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  3. February 2006

RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 5, Issue 308

I worked on a Singer System 10, which was a decimal machine.  The documentation 
actually said, the machine ignored 2 bits that were not necessary to the 
operation of the machine. Being that it was at the beginning of my career, I 
found it strange but had nothing to compare it to expect the IBM 1130 I worked 
on in college. 

Marvin


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message: 3
date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:49:55 -0700
from: "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Fun on Friday.....For all the older programmers on the

Dave,

You wrote:

>>Yea, but only 1 out of 10 people understand octal.  The other 7 just
don't
get it.<<

Oh, heavens, yes, worked on two Octal machines once; a Wang and a Prime
and their significant bits were opposite.

Take care,

Dave

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