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Article #621035Re: Why so many 6s and 8s in the 70s?
From: Walter Bushell
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:51
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:51
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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >Also, back in earlier times, IBM made a number of series of computers... >7010: an expanded version of their popular 1401 >7030: the later copies of the original STRETCH sent to Los Alamos >7040, 7044: a budget 36-bit scientific with some additional character instructions >7070: a computer with decimal arithmetic but a fixed word length, intended to be useful in both commercial and scientific applications >7090, 7094: their 36-bit scientific >and so that may have influenced people away from the famous Western lucky >number. >John Savard And the 709 a precusser of the 709X. Preceeding this was the IBM 700. -- -- O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion:
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From: Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Why so many 6s and 8s in the 70s?
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