2 Sep
1999
2 Sep
'99
10:51 a.m.
Re:
I believe it was also known by that name.
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Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
A number of early small computers were
non-binary. One that comes
to mind is the IBM 1620 which was a decimal variable word lenght
machine. The 1620 was in production about 40 years ago and was
mainly marketed as a business machine. One of the interesting
features of this machine was that it did all its arthmetic by
table lookup.
Was that the CADET? (Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try)