Changeset 185 in t29-www for en

Timestamp:

Sep 1, 2010, 10:04:43 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

sven

Message:

Korrektur einiger kleiner Fehler in der englischen Übersetzung nach Heriberts Zettel.

Location:

en

Files:

• computer/electro-mechanical.shtm (modified) (1 diff)
• computer/electron-tubes.shtm (modified) (1 diff)
• computer/ic-technology.shtm (modified) (1 diff)
• computer/transistors.shtm (modified) (2 diffs)
• computer/univac9200.shtm (modified) (1 diff)
• search.shtm (modified) (1 diff)

en/computer/electro-mechanical.shtm

@@ -21 +21 @@
 <div id="content">
 
-
-<h2>Mechanische Rechenhilfen</h2>
+    <h2>Mechanical Adding Machines</h2>
 
         <div class="box left clear-after">

en/computer/electron-tubes.shtm

@@ -25 +25 @@
     development of broadcast engineering in the 1920/30s.
     <br/>The first electronic desk calculator in the world (1962) is a real milestone. The
-    modern-looking monster features 144 electron tubes and belongs consequently to the first
+    modern-looking monster features 188 electron tubes and belongs consequently to the first
     generation of calculators. It has a wonderful glowing display. However, the
     tube based computer can only compute with the four basic arithmetic operations and

en/computer/ic-technology.shtm

@@ -63 +63 @@
         <p>
             WANGs versioning scheme is a bit unusual: The computers were released in this order: 700, 500, 600, 400.
-            <br>The Wang 400 (year of manufacture 1971 is a pared-down version of the 700.
+            <br>The Wang 500 (year of manufacture 1971) is a pared-down version of the 700.
                 The most important scientific functions were programmed directly in the
                 threaded ROM, they did not have to be loaded via cassette any more. In the

en/computer/transistors.shtm

@@ -100 +100 @@
         </p>
 
+        <!--
     <p>The first digital transistorised calculator was produced in Italy (IME 84, 1964). In 1965,
         OLYMPIA built a calculator which was capable of handling floating-point numbers and at the
         same time, the company WANDERER released the .</p>
+        -->
     <!--Gibts ja jetzt mit Bild: FRIDEN from the USA surprised with a calculator that displayed the contents of four registers on one cathod ray tube at the same time. But all these calculators could only compute with the four fundamental arithmetic operations, like many others. At least some of them could already extract a root. A core memory mostly served as storagemedia. The memory shown below is especially illustrative.</p>-->
 
@@ -118 +120 @@
         <img src="/shared/photos/rechnertechnik/friden-display.jpg" alt="Display des Friden 130" width="274" height="134" />
                 <p class="bildtext">
-                    In 1966 the <b>FRIDEN 130</b> was announced. It was the first desktop calculator featuring a
+                    The <b>FRIDEN 130</b> was announced in 1964. It was the first desktop calculator featuring a
                     CRT display using an oscillocope tube to display the contents of four internal registers of the machine.
                 The memory is based on a <a class="go" href="storage-media.shtm#Magnetostrictive_memory">magnetostrictive line</a>.

en/computer/univac9200.shtm

@@ -119 +119 @@
            of punched data was hard work. The computer compares the data which should be
            punched with the position of the hammers in the punch station in a very
-           complex way. Only one of the 24 inductive sensing elements was broken,
+           complex way. One of the 24 inductive sensing elements was broken,
            furthermore a transistor which amplifies the particular induced voltage was
            out of order and there was a cold solder joint. Finally the complete sensing

en/search.shtm

@@ -27 +27 @@
                 <p class="bildtext">
                         We are looking for an <b>Digicorder DG 408</b> or <b>DG 308</b> for the
-                        IME 86 <a href="/en/computer/transistors.shtm">desk calculator</a>.
+                        IME 86 desk calculator.
                         <br>Exchange objects are available on demand.
                 </p>