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

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From: rnet...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:28
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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 8:27:21 PM UTC-4, rne...@gmail.com wrote:

> The 14 came from the fact that the origial model, sold as an "elecronically programmable tabulator", had 1400 postions of internal storage.

Mske that "original model"

Bob Netzlof
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