26 Mar
2004
26 Mar
'04
3:39 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:35:08 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Just out of curiousity, does anyone still have a
working drum storage
device? wondering if any working examples have survived...
There is a Zuse Z23 from
the 50's in Karlsruhe / Germany. It is a serial
architecture, tube based machine with core memory for the working
registers and two drums for main storage. It is still in working
condition!
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tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/