diff --git a/.zk/notebook.db b/.zk/notebook.db index b11d00c..74fbbe7 100644 Binary files a/.zk/notebook.db and b/.zk/notebook.db differ diff --git a/zk/The_History_of_Computing_Swade.md b/zk/The_History_of_Computing_Swade.md index a162158..56aaee0 100644 --- a/zk/The_History_of_Computing_Swade.md +++ b/zk/The_History_of_Computing_Swade.md @@ -436,5 +436,11 @@ variety of different electronic methods for memory: design, if not dwarfing it. - Turing proposed a stored program architecture with high-speed memory. It would - be more perfomant than the EDVAC as a result. It used punched cards for the - input of data and programs + be more perfomant than the EDVAC as a result. + +![The Pilot ACE computer](../img/pilot-ace.jpg) + +- Turing's actual design was not implemented as it was thought too ambitious + given how powerful it would need to be. Instead a smaller prototype was made, + the Pilot ACE. It used vacuum-tubes for logic, and mercury delay lines for + memory. Data and memory was input via punched cards.