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My first experience of computing was with the Ferranti Pegasus in 1959. This was a machine with a few hundred bytes of memory held in delay lines and a cathode ray storage tube, a magnetic drum but no disk and originally not even a magnetic tape drive. All input and output was by means of 5 hole paper tape. Nevertheless it was a great advance on log tables or even electric calculators and many complex calculations were done through the long hours of the night.
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McCann, A.P. (1988). Current Trends in Microcomputers. In: Vicary, F.R. (eds) Computers in Gastroenterology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3259-2_1
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