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From: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Why no hardware random numbers?
Message-ID: <1139@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 09:30:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 09:30:53 1985
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References: <868@utcsri.UUCP> <2139@wateng.UUCP>
Reply-To: hugh@unix.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
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Summary: 

In article <2139@wateng.UUCP> pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) writes:
>The Ferranti Ferret (I believe), one of the very early machines (made in
>Canada) had a hardwired random number generator.
Ther name was Ferrut (Ferranti at U of T).  It was actually mostly a
British machine (a commercialized version of one of the Manchester
machines, if I remember correctly).