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1 total messages Started by Little Paul Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:11

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Author: Little Paul
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:11

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Hi all,

I'm not sure if anyone is interested (as it's too old to be vintage, and is
arguably not a computer, so may be considered off topic) but last night I
scanned in a technical article from the April 1957 edition of the Post
Office Electrical Engineers' Journal about ERNIE - the "Electronic Random
Number Indicating Equipment" used to generate the prize draw for Premium Bonds.

It includes some interesting operational details about how the draw was
conducted, and some partial schematics of interesting bits.

Anywho, you can grab a 5MB PDF of it from here:
http://paulseward.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/POEEJ_V50_P1_April_1957_ERNIE.pdf

I tried to OCR it, but the mix of fonts (and a very noisy scan) defeated
me so it's just a scan.

If anyone happens to have a copy of the Jan 1950 or April 1955 issues of
the POEEJ which are mentioned as references, I'd be interested in scans
of the appropriate bits.

-Paul
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http://paulseward.com

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