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Very nice. I got see two of these machines as well recently. The memory is indeed quite fascinating. And I totally understand and share that guy's fascination with bringing back things from the past.
Piano wire for memory??? Wow the things we take for granted these days.
For interest's sake, the EDSAC reconstruction[1] will be using taut-wire delay lines in a similar way as a replacement for the original mercury-filled tubes. We very nearly revisited the delay line "juggling" memory a while back when it seemed that magnetic bubble memory might be the solution to all of our woes. (Then flash happened.)

[1]http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac/recreating-edsac

I hate to admit that I used one of those things in college.

It's a stack machine, like HP calculators.

Man, I love personalities like Cliff Stoll's!

I mean, if a person can make reverse polish notation sounds like the most interesting thing you have ever learned, they are worth listening to!