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The Autonetics Recomp II was introduced by the Autonetics division of North American Aviation in 1958.
Architecture
It had a 40 bit word size, 20 bit instruction size. Memory and registers were on a fixed head disk with 4080 words on standard tracks, 16 words on fast loop tracks, registers A, B, R, X each on their own high speed loop track, and one prerecorded read only clock track.
It had a complete set of built-in floating point operations, including square root. Floating point values used two words, one for the exponent and one for the fraction for a total of 80 bits.
The machine operated bit serial.
External links
- Autonetics Recomp II Manuals On Bitsavers.org
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