28 May
1999
28 May
'99
1:16 p.m.
_At_ the musuem they advertise the machine as the
first electronic
computer with random-access memory. I have far less of a problem with
that statement :-)
Except that Zuse's Z3 also had random-access memory, just not for the
program. IIRC the Z3 had/has 64 data registers. I would claim that was 'faking' a random
access of a sequential access
store (in much the same way that you can address a particular block on a
TU58 cartridge, but tape is certainly a seqeuntial device).
You are right. But if one just wanted the effect, one could get it from the
Z3 -- well, get it after waiting a horribly long time for the program to
run, anyway. :)
-- Derek