How to pronounce “accumulator” in English

All 20 of those accumulators could be operating simultaneously.

The inputs to the accumulators are labeled by these Greek letters alpha through epsilon.

It's not like an accumulator in a computer.

And the first three of those accumulators are what we're going to be using right now.

For each of 12 different operations you can trigger on an accumulator, you've got switches that let you set what

So we've stored the number 15 in this accumulator.

So we've got 15 in the first accumulator, 27 in the other two.

And there would be a person standing at that accumulator and turn the switch.

The only volatile memory you had available were the accumulators.

And the way it is set up is each accumulators source 10-decimal digits.

And this is how we read information from the accumulators.

And then immediately to its right are a set of seven accumulators.

The bulk of the actual computation is all taking place in the accumulators.

And then around here are intermixed, the accumulators, the multiplier, divider-square rooter and so on.

So how do the accumulators work?

The additive output is going to go into one of the other accumulators and the subtractive into the other.

One of which says if I'm transmitting, do I clear the accumulator after?

And it had a long enough cord you could walk around the whole machine so you could walk up to any accumulator

Now, if you look carefully, the first accumulator-- that second panel here-- now has a couple of values in it that weren't there before.

Well, we just use the repeat mechanism on the accumulators to do that.

So to multiply, it's winding around and around and it's got accumulators, and to divide, it unwinds by the divisor.

Each one of those represents a channel over which I can take these 10 digits in parallel and add to whatever is in the accumulator currently.

Once we've resolved all of the carries, we now have, in the second accumulator, a sum of 42, and in the third accumulator, the difference of 12.

And one of the ways this was frequently done was one person would stand in the middle of the room with the papers and call out accumulator 12 program

And as we're going through those 10 pulses, you see that some of those things are also causing things to climb on the other two accumulators.