In <51f28f5e.8080...@acm.org>, on 07/26/2013
at 10:01 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> said:
>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.
It's true that the first iteration of the 1005 was a plugboard on the
1004, but I understood that the most common plugboard was the one to
make the 1004 a remote batch workstation. OTOH, I had no experience
with the Navy.
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