It may not be the kind of machine you have in mind, Tom, but the British Amstrad CPC 464 micro of 1984 was finished on schedule. Remarkably, it was already in production at launch and shipped when Amstrad promised it would. Cheers, Tony Smith Features Editor The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk
Thomas Haigh <mailto:thaigh@computer.org> 13 January 2014 17:17
Hello,
For my ongoing project on ENIAC I've written a sentence SEAC, another early computer, that includes the words "....although finished well behind schedule, like all early computers...".
It's been suggested to me that several Colossus computers were in fact finished on schedule. Does anyone know if this is true?
Also, are there any other examples of early digital computers of the 1940s or earlier reaching reliable operation more or less on the schedule promised to the people funding them? Delays to ENIAC, EDVAC, the IAS computer, ACE, Univac, the Manchester Mark 1, the Harvard Mark 1, and of course Babbage's Difference Engine are well documented.
I can always change "all" to "most" but this is now making me curious.
Best wishes,
Tom
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