On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:13:24 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
>Sorry. First computer to use 8 bits per character.
>
Wikipedia, not necessarily an authority, says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch#Data_formats
Alphanumeric characters are variable length and can use any character code
of 8 bits or less.
... so, if true, 8 bits was at least possible. Was it widely in "use"?
>On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 11:09 AM Seymour J Metz wrote:
>>
>> > You have to remember that S/360 was the first 8 bit computer.
>>
>> What is the 7030, chopped liver?
-- gil
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