The LGP-30 has been discussed here (often fondly) a few times so I thought this 
might be of interest.  Adds a bit of fame to the little guy that I wasn't aware 
of.

I was reading the wikipedia web page on chaos theory and found this passage:

"Edward Lorenz was an early pioneer of the theory. His interest in chaos came 
about accidentally through his work on weather prediction in 1961.[12] Lorenz 
was using a simple digital computer, a Royal McBee LGP-30, to run his weather 
simulation. He wanted to see a sequence of data again, and to save time he 
started the simulation in the middle of its course. He did this by entering a 
printout of the data that corresponded to conditions in the middle of the 
original simulation. To his surprise, the weather the machine began to predict 
was completely different from the previous calculation. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#History

Will

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