Re: 'Stuck' on one address?

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From: pe... Peter da Silva
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 11:36

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The HP-1000 was like that, too. Memory was 32K words. A word was 16 bits.
So they had an extra bit which was used as an indirect bit. Early models
could indeed be wound around the axle...
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
 'U`  "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"

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From: pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: 'Stuck' on one address?
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Date: 4 Jan 90 11:36:37 GMT
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