John, Ty, i am more than aware of Unisys and Univac my father worked for them for 37+ yrs as a field engineer. I wasnt sure if the 1108 had come from RCA or Buroughs....btw my father worked on the 1108 hardware Regards, Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/
________________________________ From: John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:26 AM Subject: Re: COBOL packed decimal The Unisys 1108, a (36-bit) word machine, was originally the UNIVAC 1108 I (circa 1965) and the UNIVAC 1108 II (circa 1968); and UNIVAC was at that time a division of Sperry Rand. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA, 01721 - USA On 7/20/12, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Shmuel, > > Who did the inherit the 1108 from ? My dad worked for Unisys on the > 1108s....dude > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" > <shmuel+...@patriot.net> wrote: > >> In <9307538697441482.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on >> 07/19/2012 >> at 09:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said: >> >>> Is this because Unisys is deficient in conformance to the standard, >>> or because IBM's implementation contains an extension to the >>> standard? >> >> No, it's because UNIVAC used ones complement arithmetic on most of its >> lines, Including the 1108 et al that Unisys inherited. >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
