CAB500
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The CAB500 was a French transistor-based drum computer, designed at SEA around 1957
It had an incremental compiler for a language, PAF (Programmation Automatique des Formules
) similar to Fortran
, designed by Dimitri Starynkevitch in 1957-1959. CAB 500's first model was delivered in February, 1961 , and more than a hundred examples were built. It had a magnetic drum memory of 16K words (of 32 bits) rotating at 3000RPM and could invert a square matrix of order 25 in half an hour.
It had an incremental compiler for a language, PAF (Programmation Automatique des Formules
Programmation Automatique des Formules
Programmation Automatique des Formules is a programming language designed in 1957-1959 by Dimitri Starynkevitch at SEA, a small French computer company. PAF was similar to FORTRAN. It ran on a drum computer, the CAB500. The title is French for Automatic Programming of Formulae.-External links:*...
) similar to Fortran
Fortran
Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...
, designed by Dimitri Starynkevitch in 1957-1959. CAB 500's first model was delivered in February, 1961 , and more than a hundred examples were built. It had a magnetic drum memory of 16K words (of 32 bits) rotating at 3000RPM and could invert a square matrix of order 25 in half an hour.