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PostSubject: Memory....   Memory.... EmptyMon Aug 01, 2016 7:27 pm
Reading a book about Grace Hopper.

The UNIVAC, the first commercial computer (produced after the war), had mercury delay line memory, capable of storing 1,000 twelve-bit words.
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PostSubject: Re: Memory....   Memory.... EmptyTue Aug 16, 2016 3:39 pm
And those twelve-bit words are why we had Octal.
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