bit-widths, was Re: HP Laserjet ..again....

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Lyle Bickley wrote:

> The IBM 7070 was modeled after the IBM 650 - so the 7070 was a
> bi-quinary (2 out of 5) encoded machine. There were 3 accumulators and

Here's a good description of bi-quinary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-quinary_coded_decimal

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