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405 error
“I think that John Harris” (who if you recall was the man who started our second-generation programmer thread) “has misremembered the manufacturer of the computer that his father programmed,” says former Elliott Computer Bureau Operator Philip Sugden. “If it was a 405 it would have been an NCR-Elliott 405 and not a Honeywell.”
Philip even has a copy of the charmingly detailed “June 1962 Computer Survey” (from an era when the purchase of any computer was news in itself) showing that an NCR-Elliott 405 was delivered to Joseph Lucas (Sales & Service) Ltd, Birmingham in January 1959 to run sales statistics and order scheduling.
“Daily routine maintenance alone used to take an hour-and-a-half,” he adds, proving that little changes, as the Dell PC used for Backbytes has roughly the same maintenance schedule.
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