Re: Why so many 6s and 8s in the 70s?

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From: John Levine
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:19

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In article <p7ptui$sgd$2...@reader1.panix.com>,
Walter Bushell  <pr...@panix.com> wrote:
>And the 709 a precusser of the 709X. Preceeding this was the IBM 700.

701 and 704, actually.

The 701 was IBM's first real computer in 1952.  The much improved 704 followed it
in 1954, and the 709 in 1957.

The 702 and 705 were character addressed commercial machines, same era
but quite different architectures.

I don't know why they all started with 7.

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