About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:

That was on the Electrologica X1 and later the X8.
> They were machines build by a small Dutch company which later is sold to
> Philips (then it was called Philips Electrologica). Several were sold in
> the Netherlands but I don't know if they were sold abroad. They were
> rather advanced machines build with the input from people like Edzge
> Dijkstra (who was one of the developers of ALGOL) and others. I worked
> on it from 1965 to 1969. I cannot remember the amount of memory. I know
> the X1 had a low memory count. I used that one for making graphic plots
> (curves of firing frequencies of neurons) where we used a curve-fitting
> routine to match a theoretical models. It took approx.20 minutes for 1
> plot so I interspersed the program I did it with with funny texts for
> the operators after several plots (to get preference in processing!); it
> worked.
> On the X8 I programmed more elaborate statistics and theoretical models
> but that machine was many times faster that the X1.
> You can find information on these computers here:>
> http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/X1.html
>
> Joep



You have worked on many machines, great.


-- 
Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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