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   Glen Turner (glent@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 13:09:45 JST Glen Turner

   • Ken Shirriff

   @kenshirriff not sure it was IBM's innovation. Flower's Colossus was built on UK Post Office phone system relay frames. The ability to move the computer also being the rationale, in this case from the Post Office Research Station to Bletchley Park.

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     Programmer 832-529 🍅 (smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 13:09:45 JST Programmer 832-529 🍅

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     • Ken Shirriff

     @glent @kenshirriff
     Yeah, frames are used in telephony and railway signalling. It basically means a chunk of electrical stuff on some sort of shelf or cabinet. Makes sense when IBM were trying to describe their setup they looked around at what else looked a bit like it and used that word.

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