One of the first commercially available computers.

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One of the first commercially available computers.

Postby crustyasp46 » Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:30 pm

Sep 1951,

One of the first commercially available computers.

384 multiplications per second - about a million times slower than today's computers.

75Kbyte Drum storage, 1.25Kbytes of RAM! I wonder what they meant by 'will ultimately hold...' in Version 1.1 perhaps

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I think we may be missing the roms for this baby, Hot Trout.
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Re: One of the first commercially available computers.

Postby Kherr » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:15 am

Screw the roms, we're missing the BIOS. :3
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Re: One of the first commercially available computers.

Postby Hot Trout » Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:19 pm

Screw the roms and bios, we dont have any punch cards to copy for the software and even if we did there is no way for me to 'uplodad/download' paper.

That said, te_lanus probably has software for it, he seems to have software for everything. I recon that te_lanus should become the new curaitor of here.

Cool computer though.
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