Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:32:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> hendrik writes:
> > Before that, an IBM 1620...
>
> Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it
> but submit FORTRAN decks, though.
It was actually a Bendix G15d I started on -- the machine with a
magnetic drum as both main memory and registers. The IBM 1620 was a big
improvement -- it could actually use *letters* as data, instead of just
digits (and u,v,w,x,y,x to make hexadecimal).
-- hendrik
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