The
ingenuity which has gone into making a £5 computer at Litherland
Boy's County Secondary School, Church Road, is arousing the experts
admiration.
The computer housed in a desk top, is portable, it contains 66
tiny light-bulbs and 25 yards of wire. It operates from a low-powered
battery on the flashing light principle.
It was built by more than 30 boys of 3T2, guided by Mr, Paul
Beatty a mathe- matics master, and its programme is being developed.
It can so far muliply, test speeds and do a few geometry calculations.
To-day the boys were visiting County Hall at Preston to see Lancashire
County Council's computer in operation.
In this picture, Paul Blake, aged 13, and Graham Clark aged
13, both of Litherland and Graham Matchett, aged 12 of Ford are
operating the school's computer under Mr Beatty's guidance.
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