2 Sep
1999
2 Sep
'99
10:34 a.m.
My favorite was the IBM (model forgotten) which had a bolt on division unit
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Neil Morrison
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Subject: Re: non-binary computers?
Re:
> A number of early small computers were non-binary. One that comes
[Neil
Morrison] .. > table lookup.
Was that the CADET? (Can't Add, Doesn't Even
Try)
The tables were stored in memory, so you could
change how the operations
worked!
A colleague of mine, Fred White, tells stories about changing that table
for
some scientific routines, and then restoring it at subroutine exit.
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