The DDP-24 was completely transistorized and used magnetic-core memory to store data and program instructions.
It had a sign magnitude code to represent positive or negative numbers and used binary logic.
The DDP-24 found use in space and flight simulators of the mid-1960s and other real-time scientific data processing applications.
[5] When asked to describe the first MIT experimental music studio, Prof. Vercoe replied, "We began that work when I first arrived in 1971.
Max initially developed his GROOVE system on this machine and was kind enough to give it to MIT when I joined the faculty."