Millihertz 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 2022
2022-08-21
Millihertz 5 Progress April 2020
2020-04-10
Mechanical replica of the Manchester SSEM (Baby)
2018-05-10
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