Odkazy:
This was the first design of a system which used ballot box logic based on magnetic principles in the form of circuit packages called „neurons“ proposed by Gordon Scarrott then Ferranti's Chief Engineer.
Vlastnosti:
Protože se vývoj logických prvků pro Orion 1 opožďoval, postavila firma Orion 2 který měl stejnou architekturu a strukturu, jen byl postaven na dostupné technologii DTL.
Obrázek 77.14. Farranti Orion Instruction Format
S F TX X R Z TY Y +---+---------+---+-----------------+-------+--------+---+-----------------+ | | 7 | | | 2 | | | | | 1 |-----+---| 1 | 15 |---+---+ 6 | 1 | 15 | | | 4 | 3 | | | 1 | 1 | | | | +---+-----+---+---+-----------------+---+---+--------+---+-----------------+ G P RX RY D0 D1-D4 D5-D6 D8 D9-D23 D24 D24 D26-D31 D32 D33-D47