26 Sep
2004
26 Sep
'04
12:12 p.m.
Hans B PUFAL wrote:
> Eh, that's not a good enough excuse :-)
umm... It was after midnight I did not want to try think much more.
Now re-reading Zuse again you find out he was a mechanical minded
person rather than pure science or math. To me his computing engine
was mechanical rather than electronic ( tubes ) and much a greater
advent guenus in that field compared to computing in general.
Also the fact that Germany lost the war, did not improve matters.
Indeed, the Manchester Baby machine of 1948 had 32
words of memory, and
a 3 bit opcode field, despite this it was fully functional a stored
program computer, if somewhat limited in its application.
So why does the Baby Emulator need Win/95 to run? :)
On the Zuse machine, there is a paper by Rojas which
discusses how to
make it into a general purpose computer :
I am more happy just to find out how you used them and what the
instruction set
was?
PS. I thinking of building a smaller decimal machine ( 6 digits ) and
wondering
where a good source of info on the web with the way to handle the math.
BCD? Execess 3, some other codeing?
Ben.
PS.
*Answer* You can have a bit mapped display to get the
Scope tube display.