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@ -436,5 +436,11 @@ variety of different electronic methods for memory:
design, if not dwarfing it. design, if not dwarfing it.
- Turing proposed a stored program architecture with high-speed memory. It would - 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 be more perfomant than the EDVAC as a result.
input of data and programs
![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.