15 Apr
2018
15 Apr
'18
5:07 p.m.
On 04/15/2018 04:47 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
Yes, the Univac 1100 series were one?s complement (had
brief experience as a student with 1108 and 1110 from 1969 to 1975)
I thought I'd originally said as much. 9 bit characters with a range of
+/-255 as well as +/- zero.
Here are some cool coding tricks for the 1100 series:
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/cute_tricks.html
Similar tricks exist for the ones' complement CDC 6000 series.
--Chuck