Re: What is a Mainframe?

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From: Robert Lee Wilson Jr
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 17:06

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And note that the tube type machines from which the 709x evolved were also
36 bitters, and in turn that 36 is a nice multiple of 12 which is the
number of rows in an "IBM" card. Since old machines like the 704/701 read
cards as binary images into core, and translated bit patterns into
(EBCDIC) characters via internal software rather than something in an I/O
channel, this was not a coincidence!
The past marches on!
Bob Wilson
(bobw@wdl1.fac.ford.com)

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