27 Feb
2024
27 Feb
'24
9:02 p.m.
our 1620 model 2 still did multiplication by table lookup.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 02/27/2024 9:53 PM CST Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2/27/24 18:34, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
And the 1620 does addition and multiplication by
table lookup.
That was only the CADET; the Model II had the math hardcoded. There was
an octal arithmetic option for the Model II, so it could do binary math
of a sort. Spent lots of fun hours on a CADET with a 1311 disk drive.
--Chuck