24 Dec
2004
24 Dec
'04
8:44 p.m.
Hi,
Tom Jennings said:
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Stan Barr wrote:
Really!?!? I suppose it ought to count! :-)
To further confuse things, long words were 35 bits and the accumulator
71 bits!
(I've been playing with the emulator...)
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Tom Jennings said:
How many
computers (automatic, electronic, digital,
stored-program, etc) used an odd number of bits?
EDSAC was 18 bit, but only 17 were used due to timimg constraints,
does that count?