21 Jun
2021
21 Jun
'21
5:31 p.m.
On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 18:55 -0500, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
Oh yeah, that was like 12 years ago? I believe they
had gotten the
1620 CADET (?Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try?) running
One of my colleagues, about fifty years ago, wanted to use the 1620 for
telemetry processing. So he replaced the arithmetic tables to do
decimal with ones that did octal instead. The code was, of course, in
assembler, not FORTRAN.