To: corbe
“Because of its exclusive self-checking features...”
I am from the 2nd generation hardware era as well. Started with IBM in the late 60’s. Coded in 1410/7010 Autocoder, precursor to Assembler, no self correction as far as I knew.
18 posted on
03/26/2014 6:45:24 AM PDT by
duckman
(I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
To: duckman
I think this refers to the use of a compiler.
21 posted on
03/26/2014 6:52:07 AM PDT by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: duckman
Jeez, I thought that with all the computer geeks here everyone was aware of what UNIVAC was referring to in this ad!
PARITY!
The Excess 3 code included a parity bit, which was used for error checking. This technique was quite new, having been first introduced in 1951 on magnetic tape drives:
http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Univac.dir/
27 posted on
03/26/2014 7:08:27 AM PDT by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: duckman
Just a hunch, but I imagine the ‘never makes a mistake’ statement was a garbled attempt by marketing people to describe the use of parity bits in magnetic core memory. It was kind of a big deal back in the old days and improved reliability, but difficult to explain to non-technical people.
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