ACONIT

Grenoble, France

April 2003
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Hans Pufal demonstrating the functioning of an IBM punched card sorter to
Les Morss (Napier University)

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Hans Pufal shows a programming panel from a Bull Gamma 3 computer

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An early typewriter, jokingly referred to as Babbages!
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Hans Pufal showing some early personal computers
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A mechanical card punch made by Bull
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The interior of a Bull Gamma 3, valve computer.
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(Top) a printed circuit card containing a compelte CPU (Below) one of some 30 modules of a Gamma 3
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Spaghetti code!  Programming panel of the Bull Gamma 3
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View of the drum memory from an ICT 1300 computer
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View of the drum memory from an ICT 1300 computer
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Hans Pufal explains the analogue computer
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The only working PDP-9 in the world!
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Jacques Pain (IBM employee and ACONIT vice president) eyes the card reader of the IBM 1130 computer
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Jacques Pain and Les Morss closely examine the internals of the card reader
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The IBM 1130 CPU, this one also works!
 
Photographs (c) David Anderson 2003