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The top plane of the first "Automatic Totalisator," designed by George Julius (1913). It was a mechanical computer designed for calculating and displaying bets at horse races.

There are more really awesome pictures of it, at this link:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/SecondFloor/Totalisators/FirstJulius/FirstJuliusMain.php#tickets

Wait, that was at the Ellerslie racecourse in Auckland, NZ?

WTF??!! Mind blown 🤯. What kinda crazy shit going down in the backwater colonies “down on the farm” in 1913??!! 🫥🫠

cc @yeoro.eth ↑ Ellerslie!!

yeoro.eth → db.team → /slc → SuperBenefitDAO, All in For Sport → "purpose aligned networks of small autonomous teams”

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Wait, that was at the Ellerslie racecourse in Auckland, NZ?

WTF??!! Mind blown 🤯. What kinda crazy shit going down in the backwater colonies “down on the farm” in 1913??!! 🫥🫠

cc @ro ↑ Ellerslie!!

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → /phil →  phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  
ƒ(🌳) →  🧫 /sys  ←  @cell <T>

( 12345 $DEGEN ): because "babbagepunk" (and the outer rims)! 🙇🏻‍♀️
🤯 🫠 🫥

Oooooh Phil maybe this was one of your ancestors