On 10/27/17 12:57 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> That doesn't sound even close. http://www.ussc90.nl/circ.htm Ferractors. While computers now are composed by many integrated circuits containing each millions of logical units, processing data with a speed of a few gigabits per second in a parallel-flow of 64 bits, the USSC's CPU-logic was composed of over 1000 circuit boards with each only a few active components. One circuitboard contained only 4 simple logical units, the ferractors. These circuit-boards processed the data with the theoretical speed of 700 KBits/second. The ferractors were tiny transformers, performing one-bit operations, powered by 700 KCs AC. On the positive half of the cycle, the ferractor-core was magnetised or not depending on the current through the bias-coil, which made the total magnetic field in the core to exceed the hysteresis-threshold or not. In the subsequent negative half-cycle the ferractor showed on the secondairy coil a high or a low impedance, depending on whether it had been magnetised or not. On low-impedance a positif bias-current was generated for the next ferractor-circuit. Since each ferractor was set in one cycle-half and was read in the next cycle-half, an one bit-stream of a register was formed by 24 ferractors in series, alternatingly fed by opposite phases. In such a string of ferractor-circuits 12 bits cycled around, 10 bits, a sign and a space. The information in the registers was circling around in 4 parallel one-bit-strings. The data in the registers cycled around with the same speed as the information on the drum-memory. The 200 diode-boards were used in OR and in NAND functions, depending on being located in the positive-phase-circuitry or the negative-one. The bias-coil was connected in positive or negative polarity to enforce or to diminish magnetisation during the first half-cycle in order to create normal or inverting logical gates.
