Yes, 360 was the system they sent the Apollo project up with. The other IBM things are unknown to me. Born in '63 I've seen an after WW II world - we'll have to learn, always have to...
>My first machine was a Control Data 1604 in 1961. Six bits per byte and 7 >track tape with a bit for odd parity. Programming was done in octal. All caps >FORTRAN came soon after. > >IBM introduced system 360 circa 1965, the full circle of computing capability. >That came with 9 track tape and 8 bit bytes. Hexadecimal became the rule and >the alphabet acquired lower case but ASCII only defined 7 bits out of the >eight. EPSIDC character coding was an IBM-only thing and I probably spelled it >wrong. > >The IBM 1620 used decimal arithmetic with 4 bit bytes limited to digits 0-9 >and plus and minus signs and what was effectively a space marking the end of a >number. It was called BCD coding. >which was used a lot in the 360's and later with two digits per 8-bit byte. > >As for current technology, there are still ASR33-like teletype machines >around. They are 5 bits per byte. > >RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY >-- > >--> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
