29 Mar
1999
29 Mar
'99
11:48 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, James Willing wrote:
At 08:37 PM 3/29/99 -0800, Sellam wrote:
Cool. I especially liked the patch panel. I'd love to learn how to
program the thing.
Does anyone know what the function of an IBM 557 Alphabetic Interpreter
is/was?
... and yes, if you had not guessed... I still have a manual on how to
program these things! (now, if I could just remember that trick that we used
to teach a 402
tabulator how to multiply... B^} )
Are you implying these things had some general purpose computing
attributes?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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