R500/7T Relay Computer

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Uploaded by on Nov 8, 2008

A demonstration of the R 500/7 T Relay Computer, built from about 500 electromechanical relays and performing about 7 instructions per second. The computer was developed and built between 2001 and Oct 2006.

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  • I'm having trouble understanding you when you say what the architecture of the computer is. What is the architecture of the computer, and where can I get more info?

  • @dullfig90501 Exhaustive documentation exists, but is currently not available online.

  • lol! can it play crysis?

  • Well, we are working on it but it needs some minor modifications of the hardware ;-)

  • @jkcalc

    So, are you done yet with the mods? ;) 

  • @santax123

    No, sorry, we had to cancel our plans to make it a gaming platform. We came to the conclusion that it is only suitable for serious computations ;-)

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  • I bet that gets better broadband speeds than my computer.

  • A true piece of art. Massive respect.

  • I suddenly have a new-found respect for the geniuses who discovered the transistor and now the memristor, lol.

  • @santax123 haha like the follow up here

  • good lord listen to all those relays!!!!

  • Konrad Zuse would be proud of you! Fantastic work.

  • Too Late, Dude !

  • I couldn't think of something useful that could be executed using only 4 bytes of RAM :) lol. Respect to programmers who wrote those programs... :)

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