[SCC_Active_Members] modern-day relay computer

Olin Sibert osibert at siliconkeep.com
Sat Apr 8 11:44:29 PDT 2006


I saw this in EE Times the other day, and thought it might be
of interest here:
http://eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=183701580

It'a a modern-day relay computer built by Professor Harry
Porter III at Portland State University.  It's not exactly
"historical", but it's a pretty interesting piece of technology.
It doesn't look like it's even related to any other computers,
although he says very little about the architecture.  It's 415
relays plus a 32KB SRAM chip.  The machine's web page is:
   http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/index.html
and there are some short videos at:
   http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/secondPage.html

Olin Sibert



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