Skip to main content

MELCOM 1101

All Hardware

1960
Description

This was Mitsubishi Electric's first digital computer, and it was completed in 1960. The MELCOM 1101 was designed primarily for scientific and engineering computation, and was a computer with a 33-bit word, static logic, binary serial operation and a stored program system. All circuits were implemented with transistors. As logic circuit elements, it used approximately 3,500 germanium transistors and 4,000 germanium diodes. For memory, it used a delay-line type magnetic drum with a rotation speed of 3,600 rpm, and capacity was approximately 4,000 words.

Legacy Content: Unknown Author