Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer

Summary

Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer Picture of Millihertz 5 / Offspring in Februrary 2022Millihertz 5 or 'Offspring' is a mechanical computer modelled on the Manchester small-scale experimental machine ('Baby'). It uses ball bearings as data elements. It has an 8x8 bit RAM and 8-bit datapath with subtractor and accumulator. It is currently under construction. There are some design documents available: a PDF: Offspring PDF or Pandoc-rendered HTML: Offspring HTML. Log entries for this project Millihertz 5 Progress August 20222022-08-21 Millihertz 5 Progress April 20202020-04-10 Mechanical replica of the Manchester SSEM (Baby)2018-05-10 Return to index