GE PROCESSS CONTROL COMPUTERS WENT TO A THIRD PARTY LARGE CORE STORE TO REPLACE SOME OF THE VERMONT RESEARCH DRUMS. SMECC SAVES ANYTHING RELATED TO GE PROCESS CONTROL COMPUTERS. AND ALSO GE DATA SYSTEMS EMAIL US WITH ITEMS FOR SALE OR? GE COMPUTERS. A PRODUCT OF ARIZONA THANKS ED SHARPE ARCHIVIST FOR SMECC
Sent from the all new AOL app for Android On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 4:14 PM, ben via cctalk<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On 2022-10-07 1:09 p.m., paul.kimpel--- via cctalk wrote: > We'd all like to see the ALGO compiler, but be forewarned -- it's something > like 14 passes on paper tape, with intermediate results punched on paper > tape. I understand it's a bit more convenient to use if you have magnetic > tape drives, but it's still going to be slow -- there's only so much you can > do with 2K words of memory. Trying to hide the fact the drum makes it slow. Did any one ever replace the drum with core memory, on the early serial computers? Ben.
