21 Dec
2009
21 Dec
'09
2:36 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, William Donzelli wrote:
Telefunken TR-4 and its successor, the TR-440, was a 48-bit machine. To be
more precise, they were 52-bit machines, with the additional bits used as
some kind of parity (Dreierprobe) and word type (Typenkennung).
Christian
I kind of
suspected that was the case. Did anyone make a large 48 bit
machine?
CDC 1604. CDC 3600. Maybe more.