22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
12:16 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Lyle Bickley wrote:
The IBM 7070 was modeled after the IBM 650 - so the
7070 was a
bi-quinary (2 out of 5) encoded machine. There were 3 accumulators and
Here's a good description of bi-quinary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-quinary_coded_decimal
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