If they have a prototype computer up and running, Fielding isn't dead.
The prototype computer (November 1953) had a simple 7 function order code and one track of 64 words for main storage.
A fourth group, whose efforts will take up 30 or 40 percent of the research center's efforts, will actually build prototype computers.
By tomorrow the papers will know I'm moving a prototype computer in there for a demonstration next week.
A prototype parametron-based computer, the PC-1, was built at the University of Tokyo in 1958.
Phillips scrounged a variety of materials to create his prototype computer, including bits and pieces from war surplus such as parts from old Lancaster bombers.
Yours is to dig deeper and turn up those notes and any type of prototype computer he developed.
In May 2011, Braben introduced a new prototype computer intended to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools.
Ternary (with three states) logic has been studied, and some prototype computers made.
The group ultimately built hundreds of prototype personal computers known as Altos.