Cab500
Programmation Automatique Des Formules, Fortran, Magnetic Drum, FORTRAN
Betascript Publishing
Published on 17. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-613-1-43351-1 (ISBN)
Description
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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 samples 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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-613-1-43351-1 (9786131433511)
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