My dad worked on the 1108 II, I think at Ft. Harrison in Indy Scott ford www.identityforge.com
On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:26 AM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
