We had a machine at school that looked like that but did not even read cards... it was an analog computer. Basically a collection of amplifiers, integrators and other analog circuits that you could interconnect just like shown on those pictures.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:55:38 +0000, Dom declaimed the following:
Hex is rather unambiguous... But Octal could be pure octal or Split Octal (177777 vs 377377).
Though octal does fit well when interpreting the 8080 instruction set
-- 3 bit register fields.
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
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Same reason it works well for the PDP-11.
-- roger ivie rivie@ridgenet.net
It works very well on a 6 bit character set (GBCD) and 9 bit ASCII in a
36 bit word.
More likely a conslutant or lobbyist.
-- Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.
Hex? You had hex? We used octal and we liked it.
-- Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.
If you really grew up using octal you'd know how to quote properly!
Hey, I was born before the old stone age, in the vacuum age as far as confusors were concerned.
-- Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.
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