On 3/11/23 13:28, Paul Koning wrote: > > Dijkstra said as much when he evaluated the 1620 for possible use by the TU > Eindhoven -- a big problem is that it was unable to handle arbitrary 8-bit > data.
Oh heck, there's no way to test for a numeric blank. Compare works only for numeric data. The system can't tell the difference between a card punched with 8-4 or 8-4-1, for example. Lots of holes in the architecture. But that doesn't mean you couldn't do useful work with it. --Chuck
