On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, "Bob Camp" writes: >> Hi >> >> If you do a Google for SIGTOT you head off to another bunch of people who >> hook RNG's up to various things. My *guess* is that they likely hooked one >> up to a computer back in the 1940's... > > Interestingly, this does not seem to be the case. It was thought about > at various points, but everybody reached the same conclusion: too slow, > and went with PRNG instead. > >> As far as I know, the first RNG to be connected to a computer was this >> one: >> http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/DASK_rng.pdf > > The danes reached the same conclusion, but not until after they actually > built their device... > > Poul-Henning > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
