8 Mar
2011
8 Mar
'11
10:30 a.m.
On 8 Mar 2011 at 13:10, MikeS wrote:
BTW, FWIW with a little fancy programming the 40x
series of
'tabulating machines' could also be made to multiply, albeit *very*
slowly... ;-)
I seem to remember reading in the day about making a 407 multiply
through clever programming ("programming" in the sense of wires in a
plugboard), but never saw it done. Did it involve using an external
reproducing punch (e.g. 514) as a memory device for the intermediate
sums?
--Chuck