The MARS-1 was capable of reserving seat positions, and was controlled by a Hitachi mainframe transistor computer with a central processing unit consisting of a thousand transistors and a magnetic drum memory unit for data storage, which was where the MARS acronym originated from.
The MARS-1 could reserve seat positions, and it was controlled by a Hitachi mainframe computer with a central processing unit consisting of one thousand transistors and a magnetic drum memory unit for data storage, which is where the acronym originated from.