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Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961)

27 points • by fedecaccia • last Wednesday at 12:40 PM • 2 comments • view on HN

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sach1 • today at 8:34 PM

Clementina!

I don't know if this is apocryphal or not but that machine was supposedly named Clementina because it could 'play' part of "Oh my Darling, Clementine".

Found this cool video doing a little sampling but I have yet to find a sample of a Ferranti Mercury playing the tune. https://youtu.be/CiEw5kmRvvs?t=45

Edit: Here are some engineers playing games with 'her': https://toobnix.org/w/3doJWfhE3H1D5oVg2DYQQJ

wslh • today at 9:26 PM

It's odd that the English page contains much more information than the Spanish one [1]. There is even a book about the history of computer science in Argentina: <https://eudeba.com.ar/productos/de-clementina-al-siglo-xxi/> (in Spanish).

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Berdichevski