On the system and engineering design of the general purpose electronic digital computer at T.I.F.R.

Narasimhan, Rangaswamy (1960) On the system and engineering design of the general purpose electronic digital computer at T.I.F.R. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Section A, 52 (2). pp. 47-57. ISSN 0370-0089

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Abstract

This paper gives a brief description of the system and engineering design of the general purpose electronic digital computer that has been developed and built in T.I.F.R., Bombay. This computer is a parallel, binary, asynchronous machine with a ferrite-core matrix fast memory of 1,024 words. The arithmetic is in the fixed point binary system with a number length of 40 bits. The computer incorporates one B-register for address modification and several other special features such as overflow indication, carry bypass, etc., Inputoutput is by means of punched paper tape. An auxiliary output in the form of a CRT display has been developed and a magnetic drum to serve as a back-up store is being designed.

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