On 07/26/2013 08:34 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <ce16e718.ad880%gary.shimin...@doit.nh.gov>, on 07/25/2013 > at 06:36 PM, "Shiminsky, Gary" <gary.shimin...@doit.nh.gov> said: > >> When I was in the Army in Korea we ran on Univac 1004 card >> processors. > > ITYM 1005. > >> Occasionally the program card decks > > You programmed the 1004 with a plugboard. > But according to wikipedia, one of the commonly-used plugboard programs for the Univac 1004 was an "emulator" that allowed you to read and store a "program" from cards that was then executed. Apparently the 1005 eliminated the need for the plugboard emulator program and moved that function into hardware.
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