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Article #625090Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]
From: Quadibloc
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:11
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:11
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On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 7:35:27 AM UTC-6, Scott Lurndal wrote: > And the Burroughs B5500 first shipped in 1963. Hey, the Datamatic 1000 first shipped in 1957. And it's actually relevant here... because this vacuum-tube computer, with a 48-bit word, did both binary and decimal arithmetic, as well as having floating-point arithmetic instructions. Yes, a computer suitable for both business data processing and scientific computation. However, it didn't come in compatible versions in different sizes. John Savard
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