In <of64999155.948bfae8-on8525770a.0077cc3b-8525770a.00796...@ca.ibm.com>,
on 04/19/2010
at 06:06 PM, Tom Russell <tom_russ...@ca.ibm.com> said:
>Nice. My first job as a coop student at IBM was to convert a 650 SOAP
>program that ran the Toronto plant to a 1401 card system Autocoder
ITYM tape system; the assembler for a cards only 1401 was SPS.
>Not a fond memory, but an interesting one. The 650 we were taking out
>had a 2 (4?) KB drum memory.
Wronk size; the 650 was a decimal machine, and the drum size was measured
in 10 digit words. Ours has 2K words, but there was a 4K model.
>The autocoder (think BAL)
The BAL equivalent was SPS.
>High/Low/Equal compare was a special feature on a 1401.
Well, yes, but then index registers were a special feature on the 650.
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