IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference

[Jon Elson]

On 01/23/2017 11:46 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Bob Bener has written a short squib about how the 7070 came into being:
>
> http://www.bobbemer.com/BIRTH.HTM
>
> Funny, in a tragic way.
>
>
WOW!  But, at the end, he says the 707x is a 6-bit machine.  
It seems, in fact, that the 707x was a WORD machine, not a 
character machine.  There is a fair amount of info on it 
that seems to confirm this.  Also, the stated speeds seem to 
be invariant for short vs. long (10-digit) operations, 
pretty much proving it was a word machine.

Jon