Relay computers

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Sun Sep 26 02:10:27 2004

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 23:37, ben franchuk wrote:
> Tom Jennings wrote:
>
> > Are Zuse's machines stored-program? I think he had some odd ideas about
> > stored-program machines and self-modification, like von Neumann did
> > early on.
>
> All machines of that era had too *small* a memory for internal storage
> of programs, so external ( read manual ) input was needed like paper
> tape or punched cards or punched film (Zuse).

Eh, that's not a good enough excuse :-)
Received on Sun Sep 26 2004 - 02:10:27 BST