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Article #621038Re: Why so many 6s and 8s in the 70s?
From: rnet...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:27
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:27
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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 1:45:05 PM UTC-4, han...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > IBM's calculator series were in the 600s, so I would guess that > 7 was the next available series. > > IBM planned to have the subsequent computers in the 800 or 8000 > series, but this was cancelled and replaced by S/360. > > I don't know where the "14" came from for the 1401 series. The 14 came from the fact that the origial model, sold as an "elecronically programmable tabulator", had 1400 postions of internal storage. Bob Netzlof
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