Computer collecting humor.

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_odin.phy.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Mon Nov 10 04:19:44 1997

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Francois Auradon wrote:

> Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> > That was 64bits of internal storage and that is different from a 64bit
> > parallel CPU. Also 613khz is slow.
>
> I'll have to do some research to back that number up. I picked it up on
> a web page and never actually double checked it. I've seen many
> allusions to the slow clock speed of the HP85 and I'm pretty sure it's
> below the 1 MHz.

Are you sure you're talking about the HP85? The HP71 used the Saturn
processor which had 64bit registers (although with a 4 bit ALU and 4 bit
bus), and clocked it at 614kHz according to the tech manual I have. Sounds
very much like it.

> Francois Auradon

-tony
Received on Mon Nov 10 1997 - 04:19:44 GMT