11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
2:34 p.m.
On 3/11/23 13:28, Paul Koning wrote:
Dijkstra said as much when he evaluated the 1620 for possible use by the TU Eindhoven --
a big problem is that it was unable to handle arbitrary 8-bit data.
Oh heck, there's no way to test for a numeric blank. Compare works only
for numeric data. The system can't tell the difference between a card
punched with 8-4 or 8-4-1, for example. Lots of holes in the
architecture. But that doesn't mean you couldn't do useful work with it.
--Chuck