Early computers was Re: Relay computers

[Ron Hudson]

On Sep 26, 2004, at 11:51 AM, David V. Corbin wrote:

>>>> Ron wrote....
>>>> Why not have it add ascii directly...  "1" + "1" = "2"   :^)
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> Who EVER implied a relation between decimal representation and ascii
> representation??????????
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> David.
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>

no one... just me just now...  Didn't and older IBM machine store 
numbers digit
by digit in consecutive words (allowing you to setup integers as 
long/wide as you
needed) ?