• 1961

Hardware Description

The Elea 6001 was also fully transistorized, with ferrite core memory. Memory sizes were from 10,000 to 100,000 4-bit characters, small sizes being the most common. It had a floating point representation for reals. It had a microprogramming memory (called matrice di sequenza logica, or logic sequencing matrix), which was used to microprogram mathematical functions such as multiplication, division and square root.