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Olivetti Programma 101: at the origins of the personal computer
Due to its limited RAM of 1,920 bits, the Programma 101 was mostly a machine conceived to make arithmetic calculations – sums, subtractions, divisions, multiplications, square roots -, yet, like modern computers, it could also perform logical operations, conditional and unconditional jumps, and print the data
https://www.osnews.com/story/140592/olivetti-programma-101-at-the-origins-of-the-personal-computer/
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Due to its limited RAM of 1,920 bits, the Programma 101 was mostly a machine conceived to make arithmetic calculations – sums, subtractions, divisions, multiplications, square roots -, yet, like modern computers, it could also perform logical operations, conditional and unconditional jumps, and print the data
https://www.osnews.com/story/140592/olivetti-programma-101-at-the-origins-of-the-personal-computer/
#Hardware