> On 06/03/2011 13:44, Always Learning wrote:
>> I also saw Honeywell upgrading a L66 machine so it would run faster. The
>> engineer pulled-out a PCB and took it away. That 'upgrade' cost over 1
>> million NLG (Dutch guilders).
> Very annoying those big iron companies. We had two banks of ICL Eagl
On 06/03/2011 13:44, Always Learning wrote:
> I also saw Honeywell upgrading a L66 machine so it would run faster. The
> engineer pulled-out a PCB and took it away. That 'upgrade' cost over 1
> million NLG (Dutch guilders).
Very annoying those big iron companies. We had two banks of ICL Eagle
driv
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:36 +0100, Bob Marcan wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +
> Always Learning wrote:
>
> > PDP being a 'main franme'? Baby mainframe perhaps when compared to
> > Honeywell's (later Bull's) Level 66? Level 66 had 36 bit words which
> > could be used as 6 BCD chara
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +
Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
> > Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember
> > "byte" being a synonym for "bit field" and a byte could be any number of
> > bits, typically
Larry Vaden wrote:
> I have always hoped to find someone who was involved with COBOL back
> in the days to ask this question of:
>
> "What influence did Commander Grace Hopper have on COBOL?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 22:38 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> >
> > At my second computer job in 1967 on a Honeywell H-120 (a baby machine
> > with 3 tapes which took 1 hour to do a Cobol compilation ...
> I have always hoped to find someone w
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 10:48 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> the PDP-10 was in fact considered a mainframe in the 1960s. They were
> more commonly called DECsystem-10, or KA10, KL10. the CPU was multiple
> cabinets, the KL10 supported up to 4 megawords of ram (where a word was
> 36 bits). The
--On Sunday, February 27, 2011 10:48 AM -0800 John R Pierce
wrote:
> the PDP-10 was in fact considered a mainframe in the 1960s. They were
> more commonly called DECsystem-10, or KA10, KL10. the CPU was multiple
> cabinets, the KL10 supported up to 4 megawords of ram (where a word was
> 36 bi
On 02/27/11 5:32 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>> Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember
>> "byte" being a synonym for "bit field" and a byte could be any number of
>> bits, typically from 1 to 36 (on a 36-bit
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember
> "byte" being a synonym for "bit field" and a byte could be any number of
> bits, typically from 1 to 36 (on a 36-bit-wide machine). 7-bit and 9-bit
> bytes were q
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