Harry Huskey (2013 CHM Fellow) is the link between AMT (Pilot ACE) and both of these later machines. Dag
On Dec 9, 2025, at 12:13 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
There has been one other suggestion: that the Packard-Bell 250 was derived from the G-15, and therefore indirectly from Turing's original ACE design. I've never checked that from a technical perspective.
Regards/Ngā mihi Brian Carpenter
On 10-Dec-25 06:05, David Grier via Members wrote:
Paul Believe your statement is true. There was a “Bendix Club” that kept one operating in Michigan but i have had no contact with them in a decade or more.
DAG
On Dec 9, 2025, at 9:27 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
I visited this museum last week, where they demonstrated a Bendix G-15 restored to operating condition! The G-15 may have been the only American computer to incorporate the design philosophy of Alan Turing—correct me if I am wrong on that.
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