Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:32

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On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 4:11:52 PM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 7:35:27 AM UTC-6, Scott Lurndal wrote:
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> > 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.

Mention of it on right-side: 'brain corrects mistakes' 
https://books.google.com/books?id=PX9QAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA7&dq=datamatic%201000&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=datamatic%201000&f=false

mention of it on right side "form firm to produce"
https://books.google.com/books?id=Gow_AAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA5&dq=datamatic%201000&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false

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