26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
9:21 a.m.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
If so, what sort of computing power did the Monrobot
XI have? I read in
the article recently pointed out that is published on the web that it
could do 5,000 calculations per second.
In the article in the New Yorker, the Monrobot XI sales guy stated that,
"It can do an average of five thousand arithmetical computations per
minute." That would only be around 83 calculations per sec.
More detailed specs are here:
<http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-m.html#MONROBOT-XI>
These numbers indicate it was capable of around 111 additions per
second, 30 multiplications per second, and 2 divisions per second.
-brian.