Talk:Ferranti Argus

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A fact from Ferranti Argus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 9 November 2007.

[edit] Did you Know

Think you meant 8 November 2007. Doesn't appear on the main page today but is shown in the archive.Dsergeant 08:06, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

DMA: All Ferrranti process control computers in the Argus 100, 200, etc. range employed direct memory access, which they termed direct store acess. They also used interrupts. When I have trraced the Argus 350 I shall edit the Argus page for this point. PeterWol 12:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks! Maury (talk) 12:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements needed to this article

I'm afraid this article still reads like a technical service manual: we don't need the time the machine took to compute an addition, the voltages it used, or even the differences between the models. What would be useful would be a better historical description, to justify this article meeting Wikipedia:Notability, and some serious editing for style (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style). Michaelbusch (talk) 17:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)