5 Apr
2006
5 Apr
'06
10:36 a.m.
On 4/5/2006 at 10:57 AM Kevin Handy wrote:
My first "Hands on" was an IBM 1620. No accumulator or stack. Decimal
arithmetic--and you had to load the addition and mulitplication tables
yourself. Variable word and record length, so you could easily clear
memory several ways using a single instruction...sometimes when you
actually intended to do it.
Lotsa blinkenlights, though!
Cheers,
Chuck
The first
computer I got to use was a PDP-8. You get a Program Counter
and a Accumulator. :)
And NO stack. Might as well mention the intresting missing items too.