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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Internet source: "1960. On January 19, DPD introduces the IBM 7080 data processing system, at that time the most powerful computer designed specifically for business."

160K bytes of core! Multiple high-density tape drives. I liked autocoder. I started later that decade. Used to have to walk five miles through knee-deep snow carrying boxes of (2000 IIRC)punch cards to the machine room and carry back stacks of printouts from yesterday's runs.

13 posted on 04/11/2014 2:27:37 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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RE: IBM 7080 160K bytes of core

That should be 160,000 not 160K. 7080 was a 8-bit byte machine before IBM introduced their 16-bit byte sexadecimal machines -- which IBM called hexadecimal.

22 posted on 04/11/2014 3:13:14 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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