I recently went back to one of my old projects to see how it is working out. And it is looking great. It started as a quick demonstration site and now it is an important resource for the FinTech industry.
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I like what they did to my site
Posted in Fintech, History, tagged Fintech, History on May 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Way back when : The Ferranti Mercury in the swinging 60’s
Posted in History, tagged History on December 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I learned my software skills on the Ferranti Mercury computer. It had as I recall 468 words of memory (a word is about 6 bytes so call it 3k bytes). Let’s see, my phone has 8,000,000,000 bytes – that’s about 2.5 million times more. My phone makes the 1500 instructions per second look pretty silly as well.
The computer was big. The electronics used valves and they get hot. So each cabinet has a refrigerating unit built-in, and they were noisy.
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