From: Reynir Stefánsson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: AEG-Telefunken TR 440 Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:12:02 +0000 Organization: Siminn - Iceland Telecom - Internet News Lines: 46 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp163-170.as.mi.is Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.simnet.is 1094350307 10865 217.151.163.170 (5 Sep 2004 02:11:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@simnet.is NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 02:11:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Path: nightfall.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!198.6.0.86!ash.uu.net!news.simnet.is!not-for-mail Xref: nightfall.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:184156 Quite a while ago I came across a text file with the name tr440.txt. It turned out to be an OCRed scan of a brochure from ca. 1970 describing a German computer, the AEG-Telefunken TR 440. Here is a condensation of the text that even JPEG would call cruddy. It was a 3rd gen. 48-bitter, sold for scientific and commercial purposes alike. With 256KW of interleaved fast core, it ran at about 6-7 MIPS. In addition, it could take up to 2MW of slow core. There are six arith. registers mentioned: Accumulator (A), secondary acc. (H), quotient (Q), multiplier (D), shift counter (Y) and flag register (M). I/O: 1-4 fast (3MBps) channel processors and 4-12 regular (0.7MBps) CPs. The fast ones had a single interface for disk or (pseudo)drum. The regular ones had four interfaces each. FEP: TR 86. 24 bits, 32-64KW core, 0.5 MIPS. I/O devices mentioned: SIG 100 graphical terminal SIG 50 terminal FSR 105 teletype TSP 100 'drum' PSP 600 disk (fixed) WSP 414 disk (removable) MDS 252 tape (800bpi) MDS 254 tape (1600bpi) LKL 720 card reader (1200 cards per minute) LKS 145 card punch (250 cards per minute) LSL 195 tape reader (2000 cps) LSS 150 tape punch (150 cps) SDR 176-1 line printer (upper case) SDR 176-2 line printer (upper/lower case) ZCH 230-233 plotter OS: BS3. Batch and time-sharing. Languages: TAS (macro assembler) FORTRAN, ALGOL 60, COBOL 68, HPG (or RPG if OCR error), BASIC, BCPL. Applications: GPSS (simulator), DBS (database), PPS (planning and production control). -- Reynir Stefánsson (reynirhs@mi.is)