24 Jan
2017
24 Jan
'17
9:22 a.m.
On 01/23/2017 11:46 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Bob Bener has written a short squib about how the 7070
came into being:
http://www.bobbemer.com/BIRTH.HTM
Funny, in a tragic way.
WOW! But, at the end, he says the 707x is a 6-bit machine.
It seems, in fact, that the 707x was a WORD machine, not a
character machine. There is a fair amount of info on it
that seems to confirm this. Also, the stated speeds seem to
be invariant for short vs. long (10-digit) operations,
pretty much proving it was a word machine.
Jon